Avid Learning Academy Partners with ThinkEDU to Inspire the Next Generation of Media Production Talent
March 24 2022 - 8:42AM
Avid® (Nasdaq: AVID) today announced a new partnership with North
American academic marketing company ThinkEDU, LLC. that will
provide even more K-12 educators with the opportunity to inspire
future generations of video and audio creators. ThinkEDU will work
with existing Avid partner Rowman & Littlefield to help high
schools across North America enhance their arts and media education
tracks through the Avid Learning Academy (ALA) program, which
empowers students to learn the technologies used by the editors,
producers and other creators of the world's most popular music,
movies, TV shows and live broadcasts.
ThinkEDU hosts online stores for schools, colleges
and universities across the country, working with more than 13,000
school districts and serving millions of students every day. It
also manages some of the world's leading training ecosystems that
serve the academic community and acts as a technology consultant
for educational facilities at all levels. The ability of ThinkEDU
to provide a complete turnkey experience will make it easier than
ever for schools to train and certify K-12 students on the Avid
creative software tools specified by college media studies programs
and employers across the media and entertainment industry.
Michael Fischler, CEO at ThinkEDU, said: “We're
delighted to officially partner with Avid and Rowman &
Littlefield to help expand the Avid Learning Academy program. Our
existing relationship with Avid and vast experience in the
education sector puts us in a unique position that will enable us
to guide educators in choosing the right software tools for their
needs and those of their students. The ALA has already inspired so
many young, talented people and we're looking forward to helping
take it to that next level.”
“ThinkEDU has a longstanding track record of
taking programs such as Avid Learning Academy into the educational
market. As an existing reseller of Avid's Media Composer®, Pro
Tools® and Sibelius® solutions, ThinkEDU is ideally positioned
to help drive adoption of this current program,” said Bryan Castle,
Director of Global Learning Partnerships at Avid. “We believe the
synergies between Avid, ThinkEDU and Rowman & Littlefield make
this joint partnership a perfect fit that will ultimately provide
more students with a clear path to college media courses and unlock
the next generation of creative talent.”
The Avid Learning Academy includes everything
educators need to elevate their current arts and media
programs, or rapidly launch a new program from the ground up.
Courses have been designed by education professionals and are
aligned to the National Core Arts Standards (U.S.), covering a wide
range of media creation topics including filmmaking, video post
production and audio terminology. This program is available now and
participating high school educators will be able to certify their
students as Avid Certified Associates, placing them on the pathway
to industry-recognized Avid Certified User and Avid Certified
Professional certifications that are available worldwide through
Avid Learning Partner institutions.
Educators can visit www.avid.com/LearningAcademy
today to discover the full potential of the Avid Learning Academy
program.
About ThinkEDU Based in Dallas,
Texas, ThinkEDU is a nationwide academic reseller offering the
academic community, which includes students, faculty, staff, K-12
Schools and Colleges, deep discounts on thousands of software,
computers, tablets and computer accessories. ThinkEDU operates over
1,000 online technology stores for college bookstores and
colleges/universities nationwide. For information about ThinkEDU,
educators can visit
https://corp.thinkedu.com/avid-learning-academy/ or contact us at
avid@thinkedu.com.
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more than 30 years ago with our invention of nonlinear digital
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