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<p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>Good Afternoon!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>eCollege has released their new eLearning platform -
&nbsp;eCollege .NExT. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>This
new release will provide multiple language support, multiple platform support
(i.e. MAC), multiple operating system support (i.e. Windows Vista), multiple
time-zone support and other features that we have not even discovered yet! <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>eCollege will begin migrating our current eCollege courses next
week (7/21/08) and will continue the migration until all of our e-courses and
all of our e-companion courses have been migrated to the .NExT platform. This
will be an ongoing process and will take several months. We ask for your
patience during this time. As we begin this process our department, as always, will
be providing ongoing communication, training, and support. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>We have selected several courses for the first wave of migration
so please do not be alarmed if you did not receive a telephone call asking if
your course could be one of the first migrated. Rest assured that ALL courses
will be migrated in as timely a manner as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>If you have questions, please do not hesitate to phone 903-886-5511
or e-mail </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:online@tamu-commerce.edu">online@tamu-commerce.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:black'>Thank you in advance for your patience and understating as we
migrate to .NExT.<br>
Charlotte<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Charlotte A. Larkin, Ed.D.<br>
Director of&nbsp;Instructional Technology &amp; Distance Education<br>
Texas A&amp;M University-Commerce<br>
903-886-5459 (office)<br>
903-886-5991 (fax)<br>
</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><a href="mailto:Charlotte_Larkin@tamu-commerce.edu"
title="mailto:Charlotte_Larkin@tamu-commerce.edu"><span style='color:#1F497D'>Charlotte_Larkin@tamu-commerce.edu</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/itde/"><span style='color:#1F497D'>http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/itde/</span></a></span><span
style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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