Dolphin and Questionmark Sign Consultant Agreement

For Immediate Release

Dolphin and Questionmark Sign Consultant Agreement

STAMFORD, CT - November 5, 2001 -- Award-winning software design and development solution consultants Dolphin, Inc. have entered into a consulting partnership with Questionmark, providers of Questionmark™Perception™ testing and assessment software for education and training.

"We're excited to work with Dolphin because of their reputation for innovative custom software solutions and course development," said Questionmark President Eric Shepherd. "Their expertise in tailoring and extending Perception's rich tools using a range of techniques-from creating Macromedia Flash modules to performing sophisticated modifications and extensions to data structures-will be of tremendous benefit to many of our clients."

Dolphin develops custom software for a wide range of clients including the Glencoe division of McGraw Hill, ETS Technologies, Addison Wesley, AT&T, Compaq, Globe-Fearon, Harcourt School Publishers, Houghton Mifflin Company, Oxford University Press, Thomson Learning, Pearson Education, and Columbia University. The company will be providing custom software development support to Questionmark customers looking for unique software engineering requirements not currently available within Perception.

"We are very excited to offer our software design and development talents to Perception clients whose specialized needs extend beyond the product's considerable capabilities," said Andrew Gardner, President of Dolphin.

In a recent consultation, Dolphin provided ETS Technologies with software engineering support on one of their key Perception applications. "We recently used Dolphin's services to extend Perception's capabilities to an enterprise level," said Richard Swartz, president of ETS Technologies. "The new release of Dolphin software for our Criterion™ application has helped us reduce the time that we once spent in account set-up and has allowed us instead to increase the flexibility and usability of the online service."

About Dolphin:
Established in 1984, Dolphin provides expert website, internet, and intranet development using Dynamic HTML, Shockwave, Flash, Java, Javascript, XML, PHP, Perl, SQL, and other tools. The company offers multi-platform development for Windows, Macintosh, and Unix using all major authoring systems and languages, asset design and creation of video, audio, 2D and 3D animation, still images, and text. In December, 1999, Dolphin became a wholly-owned subsidiary of The American Education Corporation. For complete details visit http://www.dolphinsoft.com.

About Questionmark:
Questionmark has been producing testing and assessment software since 1988, enabling educators and trainers to write, administer, and report on tests and surveys securely using individual PCs, local networks, the Internet, and intranets. Businesses, governments, schools, colleges, and universities in more than 50 countries use Questionmark software. Perception users can create multiple question banks from which to assemble tests and surveys, organizing questions into topics and sub-topics. They can shuffle questions and answers for each participant and preview sessions to see how they will appear post-deployment. Question types include multiple choice, multiple response, numeric, word response, essay, fill-in-the-blank, matching/ranking, hot spot, drag and drop, and matrix. A variety of reports provide statistical information about individual and group performance. Typical applications include exams, quizzes, study aids, diagnostic tests, pre-course skills assessments, and course evaluations. Visit http://www.questionmark.com.

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