Best of Elearning! 2015 Finalists Revealed

Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines, the industry voices of the enterprise learning and workforce technology market, announced today the Best of Elearning! Awards 2015 Finalists. Readers and professionals from both the private and public sector cast more than 4,000 nominations for the best-in-class solutions across 30 product categories. Winners of each category will be revealed in Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines in December and honored at the Best of Elearning! Celebration at the Enterprise Learning! Conference.

In its 11^th year, The Best of Elearning! Awards program is the industry gold standard for excellence. The program is a User’s Choice Award whereby learning professionals vote with their ballot for best-in-class solutions. Eighty-five percent of professionals have personally recommended a learning solution to a colleague over the past 12 months and this awards program formalizes this personal recommendation process. Award recognition is important for buyers, as 61 percent agree that award recognition impacts their buying decision, according to Elearning! Media Group’s research.

This year, 100 individual products and solutions are being named as finalists — up from 89 in 2014. “Our industry continues to innovate and evolve. We responded by adding the new categories of for Adaptive/Personalized Learning Platforms, Adaptive/Personalized Learning Content, and Content Aggregations Libraries. We are committed to recognizing innovation and user satisfaction across a diverse group of solution providers,” reports Jerry Roche, editorial director of the Elearning! Media Group.

All 100 brands will be honored for excellence, and the top vote-getter in each category is named the winner. “Each of the 100 brands named will receive an award of excellence or winner honors. Given the high volume of votes and the number of nominated products, every one of these solution providers should be proud to be voted as best-in-class by their customers,” adds Catherine Upton, Group Publisher, Elearning! Media Group.

The Voting Process

Elearning! Media Group readers, practitioners and community members nominate and vote for products and solutions via Elearning! Media Group’s online ballot. All ballots were cast between August 1 and October 15, 2015. Each ballot was reviewed and validated by the editorial team. All vendor ballots were voided.

Best of Elearning! Awards  Programs

Discover what your peers and colleagues say about their solution providers. See who made the cut in 2015. The Best of Elearning! honorees are featured in Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines’ December 2015 editions. “The awards issue is by far the most popular edition of the year. Those seeking world-class solutions go to the Best of Elearning! issue to short-list brands and see what real users say about the solutions,” reports Roche.

New in 2016, The Best of Elearning! Web Seminar Series will host various solutions providers, customers and best practices in this monthly web seminar program. The wider learning community is invited to attend and dialogue with the best-in-class technologists. Watch for blogs, articles and other commentary shared by The Best of Elearning! in 2016.

The Best of Elearning! 2016 Awards Celebration will be hosted at the Enterprise Learning! Conference in June 2016. This industry event offers executives the opportunity to network, share and learn about the best learning options and dialogue directly with technologists and learning leaders, all in one place. Attend Best of Elearning! sessions, hear customer stories and share advice on learning architecture at ELC16  To learn more about The Best of Elearning! events, contact sales@2elearning.com or visit www.2elearning.com/events

The Best of Elearning! Finalists for 2016 are as follows: