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SMARTHINKING™ Forges Partnership with Georgia Consortia to Support Students

Students to Receive Online Academic Support

Immediate Contact:

Sheila Noon
(206) 283-3054
snoon(AT)smarthinking.com

Lea Douglin
(202) 543-5034 x 245
ldouglin(AT)smarthinking.com

Cathy Brock
Director Online Student Development Services,
Georgia Virtual Technical College
(770) 784-3138
cbrock@dtae.org

WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 9, 2001 - Georgia Virtual Technical College is offering its schools and students around-the-clock tutoring and academic support services provided by SMARTHINKING, the nation's leading provider of online tutoring and academic assistance for college students.

SMARTHINKING works with more than 100 schools, the US Army and publisher Houghton Mifflin. Through the SMARTHINKING service, students may ask questions of E-structor® Certified tutors in synchronous, asynchronous, and pre-scheduled, online tutoring sessions. In addition, SMARTHINKING records and archives all interactions permitting access and sorting for future review and use by the student or institution. SMARTHINKING currently offers assistance in core courses including math, statistics, economics, accounting, grammar, chemistry and Spanish.

"We chose SMARTHINKING as our learner support solution because of the comprehensive services SMARTHINKING can provide for our students, such as immediate live connectivity with professional tutors and instructors, 24-hour response time for students' questions and critique of students' writing assignments, as well as quality training for our instructors," says Debbie Dlugolenski, President of Georgia Virtual Technical College. "The user-friendly SMARTHINKING platform works on a standard browser providing easy access and speedy connectivity for our students, which is another reason we chose SMARTHINKING.

"With the phenomenal growth the Georgia Virtual Technical College has experienced over the last three years, we are constantly striving to offer more support services to benefit our students and we feel that SMARTHINKING Online Learner Support Solutions is the answer to offering additional academic support to enhance the performance of our students."

Georgia Virtual Technical College is distributing the SMARTHINKING service among math, English, accounting, and economics classes to support distance and traditional classroom courses. GVTC works with all 34 technical colleges across the state of Georgia.

"Georgia Virtual Technical College uses the Internet to offer more, better and more efficient educational services and courses. Aggregating student support services in core subjects and skills across the state makes economic and educational sense for an educational consortia," says Burck Smith, CEO of SMARTHINKING.

About SMARTHINKING (www.SMARTHINKING.com)

SMARTHINKING, the leading provider of online tutoring to colleges and high schools, provides live, online, easy-access tutoring to students. SMARTHINKING works with schools, colleges, universities, textbook publishers and other institutions to help educators offer students outstanding academic support. SMARTHINKING’s custom solutions improve faculty support and raise student performance by connecting students to qualified assistance anytime, from any Internet connection. SMARTHINKING clients include schools, colleges, libraries, education companies, individuals, and anyone seeking to increase student achievement. SMARTHINKING currently works with over 500 school clients and businesses. To learn more, please visit www.smarthinking.com or call 888.430.7429 ext 224.

About Georgia Virtual Technical College

The Georgia Virtual Technical College started as an initiative of the Georgia Department of Technical and Adult Education in 1998 with seven (7) technical colleges offering 21 courses. It has grown at a phenomenal rate, and the GVTC Consortia now includes all 34 of the state's technical colleges with over 450 online courses. More than 4,770 students were enrolled in online classes during the spring quarter of 2001. Please access our website at http://www.gvtc.org/.

Commissioner Ken Breeden says, "Our mission is to provide our students with the technical education and career training required to be successful in the workforce. We are pleased to be able to offer our traditional and online students this additional resource."