| 6 June 2001 - Cirencester, UK.eLearnity, the UK's leading independent e-Learning consultancy today announced the launch of eCommunity™, a radical new e-learning environment to support long term e-learning programmes and learning communities. David Wilson, Managing Director of eLearnity said "eCommunity™ is based on four years of research and development into collaborative learning processes and communities. It pulls together proven best practice in e-learning design with best of breed technology to enable collaborative and action-based learning techniques that are typical for high-value learning programmes such as management development or real organisational change."
eCommunity™ is a community-based learning environment for group collaborative activities and discussions. The current version is based on a Lotus Domino platform and is accessible to participants over the Web or corporate intranet. (Future platform solutions are under development). The application gives learners access to:
- Learning events
- Flexible resources incorporating a variety of media
- Multiple areas for threaded discussions
- Team based work assignments
- Private work area
- Individual and team profiles
- Personal interest matching
- Surveys and assessments
"eLearnity is already using eCommunity™ to support a number of consulting engagements" said Sue Honore, eLearnity's Learning Development Manager. "Most notably this includes a senior management programme running within Pfizer UK, developed in partnership with a management development training organisation called Clearworth (www.clearworth.com) . The programme has been running since October 2000 and eCommunity™ provides the virtual campus environment, accessible throughout the whole programme and used to provide supporting resources, manage topic-based discussions and for group and individual work assignments." eCommunity™ is available on hosted or corporate infrastructure and is provided with supporting design and implementation services.
About eLearnity
Founded in 1996, eLearnity is the UK's leading independent e-learning consultancy and specialist in integrated e-learning solutions. We have developed an in-depth understanding of the e-learning market place and our team has a strong track record in successful corporate and academic implementations.
eLearnity provides in-depth skills and understanding of e-learning strategies together with a complete range of implementation services including project management, course design and development, technical customisation and integration, and implementation support. eLearnity works with a range of market-leading vendors including suppliers of Learning Management Systems such as THINQ, Docent, Click2Learn, and Saba, and e-learning delivery technologies from Centra, Lotus, Macromedia, Microsoft and others.
Customers include Pfizer, Gartner Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM, Deutsche Bank, Henley Management College, Lotus Development and many more.
For further information please contact:
Elaine Wilson
eLearnity Limited, Shilling House, 20 Ampney Crucis, Cirencester, Glos. GL7 5SA
Tel:0207 917 1870 Fax: 0207 917 1871 Email: elainew@eLearnity.com
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