Sun Microsystems Selects University of Wisconsin's dot.edu [...]
Sun Microsystems Selects University of Wisconsin's dot.edu Department For New E-learning Program
📅 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (sun.com), a hardware, software and services provider, today announced that it has chosen the University of Wisconsin System's dot.edu department, housed at the Milwaukee campus as a Sun Center of Excellence in e-learning. The Digital Online Technology Educational Design Utility, known as dot.edu, is an e-learning infrastructure provider for educational institutions both inside and outside the state of Wisconsin, including K-12, university, technical and community colleges. Using e-learning software solutions from Blackboard Inc.(blackboard.com), dot.edu has placed more than 10,000 courses online since the department was founded in 1999.
Providing instructional design, software training, hosting services, and a 24/7 service desk for online course development, dot.edu uses Sun Enterprise and Workgroup Servers and Sun StorEdge T3 and Workgroup Storage. The Web-based user community includes some 126,000 users ranging in age from pre-kindergarten to university students.
Sun's Center of Excellence program includes 32 centers worldwide in the areas of high performance computing, computational biology, digital libraries and e-learning. To date, there are two Sun Centers of Excellence in e-learning globally: dot.edu at the University of Wisconsin System and the University of Alberta, Canada. The Sun Center of Excellence program recognizes outstanding work performed by an educational institution and a third party, either an industry partner or a fellow educational institution.
?dot.edu builds upon the inherent benefits of Web-based learning -- effective resource management, sharing of best practices, student-focused learning -- and it offers these benefits via an application service provider model,? said Kim Jones, vice president of global education and research for Sun Microsystems.
?This model was the basis for naming dot.edu a Sun Center of Excellence. Additionally, using Sun equipment and the course management system offerings from Blackboard, dot.edu provides e-learning services to more than 80 educational institutions, allowing for a seamless educational experience for students of all ages.?
Providing instructional design, software training, hosting services, and a 24/7 service desk for online course development, dot.edu uses Sun Enterprise and Workgroup Servers and Sun StorEdge T3 and Workgroup Storage. The Web-based user community includes some 126,000 users ranging in age from pre-kindergarten to university students.
Sun's Center of Excellence program includes 32 centers worldwide in the areas of high performance computing, computational biology, digital libraries and e-learning. To date, there are two Sun Centers of Excellence in e-learning globally: dot.edu at the University of Wisconsin System and the University of Alberta, Canada. The Sun Center of Excellence program recognizes outstanding work performed by an educational institution and a third party, either an industry partner or a fellow educational institution.
?dot.edu builds upon the inherent benefits of Web-based learning -- effective resource management, sharing of best practices, student-focused learning -- and it offers these benefits via an application service provider model,? said Kim Jones, vice president of global education and research for Sun Microsystems.
?This model was the basis for naming dot.edu a Sun Center of Excellence. Additionally, using Sun equipment and the course management system offerings from Blackboard, dot.edu provides e-learning services to more than 80 educational institutions, allowing for a seamless educational experience for students of all ages.?
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