Dell and Moodlerooms Collaborate to Provide Education Organizations with Cloud-Based Curriculum
-- Dell's Education Cloud provides enterprise hosting support for
application and content partners
-- Moodlerooms joule platforms and services now available directly to Dell
education customers
-- Through Dell, teachers and students have access to customized curriculum
that creates an engaging educational learning environment
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dell, in collaboration with Intel, announced today the availability of an end-to-end cloud-based learning management platform that creates engaging educational learning environments. As the new hosting provider for Moodlerooms, a managed, open-source learning management system services provider, Dell continues to provide administrators, teachers and students access to technology that enables 21st century learning.
Moodle, the Learning Management System (LMS), has become popular with educators around the globe as a tool to create dynamic online interactive courses and content for their students. The world's largest Moodle partners, Moodlerooms, enhances the value of the open source platform with enterprise integration capabilities and world-class data center services from Dell.
Through Moodlerooms' learning management platform, joule, interaction between instructors, students and parents - messaging, collaboration, resources, assignments, grades, etc. - can be managed and distributed online. This type of interaction through a structured learning management platform supports the improvement of student outcomes by allowing the instructor to focus on the individual needs of the student versus the administration of the classroom environment.
By leveraging the power of cloud-enabled utility computing, new capabilities can be rapidly deployed while existing infrastructures can be tuned to be more flexible and dynamic. The result is a secure, "always available," enhanced learning environment for students and a simple, inexpensive learning management platform for schools to rapidly deploy and maintain.
Dell's Education Cloud platform, powered by Intel processors, delivers a dynamically scalable infrastructure to securely host enterprise-class applications and digital content solutions for K12 and Higher-Ed.
Quotes
John Mullen, VP & GM of Dell's Education, State and Local Government businesses
"We're committed to making technology work seamlessly and easily for our education customers so they can focus on their key mission - improving student achievement. Our partnership with Moodlerooms builds on that commitment and enhances the suite of solutions and services we offer to academic institutions to serve their computing needs."
Joe McAvoy, VP of Sales and Marketing, Moodlerooms
"Cloud-enabled learning platforms empower administrators and educators to manage the business of instruction in real-time while also creating a more engaging academic experience for students, educators and trainers."
Additional information and links:
About Dell
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to its customers and uses that insight to make technology simple and create innovative solutions that deliver reliable, long-term value. Learn more at www.dell.com.
About Moodle
Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. To work, it needs to be installed on a web server somewhere, either on one of your own computers or one at a web hosting company.
About Moodlerooms, Inc.
Moodlerooms is the trusted education solutions provider that delivers learning management that evolves around the unique needs of our customers. Our next-generation learning management platform, joule, combines customer care, state-of-the-industry technologies and open-source Moodle in a secure and scalable environment so our customers' learning communities can confidently focus on quality teaching and learning.
About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom and blogs.intel.com.
Source: Dell Inc.
Released May 20, 2010