Education To Go and Augusoft forge adult education agreement
Boston, MA – September 13, 2005
Education To Go, the leading online adult continuing education course provider with more than 1200 education network partners and Augusoft, Inc. a leading developer of Web-based learning management systems for lifelong learning organizations, have agreed to jointly develop and distribute an integrated solution to better serve institutions and students in this dynamically growing market.
The agreement allows continuing education programs to offer both Ed2go online courses as well as their ground-based courses through the powerful and easy-to-use Lumens learning management system. This seamless integrated offering simplifies the administration and operation of blended lifelong learning programs and provides students with an expanded selection of courses through a single common platform. Availability is scheduled for early 2006.
Education To Go, a part of Thomson Course Technology, was founded in 1997 and is the world’s leading provider of online courses for adults. The Education To Go catalog of more than 300 instructor-facilitated online courses is made available to the public through a global network of more than 1,250 colleges, universities and other institutions of higher education.
Augusoft, founded in 1994, has been developing their Lifelong Learning Management System (Lumens) by creating the most versatile Web-based solution for managing lifelong learning programs. Augusoft tailors its system to fit customer needs, adding new products to its powerful platform based on the industry’s best practices. Augusoft’s mission is to create and continuously improve Lifelong Learning Management Systems. The company strives to capture emerging technologies and to anticipate the needs of tomorrow’s lifelong learner. Augusoft is committed to setting industry standards for integrity and innovation, while providing exceptional customer service.
About Augusoft
Augusoft, Inc., the #1 leader in non-credit education software market, develops and maintains Lumens - the first complete, entirely Web-based, customizable on-demand Lifelong Learning Management System (LLMS). Complementing and integrating with traditional academic and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Lumens is specifically designed for the unique needs of continuing education, customized contract training and workforce development programs.
Augusoft Lumens allows non-credit education programs the ability to outsource the liability, security, hosting and compliance issues that are analogous with online commerce. Augusoft Lumens users benefit from non-credit best practice features, comprehensive financial program analysis tools, greater user satisfaction, increased student registrations, 24/7 user access and improved program ROI. For more information about Augusoft, visit augusoft.net or call (612) 605-1200.
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