Founded in 1499, the University of Valencia selected Elluminate Live! for a pilot program that includes online tutorial sessions, classes with small groups of 15-20, and blended online/onsite classes. The university surveyed participating students and teachers to rate the product on usability, pedagogical needs, and more.

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At the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, Elluminate Live! facilitates a student-centered approach to blended learning. The university also uses the real-time, online environment to webcast and record key sessions during its annual International Blended Learning Conference.

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Recently featured on NPR, Sara Cordell is an English professor at the UIS. A self-proclaimed "medium-tech" person, Cordell found herself a bit overwhelmed when she experienced Elluminate for the first time. With some encouragement from her husband and fellow instructor, Cordell now uses Elluminate Live! to teach one course per semester to fully engaged and enthusiastic students.

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NCC needed a real-time, synchronous way to provide tutoring assistance that simulated the experience available on campus at its Learning Center. An unlimited-seat Elluminate Live! license also provides online instruction, virtual office hours and open houses, student orientation, academic advising, and faculty meetings and professional development.

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Initially, Babson wanted to expand its Fast Track MBA, adding a synchronous component to the college's Blackboard Learning Management System. Instructors liked Elluminate Live! because it didn't get in the way of teaching, and students liked how the product is really self-service because they don't need an instructor present to meet.

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The University of Calgary has deployed Elluminate Live! as part of its full-service teaching and learning environment. The university uses the virtual classroom to hold office hours, bring together distance and face-to-face students, allow students to conduct group project meetings, hold live events with guest presenters, review exam material online, and collaborate on global research projects.

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One of Canada's leading universities, Queen's University was looking for a collaborative online environment that could provide space for student exploration and expression. While Queen's began using Elluminate Live! as a networking solution, it has grown to be a distance education and online collaboration application that's used to solve other issues for the university.

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In 2003, Iowa Central received federal funding to explore ways to make its expensive fiber optic system, more cost-effective and to serve a larger student population in rural areas. Elluminate Live! enables Iowa Central to mirror what it does on the fiber optic network, offering blended courses that allow the school to more fully utilize both mediums, offer more courses, and reduce costs.

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University of Iowa selected Elluminate Live! to facilitate international occupational and environmental health training and research with countries in Central and Eastern Europe, many of which have slow and unreliable Internet connections. With Elluminate, collaborator countries can participate fully in sessions and create recordings that can be used worldwide to address environmental problems.

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A grant to develop an international business curriculum drove NSCC to search for a live eLearning solution to add synchronous technology to asynchronous learning capabilities. International business instructors are recording introductory courses via Elluminate Live! and are expected to also use the tool for other courses as well as for administrative meetings and student orientation.

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Tennessee Tech wanted to add dynamic interaction to supplement its WebCT eLearning environment. Today, the university offers courses that use only WebCT or Elluminate Live! as well as those that use a combination of the two. The school also uses Elluminate Live! for a course taught with its sister institution in Japan, enabling students from both cultures to achieve unprecedented interaction.

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University of Pittsburgh CIRCL needed a multi-purpose web collaborative tool for teaching within and outside the university and for collaboration with colleagues on a local, national, and international level. With Elluminate, CIRCL reaches a wider audience, providing blended classes for onsite and remote audiences and enabling participants to focus on collaboration.

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NAU wanted a broad solution that would allow instructors to control interactions and enhance asynchronous online courses with synchronous content. Because Elluminate Live! is so easy to use, the university doesnt' have to spend valuable time teaching faculty about the technology but can concentrate on helping them use the product effectively as a pedagogical tool.

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The online MBA program at Penn State provides distance education programs for more than 23,000 students from all 50 states and 44 countries. With Elluminate Live! MBA program faculty can how hold virtual hours, interact with students on assignments, facilitate group discussions, hold tutoring sessions, and present just-in-time course material.

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A 2006 Elluminate Center of Excellence, DeVry provides rigorous, career-oriented undergraduate and graduate degree programs in technology, business, and management. With Elluminate Live! the university brought the classroom back into online learning, adding live interaction to its asynchronous online education program and increasing student retention.

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While K12 school-to-school collaboration is exploding worldwide, many of the organizations involved have only asynchronous technologies available. Elluminate's Fire and Ice program enables many schools in many countries to extend the boundaries of the physical classroom with live, real-time interaction.

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With 45 students in grades K-7, Raven Sundahl wanted a way to teach that includes all modalities for different types of learners. Today, she uses her "Wacky Wednesday" sessions to engage even the youngest students.

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Social Studies Literacy Coach for District 75 in New York City Cara Coffina is in her third year of leading an innovative online debate competition as a way to engage special needs students in current events. She works with Elluminate partner LearningTimes to hold the online debates via the Elluminate Live! real-time eLearning environment.

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FVDES uses a triangular system that combines an asynchronous application for sending email and attachments, a web site for curriculum support, and Elluminate Live! for synchronous interaction. Even the youngest students are enthusiastic about participating in Elluminate Live! sessions for activities such as radio theatre productions, science experiments, and math tutorials.

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Today, Stockton CLC has increased its original 25 Elluminate Live! seats to 500 and is rolling out the live eLearning solution to all the schools in the area. The organization provides evening homework drop-in sessions and opened an online Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for anywhere, anytime learning with live and recorded lessons used as standalone sessions or as part of a course.

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With Elluminate Live! Sunchild provides superbly qualified instructors and a multi-dimensional, flexible environment that suits the learning style of First Nation students. As a result, Sunchild has realized an 80% success rate with diploma achievement, a dramatic increase from the 17% graduation rate of the traditional education system!

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At the Argyll Centre, Elluminate Live! is used for online classes, one-on-one tutoring, and collaborative group sessions, enabling instructors and staff in remote satellite locations to participate in meetings, pursue professional development, and create instructional materials. In addition, the school performs help desk support via Elluminate, such as the remote troubleshooting of student computer problems.

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A requirement for synchronous voice communication, interactive learning, ad hoc collaboration, and the ability to integrate with its existing eCollege platform led IVHS to Elluminate. Today, the school Elluminate Live! for online instruction, virtual office hours, weekly team meetings, statewide meetings, and more!

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UK's largest university, The Open University needed to replace an internally development legacy collaboration system. With Elluminate, the OU has the potential of dramatically altering the learning experience for its 200,000 distance learners.

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With Elluminate, PSSD reduces travel for school principals and resource (special needs) teachers, saving an estimated $18K per year in time and mileage. Elluminate Live! also used by teachers and administrators to share information and best practices, supplement its Blackboard and IITV, and provide real-time application training, recorded tutorials, and technical support. Full story.

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The UA system serves students from a wide variety of regional cultures over vast distances. The enterprise deployment of Elluminate Live! began as a grassroots effort on separate campuses that quickly grew to provide university-wide infrastructure that provides an alternative to audio/video conferencing and support for meetings, inter-institution collaboration, and research.

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Part of the 23-campus California State University system, CSUN selected Elluminate Live! for a campus-wide license because its functionality closely mirrored the activities of a face-to-face classroom, enabling instructors and students to transition to an online environment without significantly modifying their behavior. Full story. Related video.

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The CDLI provides access to educational opportunities throughout Newfoundland and Labrador, especially those is isolated, rural areas. With Elluminate Live! the CDLI added live discussion and dynamic interaction to its asynchronous WebCT course content. As a result, students in the province are doing as well, if not better, than Canadian students experiencing face-to-face learning.

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The CCIU works with the PDE and 12 local school districts that represent over 64,000 students and 6,000 educators. With Elluminate Live! the organizations eliminated travel costs for meeting attendees and presenters for their Pennsylvania Technology Leadership Academy for school board directors and business managers.

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CCC Confer is unique in its delivery of free e-conferencing services to the world's largest higher education system, California Community Colleges. Seamlessly integrated into the CCC Confer portal, Elluminate Live! supports meeting, training, tutoring, online student and library services, and distance learning.

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