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eLearning Case Studies

The best way to demonstrate the benefits of live eLearning and web collaboration technology is with real-world examples. We are constantly amazed at the creative and innovative ways our customers are using Elluminate Live! to engage more people in more ways, transform teaching and learning, and make online interaction part of their daily activities across campus and beyond.

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Higher Education

University of Valencia

  • Founded in 1499, the University of Valencia selected Elluminate Live! for a pilot program that includes online tutorial sessions, classes with small groups of 15-20, and blended online/onsite classes. The university surveyed participating students and teachers to rate the product on usability, pedagogical needs, and more.

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University of Hertfordshire

  • At the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, Elluminate Live! facilitates a student-centered approach to blended learning. The university also uses the real-time, online environment to webcast and record key sessions during its annual International Blended Learning Conference.

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University of Illinois at Springfield

  • Recently featured on NPR, Sara Cordell is an English professor at the UIS. A self-proclaimed "medium-tech" person, Cordell found herself a bit overwhelmed when she experienced Elluminate for the first time. With some encouragement from her husband and fellow instructor, Cordell now uses Elluminate Live! to teach one course per semester to fully engaged and enthusiastic students.

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Northampton Community College

  • NCC needed a real-time, synchronous way to provide tutoring assistance that simulated the experience available on campus at its Learning Center. An unlimited-seat Elluminate Live! license also provides online instruction, virtual office hours and open houses, student orientation, academic advising, and faculty meetings and professional development.

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Babson College

  • Initially, Babson wanted to expand its Fast Track MBA, adding a synchronous component to the college’s Blackboard Learning Management System. Instructors liked Elluminate Live! because it didn’t get in the way of teaching, and students liked how the product is really self-service because they don’t need an instructor present to meet.

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University of Calgary

  • The University of Calgary has deployed Elluminate Live! as part of its full-service teaching and learning environment. The university uses the virtual classroom to hold office hours, bring together distance and face-to-face students, allow students to conduct group project meetings, hold live events with guest presenters, review exam material online, and collaborate on global research projects.

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Queen's University

  • One of Canada's leading universities, Queen's University was looking for a collaborative online environment that could provide space for student exploration and expression. While Queen’s began using Elluminate Live! as a networking solution, it has grown to be a distance education and online collaboration application that’s used to solve other issues for the university.

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Iowa Central Community College

  • In 2003, Iowa Central received federal funding to explore ways to make its expensive fiber optic system, more cost-effective and to serve a larger student population in rural areas. Elluminate Live! enables Iowa Central to mirror what it does on the fiber optic network, offering blended courses that allow the school to more fully utilize both mediums, offer more courses, and reduce costs.

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University of Iowa

  • University of Iowa selected Elluminate Live! to facilitate international occupational and environmental health training and research with countries in Central and Eastern Europe, many of which have slow and unreliable Internet connections. With Elluminate, collaborator countries can participate fully in sessions and create recordings that can be used worldwide to address environmental problems.

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Nova Scotia Community College

  • A grant to develop an international business curriculum drove NSCC to search for a live eLearning solution to add synchronous technology to asynchronous learning capabilities. International business instructors are recording introductory courses via Elluminate Live! and are expected to also use the tool for other courses as well as for administrative meetings and student orientation.

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Tennessee Tech University

  • Tennessee Tech wanted to add dynamic interaction to supplement its WebCT eLearning environment. Today, the university offers courses that use only WebCT or Elluminate Live! as well as those that use a combination of the two. The school also uses Elluminate Live! for a course taught with its sister institution in Japan, enabling students from both cultures to achieve unprecedented interaction.

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University of Pittsburgh Center for Injury Research & Control

  • University of Pittsburgh CIRCL needed a multi-purpose web collaborative tool for teaching within and outside the university and for collaboration with colleagues on a local, national, and international level. With Elluminate, CIRCL reaches a wider audience, providing blended classes for onsite and remote audiences and enabling participants to focus on collaboration.

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Northern Arizona University

  • NAU wanted a broad solution that would allow instructors to control interactions and enhance asynchronous online courses with synchronous content. Because Elluminate Live! is so easy to use, the university doesn’t have to spend valuable time teaching faculty about the technology but can concentrate on helping them use the product effectively as a pedagogical tool.

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Penn State University

  • The online MBA program at Penn State provides distance education programs for more than 23,000 students from all 50 states and 44 countries. With Elluminate Live! MBA program faculty can how hold virtual hours, interact with students on assignments, facilitate group discussions, hold tutoring sessions, and present just-in-time course material.

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DeVry University

  • A 2006 Elluminate Center of Excellence, DeVry provides rigorous, career-oriented undergraduate and graduate degree programs in technology, business, and management. With Elluminate Live! the university brought the classroom back into online learning, adding live interaction to its asynchronous online education program and increasing student retention.

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K12

Fire and Ice

  • While K12 school-to-school collaboration is exploding worldwide, many of the organizations involved have only asynchronous technologies available. Elluminate's Fire and Ice program enables many schools in many countries to extend the boundaries of the physical classroom with live, real-time interaction.

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EBUS Academy

  • With 45 students in grades K-7, Raven Sundahl wanted a way to teach that includes all modalities for different types of learners. Today, she uses her "Wacky Wednesday" sessions to engage even the youngest students.

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New York City District 75

  • Social Studies Literacy Coach for District 75 in New York City Cara Coffina is in her third year of leading an innovative online debate competition as a way to engage special needs students in current events. She works with Elluminate partner LearningTimes to hold the online debates via the Elluminate Live! real-time eLearning environment.

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Fraser Valley Distance Education School

  • FVDES uses a triangular system that combines an asynchronous application for sending email and attachments, a web site for curriculum support, and Elluminate Live! for synchronous interaction. Even the youngest students are enthusiastic about participating in Elluminate Live! sessions for activities such as radio theatre productions, science experiments, and math tutorials.

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Stockton City Learning Centre

  • Today, Stockton CLC has increased its original 25 Elluminate Live! seats to 500 and is rolling out the live eLearning solution to all the schools in the area. The organization provides evening homework drop-in sessions and opened an online Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for anywhere, anytime learning with live and recorded lessons used as standalone sessions or as part of a course.

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Sunchild E-Learning Commuinty

  • With Elluminate Live! Sunchild provides superbly qualified instructors and a multi-dimensional, flexible environment that suits the learning style of First Nation students. As a result, Sunchild has realized an 80% success rate with diploma achievement, a dramatic increase from the 17% graduation rate of the traditional education system!

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Argyll Centre

  • At the Argyll Centre, Elluminate Live! is used for online classes, one-on-one tutoring, and collaborative group sessions, enabling instructors and staff in remote satellite locations to participate in meetings, pursue professional development, and create instructional materials. In addition, the school performs help desk support via Elluminate, such as the remote troubleshooting of student computer problems.

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Illinois Virtual High School

  • A requirement for synchronous voice communication, interactive learning, ad hoc collaboration, and the ability to integrate with its existing eCollege platform led IVHS to Elluminate. Today, the school Elluminate Live! for online instruction, virtual office hours, weekly team meetings, statewide meetings, and more!

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Enterprise-wide Deployment

The Open University

  • UK's largest university, The Open University needed to replace an internally development legacy collaboration system. With Elluminate, the OU has the potential of dramatically altering the learning experience for its 200,000 distance learners.

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Prairie Spirit School Division

  • With Elluminate, PSSD reduces travel for school principals and resource (special needs) teachers, saving an estimated $18K per year in time and mileage. Elluminate Live! also used by teachers and administrators to share information and best practices, supplement its Blackboard and IITV, and provide real-time application training, recorded tutorials, and technical support. Full story.

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University of Alaska

  • The UA system serves students from a wide variety of regional cultures over vast distances. The enterprise deployment of Elluminate Live! began as a grassroots effort on separate campuses that quickly grew to provide university-wide infrastructure that provides an alternative to audio/video conferencing and support for meetings, inter-institution collaboration, and research.

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California State University Northridge

  • Part of the 23-campus California State University system, CSUN selected Elluminate Live! for a campus-wide license because its functionality closely mirrored the activities of a face-to-face classroom, enabling instructors and students to transition to an online environment without significantly modifying their behavior. Full story. Related video.

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Center for Distance Learning and Innovation

  • The CDLI provides access to educational opportunities throughout Newfoundland and Labrador, especially those is isolated, rural areas. With Elluminate Live! the CDLI added live discussion and dynamic interaction to its asynchronous WebCT course content. As a result, students in the province are doing as well, if not better, than Canadian students experiencing face-to-face learning.

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Pennsylvania Department of Education and Chester County Intermediate Unit

  • The CCIU works with the PDE and 12 local school districts that represent over 64,000 students and 6,000 educators. With Elluminate Live! the organizations eliminated travel costs for meeting attendees and presenters for their Pennsylvania Technology Leadership Academy for school board directors and business managers.

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CCC Confer

  • CCC Confer is unique in its delivery of free e-conferencing services to the world's largest higher education system, California Community Colleges. Seamlessly integrated into the CCC Confer portal, Elluminate Live! supports meeting, training, tutoring, online student and library services, and distance learning.

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Online Events & Communities

ArchNet

  • Developed at the MIT School of Architecture, ArchNet is a global online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and scholars. Five design schools from around the world participated in an ArchNet design competition, using Elluminate Live! to share information and work together in what was truly a global collaboration. Full story.

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Cognitive Science Society

  • For the Cognitive Science Society, it’s difficult to schedule a seminar that’s convenient for everyone to attend because at least 1/3 of our 1000 members come from outside the U.S. Elluminate Live! enables the Society to immediately post a recording of each seminar exactly as it happened, so researchers from around the globe can experience the session in its entirety, even after the fact.

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Sloan Consortium

  • An association of 700 institutions and organization of higher education engaged in online learning, Sloan-C selected Elluminate Live! for its web-based technology, easy implementation, and short learning curve. With Elluminate, the consortium adds synchronous interactivity to its asynchronous online research workshops, attracting a wider audience, nationally and internationally.

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Learning Times

  • The leading designer of online communities and conferences in the education market, LearningTimes selected Elluminate to facilitate classes, workshops, online conferences, and group collaboration. With Elluminate Live! participants in all the LearningTimes communities get the same high-quality, consistent experience—regardless of connection speed or type of computer.

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FableVision

  • FableVision CEO and acclaimed author Peter H. Reynolds believes that technology, media, and storytelling combined are great tools to engage children. So he strives to reach as many students as possible while juggling numerous creative projects in his studio. For Reynolds, technology, like Elluminate Live! is part of the answer, providing the means to migrate powerful ideas in powerful ways. .

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Professional Development

Ohio Department of Education

  • At the request of the Ohio DoE, Dr. Renee Aitkin met with a group of 60 middle and high school teachers from across the state to provide training for using Elluminate Live! for future meetings and training. Her goal for the hour-long session was to instill each teacher with the confidence to join an Elluminate session for a meeting and enable them to focus on participating, rather than on the technology.

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New York Institue of Technology and New York State Teacher Centers

  • While NYIT was looking for a tool that engage more students in the learning process, the NYS Teacher Centers wanted to deliver online courses for instructors. For the teacher centers, the real-time eLearning environment provides both technological and emotional support for instructors, and at NYIT, Elluminate Live! is used for classes, mentoring, and tutorials for applications training and academic work.

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Tutoring

Manhattan GMAT

  • Elluminate enables ManhattanGMAT to expand its geographical reach for providing GMAT preparation without investing in additional physical infrastructure. Course feedback indicates students believe Elluminate Live! is as effective as the physical classroom. Plus, students taking the online course have identical or slightly better GMAT scores than those taking the course in person.

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Cengage Learning (formerly Thomson Learning)

  • Elluminate Live! Enterprise Services (formerly vMentor) enables students using Cengage textbooks to access live homework help, clarify information, solve problems, and engage in real learning—with a single click. With the tutoring services, students interact with instructors selected for expertise in the specific discipline where they need help—from foreign languages and business to math and science.

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University of California College Prep Online

  • UCCP Online provides Internet-based college preparatory courses to high school students who otherwise would not be eligible for admission to the University of California and other top universities. Today, the online school’s cybermentors use Elluminate Live! to help students improve overall performance and achieve higher grades.

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Corporate Training

LINGOS

  • A consortium of humanitarian relief, development, and conservation organizations, LINGOs uses Elluminate Live! to deliver high-quality learning experiences worldwide that would previously not been available to field-based workers.

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Australian Institute for Care Development

  • As training providers for older Queenslanders, the Australian Institute for Care Development is challenged to provide training for "everyone." The virtual classroom offers affordable, accessible training delivery that includes live interaction.

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Pan American Health Organization

  • PAHO implemented Elluminate Live! to facilitate communication and collaboration with its 36 member countries, eliminating the need for a significant number of international trips and costly satellite-based teleconferencing. Elluminate Live! helps PAHO support its mission of strengthening national and local health systems, and improving the health of the peoples of the Americas.

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Health E-Learning

  • Australian-based Health E-Learning delivers courses to healthcare providers and hospitals around the world. With donated software from Elluminate, Health E-Learning put on an online lactation education conference with 342 delegates from 31 countries, including Rwanda, which has one of the lowest survival rates for mothers and infants in the world, and raised money for a worthy cause.

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Customs Brokers & Forwarders Council of Australia

  • CBFCA needed a reliable alternative to a face-to-face classroom course for students in remote areas. The organization has increased its online offerings by about 300% to over 30 classes and will be increasing to 50 or 60 classes in the near future. The council has also added enough Elluminate Live! seats to run multiple classes every night of the week to meet a pent-up demand.

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United Benefit Advisors

  • With Elluminate, UBA can provide the same benefits as face-to-face training at a substantially reduced cost, enabling members to see screens and use the mouse like they would in person. The organization will also use Elluminate Live! for pre-recorded training sessions, enrollment process guides, recruitment aids, and various other employer/employee communication pieces.

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Interstate Hotels & Resorts

  • The nation's largest independent hotel management company, Interstate Hotels & Resorts needed a technology to facilitate communication, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. Elluminate provided the tools to bring consistent service and quality to Interstate’s customers by enabling universal training for all staff and coordinating corporate and supplier communication.

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EMD Biosciences

  • EMD Biosciences wanted to reduce the high cost of international travel and use its limited resources to spread knowledge in Asia-Pacific and Latin America. With Elluminate Live! the organization expanded its capabilities, without hiring more people, to provide product training and conduct meetings with participants from around the world—without expensive travel or phone calls.

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Sun Microsystems

  • Using Elluminate Live! for its Live Virtual Class initiative, Sun can cost-effectively deliver a virtual classroom to its students worldwide. One unexpected side benefit of Elluminate was its increasingly popular use for internal collaboration and meetings, which also enabled Sun executives to reduce travel time and expenses.

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