Prometheus Teams With Docent To Expand elearning Software Capabilities
Prometheus, a leader in community source code courseware from The
George Washington University, has teamed with Docent, the premier
provider of eLearning software for Global 2000 companies to expand
eLearning software capabilities to meet the changing needs of both the
education and
corporate
training markets. Each company will contribute key technologies to the
project and work jointly on the development efforts to integrate and
co-market their eLearning solutions.
Docent Enterprise™, an integrated suite of products, is a complete
infrastructure for developing, delivering, managing and measuring
eLearning
to the corporate training market. Prometheus provides course
management software (CMS) to the higher education market allowing
professors or instructors to construct and deliver courses to on-campus or “virtual”
students attending traditional or distance learning institution. Courses
are easy for students to navigate through a personalized portal
interface.
“The academic market is adopting elearning faster than ever before,”
said Dave Ellett, chairman, president and CEO of Docent. “By
combining our platform capabilities with Prometheus into a seamlessly
integrated framework, both companies can can offer more robust
elearning solutions
for
our education and corporate training customers.”
“Teaming with Docent allows Prometheus to fully explore learning
solutions and content delivery strategies that have worked well in
corporate markets while, at the same time, maintaining Prometheus’
leadership role in the academic market,” said Bo Davis, Managing
Director of Prometheus. “Our
core
understanding of university needs is bolstered by taking advantage of
the full range of functionality.”
Davis continues, “In recent RFPs, we have found that there are
specifications for functionality from both types of platforms. For
example,
there are frequently requests in the large RFPs for performance
tracking features typically found in corporate LMS products to be
combined with
grade
book and test functionality found in the academic CMS products.”
About Prometheus
Prometheus is a community-based, open architecture software platform
that meets the online needs of educational institutions and is backed
by The George Washington University in Washington, DC. In 1997, a team
at GW
began
to develop their own online learning software because the available
software
was not as easy to use, flexible, or scalable as faculty and students
at a major university needed. As a result, the team created
Prometheus, a scalable software based on proven technologies such as
leading databases from Oracle and Microsoft as well as an open source
code application built in ColdFusion. Other leading institutions that
have adopted this proven, scalable technology include The Wharton
School, Teachers College at
Columbia
University, New York University, The University of Wisconsin Learning
Innovations, University of Michigan College of Engineering, and United
States Open University.
Docent, Docent Enterprise, and Docent Domains are trademarks and/or
registered trademarks of Docent, Inc. All other names are trademarks
and/or
registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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