Berlin / Oslo, December 2005 - Situated in the capital city Oslo, Norwegian technology provider Fronter has, since 1998, captivated a whole nation with its popular Learning Management System, which bears the same name. The success achieved in the home market has now extended to the rest of the Continent. Fronter has already enjoyed success throughout its neighbouring Scandinavian countries, as well as in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Now Fronter's introduction to Germany, Austria, and Spain broadens the company's European commitment and focus even more.
Fronter lives up to its slogan "Knowledge through Collaboration" by offering a state-of-the-art web-based multilingual Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) where students and learners alike can benefit from collaborating and learning. The VLE has been developed in close cooperation with professional educationalists from leading institutions through reference groups, and its pedagogic focus and ease of use make it an ideal instrument for the educational sector.
Fronter's VLE is equipped with more than fifty tools and can manage complex learning and project management tasks. The idea behind the system is as simple as it is ingenious: In an open architecture, the organisational structure of a business or training institution is mapped so that Fronter becomes the virtual building in which everything happens: from daily business at the user's desk in virtual global teams, preparation and post-processing of seminars, to interdisciplinary research and teaching.
Primary and secondary schools, colleges, universities, organisations, municipalities, and countries all over Europe have selected Fronter for its user friendliness, stability and low maintenance. Fronter counts over 1.5 million licences. Fronter's customer base shows an incredible diversity, ranging from small local Sámi-schools in Northern Norway, to entire cities and universities and colleges, as well as educational departments, defence forces, rescue services and e-governments all over Europe.
In the Netherlands, Fronter is used in an elearning package to be launched in January 2006 by the telecom firm KPN in cooperation with Microsoft. The packages consist of applications that stimulate learning and communicating by allowing multiple interaction possibilities within a safe internet environment.
Teachers can use the packages to read e-mail, calendars (their own or a colleague's calendar), participate in discussions, develop lesson materials and share them with colleagues, and check student progress. Students will have access to a homepage from which they can e-mail, check timetables, participate in discussions with other students, and work on assignments (alone or with others). Parents can check how far their children have progressed with their work.
With new German partner CBT+L, the collaboration platform is the basis for the EU-supported "Museum Scouts", where college students in Germany, Denmark, Latvia, the UK, and Portugal collaborate online to develop an education module for the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Europe's largest museum of natural sciences. Further on CBT+L has implemented Fronter for Guidant, a global provider of medical products.
