Elluminate lights up Vital communication

Vital is teaming up with Elluminate, Inc. to offer teachers the opportunity to use exciting new approaches in communicating with each other. Elluminate provides web conferencing, teleconferencing, videoconferencing, and social networking solutions designed for education. With Elluminate, you can create a 21st century teaching and learning environment that increases learner retention and results.

Vital and Elluminate are an obvious partnership. While Vital aims to improve the use of ICT in the classroom, providing ongoing professional development and enabling practitioners to make the most of new technologies in their teaching, Elluminate believe that learning technology offers a significant opportunity to transform education in the UK and reduce costs.

“Learning technology at its best can make a huge difference in communication, collaboration, and education,” says Elluminate President Maurice Heiblum. “We are proud to partner with Vital to help the UK and other countries reach academic and business goals for the 21st century, changing the face of education forever.”

Every teacher who registers with Vital will automatically get free access to Elluminate. From Vital’s perspective, according to Programme Director Peter Twining, Elluminate offers four distinct opportunities:

• an online venue for informal teacher gatherings managed by Vital;
• a forum for open events or meetings managed by anyone within the Vital community;
• a site for private discussions facilitated by the Vital community;
• a tool for the Vital team to communicate both with each other and with external contacts, saving the time and cost of travel.

"We are so excited about the possibilities that Elluminate offers for more flexible and engaging forms of practitioner led staff development,” says Peter. “Our aim is to support teachers in sharing resources and expertise with each other in the safety of a moderated, professional community."

Editor’s notes

The Open University (OU) and e-skills UK – the teams behind the £5.6 million DfE funded scheme – endorse the Vital Programme, which aims to boost both the specialist teaching of IT in schools and the use of ICT across the curriculum for teachers of pupils aged 5-19 in state funded educational organisations in England.

Elluminate, Inc. provides proven, best-in-class web, audio, video, and social networking solutions that support 21st century teaching, learning, and collaboration. The company serves more than 1 billion annual web-collaboration minutes to over 7 million teachers and students located in 170 different countries. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and Pleasanton, California, Elluminate is the trusted choice of prominent academic institutions and corporations, including Stockton City Learning Centre, K12 Inc., University of Valencia, Durham University, University of Salford, Leeds Metropolitan, The Open University, University of Hertfordshire, University of Aberdeen, Cardiff University, King's College, London Knowledge Lab, University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, IBM and many more. For more information, visit http://www.elluminate.com

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