Scitent Helps American Heart Association Improve eLearning Experience for Students

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Oct. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Scitent, Inc., a full-service eLearning company focused on creating profitable and sustainable online education programs for nonprofits, associations, healthcare organizations, and for-profit organizations, has worked with the American Heart Association (AHA) since 2004 to bring a blended online education experience to emergency cardiovascular care learners at healthcare organizations and corporations around the globe. Recently, Scitent successfully migrated AHA's emergency cardiovascular care course platform to its newest learning management system (LMS), SCIDEA™ at heart.org/cpr.    

The AHA continues to evolve its eLearning offerings to provide more flexibility and convenience to create better experiences for students through standalone courses or blended courses with hands-on components. This latest technology system allows the AHA to better serve its eLearning customer base by directly managing financial operations and the technical and customer support services within one streamlined platform.

"We believe the American Heart Association leadership has shown great vision in creating a global distribution network for much-needed online CPR and first aid education. We are thrilled to have been a part of that vision from the very beginning, providing reliable and steadfast support of its expanding eLearning portfolio," said Deb McMahon, President and CEO at Scitent. 

"The American Heart Association is arming consumers and professionals with the most updated skills needed to save more lives through our expanding suite of eLearning solutions," said John Meiners, Executive Vice President of the American Heart Association's Emergency Cardiovascular Care & Global Strategies. "The American Heart Association's online platform has allowed us to reach our ever-growing learner base around the globe with the latest learning technology solutions."

AHA has provided over two million online courses to individuals on topics, ranging from CPR and pediatric first aid to acute stroke training and advanced cardiovascular support, which are found at heart.org/cpr.  Annually, this platform serves nearly 400,000 users, logs 598,000 completions, and awards in excess of 143,000 CME/CE credits.

About SCIDEA™
Scitent's SCIDEA™ is AHA's SCORM-compliant eLearning platform, which supports blended learning, certification and continuing education (CE) credit management, eCommerce, and the delivery of course content through varied domestic and global distribution channels.

About Scitent
Based in Charlottesville, Va., Scitent helps nonprofits, associations, healthcare organizations, and for-profit organizations foster and grow their eLearning business with in-house expertise in sales and marketing, course distribution, instructional design/courseware development, LMS technology, eCommerce, and customer support. Scitent's "concept-to-certification" support allows clients to turn intellectual property into compelling and educationally sound eLearning by using SCIDEA™, Scitent's learning management system (LMS), along with an array of eLearning support services.  Find out more at www.Scitent.com. 

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