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eSchool Media Recognizes Avaya With Readers' Choice Award for Efforts to Expand Online Learning
BASKING RIDGE, NJ, Apr 11, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
-- AvayaLive(TM) Engage enables an immersive media rich learning and
collaboration environment that can be assessed anytime, anywhere and
on any device.
-- Enables colleges to address the problem of increased enrollment and
limited classroom space with college students able to attend virtual
3D classrooms.
-- Carroll University, MIT Sloan and Algonquin College are among first
adopters of advanced 3D technology to support virtual instruction.
Avaya, a global leader in business collaboration and communications
solutions, today announced that it has been awarded a 2012 Ed-Tech
Readers' Choice Award in recognition of its advances in
next-generation online learning technology. Specifically, eSchool
Media cited the AvayaLive(TM) Engage service offering, formerly known
as web.alive, which enables students to remotely attend, learn and
collaborate in media rich virtual 3D classroom environments.
eSchool Media annually recognizes what its readers consider to be the
best education-technology products on the market today. eSchool Media
publishes eSchool News, eCampus News, and eClassroomNews, which
collectively have more than one million readers. Some 1,400 readers
participated in selecting the 2012 Readers' Choice Awards, citing
advances in hardware, software, online media, and related services
that support higher education. The fifty award winners were featured
in a special report on the products most likely to drive innovation
and transform higher education.
According to Avaya, the next-generation campus -- one that is more
mobile and digitally connected than today's standard -- will expand
online and distance-learning opportunities, enhance the productivity
of faculty and staff, enable exceptional customer service to address
the growing demands from students and faculty and provide for safer
campuses. Institutions of higher education increasingly are turning
to Avaya for its advanced communications and network capabilities in
order to offer advanced, digitally based educational experiences to
their students.
As a trusted partner to over 5,000 educational institutions globally,
Avaya works with educational clients to seamlessly converge and
consolidate voice, data and video networks to create a foundation for
a more mobile and connected campus. The advanced features of such
networks underpin these clients' academic and administrative
activities to drive student achievement, streamline student services,
maximize faculty and staff productivity and improve campus
operational efficiencies. Solutions like AvayaLive Engage can
increase the student's capacity to learn collaboratively, offers a
learning environment that is more engaging and can enhance the
institution's appeal by being viewed as an innovator.
Supporting Quotes
"The feature-rich web conferencing software is an
online service, so there is no need to worry about software patches.
Schools can register in minutes and start hosting meetings online on
the same day. And AvayaLive Engage's 3D graphics provide a real sense
of presence that engages students and faculty alike."
-- Dennis
Pierce, editor, eSchoolMedia
"We are in the early stages of adopting AvayaLive Engage as a
collaborative learning opportunity on campus. Virtual environments
seem to come and go, but there are three factors that make AvayaLive
Engage stand out: its ease of use for students and faculty; its rich
and robust analytics; and excellent service support from Avaya."
--
Terri Johnson, director, Educational Technology and Innovation,
Carroll University
"MIT Sloan School of Management recognizes the need to prepare
business professionals to navigate today's and tomorrow's
organizations to a safe and profitable future. Our collaboration
using AvayaLive Engage for MIT Sloan's Executive Education program
focuses on exploring how we can harness technology to create learning
solutions that match the characteristics of the world we live in,
that support the way we truly learn and allow employees and students
to access learning when and where they prefer. With AvayaLive Engage,
MIT Sloan Executive Education is investigating how its high-touch,
interactive, physical learning experience can be complemented with
innovative online components."
-- Peter Hirst, Executive Director,
MIT Sloan School of Management
"With AvayaLive Engage, students are able to talk in real time with
each other and interact with their environment in incredibly
realistic ways, including transporting patients to hospitals and
using telephones to alert one another of an ongoing situation. All
the while, professors observe and grade students based on their
ability to properly communicate their roles to other students. As a
result, this solution has translated into improved communication
skills for our students who are planning careers as first
responders."
-- Glenn MacDougall, Director, Learning and Teaching
Services, Algonquin College
Additional Resources:
-- AvayaLive Engage
-- Avaya Networking
-- Avaya Unified Communications
Tags: Avaya, distance learning, education, remote classroom, online
education, collaboration, one-to-one computing, unified
communications, UC, K-12 schools, primary education, secondary
education, remote learning
About eSchoolMedia:
With a combined, unduplicated audience of more
than one million education decision makers, eSchool Media Inc. is the
parent organization of three robust print, digital, eMail, and video
networks providing breaking news and vital information to
brand-specifying buyers at every level of the education field:
eSchool News (K-12), eCampus News (Higher Ed), and eClassroom News
(Teachers). The eSchool Media family of networks serves ed-tech
decision makers throughout the world, primarily in Canada and the
United States. Our audience includes executive educators (from
principals and every U.S. superintendent) at the building- and
district-level in elementary and secondary schools; administrators
(from chancellors, presidents, and deans to provosts,
vice-presidents, and department directors) in two- and four-year
colleges, public and private universities, and state university
systems; as well as instructors, teachers, and professors of all
subjects at every grade level. eSchool Media strives to provide the
best news, information, and resources to help K-20 decision makers
discover, evaluate, and procure technology to transform education and
achieve educational goals.
About Avaya:
Avaya is a global leader in business communications and
collaboration, providing unified communications, contact centers,
data solutions and related services to companies of all sizes around
the world. For more information please visit www.avaya.com.
Certain statements contained in this press release are
forward-looking statements. These statements may be identified by the
use of forward-looking terminology such as "anticipate," "believe,"
"continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "might,"
"plan," "potential," "predict," "should" or "will" or other similar
terminology. We have based these forward-looking statements on our
current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. While
we believe these expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections
are reasonable, such forward looking statements are only predictions
and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which
are beyond our control. These and other important factors may cause
our actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially
from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or
implied by these forward-looking statements. For a list and
description of such risks and uncertainties, please refer to Avaya's
filings with the SEC that are available at www.sec.gov. Avaya
disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
Follow Avaya on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Flickr, and the
Avaya Connected Blog.
Media Inquiries:
Avaya
Deborah Kline
908-953-6179
klined@avaya.com
SOURCE: Avaya Inc.
mailto:klined@avaya.com
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