Remote-Learner is pleased to announce that ELIS for Moodle 2 has been released. ELIS (Enterprise Learning Intelligence System) was orginally released in 2009 for Moodle 1.9. ELIS adds enterprise features to Moodle, like those found in expensive commercial solutions. ELIS supports learners in K-12, Higher Education and Corporate/Government learning environments and includes three major components:- Program Manager
- Notifications Manager
- Reports Manager
For the second consecutive year, the eLearning Guild survey, which measures use of over 100 professionally-developed LMS products and excludes in-house created systems, shows that Moodle™ is ranked as the #1 LMS product among eLearning Guild members with over 24% of respondents selecting it as their primary LMS.
Remote-Learner has announced new integration with Adobe® Connect™ to deliver synchronous web conferencing inside of Moodle, an open-source learning management system that helps educators produce Internet-based courses and web sites. This new plug-in provides a single sign-on between the two systems to facilitate eLearning through Moodle. Instructors can now create and manage their meeting rooms inside of Moodle, with students able to click and load them easily within the eLearning environment.
Remote-Learner has selected Red Hat's RHEV Advanced Platform Virtualization technology to deploy in its Overland Park Kansas data center. Rollout and testing will be completed by July 2011 bringing our customers significant cost savings, security, scalability and uptime guarantees going forward. Later in the year RHEV will be deployed in our Waterloo Ontario Canada and Banbury England data centers. 
Remote-Learner and Kaltura recently announced a partnership to bring an open-source video streaming technology to the Moodle LMS platform. Kaltura was selected by Wikipedia (Fall '09), PBS and over 30,000 commercial organizations and schools to bring cost effective video resources online. "We are pleased to announce that the award winning Kaltura platform has now been integrated with Moodle as both a new Resource and Assignment type" states Jason Cole, Ph.D., Remote-Learner's CEO. Kaltura allows teachers and students to add rich media to their online courses and simplifies asset management. Kaltura's Key Features Include:
Remote-Learner has announced support for the open source Mahara e-Portfolio system by joining the worldwide network of authorized Mahara service providers. Mahara is a flexible display framework and means 'think' or 'thought' in Te Reo Māori. Mahara is a user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed. Mahara also features:-
a weblog (blog feature)
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resume builder
Remote-Learner is pleased to announce it has joined the Alfresco partner program. Alfresco is an open source content management system with many of the same features as Microsoft SharePoint, including: -
Improve efficiency through centralized management of learning content
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Improve content re-use with site-wide sharing