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Academic Systems Offers Colleges Interactive Courseware

11/01/02

Academic Systems, a division of Lightspan Inc., is adding next-generation CD-based textbooks from Thinkwell (www.thinkwell.com) to its suite of products for colleges and universities. The company expects to distribute CD-based courseware developed by Thinkwell to two-year college campus bookstores nationwide. Thinkwell publishes college textbooks on CD-ROM and the Web. The courseware includes interactive lectures and materials covering mathematics, science, social sciences and humanities. Thinkwell’s interactive CD lectures are supplemented by Web-based lessons, illustrated notes, interactive discussions and course management features. Academic Systems Corp., Mountain View, CA, (800) 694-6850, www.academic.com.

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