Electric Classroom

Digital River is providing Electric Classroom with access to its online sales network and also handling all of the services necessary for running the company`s branded e-commerce site. These e-commerce services include order and Value Added Tax (VAT) management as well as customer service, fraud prevention and e-marketing services.

Electric Classroom`s online store is targeted at adult students and professionals who want the convenience and self-paced learning that online courses can offer. The site offers hundreds of courses in areas such as quality, project management, e-mail protocol, software and desktop, international marketing, information technology, sales training, customer service, health and safety, business communications and e-commerce. The courses are designed to be user-friendly and operate with either a high- or low-speed modem. Electric Classroom is actually a division of Electric Apple, a Twin Cities-based company dedicated to pioneering innovative methods of increasing marketing and training communication effectiveness and efficiency, with a focus on high quality e-Tools and e-Learning. As a creator of custom online e-Learning courses for corporations and organizations, the company is responding to a strong need for general online courses of popular interest to professionals and computer users. Over the past several years, they have partnered with other high-quality online learning designers to offer an extensive list of user-friendly courses, some available in Spanish and French.

Digital River Launches Global, Multi-Channel E-Commerce Operations for Electric Apple. (2004). Retrieved October 25, 2008,  from http://www.internetretailer.com/pressReleaseDetail

Comments

[MLR]

This is a hard company to find. The home page is
http://www.electric-apple.com/default.htm
I'd just suggest that you be careful of any low-priced product in this market. I keep describing this course to people as "having a lot of moving parts." It takes a robust platform and a lot of people with a lot of different skills to provide quality distance education.
MLR

[Manuel Schramm]

I looked at their website and I don't think I would take a course with them. I clicked on a few courses in the catalog and they didn't load. Bad sign! Beside that, I saw the prices are quite low. So I wonder if the quality will be good. Unfortunatly, good education costs good money.

I like taking classes online and I took quite a few. But I had quite a few bad experiences and that's no fun.

[sk]

I looked at the website and I realized that with new technology comes new learning methods.

However, if I'm going to take classes online and put a lot of time and effort into it, I would only take classes from prestigious schools and attain a valid degree. I just don't understand why I should print my own certificate after completing a class? It seems pretty odd. sk

[Rob Torte]

Well, there is a reason we are all taking the course through Harvard, isn't there? :)