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Congratulations to Learning! 100 Award Winners
Top 100 Learning Organizations Named in Second Annual Awards Program

Elearning! Media Group (EMG), publishers of Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines, announced the Learning! 100 Award recipients at the Enterprise Learning! Summit March 20th, 2012.

The Learning! 100 Award recognizes 60 corporate and 40 public sector organizations for outstanding learning culture, innovation or collaboration that drives performance. Honorees cut across all industries and organization sizes, from 5 to 1.6 million employees.

Read more about the Learning! 100 Award winners >>


Latest News

• The Defense Department to Expand Its Use of Mobile Devices
The Defense Department is approving the broader use of smartphones and tablet computers for unclassified uses, including training, information sharing and development... >>

• New FCC Rules would Make Mobile Devices Work on Multiple Networks
In order to free up existing bandwidth, federal regulators are considering new guidelines that would require smartphones and tablets to be operable across several different blocks of spectrums... >>

• Putting Skype in Every Classroom
The popular communications company Skype is partnering with the non-profit DonorsChoose.org to provide thousands of teachers with the resources to use Skype in their classrooms... >>


Deals

• Phoenix Audio Technology Helps Scientists Hear Each Other
Phoenix Audio Technologies is partnering Caltech to improve the system that facilitates these needs for one of its scientific research teams... >>

• New Game Development Scholarship Launched
As game-based training becomes increasingly popular, the demand for talent to build such games is rising... >>

• A New Online Teaching Certificate Program for West Virginia K-12 Teachers

American Public University System is collaborating with the West Virginia Department of Education to create an online teaching endorsement and certificate program for West Virginia K-12 teachers... >>

New Products

• TOOLS: Vortex 5.1 includes new Vortex Editor
CM Labs, creator of computer simulations designed for training on mechanical systems, has just released a new version of its Vortex software... >>

• CONTENT: NATO Releases Military Simulation Game App 
NATO commissioned a game designed to improve the effectiveness of personnel during Maritime Interdiction Operations... >>

• WEB 2.0: SkillSoft Adds Social Learning to SkillSoft Leadership Advantage
SkillSoft Leadership Advantage is designed to enhance skills development for individuals in leadership positions in large and medium-sized organizationss... >>


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Second Life Remains Most Popular Platform
Educators want to be able to easily create 3-D training exercises themselves without needing the help of technologists or expert knowledge of how to build the "sets" in their chosen virtual world, according to a recent survey.

Though 47 percent of the respondents were from education, 19 percent were from the corporate sector. Second Life is the most popular platform with 39 percent respondents using it. OpenSim and Unity trail. 

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TABLE OF CONTENT
• Congratulations to Learning! 100 Award Winners
• The Defense Department to Expand Its Use of Mobile Devices
• New FCC Rules would Make Mobile Devices Work on Multiple Networks
• Putting Skype in Every Classroom
• TOOLS: Vortex 5.1 includes new Vortex Editor
• CONTENT: NATO Releases Military Simulation Game App
• Phoenix Audio Technology Helps Scientists Hear Each Other
• New Game Development Scholarship Launched
• Second Life Remains Most Popular Platform

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