Huntingtown, MD–September 1, 2009: eReadia LLC announced today that it has joined the Founding Member group of the Connexions Consortium housed at Rice University in Houston, TX. “Joining the Consortium provides us with the network of forward-thinking educators that we believe will lead the way in open source content management and delivery. We are pleased to join the effort,” said a spokesperson for the company.
About eReadia
eReadia is a newly formed LLC with the mission of engineering the transfer of information from current digital formats into formats that allow it to become useful to the owners of ereader devices like the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader. eReadia has developed proprietary software that enables users to select and format content from a wide variety of sources, and to manage that content across multiple mobile reading devices.
The company’s initial focus is on the consumer and education markets. By teaming with Connexions, eReadia positions itself close to the heart of the rapidly growing open content and Open Educational Resources (OER) communities.
About Connexions
Connexions is an open source platform and open access repository for open education resources, enabling the creation, sharing, modification, and vetting of open educational material accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime via the World Wide Web. Since 1999, Connexions has pioneered digital education. Connexions global knowledge ecosystem, where anyone can create materials, is free of charge. Connexions modular interactive information is in use by universities, community colleges, primary and secondary schools and life long learners worldwide. The Consortium is housed at Rice University in Houston, TX.
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