Southeastern Illinois College and Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville Select LoudCloud FasTrak for a joint CBE platform

DALLAS, Sept. 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- LoudCloud Systems announced today that a joint CBE project with Southeastern Illinois College and Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, has selected the company's FasTrak system to deliver a competency based education program slated to begin later this year. The program, funded by a federal TAACCCT grant, will focus on biofuels.

"Southeastern Illinois College along with Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville are excited to announce that we have partnered with LoudCloud Systems to use their innovative competency-based platform to create a biofuels training program," said Courtney Breckenridge, Building Illinois' Bioeconomy Consortium Project Manager. "The platform will serve as a flexible training tool for industry partners as well as a progressive learning management system for the traditional student."

"This new platform aligns job objectives from industry to academic curriculum in such a way as to prove a student's competency as they progress through their education and training," said Renee Loesche, Director-BIB Curriculum & Training, at Southeastern Illinois College. "It's an innovative approach that includes involvement with the employers to develop training to create pathways to jobs." Southeastern Illinois College looks forward to the success of this partnership as they re-create their biofuels curriculum for this powerful training environment.

"We are pleased to be the CBE partner for two great institutions like these," said Manoj Kutty, CEO of LoudCloud Systems.  "Our flexible competency based learning platform provides universities the ability to rapidly develop and deliver high quality CBE program, while simultaneously making it possible to reduce student costs, improve time to completion and address employer demands around workplace skills."

About Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

SIUE is a nationally recognized university that provides students with a high-quality, affordable education that prepares them for successful careers and lives of purpose. Built on the foundation of a broad-based liberal education, and enhanced by hands-on research and real-world experiences, the academic preparation SIUE students receive equips them to thrive in the global marketplace and make our communities better places to live.

About Southeastern Illinois College

SIC is  Public two-year comprehensive community college founded in 1960 to serve citizens of Gallatin, Hardin, Pope and Saline Counties; portions of Hamilton, Johnson, Williamson and White Counties. Located on a 190-acre campus in Harrisburg, Illinois SIC serve approximately 5,000 full and part time students in Arts and Science Associate Degree Programs, Associate in Applied Science Degree Programs, Associate in Engineering Science Degree, Associate in Liberal Studies Degree, Occupational Certificate Programs. 

About LoudCloud Systems

LoudCloud is a behavioral analytics based teaching and learning platform designed to deliver personalized pathways in education. The core framework, rooted in re-imagined LMS technology, simplifies course and content authoring using proprietary algorithms to inform and guide course progress. With innovations in collaborative, digital readers and task centricity, LoudCloud continues to grow business with prominent customers in both the higher education and K-12 sectors while providing platforms for institutions engaging in competency based learning solutions. For more information about LoudCloud Systems, please visit the company's website. LoudCloud customers include, University of Florida-Lastinger Center, Swinburne University (Australia), Bryan University, Career Education Corp., Grand Canyon University, The American College, and Jefferson County School District.

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