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Company Supports Seamless Flow of Content and Applications between Providers and the eCollege System DENVER, June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- eCollege(R) (NASDAQ:ECLG), a leading provider of eLearning and enrollment services to post-secondary education, today announced its ongoing commitment to standards compliance, further working to support such specifications as the IMS GLC Common Cartridge and IMS GLC Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI). Additionally, Matthew Schnittman, president of eCollege's eLearning Division, has been elected to serve on the IMS GLC Board of Directors where he will join the group in collaborating on standards that impact learning technology. "We continue to look for ways to provide our customers with seamless access to a variety of third party content and applications, and the IMS GLC specifications present a great opportunity to advance the interoperability of our system and options for our customers," said Matthew Schnittman, president of the eCollege eLearning Division. "I am honored to join the IMS GLC Board of Directors, as I believe that the Board, eCollege, and the industry, as a whole, will benefit from the collaboration of this influential group in shaping and expanding technical standards in education." Through eCollege's support of the IMS GLC Common Cartridge, which enables content delivery from a commonly supported format, eCollege customers will be able to easily and cost-effectively access a wide variety of content to further customize their online courses and programs. eCollege's commitment to the Common Cartridge defines yet another way the Company is helping institutions quickly build and grow their programs, while also extending opportunities to create the highest quality and most engaging student experience. As IMS GLC continues to develop LTI, which leverages standard API's to improve the interaction of various tools with a learning/course management system, eCollege expects to use the specifications to enhance its own framework. eCollege's commitment to LTI will make it easier for institutions to leverage and integrate other third party applications, resources and systems with the eCollege System. "The world of Internet-supported learning continues to expand to encompass a wide range of capabilities including publisher digital assets, learning resource Web sites, rich media, assessment, and integrated classroom technology, and our goal is to enable seamless inclusion of best-of-breed components," said Rob Abel, CEO of IMS GLC. "We are pleased to see eCollege providing leadership for the benefit of their customers, partners, and the industry by making a commitment to the further development and adoption of Common Cartridge, LTI and the open interoperability work of IMS GLC." About eCollege eCollege (NASDAQ:ECLG) is a leading provider of eLearning and enrollment services to post-secondary and K-12 education. The Company's eLearning Division designs, builds and supports some of the most successful, fully online degree, certificate/diploma and professional development programs in the country. The Company's Enrollment Division, Datamark, Inc., helps institutions build new enrollments and increase student retention. Customers include publicly traded for-profit institutions, community colleges, public and private universities, school districts and state departments of education. eCollege was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Chicago, with the eLearning Division headquartered in Denver. Datamark was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City. For more information, visit http://www.ecollege.com/ and http://www.datamark.com/. This news release contains statements that are not historical in nature and that may be characterized as "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the securities laws. Examples of these forward-looking statements would include statements about the expected benefits to customers of our products or services and any other statements that are not historical facts. These statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to a number of uncertainties and risks. Actual performance and results may differ materially from those reflected in these forward-looking statements due to general financial, economic, regulatory and political conditions affecting the Company's industries as well as the more specific risks and uncertainties facing the Company, including those identified in the Company's reports on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which you are encouraged to review in connection with this release. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which are based on current expectations and speak only as of the date of this release. We are not obligated to publicly release any revisions to forward-looking statements to reflect events after the date of this release. eCollege is a registered trademark of eCollege. DATASOURCE: eCollege CONTACT: Kristi Emerson of eCollege, +1-303-915-9574, Web site: http://www.ecollege.com/ http://www.datamark.com/

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