ECollege

eCollege.com, Inc. operates as an outsource provider of value-added information services to the post-secondary education industry. It provides on-demand outsourced technology, products, and services that enable colleges, universities, and elementary and high schools to offer online distance and hybrid educational programs, as well as on-campus courses. It offers eCourse, an online course for distance learning and hybrid learning that includes managing courses, outlining assignments, and facilitating class discussions, as well as conducting lectures, grading, and interacting with students; eCompanion, an online supplement that provides instructors with the tools to create an interactive online component; Content Manager that helps to centrally manage, standardize, and reuse content across multiple programs, courses, sections, and other applications; Gateway Campus and CampusPortal, which are online portal products that provide access to online campus services, courses, and course supplements; and Program Intelligence Manager, an interactive analysis toolset that enables customers to identify student satisfaction, course and program quality, course completion, and student retention rates. The company also offers program management and reporting, and evaluation solutions, as well as offers professional and support services, such as help desk, course development and support, instructional design consulting and training, content, technical consulting, and technology infrastructure services. It serves for-profit education companies and post-secondary schools, public and private universities, community colleges, career commuter colleges, state departments of education, and K-12 school districts in the United States and Canada. It was formerly known as Real Education, Inc. and changed its name in 1999. eCollege.com, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. As of July 31, 2007, eCollege.com, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Pearson Education Inc.