Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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Elearning! December 2015 / January 2016 27 BY JERRY ROCHE AND CATHERINE UPTON Te 2015 "Best of Elearning!" awards honor best-in-class solutions across the learning and technology marketplace. Celebrating their 11th year, the awards received more nominations for more brands in more categories than ever. Best of Elearning! awards are the indus- try's exclusive users'-choice awards. All nominations are made directly by users of solutions. More than 4,000 nominations were received in 2015. "Given the number of nominations, to make the list in 2015 is quite an honor," says Catherine Upton, Elearning! Media Group's publisher. "Tere is no better honor than to be nominated by users and customers of these best-in-class solutions." Te Best of Elearning! awards program was frst implemented to formalize the rec- ommendation and purchase process for the e-learning community. Research indicated 85 percent of readers had recommended an e-learning solution to a peer over the most recent 12-month period, and 61 percent claimed that award recognition "impacts their decision" to consider a product or service. Te "Best of E-learning!" program formalizes this referral process. BIG WINNERS Multiple winners this year are BizLibrary (three), ej4 (three) and Adobe (two). Repeat winners from last year are: >> Skillsof Leadership Development Training in the Leadership Develop- ment category, >> Cornerstone OnDemand Unifed Talent Management in the TMS category, >> Inxpo Online Learning Environment in the Virtual Learning Environment cat- egory, >> ej4 Business Skills Library in the Sof Skills Content category, >> mLevel's Game-Based Learning Plat- form in the Gamifcation category, >> Vubiz Compliance Training in the Compliance Training category, and >> Adobe Captivate in the Mobile Author- ing category this year and the Best Simulation category last year. BEST OF THE BEST An exclusive handful of organizations have won Best of Elearning! (best-in-class solu- tion) and Learning! 100 honors (top global learning organization). Tese honorees are: Skillsof; Cisco; SuccessFactors, an SAP Company; Inxpo; IBM; Adobe; and Oracle. ABOUT THE VOTING PROCESS Elearning! Media Group community mem- bers, readers, subscribers and online visi- tors were invited to nominate their solution provider via an online ballot during June 1 to October 15, 2015. Te ballot was open- ended with 30 categories stipulated. At close, the ballots were reviewed. Duplicates were removed, vendor ballots were nul- lifed as well as votes without a verifable company domain address (ex.: gmail, aol, etc.). Editors verifed product types and categories before counting. Te top vote earners in each category were identifed as fnalists. Tose with a 10 percent lead over all other products in a category earned cat- egory winner status. Close vote counts and runner-ups earned Award of Excellence. To learn more, visit www.2elearning.com/ awards/best-of-elearning-awards. AND THE WINNERS ARE…. Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines take great pride in announcing the Best of Elearning! 2015 winners: 'Best of Elearning! ' Awards Honor 100 Top Solutions