Founded in 1997, LiveText is a leading developer of standards-led, online educational services tailored to the particular needs and challenges of the education profession. From portfolios to assessments and accreditation reporting, our services provide hundreds of colleges with powerful, yet easy-to-use, tools that support needs of college deans, department chairs, assessment coordinators, accreditation officers, faculty and their students. This integrated solution saves time and the associated costs of developing, collecting and measuring program and student performance data.
The founders of LiveText developed their first online tool sets for professors in the early days of the world wide web. While they were undergraduates in the renowned Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois in 1995-1996, they worked with professors under a grant from the Sloan Foundation to develop and deliver the first generation of web-based classes. Recognizing that creation and maintenance of courses was too reliant on expensive consulting, programming, and computer science resources, the founders started LiveText Inc. upon graduation to develop, spread, and enhance to a suite of easy-to-use tools that a typical educator could routinely use for web-based education.
Nearly all of LiveText's competitors, founded in the same time frame, elected to focus on an across the board solution distance learning platform for universities. LiveText chose a different path, one exclusively focused on understanding and designing solutions that meet the unique needs, capabilities, resources, and constraints of the K-12 education professional -- a work environment that, at the time, sorely lacked hardware, networking, technology skills, and time/funds for training among other challenges. Since 1998, LiveText has amassed rich experience and knowledge in the K-12 market and is now looking forward to sharing our experience with educators in the College of Education.
College LiveText edu solutions is a suite of web-based tools that allow colleges and universities to develop, manage, and assess program and student achievements. From portfolios and coursework to assessments and accreditation data-reporting, our services assist hundreds of universities in meeting these demands.
As national and state accreditation agencies intensify the complexity of accreditation LiveText offers simple solutions to complex problems.
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History of LiveText