eThink Education Partners with Blindside Networks to provide BigBlueButton, an Open-Source Web Conferencing System for Online Learning
Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) June 21, 2016 -- eThink Education, a rapidly growing Certified Partner of the open-source Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle, announces their partnership with Blindside Networks, the creator of the open-source web conferencing system, BigBlueButton, thereby giving their clients easy access to BigBlueButton’s capabilities from within their Moodle system.
BigBlueButton’s web conferencing system offers features that aim to fully engage remote learners and make distance education more engaging and more productive. BigBlueButton enables real-time sharing of documents, webcams, chat, audio and presenters’ desktop screens for an easy exchange of resources. It also offers helpful online classroom tools such as whiteboard markup (for annotating presentations in real-time) and emote icons. Furthermore, BigBlueButton offers the ability to record sessions for later playback, a helpful feature for remote students who may have missed a class.
eThink Education not only provides high-quality, real-time Moodle integrations to student information systems but also excels in providing industry-leading, client-customized service. Now, through this partnership, Blindside Networks will provide eThink Education hosting for a Free Tier of BigBlueButton that is limited to six concurrent users (no recordings or desktop sharing). eThink Education clients can use the embedded Free Tier – at no extra cost – for online office hours, tutoring, and small classes. This alliance marks yet another strategic partnership meant to provide eThink’s clients with the best tools to make the most out of the Moodle Learning Management System.
“The web conferencing capabilities of BigBlueButton provide an incredibly valuable tool for online learning,” said Brian Carlson, Co-Founder and CEO of eThink Education. “BigBlueButton makes remote education more personal and interactive for both educators and learners, increasing student engagement. We’re excited to partner with Blindside Networks and offer their hosting of BigBlueButton to our eThink community of educators and learners.”
“eThink Education provides world-class hosting and support for Moodle that really benefits the Moodle community at large,” says Fred Dixon, CEO of Blindside Networks. “I would recommend anyone looking for a learning management solution to contact eThink Education.”
eThink will be attending the highly-anticipated Moodle Moot US conference on June 21-23, 2016 in Los Angeles, CA. Feel free to stop by the eThink Education booth to discuss recent eThink happenings, partnership opportunities, and more.
About eThink Education
eThink Education is a Certified Moodle Partner providing implementation, cloud hosting, integration, and management services for the open source Learning Management System. Open-source Moodle is the most widely used Learning Management System in the world. When implemented and managed by experts, Moodle is an extremely dynamic platform capable of surpassing the functionality of the competing systems in the market. eThink’s Moodle cloud hosting services offers unrivaled performance and exceptional value. For more information about eThink Education, visit http://www.ethinkeducation.com.
About Blindside Networks
Blindside Networks started the BigBlueButton project in 2008 with one goal: to provide remote students a high quality online learning experience. BigBlueButton is an commercial grade open source web conferencing system that enables instructors to teach students online with real-time sharing of audio, video, slides, chat, desktop, and polls. Blindside Networks provides premium hosting and support for BigBlueButton. We also manage each of the release of the BigBlueButton and develop and support the BigBlueButtonBN integration for Moodle. http://blindsidenetworks.com/.
Randy Jones, eThink Education, http://www.ethinkeducation.com, +1 443.504.3104, [email protected]
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