| eCollege.com, Inc. | |
| Type: | A Pearson Company |
| Foundation: | (as Real Education)[1] (as eCollege)[2] |
| Location: | Denver, Colorado, United States |
| Key People: | Matt Leavy CEO |
| Industry: | Education and Technology |
| Products: | (see below) |
| Num Employees: | 500+ (2010) |
Pearson eCollege is an on-demand, or software as a service (SaaS), provider of eLearning software and services to secondary and post-secondary learning institutions and is owned by Pearson PLC. ECollege was founded in 1996 as Real Education, the company went public in 1999.[3] as eCollege.com (NASDAQ: ECLG) and acquired by Pearson in 2007[4]
The eCollege team started transferring its maintenance work in Sri Lanka prior it acquiring the Pearson. Pearson completely transferred the maintenance of eCollege platform from USA to Sri Lanka, by keeping the application hosted in Denver. Pearson gradually started the clean ups and retirement of eCollege platform. Finally Pearson completely shutdown the eCollege platform at 2023 October.