ACT works with community and technical colleges nationwide to deliver a range of assessments and workforce development solutions helping students obtain their educational and/or workforce career goals. To assist in this process, almost 900 colleges in the United States and Canada use ACT’s COMPASS/ESL with e-Write system, assessing the needs of 1,000,000 new students yearly. COMPASS/ESL is a computer-delivered, adaptive placement test that provides diagnostic information about an entering student’s skills in math, reading, and writing. The ACT ESL Placement Test (English as a Second Language) is a comprehensive assessment for postsecondary ESL students and includes Reading, Grammar/Usage, and Listening. ACT is pleased to offer the COMPASS e-Write service, a direct writing assessment that collects a student’s writing sample on the computer and immediately scores the results as a part of the COMPASS/ESL student report. For more information, visit www.act.org/compass. ACT also provides assessments that can help build a comprehensive picture of a student’s entering skills, work skills, or outcomes. Programs like WorkKeys (workforce development), CAAP (student outcomes), and DISCOVER (career planning software) can assist in these areas. A new initiative is underway nation-wide with the ACT Centers, who provide a national network of centers (hosted by selected community colleges) that use the latest technologies to deliver testing and training services for individuals, educational institutions, businesses, and other organizations. ACT Center services include • Computer delivered certification and licensure testing for trades and professions; • Workforce development assessment; • Continuing education courses in an array of disciplines; • Skill-specific training in selected fields; • Distance learning and video conferencing with the state-of-the-art technology; and • Computerized educational and career guidance counseling. ACT has regional offices throughout the United States, with staff specializing in placement, outcomes, career planning, or workforce development. These staff assist educational institutions with on-campus workshops and help them use the valuable information gained through assessing student skills.

Acxiom’s risk management capabilities empower organizations to make decisions that increase security and profitability while reducing fraud across the enterprise. This is accomplished through a complete suite of risk solutions which include identification, investigative, and authentication services. A global leader in interactive marketing services, Acxiom connects clients with their customers through deep consumer insight that enables effective and profitable marketing initiatives and business decisions. Our consultative approach spans multiple industries and incorporates decades of experience in consumer data and analytics, information technology, data integration, and consulting solutions for effective marketing across digital, Internet, email, mobile, and direct mail channels. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, and serves clients around the world from locations in the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. For more information about Acxiom, visit www.acxiom.com.

A+dvancer College Readiness Online™ is closing the college readiness gap for both traditional and nontraditional students. Aligned to the most recognized college placement exams, ACCUPLACER® and COMPASS™, A+dvancer identifies and corrects deficiencies in arithmetic, elementary algebra, college algebra, precalculus, trigonometry, reading comprehension, and sentence skills. A+dvancer is published by the American Education Corporation, a leader in K-12 and adult education since 1981.

ANGEL Learning A recognized innovator in the eLearning industry, ANGEL Learning focuses on the educational experience. ANGEL LMS teaching and learning tools exploit technology to help students, faculty, and administrators achieve their objectives. Learn more about the simple, powerful, open ANGEL Learning Management Suite at our booth or register for a free demonstration account online www.angellearning.com.

Are you on the list? The California Community Colleges (CCC) Registry is a job bank website showcasing faculty, administrative, and management opportunities at all 100+ California Community Colleges. For careers in education, we’ve got California covered! It’s where employers look for the right candidates. Don’t be missed! Get on the list! The CCC Registry is free, easy and online! www.cccregistry.org The California Community Colleges are Equal Employment Opportunity institutions.

About Campus Management Corp. More than 1,100 college and university campuses worldwide rely on Campus Management for efficient, scalable, and flexible administrative and academic solutions to enhance institutional performance. Campus Management’s One Campus Ecosystem platform provides higher education a fully integrated, centralized administrative and e-learning solution that unifies and simplifies management and reporting for traditional and nontraditional postsecondary education. The company was ranked Best in Class in Student Information Systems in IMS Global Learning Consortium’s 2007 independent survey; won Microsoft’s 2005 Public Sector award for innovation in Higher Education; and, was named Microsoft’s Global ERP Solutions Developer of the Year in 2003. For more information, visit www.campusmanagement.com.

Capella University, an online university for working educators, is an accredited* university and a leader in online learning. Capella has an alliance with The League for Innovation that provides its members with exclusive benefits toward an advanced degree in Capella’s MS, EdS, EdD, or PhD degree programs. Capella University’s reputation for academic excellence is built on the quality of our faculty. All of our doctorate instructors hold a doctorate themselves and have a wealth of relevant, real-world experience and expertise. With more than 23,000 learners, Capella is one of the top doctorate schools in the country. In addition, Capella University currently offers 109 specializations in five schools: business and technology, education, psychology, human services, and undergraduate studies. Capella has a wide range of popular programs such as our MBA program and our new EdD program, as well as a wide range of specializations, including school psychology, leadership in higher education, and instructional design for online learning. Capella also offers an EdD specialization in educational leadership and management that is aligned with the standards set forth by the American Association of Community Colleges. Capella University offers tuition reductions for alliance member colleges. Scholarship opportunities, federal financial aid, and other financing options are also available. Stop by our booth at the League for Innovation conference and speak with one of our university professionals about your professional and academic aspirations. Learn more about Capella University’s programs designed for higher education professionals or any of our other 109 specializations. *Capella University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA), www.ncahlc.org. Capella University, 225 South Sixth Street, Ninth Floor, Minneapolis, MN 55402 Phone: 888.CAPELLA (227.3552), www.capella.edu.

The Community College Research Center (CCRC) is the leading independent authority on the nation’s more than 1,200 public two-year colleges. The Center’s research includes qualitative case studies, policy studies, and quantitative analysis of individual and institutional data, with a focus on student access to and success in postsecondary education; high school to college transition; developmental education; institutional performance and accountability; and workforce education. CCRC also collaborates with partner institutions MDRC and the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia in operating the National Center for Postsecondary Research (NCPR). Funded through the U.S. Department of Education, NCPR examines the effects of programs designed to help students make the transition to college and master basic skills needed to advance to a degree. For more information, to download publications, or sign up for electronic mailings, visit http//ccrc.tc.columbia.edu and www.PostsecondaryResearch.org. Sarah Phillips, CCRC Teachers College, Columbia University New York, NY 10027 Tel: (212) 678-3091 Email: phillips@tc.edu

Community College Week, published by Autumn Publishing Enterprises, provides an independent voice for faculty, administrators, and trustees at the nation’s 1,250 community, technical, and junior colleges. More than 28,000 readers—among them college presidents, chief academic officers, faculty members, student service administrators, librarians and other college professionals—routinely turn to Community College Week for information they need and trust on subjects ranging from funding to the impact of developments unfolding in Washington. In each of Community College Week’s 24 annual issues, readers find expert analyses of issues and events critical to higher education, vital statistics and data, and education news and features unavailable from other sources. They keep ahead of trends, dangers, and opportunities in the ever-evolving high-tech world, not only through updates and features in regular editions, but also in twice-yearly supplements focusing exclusively on technology advances and offering educators the chance to benefit from case studies at other institutions. Community College Week celebrated a milestone anniversary in 2008: 20 years of providing unrivaled coverage about and for community colleges. News and hot topics may change, but our commitment to higher education never will.

Company of Experts.net is network of people with outstanding expertise in Consulting, Organizational Development, Facilitating, Keynoting, and Training and Development of Community Colleges, Schools, Colleges and Universities. The network also serves the needs of other sectors--businesses and corporations, governmental organizations and nonprofits. We have Experts on Call available throughout the U.S. and Canada. For more information visit us at www.companyofexperts.net. Some of our areas of expertise are accreditation planning, review and writing, appreciative inquiry, assessment, change management, classification and compensation, conflict resolution, department chair training, disaster planning, diversity hiring, executive coaching, fund raising, hiring and evaluation, leadership development and training, restructuring, student learning outcomes, restructuring, strategic planning and team development.

Designed by educators, for educators, Digication is a leading provider of easy-to-use ePortfolio solutions for teachers and students in higher education. Students at more than 2,000 schools use Digication ePortfolios as a workspace for learning and to easily, flexibly, and professionally showcase their work and achievements. ePortfolios create new opportunities for learning, reflection, assessment, and career advancement. Integrated tightly with the company’s award-winning ePortfolio system is the Assessment Management System (AMS). The AMS is a web-based assessment solution, which correlates and reports student progress with learning goals. For more information, visit www.digication.com.

Diverse is one of the most widely read higher education news publications in the country. This award-winning periodical is the recognized leader on diversity issues in higher education. Its comprehensive news, provocative commentary, insightful research and in-depth special reports have made the magazine a "must read" by loyal and growing readership throughout higher education and beyond, including many of the administrative, business, and student service officers at the nation’s colleges and universities. Since Diverse is published every two weeks there are 26 opportunities throughout the year to promote your corporation, institution, conference, fellowships, etc. with us! Diverse features a wide array of advertising from leading institutions, corporations, higher education vendors, and government agencies. Advertising rates in Diverse are quite competitive. Our readership of over 200,000 individuals represents a niche audience of highly educated administrators, top-level managers, faculty, staff, and students at our nation’s 3,500+ colleges and universities. In addition, we have an additional 250,000 unique visitors per month to our website www.diverseeducation.com, and we have a daily e-newsletter that reaches 125,000 subscribers. In addition our career site www.diversejobs.net has the largest and most comprehensive diverse database of jobs and résumés available inside and outside of higher education. During the 2007 academic year, Diverse will launch new channels and e-newsletters dedicated to community colleges, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, the LGBTQ community, Native Americans, people with disabilities, women, and other diverse populations. These channels will provide news, information, statistics, and career opportunities dedicated solely to the aforementioned groups.

EMSI builds integrated data and analysis solutions that bring together industry, workforce, education, and economic development perspectives with an innovative suite of products and services: web-based economic and labor market tools, socioeconomic impact analysis, custom reports, and consulting. EMSI maintains a unique and wide-ranging database of regional information from over 80 data sources, and add user-friendly web-based software that puts our data to work for you. Our thousands of customers represent workforce boards, economic development organizations, government agencies, community colleges, universities, nonprofits, private companies, and policy professionals across the nation. They use our data and tools daily to make crucial strategic decisions.

Embanet (www.embanet.com) is an integrated, full service provider of online learning services to schools, colleges, and universities. Our mission is to deliver world-class, round-the-clock service, and availability to maximize the online course delivery experience for students and faculty. Through unrivaled technical support and technology infrastructure, our innovative solutions enhance the reputation and success of our education partners. * Help Desk Support Services * Hosting Solutions * Course Development * Course Migration

EMC Corporation is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions. Information has the power to illuminate our world. But for this to happen, information must be intelligently and efficiently stored, protected, and managed—so that it can be made accessible, searchable, shareable, and ultimately actionable. EMC creates complete information environments that are reliable, efficient, and secure. The result is information that reveals its hidden potential, that’s fit and ready to use. With EMC, information illuminates what’s possible and moves the world forward. Learn more at www.EMC.com.

Fielding Graduate University was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. Fielding offers programs within the Schools of Psychology, Human and Organization Development, and Educational Leadership and Change. Academic offerings include the highly proclaimed graduate certificate program Teaching in the Virtual Classroom, facilitated by Rena Palloff, Keith Pratt, and Rita Conrad, who are leaders in distance learning and well known for their publications and work addressing the launch and improvement of distance learning programs and instruction. The Fielding learning model enables students to participate effectively from anywhere in the world, and is dedicated to lifelong learning, social justice, and change. Alumni have distinguished themselves in the fields of higher education and community college leadership, distance education, diversity, clinical psychology, healthcare, organizational management, and development and leadership with the corporate, nonprofit, and public sectors.

The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources is a joint effort by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, the League for Innovation in the Community College, and many other community colleges and university partners to develop and use open educational resources and especially open textbooks in community college courses. When educators pool their expertise to create a culture of shared knowledge, everyone benefits. Use of open textbooks can lower educational costs for students. Become involved with the open educational resources movement so that doors to higher education stay open to all.

Franklin University’s Community College Alliance (CCA) is a 3+1 degree completion program, offered via the internet. The program builds on the associate’s degree and allows students to complete a bachelor of science degree in one of eighteen majors without leaving their local communities. CCA was founded in 1998 as an outgrowth of Franklin’s mission to serve working adults with accessible education. Currently, more than 250 institutions across the United States have joined Franklin’s CCA program. Students complete their associate’s degree plus an additional 24 semester hours at the community college while completing a minimum of 40 semester hours at Franklin. Throughout the student’s completion of the bachelor’s degree, the two-year college and Franklin work together to provide this educational option for students.

The Division of Digital Learning and Media Design at Governors State University has been a pioneer in distance education for nearly 30 years. Emmy award winning producers and directors have expanded the frontiers of educational media. GSU’s production teams travel the world to construct video documentaries of events and phenomena, interview experts renowned in their fields and edit features on important issues from beyond the classroom. In 2008, GSU will be the first upper Division University to produce its educational courseware in High Definition video. Partners include the American Psychological Association, The Child Welfare League of America, The Ringing Rocks Foundation, Allyn & Bacon Publishers, and many others. To learn more about GSU Digital Learning and our impressive line-up of multimedia, online, and media courses, as well as review licensing rights, or request a course preview copy, visit our website at www.digitallearning.govst.edu or email us at digitallearning@govst.edu.

Hands-On Labs is your trusted advisor in distance science lab courses since 1994. Our flagship product LabPaqs have been developed for both online and on-campus courses in: biological sciences, chemistry, earth and physical sciences, health sciences (nursing), and others. LabPaqs provide genuine hands-on laboratory experiences to tens of thousands of students each year in a safe, insured, and environmentally friendly manner. They employ micro-scale science techniques; affordable and compact lab equipment; ingenious packaging; and tireless testing. Visit our booth to see the many supplies and materials that make up a LabPaq.

Hawkes Learning Systems (HLS) is interactive, multimedia mathematics courseware that instructs and tutors students as well as assesses their progress. It improves student learning, performance, and retention through its interactive tutorials, unlimited practice, mastery-based homework assignments, and error-specific feedback provided by artificial intelligence. HLS also includes WebCMS, an automated gradebook that effortlessly records students’ homework, tests, and other assignments.

Human eSources® provides online resources used worldwide by career development, education, and HR professionals to help college students, adult workers, and individuals across all nationalities and demographics achieve success in their lives. CollegeScope, by Human eSources® is the premier provider of personal development tools designed specifically for college students, delivered as internet software. CollegeScope features DoWhatYouAre, a personality type assessment and career development program; the PEPS-Learning Style Inventory, a look at preferred learning styles; and the CollegeScope Student Success Program, a complete student success curriculum and text.

Since 1995, Idealist.org has become one of the most comprehensive online re¬sources for the global nonprofit and voluntary sectors, with more than 80,000 nonprofit organizations from 190 countries posting job openings, volunteer and internship opportunities, events, resources, and profiles on the site. Idealist also offers free online, real time, and print resources to help people find meaningful work in the nonprofit sector. Our newest free resource, The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers, is available online for college students and sector switchers seeking nonprofit work.

Innovative Educators is dedicated to providing superior online training sessions focused on the most critical and relevant issues facing educators today. Our primary goal is to provide participants with the information, training, and skills necessary to immediately implement positive change at their institutions. Our spring webinar topics include: innovative retention strategies, retaining underprepared students, effective recruitment techniques, improving diversity on campus, working with parents, working with at-risk students, community college enrollment management strategies, and more. Visit our booth to receive more information about our upcoming events and to enter in a drawing for free training opportunities.

Inside Higher Ed is the free daily news website for people who work in higher education. Breaking news, lively commentary and thousands of job postings bring nearly 600,000 people to the site each month. Outstanding coverage of the issues that matter to community colleges. Hundreds of jobs at two-year institutions nationwide. "I start each day with Inside Higher Ed. I find it energizing." Dorothy J. Umans, Montgomery College. Visit insidehighered.com and sign up for our free daily news brief.

INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications, a nonprofit consortium of California community colleges, is a premier producer of curriculum-based media for online, distance, and classroom learning. We bring instructional design, content development, and digital technology together to offer teachers and students alike a universe of content for lifelong learning, anytime, anywhere. Our digital delivery solutions include the new INTELECOM Online Resources Network (www.intelecomonline.net), a fully-hosted learning object repository designed to provide faculty and instructional designers ready access to content they need to provide an engaging and student-centered experience that leads to learning.

John Wiley and Sons, Inc. is North America’s most venerable publisher and education partner. With its unique blend of world-class learning materials, premiere faculty development resources and training, and leading scholarly works, Wiley is uniquely suited to craft complete learning solutions for your school. With WileyPLUS and Wiley Desktop Editions, Wiley leads the way in innovative e-learning materials that are proven to engage learners and improve student and instructor success. And with Jossey-Bass, Anker Books, and the Wiley Faculty Network, Wiley is the leading faculty development publisher and training provider. Partner with Wiley to create unique, comprehensive solutions to your school’s most challenging issues: from outcomes to costs, retention to recruitment. Wiley is a proven education partner with over two centuries of publishing success.

Kuder® is the industry’s leading provider of comprehensive, internet-based educational and career planning tools for all ages. Backed by a world renowned faculty and staff, Kuder continues to pioneer products and services that allow individuals to create a roadmap for lifelong success. Kuder serves the educational and career planning needs of both students and adults, while facilitating communication and collaboration between all stakeholders – education, business, industry, and state agencies. Kuder’s innovative technology combines research-based assessment with portfolio development, educational and occupational exploration, and database management into a customizable, internet-based system. Additionally, Kuder offers an online curriculum series and professional development training.

The League is an international organization dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement. CEOs from the most influential, resourceful, and dynamic community colleges and districts in the world comprise the League’s board of directors and provide strategic direction for its ongoing activities. These community colleges and their leaders are joined by more than 850 institutions that hold membership in the League’s Alliance. The League – with this core of powerful and innovative community colleges and more than 160 corporate partners – serves nationally and internationally as a catalyst, project incubator, and experimental laboratory for community colleges around the world. We host conferences and institutes, develop web resources, conduct research, produce publications, provide services, and lead projects and initiatives with our member colleges, corporate partners, and other agencies. Through this work, we strive to make a positive difference for students and communities.

Complement your existing course technology with Link-Systems International, Inc.’s (LSI) suite of student retention solutions. NetTutor® is our live, online tutoring service that provides fully integrated and customized online tutoring for your college that fully engages learners and increases student success. Designed to raise the education value of your institution, the WorldWideWhiteboard™ is our virtual classroom. Implemented in an integrated environment, the WorldWideWhiteboard™ includes tools such as audio, video-over-IP, and chat. LSI’s WorldWideGradebook™ not only allows a real-time snapshot of your key data, it can also generate automatic reports, either on a regularly scheduled basis or when key performance flags are tripped. The automated reports and alerts generated provide the opportunity to address performance issues immediately in order to help students, faculty, and administrators better deal with all the challenges they face. This technology will truly empower your institution’s ability to maximize performance.

MatchWare is a leading provider of multimedia, screen recording and visual thinking software that enhances individuals’ ability to create, visualize, manage and distribute information. MatchWare’s easy-to-use professional software empowers business, education, and government worldwide to produce and deliver dynamic multimedia content that will engage and inspire. Mediator is the leader of intuitive multimedia and web development software. The cutting edge icon-based editing enables you to drag-and-drop your way to Flash®, HTML and interactive CDs quicker than with any other web or multimedia tool. ScreenCorder is the ultimate easy-to-use desktop screen recording software that enables individuals and professionals to capture anything on their screen and create professional training videos and software tutorials. OpenMind is a powerful, visual learning tool designed to revolutionize how individuals develop, organize and execute ideas. Based on the Mind Mapping theory, it increases productivity and collaboration by transforming brainstorming sessions into action plans.

As the nation’s foremost provider of software for tracking student conduct, Maxient offers a completely customizable, web-based solution that interfaces with Banner, Datatel, and virtually any student information system. In addition to centralizing records and increasing office productivity, Maxient helps you incorporate the latest trends in student conduct. As behavioral intervention teams have become a best practice for handling students of concern, Maxient has developed specific tools to assist schools in connecting the dots. Some schools have even made Maxient a part of their early alert and retention programs because a student’s conduct inside the classroom and out are often intertwined. Founded by individuals who previously worked in student affairs, Maxient’s experience in the field shines through with a product that is highly functional, very intuitive, and budget-friendly.

’A Quality Teacher in Every Classroom’ stands behind the National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs (NACCTEP). This Association was created to promote the community college role in teacher education. NACCTEP supports institutions, educational partners, and individuals. The Association serves as a voice for community colleges in national discussions about teacher education. NACCTEP works to enhance current community college teacher education programs and is a resource for those looking to develop programs. Member benefits include newsletters, policy briefs, scholarships, a consultant pool, and a national conference sponsored each year.

Founded in 1978, the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) is dedicated to serving, engaging, and inspiring higher education faculty, staff, and administrators. NISOD’s constituency represents more than 700 institutional members nationally and internationally, providing conferences, research, web resources, publications, award programs, corporate partnerships and more. NISOD is the outreach vehicle and service arm to the Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) and the College of Education at The University of Texas Austin. The CCLP is an award-winning doctoral-level program training community college presidents, vice presidents, and deans for more than 60 years. Christy Lewis Partnership Coordinator c.lewis@mail.utexas.edu 512-471-4503 http://www.nisod.org

The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online content and courses to support teachers and students in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement©. This nonprofit project to provide Open Educational Resources (OER) is underwritten by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and sustained by institutional members of the NROC Network. NROC now offers over 2,500 multimedia learning objects in 34 courses and 9 discipline areas, all of which may be freely accessed by individual students and teachers worldwide at www.HippoCampus.org. Courses in the NROC library are contributed by developers from leading academic institutions across the United States. All courses are assessed to ensure they meet high standards of scholarship, instructional value, and presentational impact. NROC works with scholars and contributes resources to improve course quality and to provide ongoing maintenance. NROC courses are designed to cover the breadth and depth of topics based on generally accepted national curricula and can also be customized within a course management system. The same high-quality content offered free to individual students and teachers at HippoCampus.org is also available for incorporation into curriculum by academic institutions through membership in the NROC Network. For more information on membership, visit us at Booth 310 during Innovations or go to: www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc. Ask about special membership pricing for iStream subscribers!

The National Student Clearinghouse is the most trusted name in enrollment and degree verifications. More than 3,200 collegiate institutions – representing 91 percent of the nation’s higher education enrollment – have partnered with the Clearinghouse and participate in our verification services. As a Clearinghouse participant, our educational partners benefit from increased productivity and time-savings, while providing improved quality-of-service to their students and alumni, lending institutions, employers, and other organizations. Each year, over 10,000 verifiers use the Clearinghouse to validate enrollment and degree information and combat credentials fraud, including every major employer, student service provider, insurance company, credit issuers, and more. Our electronic registry uses state-of-the-art technology and industry standards, as recommended by the Postsecondary Educational Standards Council, to provide secure and accurate online verifications. Thus, they are able to better allocate their personnel resources to deal with critical issues and interact with students, faculty, and the public. In addition, through our StudentTracker service, we provide educational institutions with factual information on enrollment and graduation patterns nationwide, enabling them to identify lost markets, assess retention efforts, and track placement into four-year institutions and graduate schools. We invite you to consider becoming a Clearinghouse partner, so you can enjoy the same benefits that other campuses have realized. To learn how rewarding a partnership with the Clearinghouse can be, contact us today at (703) 742-4225.

Today’s PCs are so powerful that the vast majority of applications only use a small fraction of the computer’s capacity. NComputing’s virtualization software and hardware tap this unused capacity so that it can be simultaneously shared by multiple users. Each user’s monitor, keyboard, and mouse connect to the shared PC through a small and highly reliable NComputing access device. The device itself has no CPU, memory, or moving parts so it is easy to deploy and maintain. Over 15,000 organizations in 70 countries have used NComputing to slash their computing costs as much as 70% and electric consumption by 90%.

What you learn here and how you learn it will not only change your life, it will change the world around you. Serving more than 15,000 students from almost 40 countries, NSU’s Fischler School of Education and Human Services is one of the largest schools of education at an accredited university (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools). The Fischler School has more than 30 years of experience in distance education. Our ideas, our approach, and our programs, inspire educators to inspire their students to move the world. Cause an effect online, on site, or on campus. www.FischlerSchool.nova.edu

Nuventive is a leading provider of solutions for assessing, managing, and demonstrating continuous improvement in education. Our enterprise suite of software solutions: TracDat for enterprise assessment management, Insight for communicating institutionwide initiatives, and iWebfolio for electronic portfolio solutions, equip individuals and organizations to better understand, assess, improve, and communicate educational quality.

Paradigm Publishing is committed to developing quality educational materials and providing excellent personalized service to educators offering programs in computer technology, office technology, distance learning, biotechnology, allied health, accounting, and professional development. See us for Lawrenceville Press Java, Visual Basic, and Dreamweaver texts along with MSO 2007 materials, including SNAP, your exciting solution for training and assessment. SNAP is a state-of-the-art tool for training, assessing, and managing student proficiency in a web-based learning environment. Features of SNAP include learning management system and customizable grade book, interactive training tutorials, hundreds of assessments, and an innovative document checker!

PARAT Solutions is developer and manufacturer of products that securely store, transport, protect, charge, and synchronize multiple mobile computing devices. The PARADIDACT Mobile IT Lab captures the features of a hard-wired IT room in a form factor that can be comfortably transported between locations. Power and cable management for nearly any model laptop, a wireless access point, and multimedia speaker system are built in along with a network switch enabling remote management of docked notebooks. It additionally features secure storage for peripherals printer, projector, and peripherals. The PARASYNC charges and simultaneously synchronizes 20 iPod devices to a single iTunes library. PARAT also offers stationary and mobile laptop battery chargers for Apple MacBook and iBook from Oncore Power Systems. PARAT’s innovative mobile IT cases integrate multiple mobile computing and presentation devices in a single seamless solution allowing for convenient portability, maximum protection, and instant access to built-in devices.

Expect high-magnitude student success results with PLATO Learning. As the first and most innovative educational technology company, PLATO Learning continues to lead in providing prescriptive, personalized instruction, technology-based teaching tools, and standards-driven assessment and data management to facilitate continuous academic improvement for K–adult learners. Our product lines are developed with our signature passion for education and the unparalleled expertise and precision achieved after more than 45 years of experience in the educational technology market. We are devoted to providing inspired solutions for teaching and learning that create a high-quality learning experience tailor-made for the demands of today’s adult and college students. Our award-winning products enhance the learning process and provide the quality, flexibility, interactivity, and online access that students expect. Most importantly, we make a difference in the lives of learners as they upgrade their skills, increase their self-esteem, discover successful employment, and become better, more self-sufficient students and employees. Developmental education—Online for anytime/anywhere, on- and off-campus access, Academic Systems® developmental education products from PLATO Learning provide supplemental and full-course instruction to help students review and remediate skills. Technology translates into self-paced learning tools, allowing students to advance to credit courses more quickly while increasing overall pass rates, retention, and persistence. Instruction is targeted to each student’s needs to help faculty teach classes with diverse student skill-levels. And our full-course instruction provides consistent instruction by faculty and adjuncts alike, while allowing for an on-campus, distance learning, or hybrid programs to accommodate your institution’s needs. Adult education—PLATO® Adult Education Solutions include targeted, technology-based curriculum that is easy to use and accessible online—anytime, anywhere. Our award-winning instruction is aligned to National Reporting System (NRS) standards and other national tests (i.e. TABE, CASAS) to help students achieve their academic or vocational training goals, upgrade their job skills in preparation for employment or advancement, or attain their GED.

Questionmark™ provides technologies and services that enable organizations to measure knowledge, skills, and attitudes securely and achieve improved learning outcomes. Questionmark solutions enable reliable, valid, and defensible assessments by empowering instructors through collaborative authoring, accommodating participant needs with blended and multilingual delivery and informing stakeholders through timely reporting and meaningful analytics. The Questionmark™ Perception™ assessment management system, available as a licensed, hosted, or subscription-based solution, enables instructors and administrators to create, administer, and report on surveys, quizzes, tests, and exams. Designed in accordance with industry standards, Perception can be seamlessly integrated with a variety of learning management systems.

Qwizdom is a leader in interactive learning and assessment technology. Dedicated to making learning effective and engaging, Qwizdom offers the most advanced radio-frequency classroom response technology. Present lessons, lead discussions, and review while providing instant feedback. Qwizdom’s multi-key student remotes will maintain an interactive environment where class is attentive and students score higher.

eLearningToolBox.com is a collection of tools designed by educators to make distance learning programs stronger. In the tool box you will find information about the following tools: (1) FacultyFinder.com – a large searchable database of online faculty, (2) READI – Readiness for Education At a Distance Indicator (readi.info) – an online assessment which quantifies a learner’s level of readiness for studying online, (3) PostCourse.com - a flexible, dependable, and secure web-based solution for conducting end-of-course surveys to evaluate the effectiveness of courses and faculty, (4) QualityCourseRecognition.com – a process of professional review of the instructional design of online courses based on national standards, (5) TestProctors.com – a searchable database of persons available to proctor exams, and (6) AudioAssessment.com – a process for integrating oral exams into online courses. It takes the right tools to build a solid distance learning program. eLearningToolBox.com is provided by DECADE Consulting, LLC.

SMARTHINKING helps institutions offer outstanding academic support to increase student achievement, boost retention, and enhance learning. SMARTHINKING connects students to E-structor®-Certified educators anytime, from any internet connection, 24/7. Live, on-demand tutoring is available in math, writing, science, business, and Spanish. SMARTHINKING’s Online Writing Lab provides individual, personalized essay critiques and access to specialists such as ESL, technical writing or creative writing experts. Visit us to learn why over 1,000 institutions in the USA and abroad use SMARTHINKING services to help students succeed. Visit www.smarthinking.com to learn more. SMARTHINKING’s StraighterLine division provides cost effective and flexible college courses in English, math, and business. Visit www.straighterline.com to learn more.

SoftChalk LessonBuilder is a powerful authoring tool that allows instructors to easily create and edit interactive content for the eLearning classroom. With LessonBuilder, instructors create interactive lessons in html format that can be packaged for delivery in any course management system, on a web server or CD-ROM, or displayed on an eClassroom electronic whiteboard. Lesson content includes many Flash-based Learning Activities, quiz questions, text annotations and formatting features. The software is a desktop application that runs on both Windows and Mac operating systems. Visit the SoftChalk booth for a demo, and receive a free 30-day trial of SoftChalk LessonBuilder, or visit http://www.softchalk.com to learn more. If it’s not easy it’s not SoftChalk!

Innovative Learning and Training Furniture Laptop Storage Carts, Instructional Media Lecterns, Student Workstations, Training Desks, Seating, Computer Lab, CAD, Flat-Panel and Office Furniture. Innovative designs manage power/network cables, are ergonomic, modular, durable, cost-effective, attractive, and easy to assemble. Products are ideal for educational, government, and corporate environments. Researched, designed, and manufactured in the USA.

Strayer University is regionally accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Founded in 1892, Strayer University has consistently worked to achieve the highest standards when it comes to the quality of its instructors and curriculum. With a reputation for state-of-the-art education in the areas of business and technology, we are proud to offer 38 specific programs of study. Strayer University makes earning a degree remarkably convenient with online programs as well as evening and weekend classes at multiple campus locations. Stop by booth 214 today to learn about our many alliance partnerships with two-year colleges.

TaskStream understands the challenges facing higher education today. At the institutional level, new accreditation requirements mean greater expectations for evidence-based accountability. At the academic program level, faculty and students aspire to teach and learn in diverse, technology-rich environments that reflect the realties of a fast-paced global economy. TaskStream empowers excellence and helps meet performance challenges through solutions that enhance community, collaboration, and student-centered learning. Our Accountability Management System (AMS) provides a flexible, customizable system to plan, manage, and strengthen teaching and learning campuswide. Our Learning Achievement Tools (LAT) support departments and instructors with innovative web-based solutions for demonstrating and improving student performance. The outcomes assessment tools offer easy-to-use competency assessment and reporting; the e-portfolios offer a wide range of innovative methods to demonstrate learning. When used together, TaskStream’s suite of tools for higher education – Accountability Management System and Learning Achievement Tools maximize learning within your institution.

Tegrity Campus 2.0 is the leading Web 2.0 class capture service, affecting learning, student satisfaction, and retention across the entire institution. Requiring no hardware or software installation, Tegrity Campus 2.0 makes class time available all the time by automatically capturing, storing, and indexing every class on campus for replay by every student. Educators know that the more students can see, hear, and experience a class, the better they learn. With patented Tegrity “Search anything” technology, students instantly recall key class moments for replay online, or on iPods and mobile devices. Tegrity is based in Santa Clara, California with regional offices throughout the United States. For more information, visit http://www.tegrity.com.

The IDEA Center was founded in 1975 and provides products and services that support the improvement of teaching, learning, and administrative performance at colleges and universities. The Center has developed four IDEA instruments intended to provide feedback to instructors and administrators: an end-of-course student ratings instrument that focuses on student learning, a department chair feedback tool that assesses department chair performance, an academic dean feedback tool that assesses the performance of deans, and an administrator feedback tool that can be used for many administrative positions. All the tools have a diagnostic component describing where improvement efforts might best be focused. IDEA Papers are available at the Center’s website (www.theideacenter.org). These are short application-oriented papers, related to teaching, learning, and evaluation. The Center also hosts national seminars related to teaching improvement or faculty evaluation and co-hosts the Academic Chairpersons Conference held annually since 1984.

Tk20 is a leading provider of campuswide assessment management and reporting solutions for higher education. CampusWide is a comprehensive assessment and reporting system for collecting and managing your program, departmental, and institutional data, both academic and nonacademic, for the measurement of accountability, institutional effectiveness, and for accreditation. CampusWide lets you collect all your data systematically, plan your assessments, compare them against specified outcomes/objectives, and generate detailed reports for compliance, analysis, and program improvement. Find out more at www.tk20.com.

Truckee Meadows Community College is located in Reno, Nevada, and serves more than 13,000 students with programs leading to associate degrees and certificates in more than 50 academic and occupational areas.

The defacto standard in plagiarism prevention and education, Turnitin helps educators and students make full use of the Internet’s educational potential. Our WriteCycle Suite offers a comprehensive set of web-based educational tools for instructors, including: Plagiarism Prevention, GradeMark for online paper mark-up, and Peer Review for student collaboration. Launched in 1996, Turnitin is now used in over 109 countries, and 30 languages, by thousands of the world’s top educational institutions.

University of Maryland University College (UMUC) is one of 11 accredited, degree-granting institutions in the University System of Maryland (USM). UMUC is a leader in providing bachelor degree opportunities for community college graduates around the country. Students can transfer with ease through a seamless 2+2 transfer pathway and take advantage of one of the largest renewable scholarships for community college graduates, the UMUC Transfer Scholarship. Working adults, military personnel, and other students around the globe are achieving their academic goals through UMUC’s innovative educational options, including online instruction, accelerated academic programs, and classroom-based courses.

Western Governors University (WGU) is the only regionally accredited, online, competency-based university in the country. WGU is a private, nonprofit university founded by 19 state governors and supported by more than 20 leading corporations and foundations offering high quality yet affordable bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in healthcare, information technology, business, and teacher education. WGU is an extraordinary value in terms of both educational quality and affordability for working adult students seeking to complete their bachelor’s degree. TIME magazine wrote recently about WGU saying, “The best – and cheapest – college you’ve never heard of is found only online.”(www.wgu.edu/time)

WolfVision is a manufacturer of high-end Visualizers (a.k.a. document cameras). Visualizers are used for displaying material in education, training, presentations, video-conferencing, and distance learning. WolfVision Visualizers can display three-dimensional objects as well as two-dimensional objects (charts, papers, books, large-sized drawings, maps, transparencies, slides, x-rays). They can also be used as a scanning device (USB or IP) for capturing images directly to a PC, and are also firmware-upgradeable at no charge. WolfVision offers ceiling, tabletop, or stand-alone high-resolution cameras in real-time-motion. WolfVision Visualizers are known for their image quality, great design, and ease of use.

WIDS software supports the development and organization of learning outcomes and assessment. It provides a consistent framework for design of curriculum documents such as outcomes assessment plans, program designs, curriculum alignments, course syllabi, learning plans, and assessment tasks. WIDS works in harmony with the principles of performance-based learning. It guides educators as they • Design courses and programs in all disciplines and delivery modes • Align outcome assessment at the institutional and program level with course level assessment • Link college outcomes to industry validated standards • Create learning plans, assessment tasks, and syllabi that address “approved” core competencies • Infuse higher level learning such as critical thinking • Incorporate external standards, such NATEF (automotive), NLN (nursing) into curriculum design • Align what’s taught in the classroom to intended course and program outcomes • Select from customized, “read-only” libraries such as those for college-wide outcomes, program outcomes, and competencies • Store curriculum in a database for efficient access, sharing, and revision of curriculum files.

Xap Corporation (www.xap.com) is a future-focused solution company with a suite of education and career planning products and services that facilitate a lifetime of transitions. Xap has helped transform the lives of over 40 million students and adults. Xap products are used in over 15,000 schools and agencies in North America, including numerous community colleges for student retention, career awareness and planning, four-year education transfer planning, and electronic transcript exchange.

ZogoTech helps schools make better-informed decisions through data warehousing. In a college or university with Institutional Intelligence, everyone in the institution is making decisions based on data instead of hunches. The idea of a "culture of evidence" permeates every facet of the institution. ZogoTech continues to help colleges and universities reach that ideal through our Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions. Using ZogoTech’s Estudias software, institutional researchers and administrators can quickly "slice and dice" data, play "what-if" scenarios, perform longitudinal cohort tracking, and create ad-hoc reports. Estudias goes beyond data warehousing by consolidating information silos and giving researchers access to group-specific metrics to link student services to learning outcomes. Users can access the data through many analytical tools such as SAS, SPSS, and Microsoft Excel. See our Innovation website for an online demo and our presentation times: http://zogotech.com/innovation.