Vantage Learning Partners with Infobase Creation and Schoolteam Limited to Further Educational Needs Throughout Asia

Partnerships provide educators and students with access to Vantage Learning's award-winning online learning tools to enhance English reading and writing skills

Vantage Learning (www.vantagelearning.com), the leading provider of online assessment and automated essay scoring, today announced its partnerships with Schoolteam (Asia), a Chinese education leader specializing in learning centers, e-learning, educational content, and testing services; and Infobase Creations, a Malaysian education leader specializing in learning centers, e-learning, educational content, and testing services. Infobase Creations and Schoolteam Limited will offer Vantage's off-the-shelf and customized educational Web-based solutions to enhance the English reading and writing skills of primary and secondary school students throughout Asia.

In addition to Infobase Creations and Schoolteam's current offerings, students throughout the country will have the opportunity to use Vantage Learning's suite of products, including MY Access!™. MY Access! is Vantage's signature online writing tool powered by IntelliMetric®, its award-winning artificial intelligence scoring engine. Vantage Learning's products will be offered primarily through Infobase and Schoolteam's learning centers located throughout Malaysia and Hong Kong.

"Schoolteam and Infobase are recognized leaders in the field of on- and off-line education instruction and assessment in Asia," says Paul Edelblut, Vice President of Vantage Learning. "We are proud to work with each to provide students with the newest and most advanced Web-based learning tools to advance their education and prepare them for both college and the highly competitive position that the continent enjoys in the world market."

Infobase Creation offers a wide range of products and services for the improvement of language and communication skills for any corporate or educational institution.

"We look forward to incorporating Vantage Learning's award-winning products into our formula for success at our learning centers and expanding our efforts to integrate technology into our schools' classrooms," says Puan Fazidah Fariyah Md. Ali, Managing Director of Infobase Creation.

Schoolteam is the sole distributor of Greater China for OpenBook English, a Gold Award winner of Technology and Learning in the USA. OpenBook is an interactive English learning system that uses a combination of voice, text, video, graphics, and photographs, in a truly interactive learning mode.

"We are pleased to partner with Vantage Learning and are excited that its signature MY Access!™ and Intellimetric® programs will enhance the reading and writing skills of our primary and secondary school students, as well as polish their English-speaking abilities," says Anthony K. Koo, President of Schoolteam (Asia) Limited.

Delivering more than 193 million online test transactions last year, Vantage Learning is recognized as the leader in cost-effective, high volume, secure, scalable online assessment and instructional programs for K-12 and higher education. Leveraging technology such as artificial intelligence, natural language understanding, and Web-based learning objects, Vantage provides educators with high-quality tools and resources that motivate students to learn and that create meaningful interaction between students, parents and teachers.

Acknowledged by industry leaders as the gold standard for scoring quality, consistency, reliability, and scalability of automated essay scoring using the patented IntelliMetric® engine, Vantage Learning has received accolades ranging from the prestigious CODIE Award for best instructional technology to recognition by Eduventures as one of the eight most innovative educational technology companies.

Schoolteam (Asia) Limited, a leading education service provider, has been offering Web-based communications platform to schools since 1997, whereby school administrators, teachers, students, and parents are able to identify and seek resource and support, with the maximum of ease. The Company's Mandate is to provide the condition, through the application of technology, to truly sprout effective and efficient teaching and learning.

Established in 1999, Infobase Creation Sdn Bhd (ICSB) is currently one of the most active language solution providers based in Malaysia. ICSB offers a wide range of products and services for the improvement of language and communication skills for corporate and educational institutions, including English proficiency for kids; English for business communications; basic English for the hospitality industry; and introduction to business writing. ICSB is a one-stop language solutions provider that can fit any organization's language learning need. Learn more at www.icsb.com.my