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Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative
Serves 14 Kentucky School Districts since 1999 with IntraLearn SME
Educational service agency looking to grow
iClasses.org from 3,000 to 5,000 students
Northboro, MA, February 7, 2006 -- IntraLearn
Software Corporation, the worlds leading supplier of Microsoft
technology-based, turn-key e-Learning software applications, is
today recognizing the The Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative (OVEC)
for its 8th year of using the IntraLearn SME as its e-Learning delivery
platform.
OVEC is an educational service agency, a cooperative of 14 school
districts, offering consolidated services to administrators, students,
teachers, and families within its member districts, supporting everything
from legal services, bid coordination, and externally-funded grants.
Through iClasses.org, OVEC offers a complete school curriculum for
grades 6-12, aligned with state core content requirements (and federal
requirements as well). Students within the OVEC districts, as well
as many others throughout Kentucky and other states, take advantage
of their online courses.
Initially, OVEC needed to deliver consistent, academically sound
course materials to a mobile population done through a grant
awarded to OVEC with funding from the U.S. Department of Education,
Office of Migrant Education. Over time this need has grown to require
a full-time dedicated content delivery system, assessment system,
and enrollment system, serving middle- and high-school students
from many different backgrounds and with widely divergent needs.
iClasses.org courses are also used for summer curriculum, for remediation,
for advanced learners, for extra credit, for juvenile justice students,
etc., including a large number of home-school students In addition,
they serve several Job Corps agencies that use the courses to assist
their constituents in achieving a G.E.D.
We were able to build lesson content search engines, automatic
enrollment agents, content hyperlink checkers, and alternative course
viewing methods that made it easy for our staff to maintain the
course content and testing, as well as assessment materials ,
said OVEC Chief Technology Officer David Mehl. Further, we
found the pricing structure for a shrink-wrapped application like
IntraLearn SME much more appealing than using someone elses
hosting service with closed access to software. IntraLearn allowed
for a far wider spectrum of numbers of courses, numbers of instructors,
and numbers of students.
About IntraLearn
IntraLearn Software Corporation of Northboro, MA is the leading
provider of turnkey e-Learning applications for corporate enterprises,
academic institutions, and non-profits. Along with operations in
the UK, Brazil, Singapore, and India, IntraLearn software is distributed
worldwide through authorized IntraLearn resellers and Learning Service
Providers to more than 1,500 major organizations in 17 international
languages. IntraLearn is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with
both ISV and Microsoft Business Solutions proficiencies.
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