Datatel and Moodlerooms Partner to Offer Higher Education a Full-Featured Intelligent Learning Platform

Agreement Creates Secure and Supported Moodle-based Option for Teaching and Learning

FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Datatel has extended its previously announced entry into the teaching and learning space by signing an exclusive partnership with Moodlerooms, Inc. The partnership will provide higher education with a teaching and learning solution that is totally integrated with Datatel Colleague^® and based on Moodle^™, an open-source e-learning software platform.

“Our clients and other education leaders speak fervently about their desire for a powerful teaching and learning solution that is more affordable and fully integrates with their administrative system of record”

Moodlerooms augments Moodle by adding valuable functionality, tested reliability, upgraded security, and technical support. The result of the Datatel–Moodlerooms solution is a more complete, cost-effective, and powerful choice over traditional proprietary learning systems.

“Our clients and other education leaders speak fervently about their desire for a powerful teaching and learning solution that is more affordable and fully integrates with their administrative system of record,” said Datatel President and CEO, John Speer. “Datatel has clearly heard this strong message, and the result is a Datatel–Moodlerooms solution that will advance their educational mission at a lower price point to what is now available in the market.”

“The fully-integrated connection between an open learning-management platform and an enterprise resource planning system is long overdue,” said Moodlerooms CEO, Martin Knott. “This partnership will empower academia to make data-driven decisions that impact their success. We truly believe this platform creates a sustainable learning architecture to extend campuses’ learning-management efforts to the global community.”

Datatel will furnish more details about the learning-system solution at its corporate presentation on November 4, 10:30 a.m., Korbel Ballroom 2C at EDUCAUSE 2009 in Denver. Moodlerooms will also be at EDUCAUSE in Booth # 123 to provide more information about the partnership. Datatel will be located at Booth# 304.

About Datatel, Inc.

Datatel is the industry’s most experienced provider of technology products, services, and insight to higher education. Colleges, universities, and technical schools across North America partner with Datatel to construct Strategic Academic Enterprises dedicated to achieving student success. The company has focused exclusively on higher education since 1979, and its technology is used by nearly 800 institutions serving more than five million students. For more information, visit www.datatel.com.

About Moodlerooms, Inc.

Moodlerooms is the trusted education solutions provider that delivers a reliable and growing enterprise open-source learning management platform. Their solution fuses customer care, state-of-the-industry technologies and open-source Moodle in a secure and scalable environment so the learning community can confidently focus on quality online teaching and learning. For more information, visit www.moodlerooms.com.

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