DigitalThink Donates Online Training to IMS Membership
UML training to support advancement of eLearning Standards
BURLINGTON, Mass., - June 9, 2003 - IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. today announced that DigitalThink, a leader in custom e-learning for Fortune 1000 companies, will provide Unified Modeling Language (UML) course training at no charge to IMS Contributing Members. UML is a key part of the open specification development methodology used by DigitalThink and 50 other organizations collaboratively developing eLearning specifications through their membership in IMS.
"DigitalThink's active participation in IMS has been instrumental to moving specifications work forward," said Steve Griffin. "We appreciate DigitalThink's generosity to the IMS membership for this valuable learning opportunity."
Umberto Milletti, Vice President and Co-Founder of Digitalthink said, "We are a strong advocate of the open e-learning specifications championed by IMS and are actively engaged in their development and adoption. Providing our courseware is just one of the many ways we can support the objectives of IMS."
About DigitalThink
DigitalThink is the leader in custom e-learning for Fortune 1000 companies. DigitalThink provides the right combination of courseware development, do-it-yourself capabilities, learning delivery, and industry-specific expertise. DigitalThink's customers include ADP Dealer Services, BearingPoint, Circuit City, EDS, Kinko's, Mazda, and Red Hat. When learning matters, the proven choice is DigitalThink.
About IMS
The IMS Global Learning Consortium develops open technical specifications to support distributed learning. Its specifications are accessible to everyone at no charge from its website and require no licensing fees to implement. IMS is a non-profit organization supported by members of a worldwide consortium that includes 57 Contributing members and affiliates and 60
Developers Network subscribers. The IMS in Europe foundation supports activities among European members. Information about IMS specifications, on-going activities, and membership is available at the IMS website www.imsglobal.org.
For more information contact:
Kimberly Daniel, DigitalThink
+1 415.625.4075
kdaniel@digitalthink.com
http://www.digitalthink.com
Marketing, marketing@imsglobal.org
http://www.imsglobal.org
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