Beijing, PRC, January 28, 2013 ¨C China Distance Education Holdings Limited (NYSE: DL) ("CDEL" or the "Company"), a leading provider of online education in China focusing on professional education, today announced that the Company is extending its cooperation with Eleutian Technology, Inc. ("Eleutian"), a leading provider of online, interactive English training solutions with US-certified teachers. As part of the agreement, Eleutian will provide CDEL's students access to TeachCast with Oxford, an innovative English language teaching service jointly developed by Oxford University Press and Eleutian in 2012.
TeachCast with Oxford is based on two of Oxford's most successful courses: Let's Go, which has provided English language learning content to over 26 million children world-wide; and Business Venture, an acclaimed business English Learning program for adults. Such contents are supported by Eleutian¡¯s live interactive lessons, TeachCast, taught by its team of highly qualified, US-certified teachers via CDEL¡¯s open platform.
Zhengdong Zhu, Chairman and CEO of CDEL, commented, ¡°We are very pleased to strengthen our partnership with Eleutian and further add Teachcast with Oxford to our course offering, combining Oxford¡¯s highly successful English language learning content with Eleutian¡¯s innovative teaching and learning solutions. We believe that our students can reap great benefits from such world-class content and creative pedagogical approaches. We will continue to enrich our online course offerings and services through internal development as well as through high-quality third-party content and services.¡±
Kent Holiday, CEO of Eleutian Technology, added, ¡°Eleutian is pleased to expand upon our collaboration with CDEL, a leader in China¡¯s rapidly growing online education market. Through China Distance Education¡¯s powerful online learning platform, we look forward to broadening access in China to Eleutian¡¯s highly trained instructors and our widely applicable TeachCast with Oxford programs.¡±
