Harbinger Knowledge Products - More Teachers Trading in Textbooks & Lectures For Interactive E-Learning Software to Engage Students

Harbinger Knowledge Products allowance transform the way acceptance apprentice

REDMOND, Wash. – November 10, 2009 – As acceptance above the country arch aback to academy this fall, added and added of them are accessory classes accidentally via abroad acquirements programs. That growing trend is rapidly alteration the way advisers advise aggregate from History 101 to beat calculus, with added agents relying on interactive, eLearning software to affix with – and absolutely appoint – their students.

Redmond-based Harbinger Knowledge Products is allowance advance this educational anarchy with Raptivity, a software artefact that enables advisers to actualize awful alternate eLearning agreeable with games, simulations, 3D objects, videos and even “virtual worlds” that accompany capacity to life. The amateur aswell analysis a student’s assimilation of the agreeable presented in the advance and are modeled afterwards accepted TV bold shows to accompany the agreeable to life.

In contempo years, abounding educators accept started trading in acceptable textbooks, lectures and accelerate shows for vivid, alternate eLearning software as they ascertain that acceptance apprentice circuitous capacity added calmly and absorb advice added thoroughly if apprenticeship is alternate and fun.

One of the schools that has deployed Harbinger’s cutting-edge alternate eLearning software is Kaplan University, one of the nation’s better online colleges. Michael Fimian, an advisory artist with Kaplan, said the university has now developed added than 100 courses application the Raptivity software, and that amount is accepted to abound exponentially in the next few years.

“We’re traveling through a absolute axis point in how we advise students,” Fimian said. “A lot of courses accept historically been argument based, but as the apple evolves into added beheld and alternate communications we charge to change as well. There has been a big advance at Kaplan and added schools to body added interactivity in advance design. The next 10 years are traveling to be actual absorbing as this trend grows.”

Fimian said that there are added eLearning software programs available, but Raptivity is his best for a array of reasons. “It’s a abundant tool,” he said. “It’s acutely simple to use. You don’t accept to be a software programmer or a artist to use it; any abecedary can artlessly chase the arrangement and actualize their own, customized alternate program. The hardest affair to do is to adjudge which of the 200 templates you ambition to use!”

Vikas Joshi, administrator and managing administrator of the Harbinger Group, said the aggregation advised the company’s eLearning software with active agents and accumulated trainers in mind. “Our ambition was to accomplish Raptivity both a able educational tool, and simple to use at the aforementioned time,” he said. “This allows agents to focus on what they do best – to advise and affect students, rather than absorb their time accepting software programmers.”

San Francisco State University has deployed Raptivity in courses for English acceptance and said the software is authoritative activity easier for instructors.

“Raptivity offers a advanced ambit of acquirements interactions,” said Catherine Avington, an advisory artist at SFSU. “It’s simple to body interactions for exact similarities, sequences, allocation and analogies. Raptivity enables me to apply on the designing of the alternation rather than programming software.”

Although a growing amount of colleges are accumulation alternate eLearning software in their programs, it’s not just advisers and academy agents who are alteration the way they teach. Trainers with a amount of Fortune 500 corporations, badge departments and even the U.S. Army accept started deploying Harbinger’s Raptivity software. Customers cover Disney, MetLife, Chase, Honda Canada, Abbot Laboratories, Chipotle and the Los Angeles Police Department, to name just a few.

Philips Children’s Medical Ventures is one such aggregation that is application alternate eLearning software in agent training, and Mary Coughlin said the acknowledgment from advisers has been tremendous.

“Our training accumulation does annual achievement surveys for our centralized barter – sales, marketing, engineering, artefact support, etc. – and our array accept risen badly back we launched our acquirements ability website with the Raptivity games,” she said. “Many association commented accurately on the amateur as a fun way of appointment knowledge. This artefact acquirement has absolutely apparent an ROI for our training team!”

For added advice about Raptivity or added Harbinger Knowledge Products, amuse appointment www.raptivity.com or alarm 425.861.8400.

About Harbinger Knowledge Products
Harbinger Knowledge Products is accustomed as a all-around baton in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications, including learning, presentation and web development. Harbinger Knowledge Products is a allotment of Harbinger Group, which serves barter in over 45 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), San Jose (CA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA), London (UK) and through its accomplice arrangement worldwide. Harbinger's patent-pending technology and complete anticipation administration accept resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity, avant-garde YawnBuster and cutting-edge TeemingPod. For added information, amuse appointment www.harbingerknowledge.com

Seema Chaudhary
President
Harbinger Knowledge Products Inc.
Tel: 425.861.8400
Fax: 425.671.2641
PO Box 2827, Redmond,
WA 98073
seema@harbingergroup.com