University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business Launches Global Classroom of the Future Using Cisco TelePresence

University of South Carolina's Moore School of Business Launches Global
Classroom of the Future Using Cisco TelePresence

COLUMBIA, S.C., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of South Carolina's
Darla Moore School of Business, ranked consistently as one of the top schools
in the country for international business, today announced that it has signed
an agreement with Cisco to utilize the company's revolutionary Cisco
TelePresence technology to deliver a range of global Executive Education and
Graduate-level business and management courses. Moore becomes one of the
first business schools in the country to utilize the high-definition
conferencing as a way to offer students and executives around the world a
variety of "blended learning" options for participating in business education
programs.

Cisco's TelePresence is designed to create live, face-to-face meeting
experiences and empower participants from different locations to collaborate
with each other in a life-size, high-definition environment that feels like
you are in the same room with the other people you are talking with. The
Moore School and Cisco are working together to deploy Cisco TelePresence and
other leading collaboration technologies and professional services to bring
people together from anywhere around the world in a live learning and meeting
environment.

"Our collaboration with Cisco allows us to take executive learning to a whole
new level," says Raymond Smith, Associate Dean of Executive Education at the
Moore School. "The use of Cisco TelePresence and other technologies will
fundamentally change the way we think about global learning and teaching in a
way that is more visually stimulating and interactive than any vehicle ever
used in educating executives."

Moore School Dean Hildy Teegen points out that the study of international
business requires an understanding of the interface between the practice of
management and the political, economic and socio-cultural dimensions that
shape global business. "One way of achieving this is through a process of
dialogue between faculty, students, business and government from different
cultures and countries around the world," she says. "At the Moore School, we
now have the technological capability to bring the world closer together and
make this happen in real time."

The Moore School plans to first integrate the Cisco TelePresence in its
Professional MBA Program beginning in February 2010. In addition, the School
will utilize the new integrated learning platform in a variety of its
Executive and Graduate Degree programs - including its Master in International
Business, a new Executive Master in Higher Education Management and in various
programs with the School's 20 partner institutions around the world.

"Working alongside leading universities and business schools like the
University of South Carolina's Moore School, together we are creating 21st
century learning environments that more effectively prepare students to
participate in the global economy," says Scott Westlake, Director of Market
Development at Cisco. "We believe that the Moore School has the vision to use
Cisco's technology in a way that will truly change the way the world learns."

About the Moore School of Business
The Moore School of Business is among the highest-ranked business schools in
the world for international business education and research. Founded in 1919,
the school has a history of innovative educational leadership, blending
academic preparation with real-world experience through internships,
consulting projects, study-abroad programs, and entrepreneurial opportunities.
The Moore School offers undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees, as well
as distinctive executive education programs. In 1998, the school was named for
South Carolina native and New York financier Darla Moore, making the
University of South Carolina the first major university to name its business
school after a woman. For more information, visit http://www.moore.sc.edu.

About Cisco TelePresence
Cisco TelePresence combines innovative real-time video, audio, and interactive
technologies to give people in distributed global locations a wide variety of
face-to-face collaboration experiences. It enables new types of collaboration
applications that are transforming business processes, saving resources,
improving productivity and helping organizations grow globally.

SOURCE The Moore School of Business

Chris Hardwick for Moore School of Business, +1-508-340-9163,
chardwick@carnegiecomm.com