Eduprise Solutions for Online Learning Todd Nicolet Eduprise.com Chris Goodson Eduprise.com Kirsten Hale Eduprise.com 1999 University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA editor encoder Sara A. Schmidt Eduprise.com provides the educational community with creative solutions for enhancing instruction as well as techniques for making independent learners more productive. Our tool suite can be used for a wide range of instructional support, from enhancing classroom courses to implementing distance education. The tool suite provides: Content Delivery Tools Course databases Assessment databases Media databases Resource libraries Web sites Student home pages Collaborative Communication Tools Threaded discussion forum Chat services Announcement e-mail lists Faculty in-basket Class analysis tools Assessing the value of any technology-based approach to education and training requires an understanding of objectives, methods, and expected outcomes. For this reason we discuss with institutions the use of tools in the context of educational issues and their attendant methodologies. Our approach to the use of IT is based on the following observations: Tools need to be designed with educators and students in mind. Solutions must be scalable, that is, capable of being implemented in a realistic educational context. Join Eduprise.com instructional professionals in an introduction to their array of services and rapid application development environment--designed to create a custom solution for your institution's online learning environment. You'll have an opportunity to create a course, build a resource library, and take a guest tour of some online and web-enhanced instructional environments created by Eduprise clients and professionals.