SIIA Announces CODiE™ Award Winners for Education Technology Industry

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SIIA Announces CODiE™ Award Winners for Education Technology Industry
29 Innovative Products Recognized for Industry Excellence

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 8, 2012) The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, announced the winners of the 2012 CODiE Awards in education technology during SIIA’s annual Ed Tech Industry Summit. Overall, 29 winners were recognized for their products and services deployed specifically for the education technology market.

All of the education technology nominated products and services were first reviewed by a group of tech-savvy educators from across the nation, whose evaluations determined 128 finalists. SIIA members then reviewed these finalists and voted to select 29 CODiE Award winners, listed here by category, company, and product/service:

Best Classroom Management System:
Wowzers, Wowzers

Best Corporate Learning/Workforce Development Solution:
G-Cube Solutions, DBS Bank - Induction Program

Best Cross-Curricular Solution:
Gaggle, Gaggle

Best Education Community Solution:
ClassLink, Inc., ClassLink LaunchPad Virtual Desktop

Best Education Game or Simulation (tie):
Smarty Ants, Inc. Smarty Ants
Sokikom, Sokikom

Best Education Reference Solution:
ABC-CLIO, World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy

Best Educational Use of a Device-Specific Application:
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., Everyday Mathematics - ePlanner Deluxe with ePresentations and eToolkit

Best Educational Use of a Mobile Device:
BrainPOP, BrainPOP Featured Movie App

Best Instructional Solution for Special Needs Students:
Rethink Autism, Inc., Rethink Autism Website

Best Instructional Solution in Other Curriculum Areas
Learning.com, Digital Literacy Solution

Best K-12 Course or Learning Management Solution
McGraw-Hill Education, Networks: A Social Studies Learning System

Best K-12 Enterprise Solution:
My Learning Plan Inc., MyLearningPlan Enterprise Solution

Best K-12 Instructional Solution:
ExploreLearning.com, ExploreLearning Reflex

Best Mathematics Instructional Solution:
Apangea Learning, Inc., Apangea Math

Best Postsecondary Course or Learning Management System:
Blackboard Inc., Blackboard Learn, Release 9.1, Service Pack 6

Best Postsecondary Enterprise Solution
McGraw-Hill, Tegrity Campus (Lecture Capture Service)

Best Postsecondary Instructional Solution
Pearson, CourseConnect

Best Professional Learning Solution for Education:
School Improvement Network, PD 360 (version 5.0)

Best Reading/English Instructional Solution:
ePALS, Inc., In2Books

Best Science/Health Instructional Solution:
Discovery Education, Discovery Education Science Techbook

Best Social Sciences Instructional Solution:
TCI, TCI

Best Student Assessment Solution:
Archipelago Learning, Study Island Version 5.0

Best Virtual School Solution for Students:
Adaptive Curriculum, Adaptive Curriculum

Three top winners were also chosen during the awards ceremony:

Best K-12 Solution:
Wowzers, Wowzers

Best Postsecondary Solution:
McGraw-Hill, Tegrity Campus (Lecture Capture Service)

Best Education Solution (three-way tie):
BrainPOP, BrainPOP Featured Movie App
Learning.com, Digital Literacy Solution
Discovery Education, Discovery Education Science Techbook

“This year’s winners reflect excellence and vision, and it was particularly exciting to see so much growth in our mobile and education gaming categories this year,” noted SIIA Vice President for the Education Division, Karen Billings. “I’m proud to congratulate these companies on their applications, products and services, and I look forward to seeing the impact they have on the K-12 and postsecondary markets.”

For more information about the CODiE Awards, visit http://www.siia.net/codies/2012

About SIIA
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education, and intellectual property protection to more than 500 leading software and information companies. The SIIA Education Division serves and represents more than 180 member companies that provide software, digital content and other technologies that address educational needs. The Division shapes and supports the industry by providing leadership, advocacy, business development opportunities and critical market information. For more information, visit www.siia.net/education.

About the CODiE™ Awards
The CODiE™ Awards, originally called the Excellence in Software Awards, were established in 1986 by the Software Publishers Association (SPA), now the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), so that pioneers of the then-nascent software industry could evaluate and honor each other’s work. Since then, the CODiE Awards program has carried out the same purpose – to showcase the software and information industry’s finest products and services and to honor excellence in corporate achievement.