University of Louisiana at Monroe Chooses Moodlerooms for its Learning Management System -- Announced at Educause in Seattle, booth # 1611 --
BALTIMORE and SEATTLE, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Moodlerooms, the largest global provider of learning management systems and services for Moodle, today announced that the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) is converting its online learning system to Moodle, hosted by Moodlerooms. The announcement was made at Educause in Seattle. "Moodle is very powerful. It gives us total freedom to design and deliver our courses," said Paula Clark Thornhill, the university's electronic learning facilitator. "Our students are very technology savvy and demand access to everything 24/7. Moodlerooms gives it to them. It has been amazing. They and the faculty find it to be a very friendly environment." She said ULM is in the process of converting from Blackboard. ULM faculty and students have already begun using Moodlerooms in every college including Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, Education and Human Development, Health Sciences, and Pharmacy. Martin Knott, CEO of Moodlerooms, said, "ULM provides a great example of the way in which a leading institution can take full advantage of the online environment. We're very excited to work with Paula and the entire university for the benefit of students and faculty." Thornhill added that Moodle provides a number of other benefits: faculty and students can communicate with each other at any time within the learning management system. Also, faculty members find it easy to share courses -- or the format model in which they created a course -- with other instructors. About Moodlerooms Moodlerooms, the largest provider of the free and open-source Moodle course management software services in the world, helps educators and corporate trainers create quality online courses in a way that is affordable, effective and accessible. Moodlerooms provides wrap-around technical support, hosting, customization, instruction, training and other services needed to tap Moodle's full potential. Moodlerooms serves more than 360 clients -- schools, universities, school districts and corporations. Customers include the Baton Rouge city government; the University of Louisiana at Monroe; University of Guam; San Francisco State University; Montana State University, as well as Cisco and Intel Corporations. Moodlerooms has offices in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Greece, India, Jordan, Mexico, Sweden and the UK. Contact: http://www.moodlerooms.com/ or call 443-451-7220. Contact: Robert Deigh RDC Communication 703-401-6339 CONTACT: Robert Deigh of RDC Communication, 1-703-401-6339, Web site: http://www.moodlerooms.com/
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