Sponsors
Ascilite welcomes sponsor contributions to the costs of presenting the conference. For information on the sponsorship opportunities available to you and your company, read the attached document sponsorbrochure
Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) is a leading provider of enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry. Blackboard enables educational innovations everywhere by connecting people and technology. Millions of people use Blackboard everyday at academic institutions around the globe, including colleges, universities, K-12 schools and other education providers.
The Ascilite committee is delighted to announce
Ako Aotearoa, New Zealand's National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence, as gold sponsor for 2009. As champions of excellence in tertiary teaching and learning. Ako Aotearoa's vision is "the best possible educational outcomes for all learners".
ASCILITE is delighted to announce the latest GOLD sponsor for ASCILITE 2009.
Pearson - eCollege is a leading provider of an integrated, standards-based eLearning software solution. eCollege also provides all of the services associated with creating and maintaining quality online education programs. eCollege builds and supports some of the most successful, online degree, certificate/diploma and professional development programs'
Echo360 envisions a time when all students are emancipated from traditional
barriers to learning with an "education on demand" experience. Full-time,
part-time, distance, continuing, and online all describe today's student,
living in a 24/7 world. On-demand media and education converge at Echo360,
helping colleges and universities engage students on their terms with full
and unbounded access to classroom-based content through multiplatform
replay. Developed in partnership with the University of Western Australia,
Echo360's scalable and affordable lecture capture solutions empower
institutions of any size to provide universal availability of lecture
content to their students. From New York to Newcastle, Melbourne to Mexico
City, Echo360 touches the lives of more students in over 1,000 higher
education classrooms around the globe.
The Learning Edge International is a leading software solutions provider to
the educational market. The Learning Edge International's principal offering
is EQUELLA, a Digital Repository that incorporates Learning Objects,
Learning Content Management and integrated content authoring. EQUELLA
integrates with popular learning management systems and has been implemented
within the eLearning environment of universities, polytechnics, and
state-based school systems worldwide. Visit us at www.equella.com.
NetSpot is a Premium eLearning Technology Services Partner to education organisations within the Asia Pacific region.
We help institutions focus on their core mission by managing their eLearning technology and by licensing world class software.
Our experienced team works diligently to establish successful long term relationships and as a result our customers include leading Universities, Technical colleges, Registered Training Organisations and Government Departments across the region.
Human Resource Development International Limited (HRD) have been a Moodle
Partner for 3 years.HRD provide Moodle services to numerous clients including hosting, technical support, consultancy, training, and e-learning design. Based in New Zealand, HRD manage many cutting-edge projects both national and international such as:
- Globally managing the Moodle Course Creator Certificate (MCCC)
- Developing the OpenICDL project (www.openicdl.org)
- Creating the MoodleBites professional development programme (www.moodlebites.com)
- Organising the Moodle Moot each year in New Zealand (www.moodlemoot.co.nz)
You can find out more about HRD by visiting www.hrdnz.com
The Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintect) hasa reputation for developing, using and investigating
the use of ICTs and e-Learning applications in teaching and
learning. For example;
- Wintec's Emerging Technologies Centre (http://etc.elearning.ac.nz/) has successfully led a number of collaborative investigations in the effective use of ICTs in vocational education and industry training.
- Through its "dot e-learning" team (www.elearning.ac.nz) Wintec can provide a range of e-learning services for external agencies.
- Its e-learning / curriculum development team ( www.curriculumfactory.ac.nz) provides learning design consultancy and development services to a range of clients.
- Wintec's Library's research archive ( http://researcharchive.wintec.ac.nz/ ) provides the vital link between Wintec's researchers and the community it serves. For further information please explore Wintecs home page (http://www.wintec.ac.nz/)
PebblePad is a very flexible *personal learning system* designed to support
learners and learning and is used by over ˝ million learners in colleges,
universities and professional bodies. The intuitive interface and scaffolded
wizards promote meaningful and reflective entries which can be shared
independently or combined to make CVs, blogs or e-portfolios.
PebblePad includes powerful tools to support formative and summative assessment - without compromising its underlying private and personal nature. It is available as a hosted or self-hosted solution with implementations ranging from 50 users through to 50,000. Visit us online at www.pebblepad.co.uk