Elluminate and Unicon Contribute Sakai/Elluminate Tool to the Sakai Community
Phoenix, AZ - April 23, 2008 - Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source enterprise portals, applications, and top end technology consulting for higher education, today announced the immediate availability of a software tool to integrate Elluminate Live! with the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment. The integration tool, co-developed by Unicon, Inc. and Elluminate, Inc., is designed to enable academic institutions using the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment to easily and seamlessly integrate live, synchronous distance learning and collaboration into their coursework. The companies have contributed the Sakai/Elluminate integration tool to the Sakai open source community. The source code is available at: https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/unicon/elluminate/.
"At Elluminate, we understand that it is important to meet customer requirements, including those for open source integration,” said Maurice Heiblum, President of Elluminate. “We are extremely pleased to partner with Unicon to provide access for Sakai users to a real-time instruction delivery solution that easily duplicates any learning activity, from lectures and presentations to small group discussions and debates."
“Unicon enjoys its professional and collaborative relationship with Elluminate and this latest integration of their technology will provide added value functionality to the Sakai community,” said John C. Blakley, CEO of Unicon, Inc. “This donation represents a healthy trend from commercial software vendors to increase the integration and functionality between their applications and the open source world.”
The Sakai/Elluminate Tool
- Enables Sakai Instructors to create, edit, and delete Elluminate sessions from within Sakai
- Elluminate sessions can be scheduled for a day, week, or month, with re-occurrence as needed
- Allows students to see and access Elluminate session details from within their Sakai calendar
About Sakai
The Sakai software is a community source effort to develop a platform for innovation in collaboration, teaching and learning, and research support software. The Sakai Project’s primary goal is to deliver the Sakai application framework and associated course management software (CMS) tools and components that are designed to work together. These components are for course development, delivery, management, and, as an augmentation of the original CMS model, they also support classroom and research collaboration. The software is being designed to be competitive with the best CMSs available. For more information visit: www.sakaiproject.org.
About Elluminate, Inc.
Elluminate, Inc. provides proven, best-in-class solutions for real-time online learning and collaboration that deliver exceptional outcomes, including enhanced learning experiences, increased retention and completion rates, and higher ROI. Elluminate Live! features high-quality voice over the Internet, robust interactive functionality, and unique No User Left Behind™ technology that supports multiple platforms and low-bandwidth connectivity. Elluminate has served more than 300 million web-collaboration minutes to over 3 million teachers and students located in 185 different countries.
Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Elluminate is the trusted choice of prominent academic institutions and corporations, including ADP, Apple Computer, California State University, Duke University, Florida Virtual School, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, K12, Inc., London Knowledge Lab, Los Angeles Unified School District, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Novell, Queen’s University, Royal Veterinary College, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, and many more. The winner of several prestigious awards, the company is also one of Deloitte’s 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies and is positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing, 2007. For more information, visit http://www.elluminate.com.
