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Partnership Broadens Availability of Higher Education Technology
4/26/2007
Tegrity Solutions, provider of student achievement systems for higher education, will team up with North East Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP), an organization to promote information technology in education, to broaden availability of Campus 2.0, a program that records and archives classroom lectures. With the partnership, NERCOMP members who choose to purchase the product will receive exclusive pricing plans.Campus 2.0 is designed to store and organize recordings of college and university classes to be accessed later. According to Tegrity, the technology "combines video, audio, and instructor slides with student notes" and indexes them online to be searched for and retrieved on student's desktop or mobile device.
NERCOMP is an affiliate of Educause, a nonprofit association for the advancement of technology is higher education.
Pricing information and terms of the partnership are available by contacting Tegrity.
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