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Lamar University: Doctorate in Educational Leadership (Global)

National Sponsors

Diamond

Diamond

Platinum

Webcasting Partner

Media Partner

Platinum

Diamond

Platinum

Titanium

Platinum

Platinum

Platinum

Titanium

Platinum

Platinum

Platinum

Titanium

Platinum

National Diamond

D2L

About D2L
A global leader in edtech, D2L is the creator of brightspace, the world’s first integrated learning platform. The company partners with thought-leading organizations to improve learning through data-driven technology that helps deliver a personalized experience to every learner, regardless of geography or ability. D2L’s open and extensible platform is used by more than 1,100 clients and almost 15 million individual learners in higher education, k–12, healthcare, government, and the enterprise sector—including Fortune 1000 companies. The company has operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Brazil, and Singapore. www.brightspace.com | www.d2l.com

www.d2l.com
Brightspace by D2L Easy. Flexible. Smart. (video)

Contact:

info@brightspace.com
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http://www.brightspace.com • Not Exhibiting

National Diamond

Examity

Examity® is leading the way in convenient online proctoring services. Examity® was created to help protect institutions and students from cheating. Cheating can threaten an institution's reputation or penalize honest students who follow the rules. Our tiered security levels allow institutions to select the right solution or combination of solutions. Examity® also allows quick and easy integrations with Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, Moodle, Pearson and Sakai. Test-providers need Examity® because it allows better exam integrity. Examity® provides the most qualified proctors, the most flexible software and the most affordable solution to meet your exam integrity needs.

http://www.examity.com/

Contact: Randy Grosberg
Vice President of Sales
(855) 392-6489 x701
rgrosberg@examity.com
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http://www.examity.com/ • 21/22

National Platinum

SmarterServices

SmarterServices.com provides a collection of the following services designed by educators to make distance learning programs stronger: (1) SmarterMeasure.com – an online assessment that quantifies a learner's level of readiness for studying online, (2) SmarterProctoring.com – a complete Proctoring Process Management System that manages multi-modal proctoring such as testing centers, approved proctoring professionals, instructor as proctor, live virtual proctoring and automated virtual proctoring, (3) SmarterFaculty.com - a searchable database of online faculty. It takes the right services to build a strong eLearning program. Our tools have been used by over three million students from over 500 educational institutions.

http://smarterservices.com
http://www.SmarterMeasure.com
http://www.SmarterProctoring.com
http://www.SmarterFaculty.com
A Message From SmarterProctoring

Contact: Mac Adkins
Founder and Chief Academic Officer
(877) 499-7627
mac@smarterservices.com
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http://smarterservices.com • 11

National Webcasting Partner

Mediasite by Sonic Foundry

Universities worldwide trust Mediasite by Sonic Foundry for video management, lecture capture and academic webcasting. With Mediasite, faculty are flipping classrooms and creating captivating online instruction that transforms in-class experiences. Realize your school’s online program potential by visiting sonicfoundry.com/why-mediasite. We’re proud again to be the webcasting partner for the 2016 Online Learning Consortium Conferences.

http://www.sonicfoundry.com
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/solutions/education/lecture-capture/
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/mediasite-events-overview/
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/solutions/education/flipped-classrooms-blended-learn...
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/resources/whitepapers-reports/

Contact: Sonic Foundry

engage@sonicfoundry.com
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http://www.sonicfoundry.com • 18/19

National Media Partner

The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 professional source for news, jobs, and information for college and university administrators and faculty members, covering the latest news and trends in information technology, distance education, management, finance, policy, and more. Both in print and online at Chronicle.com, we feature special technology sections providing up-to-the-minute coverage, blogs, and podcasts on how technology is influencing and enhancing higher education. The Chronicle also publishes an email newsletter--The Wired Campus, a comprehensive roundup of news and opinion at the intersection between IT and academe--delivered free to your inbox every day.

http://chronicle.com

Contact:

Chris_Leighton@sbcglobal.net
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http://chronicle.com • Not Exhibiting

National Platinum

Flat World

Since the company was founded in 2007, Flat World’s mission has been to improve the outcomes and experience of learning, which we define as the critical knowledge and skills that students acquire and apply to achieve their professional and personal goals.

Flat World partners with institutions of higher education to provide personalized content and technology – including digital textbooks, courseware, and tools for competency-based education programs – that enable our partners to offer flexible and measureable educational experiences that are centered on the needs of students.

Contact: Kelly McCready
Associate VP, Sales & Strategy
412-401-4155
mchi@flatworld.com
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http://www.flatworld.com • 37

National Diamond

CogBooks

CogBooks’ massively scalable Adaptive Learning system provides a student-centered experience, helping them learn more quickly and effectively. CogBooks learns from each individual’s actions and progress, creating a unique profile and personalized path through the material.

CogBooks provides the instructor with deep insights into each student’s capabilities and activities outside the classroom. The connection between instructor and student is significantly improved and everyone comes to class better and more equally prepared.

By understanding and addressing the whole learner experience and environment the CogBooks approach improves retention and pass rates. Their tools let instructors adopt a more scientific approach to their teaching without becoming scientists.

Next Generation Courseware Project (funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)

Contact:

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http://www.cogbooks.com • 32

National Platinum

Soomo Learning

Soomo Learning, the creator of webtexts, designs interactive, multimedia rich, comprehensive textbook replacements for face-to-face, distance, and blended courses that work better and cost less than traditional texts. Webtexts leverage built-in analytics to measure student learning so that instructors know which assignments are most effective and which students are falling behind.To learn more, visit www.soomolearning.com.

http://www.soomolearning.com

Contact: David Lindrum
Founder and Course Designer
(828) 301-4750
david.lindrum@soomolearning.com
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http://www.soomolearning.com • 20

National Platinum

VoiceThread

Stunningly simple and accessible, VoiceThread is the future of meaningful communication in a time-shifted world. This cloud-based application brings your media and people’s audio, video, and text commentary together in one online space. The results are highly interactive and engaging conversations that are secure, easy to create, and even easier to participate in. We believe that a stronger human presence in any course will help all types of learners, but achieving this can be a challenge. VoiceThread is the solution. It improves instructor immediacy and social presence in courses while maintaining the flexibility of an asynchronous learning environment. Professors report an improvement in the quality of work that students submit and increased engagement with the coursework when they use VoiceThread. Hearing student voices and seeing their faces helps with comprehension assessment and building social connections. Learning should be personal, interactive, and warm.  VoiceThread makes this a reality for any course.

http://www.linkedin.com/company/voicethread
http://voicethread.com/media/custom/site/docs/VoiceThread.pdf
https://voicethread.wistia.com/medias/nmpb64f72k

Contact: Amanda Volz

amanda@voicethread.net
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https://www.voicethread.com/ • 29

National Titanium

ProctorU

ProctorU provides distance proctoring services for colleges, universities and certification organizations that offer examinations online. The service allows students to take their exams from nearly anywhere in a secure environment. ProctorU uses a patent-pending three-step process that confirms that the examinee who registered for the exam is the individual who is taking the exam and is following the institution’s testing requirements. The service is modeled after the in-classroom experience and proctors monitor the entire process in order to ensure that a high level of integrity is maintained. ProctorU offers live, person-to-person, real time monitoring to over 800 colleges, universities and certification organizations, including the University of Alabama, the University of Florida, Northwestern University and the Bloomberg Institute. ProctorU operates dedicated proctoring centers in Folsom and Livermore, Calif., Chandler, Ariz., and Hoover, Ala. For more information, visit www.proctoru.com.

http://www.proctoru.com/

Contact:

contact@proctoru.com
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http://www.proctoru.com/ • 25/26

National Platinum

Realizeit Learning

Realizeit is a fully integrated, personalized learning system enabling educators to deliver improved outcomes through mastery-based teaching and learning. The system combines rapid authoring capabilities with a powerful personalization engine and learning analytics to power this next generation learning platform - equally potent in traditional and competency-based academic models at-scale. Realizeit powers and personalizes the journey toward student mastery of subjects, measuring their learning along the way. The platform produces rich data, deep analytics and insights that can transform institutional effectiveness operations and empower the student to reach their highest learning potential.

http://www.realizeitlearning.com

Contact: Ty Roberts
Chief Sales, Marketing and Strategy Officer
(224) 836-5316
ty.roberts@realizeitlearning.com
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http://www.realizeitlearning.com • 9

National Platinum

Keypath Education

Keypath Education, formerly known as PlattForm, partners with higher education institutions worldwide to launch programs, grow enrollment, improve learning and connect education to careers, using a proprietary technology suite. Keypath has helped more than 4,000 higher education institutions better serve students and graduates, resulting in a strong reputation for its education mission and quality in the United States, Canada, the U.K. and Australia. Since its beginning more than 25 years ago, Keypath Education has been dedicated to changing lives through education. Visit keypathedu.com to learn more.

http://www.keypathedu.com
https://youtu.be/Rsus0trjAWw

Contact: Camille Campbell

Camille.Campbell@keypathedu.com
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http://www.keypathedu.com • Not Exhibiting

National Platinum

Remote-Learner

Remote-Learner has been providing educational technology services since 1982 to its business, educational and governmental clients. Today, these services include support for best-of-breed open source programs. Remote-Learner is an official Moodle Partner providing support and hosting services, custom programming, workforce development training, instructional design and strategic consulting services for organizations planning online learning programs.

http://www.remote-learner.net/
Remote-Learner's Tailored Solutions

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http://www.remote-learner.net/ • 30

National Titanium

Canvas

Through open, usable, cloud-based technologies, Canvas enables easy integration of the content, tools, and services that teachers need and students want. As the most usable, customizable, adaptable, and reliable learning platform (think 99% uptime), Canvas is adopted faster and deeper (or, is used in more ways by more users) than any other LMS. So, in the end, investing in 21st century technology for higher ed actually makes teaching and learning easier (like it's supposed to). Learn more about Canvas at www.CanvasLMS.com.

http://www.canvaslms.com/
A Little Canvas 101
https://www.linkedin.com/company/instructure-inc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDCxk-c2vkk

Contact:

kwaddell@instructure.com
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http://www.canvaslms.com/ • 27/28

National Platinum

American Public University System

American Public University System, winner of the Online Learning Consortium's (formerly the Sloan Consortium's) Ralph E. Gomory Award for Quality Online Education and two-time recipient of OLC's (Sloan-C's) Effective Practices Award, offers more than 90 online degree programs through American Public University and American Military University. APUS's relevant curriculum, affordability and flexibility help more than 100,000 working adults worldwide pursue degrees in subjects ranging from business to homeland security and environmental sciences. We value collaboration with the higher education community to improve the quality of learning and student success. APUS is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Learn more: www.apus.edu.

http://www.apus.edu

Contact:

binscoe@apus.edu
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http://www.apus.edu • Not Exhibiting

National Platinum

Acrobatiq

Acrobatiq is a learning optimization and analytics company enabling institutions to rapidly develop and scale personalized, adaptive learning programs based in cognitive and learning science methodology from Carnegie Mellon University’s acclaimed Open Learning Initiative.

Our platform, content library, and professional services enable institutions to improve course completions, decrease costs per completer, and expand access to a wider variety of learning opportunities.

Smart Author
Adaptive Delivery
Learning Analytics
Professional Services
About Acrobatiq

Contact: Alison Pendergast
CMO
(907) 604-9522
alison@acrobatiq.com
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http://acrobatiq.com • 14/15

National Platinum

Schoology

Schoology Higher Education is the industry's leading instructional operating system, the next generation of LMS. This cloud-based, SaaS solution serves as an academic hub for instruction, communication, collaboration, and third-party integration to extend learning beyond class and into the greater campus culture.
Schoology Higher Education is aligned with the way students and faculty want to use technology. Its comfortable interface (UI/UX) and robust mobile apps make this holistic solution both easy to use and adopt on any device. Schoology also impacts important higher education initiatives outside of traditional learning.
This collaborative platform facilitates the creation of community groups for first year programs, student meetups, departmental curriculum development, and other campus initiatives. It simplifies data analysis to aid in administration and institutional research.
As the 2014 Best Overall Education Solution among all SIIA CODiE award winners, Schoology has set a new standard for online learning. Schoology Higher Education has elevated the conversation from course and learning management to an institutional, enterprise-wide conversation about efficiency, efficacy, and student success.
Please stop by our booth to discuss why it makes sense to transition your college from an LMS to Schoology's digital learning hub.

http://www.schoology.com

Contact: Robert Tousignant
Sr. Director of Higher Education Sales
(212) 213-8333 x69
rtousignant@schoology.com
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http://www.schoology.com • 33

National Titanium

Mirum Learning

Mirum Learning combines visionary creative services with best practices in the learning sciences to optimize the academic experience for students and faculty alike. We start with best practices in instructional design, educational psychology, and learning architecture, then infuse the learning environment with rich, dynamic media to create an environment in which students are eager to engage with content - whenever, wherever they desire. From traditional desktop access to fully mobile interactions, our technologies are infused with robust analytics layers that help track and predict learning outcomes at a granular level.

Mirum Learning
Mirum Agency
Lorenzo Vallone
Phil Ice
Melissa Layne

Contact: Lorenzo Vallone
SVP/CTO
3053332614
lorenzo.vallone@mirumagency.com
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https://www.learning@mirumagency.com • 23/24

National Platinum

Blackboard Collaborate

Blackboard is the world's leading education technology company. We challenge conventional thinking and advance new models of learning in order to reimagine education and make it more accessible, engaging and relevant to the modern day learner and the institutions that serve them. In partnership with our customers and partners in higher education and K-12 as well as corporations and government agencies around the world, our mission is to help every learner achieve their full potential by inspiring a passion for lifelong learning. For more information about Blackboard, follow us on Twitter @Blackboard.