Press Release:
Building on success: The ITI announces launch of ITI Online
Academy Campuses and Classrooms
The ITI expands its educational offering by providing a framework for blended learning
activities to better serve individual educational needs.
Basel, Switzerland, October 19, 2015 – Just one year after the successful launch of its elearning platform, the ITI Online Academy, the International Team for Implantology (ITI), aleading academic organization dedicated to the promotion of evidence-based education andresearch in the field of implant dentistry, announced a significant extension to the ITI Online
Academy with the introduction of the Campuses and Classrooms.
The ITI Online Academy Campuses and Classrooms will allow the ITI to better cater to theindividual educational needs of its affiliates and partners by enabling them to set up their own
learning environments within the ITI Online Academy. Campuses and their Classrooms are anexcellent means to complement face-to-face learning and to offer educational materials andservices to learning groups taking curricular courses. They allow Classroom tutors to add ITI
Online Academy learning contents to their own pre-reads and material discussed in class forfollow-up course work. Targeted Assessments allow for tracking the learning process ofparticipants. Participants themselves also have the option to share and discuss their own
contributions by means of Case Cloud and the closed forums.
Each ITI Section, for example, will be allocated its own Campus on which practitioners will
have access to language-specific content such as Congress Lectures recorded at national ITI
Congresses. And with the full integration of the ITI Study Clubs, the currently small number ofpilot Classrooms will quickly grow: By the end of the year, the Online Academy Campus will behome to more than 650 individual learning communities – a global network of blended
evidence-based education.
“One of the ITI’s main aims is to become the leading academic provider of evidence-based
education in implant dentistry,” said Prof. Dr. David Cochran, ITI President. “ITI Online
Academy Campuses provide a solid foundation for blended learning opportunities andtherefore represent a further major step towards achieving this goal”.
Since its launch in October 2014, the ITI Online Academy has experienced impressive andcontinuously growing traffic numbers. “With more than 200,000 visits and almost 3 million pageviews, the platform’s performance during the first 12 months has by far exceeded ourexpectations,” commented Dr. Stephen Chen, President-elect of the ITI and member of theOnline Academy Task Force. “This success fuels our motivation to further extend the ITI
Online Academy by adding content and developing new educational formats.”
Interested institutions can set up their own Campus with different Classrooms or a Classroom
on one of the ITI Section Campuses. More information on the application process will soon beavailable at academy.iti.org.

ITI International Team for
Implantology
ITI Headquarters
Peter Merian-Strasse 88
CH-4052 BaselSwitzerland
Tel. +41 (0)61 270 83 83
Fax +41 (0)61 270 83 84
headquarters@iti.org
www.iti.org

About the ITIThe International Team for Implantology (ITI) is an academic association that unites professionals aroundthe world from every field of implant dentistry and related disciplines. It actively promotes networking andexchange among its membership of currently more than 15,000. ITI Fellows and Members regularly share
their knowledge and expertise from research and clinical practice at meetings, courses and congresses
with the objective of continuously improving treatment methods and outcomes to the benefit of theirpatients.
In 35 years, the ITI has built a reputation for scientific rigor combined with concern for the welfare ofpatients. The organization focuses on the development of well-documented treatment guidelines backed
by extensive clinical testing and the compilation of long-term results. The ITI funds research as well as
Scholarships for young clinicians, organizes congresses and continuing education events and runs morethan 600 Study Clubs around the globe. The organization also publishes reference books such as the ITITreatment Guide series and operates the ITI Online Academy, a peer-reviewed, evidence-based elearning platform with a unique user-centric approach. www.iti.org

Media contact:
ITI International Team for Implantology
ITI Headquarters
Matthias Joesch
Tel +41 (0)61 270 83 88
Fax +41 (0)61 270 83 84
matthias.joesch@iti.org

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