Technology Partners

Ambassador College Bookstores

Ambassador provides premier book fulfillment services to colleges and universities. Their comprehensive range of services includes the management and operation of brick and mortar bookstores, virtual bookstores or any combination of the two. Throughout the years, Ambassador has made significant investments in personnel and technology to achieve its clients' objectives and, in the process, earn a sterling reputation in the academic and publishing industry. Pearson eCollege has partnered with Ambassador, offering Educational Partners an online bookstore application that can be integrated into your portal.
http://www.ambassadorbookstores.com
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Cengage

Cengage Learning (formerly Thomson Learning), a leading textbook publisher in higher education, produces textbooks and state-of-the-art, tailored learning solutions for instructors and institutions around the world. Thomson provides textbooks for leading non-profit and for-profit institutions, and has recently increased its commitment to digital products. Cengage offers course supplements, full online courses and full online programs through the Pearson eCollege system. Additionally, Pearson eCollege has just completed an integration with CNOW, Cengage's eLearning product, which further extends textbooks to include assignments and resources.
http://www.cengage.com

Design Science (DSI)

Design Science (DSI) was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Long Beach, California, with an engineering team in St. Paul, Minnesota. DSI is the worldwide leader in developing, marketing and supporting software for scientific and technical communication. Their MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer and WebEQ software products are used by scientists, engineers, educators and publishing professionals for authoring and publishing mathematical notation in print and online documents, as well as for building Web pages with interactive math content. DSI provides Pearson eCollege with a variety of mathematics authoring tools, which are integrated into the Pearson eCollege system.
http://www.dessci.com/en/company

Elluminate

Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization. Serving corporate and academic sectors, the company ensures the best user experience via superior quality Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), communications that are in-sync regardless of connection speed, broad cross-platform support and advanced, yet easy-to-use, moderator tools. Pearson eCollege's relationship with Elluminate enables customers to use Elluminate in conjunction with Pearson eCollege courseware.
http://www.elluminate.com

ETS

ETS is the world's largest private educational testing and measurement organization. As a nonprofit corporation, its mission is to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, research and related services for all people worldwide. The suite of ETS higher education assessments, program evaluations and surveys — useful for pre- and post-assessment, institutional evaluation, and curriculum review — are nationally normed and research-based, and can provide customized data. Pearson eCollege and ETS now partner to offer the SIR II and eSIR II products jointly to higher education institutions all over the world.
http://www.ets.org

Foliotek™

Developed by LANIT Consulting in Columbia, MO, Foliotek is the next generation in portfolio management and assessment systems. Foliotek introduces a new level of customization, capability and ease-of-use, surpassing what is currently available in today's market, and is designed to adapt to the specific needs of organizations, portfolio administrators and students. Pearson eCollege offers the Foliotek portfolio as one of several products supporting its Learning Outcome Manager (LOM). Portfolios allow institutions and students to align certain artifacts (i.e. MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, and HTML) with state, national, and school standards and objectives. In addition, students may create presentation portfolios to showcase their work.
http://www.foliotek.com

Impatica

Impatica products enable users of Microsoft PowerPoint and Macromedia Director to deliver their content plug-in free to Java-enabled computers and other devices with searchable text, dynamic indexing and navigation. The patented Impatica OnCue interface revolutionizes the course production process to the extent that practically anyone can produce content. As a result, programmers or technical experts are no longer required. Impatica technology enables instructors to upload PowerPoint and Macromedia Director files into their Pearson eCollege course content.
http://www.impatica.com

InsideTrack

InsideTrack provides Success Coaching, which keeps students focused on their goals and gives them the skills they need to succeed in education. Success Coaching was initially developed with students at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. Based on successful results from these studies, several colleges and universities funded and participated in pilot programs providing Success Coaching to first-year students. Pearson eCollege has integrated with InsideTrack, providing one-click access from Pearson eCollege courses to Success Coaching tools.
www.insidetrack.com

ProClarity

ProClarity Corporation develops applications that directly leverage the power of Microsoft Analysis Services for SQL Server 2005 to provide business intelligence across an organization. With ProClarity, companies can use out-of-the-box business intelligence software and an industry-leading analytic application platform to build sophisticated, custom applications that lead to faster, smarter business decisions. Pearson eCollege has chosen the ProClarity Analytics Server to power the Program Intelligence platform. The Analytics Server centrally manages all analysis activities and allows end users to interact directly with data using either a simple Web or desktop-based interface.
http://www.proclarity.com

Questionmark

Founded in 1988, Questionmark is a leading provider of assessment technology for the academic and corporate eLearning industries, with offices in Stamford, CT, London, UK and Belgium. Pearson eCollege uses Questionmark Secure (re-branded as ExamGuard™) to provide a secure environment to deliver high stakes assessments such as tests and exams. This feature prevents users from printing questions, using the right-click on the mouse, saving the HTML, viewing the source, opening new applications, and task switching. In short, it significantly reduces the opportunity for student cheating, whether they are testing in a fully online environment or a proctored examination setting.
http://www.questionmark.com/us/home.htm

Respondus

Respondus, Inc. develops testing, survey and game applications for eLearning. Most products are highly integrated with the leading course management systems, making it easier for instructors to create and manage online materials. Tens of thousands of instructors at more than 2,000 institutions worldwide use Respondus products to enhance their online courses. Respondus software allows instructors to upload exams to the Pearson eCollege system.
http://www.respondus.com

SMARTHINKING

One of the leading providers of online tutoring to colleges and high schools, SMARTHINKING provides live, online, easy-access tutoring to students. SMARTHINKING works with schools, colleges, universities, textbook publishers and other institutions to help educators offer students outstanding academic support. SMARTHINKING's custom solutions improve faculty support and raise student performance by connecting students to qualified assistance anytime, from any Internet connection. Pearson eCollege has a single sign-on integration with SMARTHINKING that can be configured for an Educational Partner's campus for a small fee.
http://www.smarthinking.com

Telerik Corporation

Founded in 2002, Telerik Corporation is a leading vendor of ASP.NET UI components, content management solutions, and add-ons for MCMS 2002 and SharePoint. Building on their expertise in interface development and the potential of AJAX, Telerik helps customers take the richness and responsiveness of desktop applications to the Web. Pearson eCollege uses the Telerik "r.a.d.editor," the leading WYSIWYG rich-text editor for ASP.NET. The product can replace any text box with an intuitive Microsoft Word®-like editor that enables even non-technical users to author and manage HTML content as easily as writing a document.
http://www.telerik.com

VolanoChat™

Founded in 1996, Volano is a privately held company with offices in Vancouver and British Columbia, Canada. Volano Software is the leading supplier of Java chat server solutions. Since VolanoChat was introduced, it has become the most popular Java chat server on the Internet with over 1,580 server installations in 55 countries. It is used by millions of users daily on Web sites worldwide. VolanoChatPro is tightly integrated into the Pearson eCollege teaching platform and is available in all distance courses.
http://www.volano.com