Community Colleges
Learn first-hand how three community colleges, Southern State Community College (OH), Centennial College (ON), and Pima Community College (AZ) use Wimba for everything from saving money by reducing faculty and student travel costs, to running entire languages programs.

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Four-Year Universities
Want to learn how six leading universities increase retention rates, enhance learning, and improve student outcomes? This compilation features Drexel University, Kansas State University, Dalhousie University, University of Missouri-St Louis, Arizona State University, and Northeastern University.

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SouthWest London Academic Network and London College of Communication
The SouthWest London Academic Network (SWAN) was launched last year as a strategic alliance between Kingston University, St Georges, University of London and Royal Holloway, University of London. The alliance aims to create new opportunities in biological and biomedical sciences, leadership and management education for health professionals and inter-professional practice and learning. Meanwhile, the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London is one of the leading arts schools in all of Europe. In this video, learn how Wimba plays an important role in the development of these diverse institutions' online programs.

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Ivy Tech Community College
With more than 100,000 students, Ivy Tech Community College (ITCC) is the largest accredited school in North America. ITCC has 14 regional sites located throughout Indiana, offering both undergraduate and technical courses to its students, all of whom either commute to campus to take their courses remotely. And since its new president set into motion a plan to map out an enhanced distance education strategy for the school, ITCC has also become the fastest growing institution in the state. Therefore, to help compensate for its influx of students, ITCC adopted Wimba Pronto in Spring 2007 in order to offer the easiest means of spontaneous, instant communication between students and instructors.

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San Diego State University
While many schools have a difficult time calculating the return-on-investment they receive by using educational technologies, professors at San Diego State University believe they have cracked the code. By looking at a few factors and costs, these professors believe they have saved their school $75,000 by using Wimba Classroom to teach only one class online – a class whose enrollment he has since tripled – while also significantly improving student learning and obviating the need for expensive hardware purchases.

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Grand Rapids Community College
Located in Western Michigan, Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC) is a two-year community college serving more than 15,000 students per semester - none of whom live on-campus. GRCC's commuter student body consists of the traditional 18-21 year old college-age student, to working adults who are learning new skills in order to advance their careers. Therefore, in order to build community and keep its students engaged, GRCC utilizes Wimba Pronto and Wimba Voice. By using these products, GRCC improves its student grades, allows its students to feel significantly more connected to the college's community, and allows them to get immediate feedback when studying. By using this powerful combination of collaborative products, GRCC keeps its students more connected than ever before.

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Neil Squire Society
The Neil Squire Society is the only Canadian not-for-profit organization that uses technology, knowledge, and passion to empower Canadians with physical disabilities. It helps its clients remove barriers so that they can live independent lives and become active members of the workplace and society. Since adopting Wimba in May 2007, the Neil Squire Society has “greatly increased” its effectiveness in delivering real-time classes to people with disabilities across Canada, and even uses real-time captioning online. “The virtual environment is in many ways more accessible to people with disabilities than a face to face program,” says Chad Leaman of the Society. “We have participants where their disability does not allow them to raise their hand, speak clearly, nod or shake their head. In Wimba, participants can raise their hands, communicate through the chat area, and clearly answer yes or no. In many ways, Wimba is more accessible than a ‘real’ classroom environment.”

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Dekalb OnLine Academy
“We wanted to have our online classes mirror our face-to-face classes, and Wimba gave us that opportunity,” said Dr. Regina Merriwether, Assistant Director of Instructional Technology and Principal of DeKalb OnLine Academy, when asked why Wimba was chosen to add a collaborative component to its online courses. Whether a student wants to get ahead or just get caught up, the DeKalb OnLine Academy (DOLA) of Georgia’s DeKalb County School System can help. Offering a comprehensive online, instructor-led curriculum that includes core courses required for graduation, Advanced Placement courses, as well as elective courses, DOLA students benefit by taking its innovative online courses - powered by Wimba - in order to:

• Enroll in courses not offered in their local schoolhouse
• Take acceleration courses
• Receive course recovery efforts
• Accommodate scheduling issues for students who need courses for graduation
• Earn Carnegie credits (.5 or 1 unit)

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Great Basin College
Retention rates have jumped by 7% in classes using Wimba at Great Basin College (GBC). GBC serves students spread across more than 60,000 square miles of rural central Nevada and recently learned that its interactive satellite video system still posed limitations and lacked the quality needed for many courses. To improve its distance program, GBC established LiveNet, the campus-branded application of Wimba Classroom within Blackboard, to provide students with increased access and more personal interactivity in synchronous and asynchronous learning. With Wimba, students are making better connections with their classmates and the institution, feeling more engaged, and staying enrolled.

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University of Georgia
Ranked in the top 20 among public universities in the United States by U.S. News and World Report, the University of Georgia (UGA) is on the move. And thanks in part to Wimba, UGA has become one of the leading technology innovators in the country, and has already embarked on one of the most unique worldwide distance education initiatives. As one instructor at UGA says, "There's virtually no difference between my online classes that are done in Wimba versus the classes I teach face-to-face."

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William Penn School District
To help students who are at-risk, have personal or developmental problems, or want to get ahead in their studies, the William Penn School District uses Wimba to help these students meet their diverse educational objectives. In the true spirit of K-12 education, one teacher sums it up best when she discusses the fact that reaching out to students is what gets her out of bed every day and drives her to help her students succeed. "Wimba allows me to reach those students that otherwise we'd lose."

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Cobb County eSchool
eHS does not fit the description of a traditional high school. Based in Marietta, Georgia, eHS was created in 2001 by the Cobb County School District for students who wanted to take classes outside of their regular schedules. Traditionally, eHS has offered tuition courses to students who wish to take a class in addition to their regular school day. However, in accordance with the Georgia Virtual School legislation signed by the Governor in May 2005, eHS now offers online courses to students as part of the regular school day. eHS believes Wimba software is easy to use and therefore allows instructors of varying technological skills to implement it based on what they might need in order to reach all their students.

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Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS)
Take the environmental wonders of the North and South Poles, add a mixture of teachers and research scientists, stir in a pinch of collaborative education software and what do you get? A recipe for science education that engages students like few things have done before. Lear how Wimba Classroom helped bring several recent expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic to life for K-12 students back in the United States.

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University of Reading (UK)
The University of Reading is one of the top 20 most research-intensive universities in the UK, a major contributor to the knowledge economy and internationally recognised for the excellence of its teaching in a broad range of Arts, Humanities and Sciences programmes. The University offers degree programmes in more than 60 subjects with more than 250 part-time adult education (public) courses. Reading's students are "highly motivated" by Wimba because during online seminars they feel they cam concentrate better with headphones while at their own terminals and aren't distracted by others in the room. They want to repeat various language activities over and over again.

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University of Bristol (UK)
In 2005, the University of Bristol launched an innovative and aggressive E-Learning Strategy. Through the use of appropriate technology such as the Wimba Collaboration Suite, the project's aim is to enhance the student learning experience and to maintain the academic rigor of both undergraduate and postgraduate programs without compromising the output of research-active academic staff. Bristol saw instant returns upon implementing Wimba and even excitedly wrote on its website, "Blackboard's ability to support innovative teaching and learning has received a major boost by the release of a suite of voice tools developed by Wimba."

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University of Salford (UK)
The University of Salford is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious 6*-rated institutions of higher education. Located in Salford Greater Manchester, the University focuses on areas of high-quality national and international innovative and applied research in multidisciplinary areas of study. Wimba allows students in other countries to take courses at the University of Salford that they otherwise wouldn't be able to take. Now, tutorials, seminars, and conferences are all being undertaken online with Wimba.

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Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE (Australia)
The Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE (Gipps TAFE) is a rural institute with five campuses in Victoria, Australia and one in Melbourne. Although a relatively small institute, it delivers around 1-million student contact hours per year, serving approximately 3,000 students, nearly half of whom learn in a blended environment. The remaining 1,500 students, from Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and Singapore, study solely online. Now, 50% of the courses that Gipps TAFE offers online with Wimba were not practical to offer online before Wimba was implemented. Gipps TAFE's ability to expand its number of online courses translates directly to a higher capacity for enrollment and higher levels of revenue.

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California State University, Chico
Dr. Cris Guenter knows how to teach, and thanks in large part to her innovative teaching that heavily relies on Wimba, she recently won the 2008 National Art Educator Award for her "exemplary contributions to the field of visual arts education." For example, on a stormy northern California evening in December 2007, a graduate student of hers who normally makes a six-hour round-trip drive to campus reaped the benefits of her innovative instruction. "We were hit with a lot of rain and snow, and one of our students who's a librarian couldn't get to campus because of a storm. It was ridiculous for her to get out and drive three hours to campus for our final class," Guenter said. To accommodate her student, Guenter set up a Wimba Voice Board so her student could leave her comments and even have her classmates respond to it. "If Wimba hadn't existed, she could have emailed her assignment but this way her classmates could hear her comments and respond back to her. She didn't feel alone or isolated. I'm using Wimba for the collaborative tools and the focused engagement. The interaction in my online classes is as good if not better than in face-to-face classes. And because everything can be documented, there's a great deal of accountability."

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University of Alabama School of Law
Ranked in the top 15 nationally among public law schools, the University of Alabama School of Law considers its online Tax L.L.M. program - which is powered by Wimba - to be its competitive advantage. This rigorous and professional L.L.M. curriculum is designed for outstanding candidates who cannot attend classes on-campus. Through the use of Wimba, these highly engaging classes are delivered to its students' desks at work or home. Its online courses foster real-time learning which allow students to collaborate live with distinguished professors and experienced tax attorneys from across the nation who offer the perfect mix of theory and practice.

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Regent University
The March 2008 edition of CenterPoint, the online video magazine of Regent University's Center for Teaching & Learning, features a segment in which Dr. Bill Ventura, Regent University School of Undergraduate Studies Chair, Department of Communication, discusses saving time grading papers by using Wimba Voice. Dr. Ventura used to spend 30-minutes grading and making comments on a student's paper, which, when multiplied by 40 students, adds up significantly. But now, by using the Wimba Voice Recorder, he has cut that time in half! He records his comments vocally as goes throughout a paper and his students appreciate hearing his voice as he talks through different aspects of their papers because they can better understand his grading style and they can hear his thoughts. Using Wimba Voice when grading helps him reduce the psychological distance that online students feel while also livening up his students' learning experiences.

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