We are delighted to announce that Learnosity have been shortlisted for the prestigious e-Learning Awards in three categories.
In the region of 250 entries from all over the world were submitted to organisers, e-Learning Age Magazine.
With such high levels of entries, making it onto the shortlist is a great achievement. We are proud to have made the shortlist in 3 categories:
E-Learning Development Company of the Year
Best Distance Learning Project – Open University and Learnosity
Best Use of Mobile Learning
Learnosity have been lucky to win an e-Learning Award for the two past years in the categories Best Use of Mobile Learning and Most Innovative New Product or E-Learning Tool. We are really hoping to continue the winning streak for a third year.
Winners will be announced at a Gala Evening in London on November 10th.
The New Year got off to a great start when we learned that Learnosity Voice has been shortlisted for a prestigious Digital Media Award in the category Best in e-Learning.
The high profile Irish awards were first launched in 2003 to honour individuals and organizations who have achieved excellence in the digital sector. This year the expert panel of judges reviewed a record number of entries across the 20 categories. The winners will be announced at a gala ceremony in the Convention Centre Dublin on 11th February. The host for the evening will be Mark Little the well known Irish journalist, television presenter, author and social media visionary.
We are really thrilled to be a finalist and will keep our fingers crossed until the results are announced.
On November 11th, we were delighted to win a prestigious e-Learning Award for the second year running. In a glittering London ceremony CEO Gavin Cooney accepted the award for the Best Use of Mobile Learning.
The high profile awards are organised by e-Learning Age Magazine and represent the very best of the e-Learning industry. Competition was tougher than ever this year and we were delighted to be shortlisted in the Best Use of Mobile Learning category. Read more about the awards.
The judges praised the ways in which Learnosity have used mobile technologies so effectively to improve learner acceptance and engagement.
We are very proud of this award as it recognises our hard work and dedication in delivering the very best mobile learning solutions.
Judges Comments
“Learnosity Voice is a language learning and assessment tool that fits both subject and audience. Students using it to learn a foreign language just need a mobile phone and a computer. For homework, they phone the system, enter their PIN, and answer questions. The completed sessions are available for the teacher to review; students can also view the sessions online. Students feel empowered and more engaged. They enjoy the privacy and freedom of practising oral and conversational skills outside the classroom, gaining a level of confidence that impresses teachers, who can spend more class time on cultural and grammatical objectives. Learnosity is to be congratulated on a truly fit for purpose solution that can be deployed by thousands of learners worldwide via mobile phone, iPhone and iPod.”
Learnosity has partnered with the NCCA to deliver the FÓN project and the two other projects that were part of the same initiative. On July 8th, the NCCA were honoured with a prestigious Taoiseach’s Excellence in Public Service Award at a ceremony in Dublin Castle.
The Irish Times article remarks that mobile phones are normally seem as the enemy of traditional classroom learning but in the case of FÓN they became very much an ally.
" We matched the most desirable technology – mobile phones – with the least desirable subject – Irish – to improve student motivation. This also proved useful as a teaching, learning and assessment tool. " Anne Looney, CEO NCCA.
The junior certificate level students on the FÓN project used Learnosity Voice to do spoken homework, build their vocabulary by getting new words by text message and chat directly to other students in Irish. With all of their work being recorded, teachers and students could review the work online, identify any weaknesses and address them together.
Learnosity Voice is the solution behind all 3 phases of the initiative: MALL in 2007, FÓN in 2008 to 2009 and most recently in a project that focused on a more formal spoken assessment environment.
The benefits of FÓN are many, and some in particular were recounted by John Hammond, deputy CEO of the NCCA, when he referred to improvements in autonomous learning, opportunities for students from different schools to chat in Irish on the phone using Learnosity Voice and the way in which the project brought Irish to life for students.
" It has also been marvellous to see the change in students involved. By the end of the year, they were having quite relaxed conversations in Irish with each other." John Hammond, Deputy CEO NCCA.
We congratulate the NCCA on their recent award and look forward to many more successful partnerships together.
Dublin Castle played host to the 2010 Taoiseach's Public Service Excellence Awards ceremony on July 8th. We were proud to see our Irish government customers, the NCCA, receive this prestigious accolade for their work on the FÓN Project. Learnosity were delighted to partner with the NCCA for all phases of the project.
"The Awards recognise best practice in projects and initiatives that have enhanced the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of administration and delivery of public services." An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, July 8th 2010.
The evolution of the Public Service is high on the agenda of the current Irish government. The Taoiseach has gone as far as appointing a Minister of State with Special Responsibility for Public Service Transformation. The strategic emphasis on innovation, improved efficiencies and cost savings were all key themes recognised in this year's awards.
Learnosity CEO, Gavin Cooney, with Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Brian Cowan at the Taoiseach's Public Service Excellence Awards 2010.
The Taoiseach's Public Service Excellence Awards take place every two years. This year attracted 208 entries that were reviewed by a judging panel chaired by well known broadcaster and successful businessman David Harvey. There were 20 eventual winners from the sizeable original entry. The winners were diverse and ranged from the FÓN project to improvements in process for jobseekers, cost savings for local authorities in the Midlands, systems that have reduced youth crime levels, improvements in communication processes for families with disabled children and many more worthy recipients.
We were thrilled to see that for the second consecutive year Learnosity has been shortlisted for a prestigious E-Learning Award in the category Best Use of Mobile Learning.
We’re told by the organiser e.learning age, that competition was tougher than ever this year with over 200 entries vying for just 16 awards.
In 2009 Learnosity was nominated in two categories, Most Innovative New Product or Tool in E-learning and Best Use of Mobile Learning.
We were delighted then to win the 2009 Gold E-Learning Award in the category Most Innovative New Product or Tool in E-learning.
We’re keeping our fingers crossed until 11 November when the winners will be announced during a glitzy Awards evening at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square.
On Friday 12th November, I was thrilled to pick up a coveted Gold award at the e-Learning Age awards held in the Sheraton Park Lane Hotel in London.
The awards, run by e-Learning Age Magazine, are seen as one of the most prestigious awards in the learning industry. They showcase the very best examples of work in the field, with winners representing everything from blue-chip multinationals to specialist start-up companies. There was almost 200 entries from 15 different countries, and so we were delighted to be shortlisted in two categories: Best Use of Mobile Learning and Most Innovative New Product or Tool in E-learning.
With so many entries, this is the most competitive year in the history of the awards. With standards so high, some categories have bronze, silver and gold awards for the first time. Learnosity was delighted to win a Gold award for Learnosity Voice in the Most Innovative New Product or Tool in E-learning category. Read more about it in the cover story of this month's edition of E-Learning Age Magazine.
Judges Comments
Implementing new technology in a school typically involves massive amounts of time, effort, and money, but the judges picked out Learnosity Voice as an impressive exception. All that students learning a foreign language require with Learnosity Voice is a mobile phone and a computer. For homework, they simply phone the system, enter their PIN, and answer questions posed to them. Completed sessions are then available for the teacher to review and students can also view the sessions online. Students feel empowered and more engaged in the classroom. They enjoy the privacy and freedom of practising oral and conversational skills outside the classroom, and gain a level of confidence that impresses teachers, who can spend more class time on cultural and grammatical objectives.
There was 200 nominees, with 36 finalists chosen from a panel of 8 Independent cross-sector judges. There was then over 4000 public votes to decide the winners. Many thanks to everyone who voted, and to the Learning Without Frontiers team who put on an excellent show and conference.
The awards were presented by well known TV presenter Jason Bradbury. The whole event was captured on video. If I had known it was being filmed, I might have said a few more words!
With oral language fluency of the utmost importance to secondary language acquisition, Learnosity Voice focusses on verbal abilities, allowing students to use any phone to dial into a voice application, and answer a series of voice-based questions. It also enables students to communicate one-to-one in real time, allowing them to use the target language in role-plays based on real life scenarios.
Learnosity Voice allows students use their own mobiles to access the application. We chose to use mobile phones for the following reasons:
Phones are built for speaking and listening.
There is no learning curve, technical support, installation etc. It just works.
Almost every single student will already have a mobile phone.
Students then use a computer or iPod Touch to get teacher feedback on their answers and listen to sample answers. This mobile language learning platform has been deployed projects in the UK, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, USA and Australia. Notably, it has been deployed in a large scale pilot project conducted by the Australian government, in the teaching and learning of the Indonesian language across three Australian states. Students involved in this project showed significant improvements in spoken language abilities. More
