DePaul Weaves SS&C Tech Finance Material into Hybrid Graduate Course

  • By Dian Schaffhauser
  • 09/29/08
Chicago's DePaul University is trying out SS&C Technologies' Zoologic Learning Solutions as its Web-based course content provider for graduate-level finance courses. Students will use 10 Zoologic Web-based courses as online study material in the "Financial Statement and Security Analysis" course. Zoologic course topics include accounting, credit risk, and equity.

"We are thrilled to work with Zoologic as our online course content provider," said Ali Fatemi, professor and chairman, Finance Department. "Providing this breadth and depth of information in an intuitive format, blended with our classroom training, allows our graduate students a very positive learning environment to fully grasp how everything comes together."

SS&C delivers investment and financial management software and related services on the financial services industry.

About the Author

Dian Schaffhauser is a former senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal, Campus Technology and Spaces4Learning.

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