“eLearning is a billion dollar industry” announced Marc Niemes, the President of the Association, “and it deserves recognition as such. This Gala dinner is all about that…and about time too!” This was a point that Marc made clearly at the eLearning Excellence Awards Gala Dinner at the Hilton last month.
Over 120 people attended what was a most successful evening. Representatives from the Victorian government (Education and Multimedia), the industry and its clients and friends of the industry heard Evan Thornley, the Parliamentary Secretary with responsibility for innovation (among other things) outline the place of eLearning in the Victorian economy and the scope for its future. He saw it as capitalising well on Victoria’s strengths of education and IT.
But the purpose of the Awards was also to recognise excellence and achievement in delivering eLearning. The Association congratulates all who submitted projects for judging and especially the short-listed nominees and the eventual winners.
The winners are:
- Curriculum Corporation for My Money Starter in the eLearning K-12 category. This category was sponsored by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development and we thank them for their support.
- Aframe e-ffective Learning for their Tabcorp product in the Corporate eLearning category.
- AMES (Adult Multicultural Education Services) for their All about Allergens primer in the Accredited eLearning (VET sector) category.
- TwoFold Media Pty Ltd for its Violin Bow Technique DVD in the Life Long Learning category.
- The Le@rning Federation for Scootle in the eLearning system category.
- Swinburne University of Technology for its Mission H2O for the President’s Award sponsored by SumTotal (whom we also thank for their sponsorship support).
Chad Outten said
Intersting blog. Some worthy award winners. It’s been remarkable to see e-learning grow to become such a major industry!