Sun has chosen the University of Wisconsin System's dot.edu department, housed at the Milwaukee campus, as a Sun Center of Excellence in e-learning. dot.edu (Digital Online Technology.Educational Design Utility) is an e-learning infrastructure provider for educational institutions both inside and outside the state of Wisconsin, including K-12, university, technical and community colleges. Using e-learning software solutions from Blackboard Inc., dot.edu has placed more than 10,000 courses online since the department was founded in 1999.

As a Sun Center of Excellence in e-learning, dot.edu provides instructional design, software training, hosting services and a 24x7 help desk for online course development. The Web-based user community includes some 126,000 users ranging in age from pre-kindergarten to university students. To deliver on the benefits of e-learning, dot.edu uses Sun EnterpriseTM Servers and Sun StorEdgeTM T3 Arrays.

"dot.edu builds upon the inherent benefits of Web-based learning--effective resource management, sharing of best practices, student-focused learning--and it offers these benefits via an application service provider model," said Kim Jones, vice president of global education and research for Sun. "This model was the basis for naming dot.edu a Sun Center of Excellence. Additionally, using Sun equipment and the course management system offerings from Blackboard, dot.edu provides e-learning services to more than 80 educational institutions, allowing for a seamless educational experience for students of all ages."

Sun's Center of Excellence program includes 32 centers worldwide in the areas of high performance computing, computational biology, digital libraries and e-learning. To date, there are two Sun Centers of Excellence in e-learning globally: dot.edu at the University of Wisconsin System and the University of Alberta, Canada.

Blackboard Inc. was founded to transform the Internet into a powerful environment for teaching and learning. The company offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power a total "e-Education Infrastructure" for schools, colleges, universities and other education providers. [...read more...]

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