Elearning - February/March 2008 - (Page 13) Deals segment, following Cisco’s purchase of WebEx. KNOWLEDGE PLANET, ONE OF THE EARLY LMS PLAYERS, RECENTLY MERGED WITH SHARED INSIGHTS, which hosts corporate and customer on-line communities. The new company is called Mzinga and will focus on the combination of learning, content and communities in a software as service modality. EVERONN SYSTEMS INDIA HAS ACQUIRED THE ELEARNING DIVISION OF ABAN INFORMATICS, a part of Aban, a transnational group based in Chennai, for undisclosed sum. The acquisition enables the company to have immediate access to more than 30,000 students all over India. Besides, it would also add more than 40 schools through this acquisition. CDRIVE CORP. AND AXIOM TRAINING AND CONSULTING SERVICES, INC., have merged under CDrive Corp. to create Navis Learning, a full-service training and consulting organization that helps companies achieve their corporate training strategies. Navis Learning will focus on customers in the New England area. CD Drive Corp. founder and president David Gomes will remain president of Navis Learning. David Franco, co-founder and president of Axiom, will become vice president of business development for Navis Learning. MEDICAL STAFFING NETWORK, A LEADING MEDICAL STAFFING FIRM, HAS SELECTED THE GEOMAESTRO LEARNING MANAGEMENT SUITE (LMS) to manage training delivery as part of a three-year managed learning services contract. Medical Staffing Network, headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., has more than 130 branches in 40 states. GEORGIA-BASED A.G.C.O. IS IMPLEMENTING SUMTOTAL’S ENTERPRISE SUITE in phases as part of a strategic human resources initiative. A.G.C.O. will use the platform for managing its strategic human relations needs on a global basis. THE U.S. ARMY PROGRAM EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR SIMULATION, TRAINING AND INSTRUMENTATION (PEO STRI) awarded the first contract under Army Head of Contracting Activity (HCA) to General Dynamics Information Technology for support of the Air Force’s Simulation, Training and Experimentation program. Under the contract, General Dynamics will provide wargaming and mobilization planning support for the air staff. L-3 COMMUNICATIONS HAS BEEN AWARDED AN $18.8 MILLION CONTRACT FROM THE U.S. AIR FORCE’S AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS CENTER to build an F-16C Block 52+ Aircrew Training Device (ATD) for the Hellenic Air Force (HAF). The ATD will incorporate advanced technologies to conduct air-to-air and air-toground combat simulations. NOVERANT, INC. HAS BEEN SELECTED BY THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MEDICAL REVIEW OFFICERS (AAMRO) to provide online learning management system for the MRO Center, AAMRO’s new information Web portal. NORTHAMPTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE HAS IMPLEMENTED ELLUMINATE LIVE! to add synchronous content to asynchronous distance learning and provide real-time, online tutoring for math, writing, Spanish, accounting, psychology, biology and chemistry. The college also uses the live elearning environment in a wide variety of other applications, including student orientations, virtual open houses, virtual office hours, academic advising, faculty meetings and faculty professional development. THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON HAS CHOSEN DESIRE2LEARN to provide a robust and scalable online learning environment to its more than 24,700 learners for online and web-enhanced delivery. Desire2Learn will enable the university to achieve its goals of providing an intuitive and easy-to-use system for its faculty, students and administrators. BLACKBOARD, INC., AND SONY CORP. will partner to support Sony FeliCa contactless technology in the Blackboard Commerce Suite, a family of applications supporting one-card transactions oncampus, off-campus and online and allowing for identification, payment and access. CORNERSTONE ONDEMAND, INC., AND ASTADIA have formed a strategic alliance to provide implementation and educational services for Cornerstone’s growing roster of clients. Astadia will support Cornerstone’s consulting team in delivering technical, educational and implementation consulting services to Cornerstone clients across the globe. BETHEL UNIVERSITY IN ST. PAUL, MINN., WILL LEVERAGE ENTERASYS NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL to authenticate, assess and authorize more than 7,000 students and employees, and more than 4,000 networked devices from coast to coast. Additionally, Grant Joint Union High School District in Sacramento, Calif., is leveraging secure convergence, compliance and connectivity solutions from Enterasys to deliver voice, video and data services to more than 12,000 students and nearly 1,500 district instructors, administrators and employees using over 6,500 networked devices. THE WEB CONFERENCING COMPANY INTERWISE WAS PURCHASED BY AT&T FOR $121 MILLION. This continues the trends of consolidation and alignment in this collaboration Elearning! February/March 2008 13
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