Teaching, learning and research solutions provider Cengage Learning, US, has announced a strategic partnership with Moodlerooms to allow for integration of Cengage Learning's digital solutions and Moodlerooms products. The resulting interoperability is expected to help improve customer experience. Faculty and institutions will also be able to better leverage rich content to drive engagement, increase retention and raise learning outcomes. Moodlerooms provides educators and learners across the globe with adaptable, reliable and affordable e-learning.
Specifically, the new partnership will allow for seamless access through single-sign on. It will also help enhance the usability and functionality of Moodlerooms' enterprise e-Learning platform, joule, and Moodle's basic LTI integration so that students. Teachers will now be able to take advantage of a truly seamless, bi-directional user experience between Cengage Learning and Moodlerooms solutions. Cengage Learning and Moodlerooms will work jointly to deliver integration that enables assessment scoring information to be passed from Cengage Learning solutions to the Moodle gradebook. The integration will be largely standards-based.
Moodlerooms' joule enterprise platform provides a sustainable, open, flexible and intuitive platform for seamlessly deploying content throughout the various modules and tools that have been integrated into the e-Learning environment. Plans of this partnership will provide direct access to Cengage Learning's digital content and core curriculum solutions, and overall increased functionality for institutions. Users of Cengage Learning's rich digital learning solutions and content will gain seamless access through automatic sign-on and gradebook integration.
Additionally, the partnership will offer a better experience for users of online homework provided via MindTap, CourseMaster products such as Aplia and SAM, as well as CourseMate and course cartridges. The added level of integration is made possible through Cengage Learning's standards-based, interoperable, Web-services architecture (MindLinks) and Moodle. The agreement will also include ongoing interoperability options for Cengage Learning's MindTap programme and future product development.
Cengage Learning and Moodlerooms will co-develop new interfaces to expose services within Moodle and both parties will contribute code to the community.
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