McGraw-Hill Higher Education and Tegrity Announce Distribution Alliance

Imagine a student sitting down to study for a midterm and struggling to remember a key lecture concept that was covered early in the term. What if this same student had access to a premier service that provided the ability to run a quick key-word search and immediately pull up only those portions of the lecture where that key concept was discussed? With Tegrity, provider of the leading class capture web service for higher education, this is reality.

McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a premier provider of teaching and learning solutions for the post-secondary and higher education markets worldwide, and Tegrity, announced today that they have joined forces to distribute Tegrity Campus 2.0, a student-focused lecture capture solution that makes every class on campus available for replay by every student -- anytime, anywhere.

This alliance demonstrates McGraw-Hill's commitment to supporting student success by providing services and products that vastly increase students' effectiveness in achieving their goals. Tegrity Campus 2.0 offers a unique search capability that gives students an efficient way to recall key lecture concepts when they need them most -- while doing homework or studying for an exam. Initial data illustrates that, on average, 75% of students using Tegrity access their lectures every day.

"Tegrity's mission is to help every student succeed academically and help institutions enhance student learning, retention and satisfaction campus-wide," said Isaac Segal, president and CEO of Tegrity. "We are pleased to work with McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a leader in educational innovation, to deliver our lecture capture solution to college campuses around the country."

McGraw-Hill's student research reveals that students highly value their instructors' lectures but often become frustrated with limited access to those instructors when they need them most -- while studying, especially after professors' office hours. Tegrity's 24-hour digital access to instructors' original lecture material means students can essentially have professors right there with them anytime they have a question.

"Today's students seek and are used to immediate access to information. Student study time and instructor availability rarely coincide. We are pleased to join forces with Tegrity to equip educators with a digital learning solution that impacts student success because it delivers access to instructor content when they need it most," said Ed Stanford, president, McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

Tegrity is currently being used at hundreds of colleges and universities across the country, including the University of Alabama, Coppin State University, Calhoun Community College, University of Missouri - Kansas City, and El Centro Community College.

"During the first semester of deployment, 82% of students surveyed said that Tegrity improved their performance in the course, and 84% said that Tegrity increased their satisfaction with the course," said Carmen Burkhalter, Ph.D., senior associate dean and senior information officer at the University of Alabama. "In the first half of the next semester, we recorded over 900 lectures and 28,000 students viewed more than 9600 hours. Once a student uses Tegrity, they want it in every class and the faculty want it too."

About McGraw-Hill Higher Education:

McGraw-Hill Higher Education, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, is a premier provider of teaching and learning solutions for 21st century post-secondary and higher education markets worldwide. Through a comprehensive range of traditional and digital education content and tools, McGraw-Hill Higher Education empowers educators and prepares professionals and students of all ages to connect, learn and succeed in the global economy. McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), has offices in 33 countries and publishes in more than 60 languages. Additional information is available at http://www.mheducation.com/.

About Tegrity:

Tegrity Campus 2.0 is the leading class capture web service, impacting learning, student satisfaction and retention across the entire institution. Requiring no hardware or software installation, and fully integrated with the institution's data-set, Tegrity Campus 2.0 makes class time available all the time by automatically capturing, storing and indexing every class on campus for replay by every student. Educators know that the more students can see, hear, and experience a class, the better they learn. With patented Tegrity "search anything" technology, students instantly recall key class moments for replay online, or on iPods and mobile devices. Tegrity is based in Santa Clara, California with regional offices throughout the United States. For more information, visit http://www.tegrity.com/tegrity_demo/.

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SOURCE: McGraw-Hill Higher Education; Tegrity

CONTACT: Tom Stanton for McGraw-Hill Education, +1-212-904-3214,
tom_stanton@mcgraw-hill.com; or Kathryn Hughes for Tegrity, Inc.,
+1-408-608-3043, khughes@tegrity.com

Web Site: http://www.mheducation.com/