imc AG is a German software company and supplier of E-Learning content with headquarters in Saarbrücken.
Development The company imc information multimedia communication AG was founded in 1996 within the Scheer Group of the Saarland, by business informatics professor and former BITKOM President August-Wilhelm Scheer as a spin off to bundle the E-learning business and to expand.Hielscher, Hans in Der Spiegel: Jazz und Wirtschaft: Manager sollten Miles hören, 31 July 2009 August-Wilhelm Scheer is the Head of the Supervisory Board.
In June, 2014, Wolfgang Kraemer, Frank Milius, and Volker Zimmermann, founding Board members, left the company after 17 years. Their Successors were Christian Wachter, Tobias Blickle and Rudolf Keul.Warscheid, Lothar in Saarländische Zeitung: Gesamter Vorstand verlässt Saarbrücker Softwarehaus IMC, 21 June 2014Ohne Verfasser in checkpoint eLearning News: Führungswechsel - Neue Ära bei der IMC AG bricht an, June 2014 Blickle and Keul left the company in 2017.
The company's main product is a Learning management system (LMS). The LMS is the technical basis of the 2011 introduced free access MOOCS platform OpenCourseWorld.Ebner, Martin in Kleine Zeitung "Europa hinkt nach", 16. Mai 2013Reinmann, Gabi et al. in: Hochschuldidaktik im Zeichen von Heterogenität und Vielfalt - Doppelfestschrift für Peter Baumgartner und Rolf Schulmeister, 2 February 2014Seeger, Jürgen in iX - Magazin für professionelle Informationstechnik "Kostenfreie Online-Kurse mit Uni-Unterstützung", 20 December 2012Ohne Verfasser in Business-On SaarLorLux - Wirtschaftsportal der Region Saarland, Lothringen, Luxemburg "IMC verbessert eLearning-Plattform OpenCourseWorld", 4 December 2013
In 2014, the IT Journal CHIP placed OpenCourseWorld under the three best MOOCS platforms in the German speaking world together with Coursera and iversity.Matthies, Laura in Chip: MOOC-Plattform: Die 3 besten Anbieter, 3 May 2014
2013, the company moved with 170 employees in the new building of the Scheer towers on the University campus North of the University of the Saarland. Other locations are Munich, Freiburg, Essen, Graz (Austria), Zürich (Switzerland), Sibiu (Romania), London (United Kingdom), Singapore and Melbourne (Australia).
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