Third Annual Tegrity User Conference Welcomes Higher Education Leaders to Review Lecture Capture Research and Student Achievement "Best Practices"
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Provosts, Administrators, IT Professionals and Faculty Members from Across the Country to Share Lecture Capture Solution Successes SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)-- Tegrity, provider of the leading class capture Web service for higher education, announced today that it will hostthe Third Annual Tegrity User Conference (TUC) on Wednesday, June 10 throughFriday, June 12, 2009 at the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco. TUC, a three-day program full of strategic and practical advice and discussion, will offer attendees a glimpse into the vast range of institutions that have embraced the Tegrity Campus Web service to boost student achievement and improve campus retention and graduation rates nationwide. This year`s theme, "Share the Vision," encourages attendees to share research on the impact of a lecture capture Web service campus-wide, best practices, challenges and opportunities. Packed with customer presentations, roundtables and focus groups, the event will also feature 30 sessions, including "The Learning Toolbox: Paper and Pencil, Laptop and Tegrity," and "Technology Trends: Are Stimulus Funds a Boon or a Burden?" and "Placing Technology in the Hands of the Student." Tegrity continues to add new colleges and universities to its roster. During the last two years alone, Tegrity has logged more than seven million student views and is quickly approaching the 10 million mark. Withinthree tracks, "Deploying for Success," "Fulfilling the Mission" and "Transforming Teaching & Learning," Tegrity presenters include faculty from such leading institutions as Western Kentucky University, University of Alabama, Dallas Community College District, University of Central Florida and Medical College of Georgia. "Tegrity has long embraced the concept of student-centered learning. We`re pleased to join with our educational colleagues and leaders at this event, sharing our collective vision for enabling every student to enhance their academic performance," said Isaac Segal, president and CEO of Tegrity. "Together, we can capture every class and make it available to every student, making Tegrity an integral component across the academic enterprise." Last week, Tegrity unveiled the latest updates to Tegrity Campus 2.0 including Tegrity Bookmarks, the first native iPhone application, enhanced reporting and more, to be demonstrated at the Tegrity User Conference. For further information visit: http://www.tegrity.com/tucoverview.html or follow Tegrity on Twitter: @tegrityinc. About Tegrity Tegrity Campus 2.0 is the leading class capture Web service, impacting learning, student satisfaction and retention across the entire institution. Requiring no hardware or software installation, and fully integrated with the institution`s dataset, 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 offices throughout the United States. For more information, visit http://www.tegrity.com/tegrity_demo/. For Tegrity, Inc. Becky Quinlan, 415-992-4400 tegrity@lewispr.com Copyright Business Wire 2009
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