Career Education Corporation Earns Spot on 2011 InformationWeek 500 List of Top Technology Innovators Across America
September 28 2011 - 1:36PM
Business Wire
Career Education Corporation (NASDAQ: CECO) (CEC), an
international provider of post-secondary education, today announced
that it made this year’s InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of
the nation’s most innovative users of business technology. This is
the third consecutive year CEC was honored. The 2011 list was
revealed this month at a gala awards ceremony at the exclusive
InformationWeek 500 Conference.
CEC earned the distinction for its CEC Technology Labs, a
dedicated team focused on rapid proofing and prototyping new
educational technologies, assessing their value for students and
quickly implementing winning concepts. CEC Labs is CEC’s approach
to nurturing ongoing ideation and accelerating proofing and
prototyping activities. Extending CEC’s mobile learning strategy
and its rapid implementation were one of the focus areas in
2010.
“Technology innovation is expanding education access to a
broader array of students, bringing high-quality learning
environments to students living busy lives. Our ‘fast fail’
approach to adopting exciting advances in educational technologies
has benefitted our students,” said Manoj Kulkarni, Senior Vice
President and Chief Information Officer. “The CEC Labs excel at
quickly identifying and creating new ways to improve the education
experience and learning outcomes. Our ideas are brought to life
rapidly, making education more accessible and effective.”
“Maintaining a separation between disciplined ‘keep the lights
running’-type work and agile ‘proofing and prototyping’ work is
essential,” said CP Jois, Vice President of Enterprise
Architecture. “Sustained success of an innovation center focused on
the use of technology for improving educational experience and
accelerating student outcomes is dependent on having a value
measurement model and acknowledging the need to maintain separation
on all 3Ps – people, process and product.”
CEC made the InformationWeek 500 last year for M.U.S.E.™, or My
Unique Student Experience, an online education delivery system that
allows students to manage course content based on their optimal
learning style – auditory, visual or experiential. In 2009, the
company earned recognition on the list for its “campus-in-a-pocket”
Mobile Learning (M-Learning) program.
“For 23 years, the InformationWeek 500 has chronicled and
honored the most innovative users of business technology,” said
InformationWeek Editor-In-Chief Rob Preston. “In this day and age,
however, being innovative isn’t enough. Companies and their IT
organizations need to innovate faster than ever before to stay a
step or two ahead of their customers, partners, and competitors.
This year’s ranking placed special emphasis on those high-octane
business technology innovators.”
InformationWeek identifies and honors the nation's most
innovative users of information technology with its annual 500
listing and also tracks the technology, strategies, investments and
administrative practices of America’s best-known companies. Top
winners have included: The Vanguard Group, CME Group, Conway,
National Semiconductor, Kimberly-Clark, Hilton Hotels and Unum. The
InformationWeek 500 rankings are unique among corporate rankings as
it spotlights the power of innovation in information technology,
rather than simply identifying the biggest IT spenders.
Additional details on the InformationWeek 500 can be found
online at www.informationweek.com/iw500/.
About Career Education
Corporation
The colleges, schools and universities that are part of the
Career Education Corporation (“CEC”) family offer high-quality
education to a diverse student population of more than 100,000
students across the world in a variety of career-oriented
disciplines through online, on-ground and hybrid learning program
offerings. The more than 90 campuses that serve these students are
located throughout the United States and in France, Italy, the
United Kingdom and Monaco, and offer doctoral, master’s, bachelor’s
and associate degrees and diploma and certificate programs.
CEC is an industry leader whose institutions are recognized
globally. Those institutions include, among others, American
InterContinental University (“AIU”); Brooks Institute; Colorado
Technical University (“CTU”); Harrington College of Design; INSEEC
Group (“INSEEC”) Schools; International University of Monaco
(“IUM”); International Academy of Design & Technology (“IADT”);
Istituto Marangoni; Le Cordon Bleu North America (“LCB”); and
Sanford-Brown Institutes and Colleges. Through its schools, CEC is
committed to providing high-quality education, enabling students to
graduate and pursue rewarding career opportunities.
For more information, see CEC’s website at www.careered.com. The
website includes a detailed listing of individual campus locations
and web links to CEC’s colleges, schools, and universities.
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