At Tennessee Tech, Elluminate Live!® is used to:

• Enable collaboration between architecture students in U.S. and Japan
• Improve test scores for nursing students
• Enable online faculty meetings and development workshops with remote speakers

Serving more than 9,200 students throughout the state, nation, and many other countries, Tennessee Tech offers courses that use only WebCT or Elluminate Live! as well as those that use a combination of the two environments. Elluminate Live! is also used for a course taught in conjunction with Dohto University, its sister institution in Japan, which enables students from both cultures to achieve an unprecedented level of cooperation and interaction. As a Center of Excellence, Tennessee Tech reaches out across geography in real time and not emulate a live classroom, but go further and perform functions that can now be done more effectively than in the physical classroom.

“When you reinforce the digital divide, you’ve defeated the purpose of the Internet. Elluminate Live! enables us to connect with even the most rural areas of the state,” said R.J. Clougherty, Jr., PhD and director of the university’s Institute for Technological Scholarship. “There’s a very high demand for Elluminate Live! at Tennessee Tech, both for regular classes and ad hoc use.”