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Elluminate Announces Availability of Custom-Branded, Private Versions of Popular Social Learning Network for Education

Posted November 18th, 2009 by Elluminate
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LearnCentral Community Platform™ Expands to Include Option to Add Customization, Privacy, and Control

Pleasanton, California — November 18, 2009

News Facts:

  • Elluminate, Inc., the leader inweb, audio, videoand social networking solutions that support 21st century teaching, learning, and collaboration, announced today the general availability of the newest additions to theLearnCentral Community Platform™,which includes both public and private versions of the company’s popular social learning network for education.
  • LearnCentral Community Platform enhances theElluminate Learning Suite™by adding an optional component for informal learning and social networking, where educators can find and connect with colleagues worldwide, organize and share content, hold real-time meetings and events, and much more.
  • LearnCentral Portal is an entry-level offering that provides a customized, branded “front door” into the public LearnCentral community, providing a quick, inexpensive, yet powerful, way of exposing educators to a social learning network without the hassles of upfront configuration and ongoing community management. 
  • LearnCentral Private Community offers the same customized look and feel plus highly configurable privacy options that enable the community manager to choose which, if any, resources are made available in the public LearnCentral network.  
  • With LearnCentral Private Community, customers can choose to have their own completely private, walled-off LearnCentral community in which all discussions, content, member profiles, and groups are kept completely private, with access privileges only granted to the customers' members.  
  • As an alternative, LearnCentral Private Community customers can choose to have a hybrid community in which the members and/or community manager can choose which content, groups, and discussions are made available in the public LearnCentral community.
    • LearnCentral Private Community features include:
    • Custom branding and skinning
    • Use of existing domain URL
    • Content access control with flexible privacy settings
    • Content management and bulk data import
    • Activity reporting to determine content use
    • Integration with Elluminate technology
  • To help customers leverage their technology investments, Elluminate Professional Services offers implementation packages and customized services to help customers build their LearnCentral Portal or Private Community.  Contactconsulting@elluminate.com.

Quotes for Attribution:

A professional online network, Administrator 2.0 empowers educational leaders to learn and share effective 21st century practices, and enables participants to benefit from collective knowledge and model digital-age leadership. With our Admin 2.0 LearnCentral Portal, we can provide the interactive tools needed to foster dialogue and discussion, easily share resources, and connect globally with peers and colleagues.
Jason Borgen, Program Coordinator,
Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL)
Santa Cruz County Office of Education, Administrator 2.0

The LearnCentral Private Community enables NYIT’s Technology Based Learning Systems to provide a system of support for all of its programs. LearnCentral allows us to have the best of Web 2.0 but with the added security and resource sharing of a private community, all with the power of a direct integration with Elluminate
Stan Silverman, Director, Technology Based Learning Systems,NYIT
Private Community users can incorporate any and all content from the general purpose LearnCentral, define who has access to their content, and decide what, if any, content can be used universally. This is a tremendous advantage for those who want to maintain control over proprietary content and valuable intellectual property. What’s more, organizations can provide their educators with the ability to easily and securely make the peer contacts that are so essential to professional development and teacher retention.
Steve Hargadon, Social Learning Consultant, Elluminate
Today, a wide variety of academic institutions and other organizations are embracing the inclusion of personal learning networks in the education process, connecting educators worldwide, encouraging peer support, facilitating informal learning, and providing sustainable professional development. With LearnCentral Community Platform, we have begun the process of closely integrating an educational networking component with our core suite of web conferencing, videoconferencing, and teleconferencing products to give our customers the comprehensive solutions they need to transform teaching and learning on a global level.
Maurice Heiblum, President, Elluminate, Inc.

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