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Lumen helps educational institutions reduce textbook costs and improve student success using open educational resources and learning analytics. It creates affordable digital course materials using open educational resources (OER). Every Lumen OER course is designed to improve learning and replace expensive textbooks in high-enrollment college courses. Adding timely updates, learning design, and technical support to OER, Lumen makes the transition to open content simple, reliable, and effective for instructors and students. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

NextTier Education is reimagining the college application process to ease the complexities and frustration of applying to college in a way that is so engaging that students feel pulled through the experience instead of forced, allowing them to focus on fulfilling their dreams rather than the process to get there. It provides mobile and web applications that streamline and takes the guesswork out of applying to college. Its mobile-based postsecondary readiness platform delivers critical information on every two- and four-year college in the U.S. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Fishtree is an education technology company that provides teachers with the digital tools to deliver engaging, personalized lessons in a collaborative learning environment. Fishtree offers quick and easy access to the best resources including real-time media and publisher content, and allows teachers to monitor and track student progress easily through powerful analytics. Our global movement has resulted in partnerships around the world, dedicated to empowering educators in every possible way.

ThinkCERCA’s personalized literacy platform helps educators teach critical thinking skills through argumentative writing. With students and teachers using its platform in all 50 states and 130 countries, the company has partnered with prominent education leaders, including Follett Corporation, and has been featured by The Atlantic and EdSurge. A 2016 SIAA CODiE Awards finalist in the Best Learning Capacity-Building Solution and Best Reading/English/Language Arts Instructional Solution categories, ThinkCERCA has also been named one of the best tools in ed tech by Common Sense’s Graphite. In July 2013, ThinkCERCA was the recipient of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Literacy Courseware Challenge grant, and in December 2012, graduated from the inaugural class of Impact Engine’s social impact accelerator. To learn more, please visit ThinkCERCA.com

Lumen helps educational institutions reduce textbook costs and improve student success using open educational resources and learning analytics. It creates affordable digital course materials using open educational resources (OER). Every Lumen OER course is designed to improve learning and replace expensive textbooks in high-enrollment college courses. Adding timely updates, learning design, and technical support to OER, Lumen makes the transition to open content simple, reliable, and effective for instructors and students. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Valore operates an online marketplace designed for college students to buy, sell, and rent textbooks and other educational resources. Based in San Diego, ValoreBooks.com connects students with over 14,000 booksellers nationwide, offering textbooks at discounts of up to 90 percent off the list price, significantly lower than traditional campus bookstores. In addition to its extensive selection of affordable textbooks, Valore provides interactive tools and advice on college costs and student loans. The company is recognized for its commitment to customer service and for giving back to students, enhancing the overall educational experience.

Baker & Taylor is a leading distributor of books, video and music products to libraries, institutions and retailers. We are passionate about book and entertainment products. Many of us have been here for a long time - 20, 30, 40 years. We form deep and lasting bonds with our supplier partners and customers; and we always strive to delight the readers, viewers and listeners. We have been in business for over 180 years and have developed long-term relationships with major book and music labels. We have more than 36,000 customers in more than 120 countries. We ship more than 1 million unique products (SKUs) annually. We also maintain one of the largest in-stock inventories of books, videos and music in the U.S. - about 385,000 titles in inventory and more than 1.5 million titles available for order. We have substantially increased our book inventory with our new Print on Demand (POD) program, allowing customers to access the titles they need, when they need them. Baker & Taylor also provides books and entertainment products to warehouse clubs and Internet retailers, and publishes several successful lines of books, including the best-selling Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series. Baker & Taylor is also committed to being an industry leader in digital media delivery. Through best-of-breed technologies, Baker & Taylor offers its publishers and customers bundled physical and digital media distribution services. We empower publishers to manage content distribution in multiple formats, to numerous digital devices and merchandising channels worldwide. We supply customers both the physical books and digital content they want, from one trusted source. As the digital future takes shape, Baker & Taylor is delivering success for suppliers and customers. Want to know more about Baker & Taylor? Just click the appropriate link below to find out more about our history, our senior management team, our locations, a career with Baker & Taylor or recent news.

Founded by Woody Hunt in 2004, Woody's Books started as an online vendor of books, cds and dvds. Selling through various online marketplaces including Amazon.com and Half.com gave Woody's Books the foundation to build each of the other business units in place today.

ClassBook.com is the market leader in creation of customized online bookstore solutions.

Advanced-Online is a leading provider of Online Company store Programs.

ThinkCERCA’s personalized literacy platform helps educators teach critical thinking skills through argumentative writing. With students and teachers using its platform in all 50 states and 130 countries, the company has partnered with prominent education leaders, including Follett Corporation, and has been featured by The Atlantic and EdSurge. A 2016 SIAA CODiE Awards finalist in the Best Learning Capacity-Building Solution and Best Reading/English/Language Arts Instructional Solution categories, ThinkCERCA has also been named one of the best tools in ed tech by Common Sense’s Graphite. In July 2013, ThinkCERCA was the recipient of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Literacy Courseware Challenge grant, and in December 2012, graduated from the inaugural class of Impact Engine’s social impact accelerator. To learn more, please visit ThinkCERCA.com

Vocabulary.com operates as an online learning platform based in New York, focusing on enhancing vocabulary acquisition through an innovative and adaptive learning system known as The Challenge. This system is complemented by a fast and comprehensive dictionary, facilitating efficient learning of new words. The platform aims to transform vocabulary education by providing personalized and lifelong instruction tailored to individual needs, utilizing advanced data analytics to scale its offerings to students globally.

ClassOwl helps teachers make sure students know exactly what they need to do in school. In a simple, easy-to-use app, instructors can organize class deadlines and send homework reminders directly to students on their personal devices. Students and teachers share a dynamic digital planner that displays assignment completion time, enables real-time assignment Q&A, and can be used as a checklist to help students manage their time. With ClassOwl, everyone in the class becomes more organized. Teachers have the tools to effectively help and communicate with students outside of class, and students see overall improvements in academic performance because they always know what exactly what they have to do to be successful. Acquired by Branch Metrics in 2015.

ShowEvidence, Inc. provides a hosted software for performance assessment. It offers ShowEvidence that enables the users to demonstrate their mastery of core competencies and get feedback on their performance based on evidence at work or in school. The company's ShowEvidence brings together all the applications needed to implement a performance assessment process that produces measurable results. It solution is used in various applications, such as student learning, certification, professional development, and observation. ShowEvidence, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Campus Quad is a mobile community start-up powered by student expression of campus life experiences. Replacing the old-style campus bulletin board with geo, green, real-time, mobile app, it mak it simple to share photos, create events, discover deals, and find campus-based classifieds.

BetterKnow provides an institutional cloud-based service that makes course materials from ALL sources easily discoverable for instructors, affordable for students, and generates revenue for the institution. BetterKnow seamlessly integrates with the institution workflows and infrastructure, becoming the System Of Record (SOR) for course materials.

Varsitybooks.Com is an E-learning company located in 1789 Napa Suwe Ln, Wauconda, Illinois, United States.

TetraData Corporation, headquartered in Greenville, S.C., is a privately-held company organized in January of 1997 with an exclusive focus on K-12 education. TetraData has demonstrated a passion and commitment to the advancement of education through technology and is recognized by many industry leaders as a catalyst in education improvement. A growing company with more than 50 employees, TetraData boasts a strong pool of both education and software engineering innovators dedicated to helping nation’s schools reach and sustain high performance. TetraData’s solutions are currently installed in more than 600 K-12 educational institutions serving over 1.5 million students in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Interactive Constructs provides custom e-learning and web publishing solutions for publishers and companies. With combined backgrounds of 20 years in the software publishing and educational technology fields, Interactive Constructs has developed a range of e-learning solutions for both the K-12 and Higher Education markets. Solutions range from web authoring/content management, and assessment to complete learning management systems. The value of an Interactive Constructs solution is cost, time to market, and quality.

NetLibrary, provides access to electronic books (eBooks), including reference books.