Mason Enterprise Center Welcomes i-Education Holdings

i-Education Holdings, Inc. (i-Ed) is the newest participant in the Mason Enterprise Center’s International Business Accelerator. The company offers learning tools that deliver educational multimedia content to classrooms and computer labs. Its MiClase program offers thousands of currículum-based video clips, software activities, enriched animations, and Internet links.

MiClase delivers its content to school LANs from a Classmart (a proprietary internet appliance) that contains more than 25,000 digital educational resources in Spanish. By incorporating this tool into the classroom, teachers have the ability to enrich the learning experience of their students for better scores.

“i-Education Holdings has a proven system to boost the performance of Spanish-speaking students 12 to 20 percent on standardized tests,” says Marshall Ferrin, the Mason Enterprise Center’s director of international business development.

“We look forward to meeting complementary firms in the region to team with to enter the secondary school marketplace,” adds Gilbert E. Leiva, i-Ed CEO.

With offices in Chile and Peru, i-Ed plans to replicate its success in the Latin American educational market by introducing an e-learning software package to math and science secondary school students in the United States.

The Mason Enterprise Center’s International Business Development Program offers a selection of targeted programs to assist both U.S. and international small and medium information technology enterprises in developing international business. The center offers a three-stage program of consultation, international market planning, and business partnerships. This customized approach prepares and connects companies for practical business results in key technology marketplaces in the United States and around the world. The center has forged business partnerships with 15 companies from seven countries over the last five years.

For more information about i-Education Holdings and its products, visit
www.i-educationholdings.com. For more information about the Mason Enterprise Center, visit www.masonenterprisecenter.org.

Information for this article was submitted in an alternate format from the Mason Enterprise Center.