Friday, June 27, 2008

Saint Mary’s recognized for use of Tegrity learning technology

WINONA, Minn. — On June 23, Tegrity (provider of the leading class-capture web service for higher education) announced that Saint Mary’s University was one of the winners of the Tegrity Innovation Awards Program. These awards honor leading institutions whose innovative uses of the technology have impacted student achievement and reinforced their institutional missions during the 2007-2008 academic year.

The Tegrity Innovation Awards program debuted last week at the Tegrity Annual User Conference. Honorees were chosen from a broad spectrum of colleges and universities and honored at a special awards luncheon at the Disney Swan Resort in Orlando, Fla. Awards were presented to both individuals and institutions, indicative of performance milestones achieved this past academic year.

Saint Mary’s University received the Provost Award for achieving the highest total volume of faculty recordings. With more than 5,000 faculty recordings posted, faculty usage of Tegrity at Saint Mary’s University illustrates the widespread acceptance Tegrity is achieving among faculty of all disciplines.

“The Saint Mary’s faculty embrace Tegrity because it helps students learn more effectively,” SMU Provost, Dr. Jeffrey Highland said. “We share a common vision with Tegrity — helping students achieve their goals by enhancing their academic performance.”

Other awards and their recipients were:

• President’s Award — Dr. Sadie Gregory, Provost of Coppin State University
• Innovator’s Award — Eddie King, Chief Information Officer of the University of South Carolina, Beaufort
• Student Advocate Award — Jimmy Duke, Division Chair of Health Sciences at Calhoun Community College
• Rapid Response Award — The University of Texas at Brownsville
• Student Achievement Award — The University of Alabama
• Student Achievement Award — The University of Central Florida

About Tegrity
Tegrity Campus is the leading web-enabled class-capture system, impacting learning, student satisfaction and retention across the entire institution. Requiring no hardware or software installation, Tegrity Campus makes class time available all the time by automatically capturing, storing and indexing every class on campus for replay by every student. Educators know that the more students can see, hear, and experience a class, the better they learn. With patented Tegrity “search anything” technology, students instantly recall key class moments for replay online, or on iPods and mobile devices. Tegrity is based in Santa Clara, California with regional offices throughout the United States. For more information, visit www.tegrity.com.