New Free Education Offering Enables Virtual Classrooms and Delivers Complete Online Reference Guide Through Leading Education Sources
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE via COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Aug 7, 2001--As the new school year begins, Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO) today announced the launch of Yahoo! Education (http://education.yahoo.com), a free resource that enables educators at the college, high school and middle school levels to easily create a virtual classroom environment and communication center for their students. Through this new service, professors and teachers can extend the traditional classroom onto the Internet by posting class rosters, calendars, and syllabi, and by connecting with students through private classroom message boards and e-mail. Yahoo! also announced new agreements with three leading providers of education materials -- Bartleby.com, Britannica.com, and Houghton Mifflin Company -- who bring together their resources to create the Yahoo! Education reference area.
''Yahoo! Education provides an essential service to professors and teachers, who can access this resource as a free and convenient method of extending communication with their students beyond the traditional classroom,'' said Catherine Davis, senior producer, Yahoo! Education, Yahoo! Inc. ''We are thrilled to receive reference content from leading education material providers Bartleby.com, Britannica.com, and Houghton Mifflin Company for our complete reference guide, which extends Yahoo!`s commitment to deliver to consumers every type of information they seek.''
You Can Take It With You
Thanks to Yahoo! Education`s virtual classroom environment, the oft-heard ''My dog ate it'' student excuse for losing a class syllabus or reading materials may finally be obsolete. Students can access their virtual classroom materials from wherever they have an Internet-connected computer, whether at school, home, the library or a friend`s house. Once in their virtual classroom, students will have access to syllabi, a class roster, calendars, e-mail, message boards, links to reading materials, and key online bookmarks. For example, students using their private message board to post questions from a school computer during the day can pick up their teacher`s reply through their home computer that evening. The student simply logs onto their protected classroom environment that resides online rather than on a hard drive.
How Long Have You Known About This Assignment?
Whether for that last minute, due-the-next-morning assignment or one done far in advance, Yahoo! Education`s reference area brings together all the essentials for any classroom project in one convenient place on the Internet. The Reference area comes fully equipped with access to The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition; The Britannica Concise; Roget`s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition; Gray`s Anatomy of the Human Body; The Oxford Shakespeare; Bartlett`s Familiar Quotations; and the World Factbook. Consumers also have access to a 14-day free trial to the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Leading Providers
Bartleby.com provides the most comprehensive free reference library on the Web, including the largest collection of quotations ever compiled, 10,000 poems, and the complete 70-volume Harvard Classics -- as well as daily selections via email. Britannica Concise is a short-entry reference work for finding quick facts. Consumers of Yahoo! Education who need in-depth information will see a link to Britannica.com (www.britannica.com), where they can subscribe to the online edition of the full Encyclopaedia Britannica. Houghton Mifflin`s Trade & Reference Division publishes adult, juvenile and reference books, including The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, the accessible authority on American English containing over 200,000 definitions, biographical entries, geographical entries, usage guidance, and word histories.
Get Back to School Stuff
Parents, students and educators needing to stock up on back-to-school items will find everything they need on Yahoo! Shopping (http://shopping.yahoo.com), recently rated the No. 1 portal shopping destination on the Web (Nielsen//NetRatings, May 2001). Yahoo! Shopping offers consumers the widest selection of stores and products including favorite brand-name retailers. The Back-to-School area features a wide range of products including apparel, laptops, book bags, and supplies, and presents them in easy-to-use, grade-appropriate categories from kindergarten to college, alleviating the stress of back-to-school shopping with a one-stop solution to find, compare and buy virtually anything online.
About Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 200 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!`s clients. These services include Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customized enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services. The company`s global Web network includes 24 World properties. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Canada and the United States.
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