Thomson Course Technology
May '03 to Present
http://www.course.com 
DescriptionCourse Technology is a division of the Thomson Corporation (TOC) in the Thomson Learning division. The corporate mission of Course is to “help people teach and learn about technology” with the goal of “producing dynamic books in all technology-related disciplines, as well as complete instructional resource materials and powerful technology-based assessment and learning solutions.”
My involvement at Course has been in two main capacities: architecting, coding, and maintaining new and existing web sites; and new development on a web-interfaced custom textbook publishing solution.
Course fulfills its e-commerce via several separate websites, through multiple internal divisions that are targeted to specific demographics. Each of these web sites has its own unique set of requirements and goals. In addition, Course provides a web presence for a few of the more popular text books.
The custom textbook publishing product is a new initiative. It allows customers to construct custom texts from existing Course Technology content using a web interface. The application also has many tools for importing content into the engine, and managing the content held within
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