Caspian Learning’s Thinking Worlds Wins LearnTrends Award for Innovation in Learning
The second Corporate Learning and Innovations Conference (or LearnTrends for short) came to a close on 20th November 2009 and it was Caspian Learning’s Thinking Worlds authoring tool that took home the award for Innovation in Learning. The Conference took place over 4 days in a series of online sessions as part of an effort to bring together people who look at different aspects of learning and knowledge work from around the world. The theme for the conference was Convergence in Workplace Learning and as part of the conference; an awards ceremony was held which highlighted some of this year’s most innovative tools for corporate learning.
The awards were judged by author and ex CEO of eLearning Forum, Jay Cross, CEO of TechEmpower and e-learning technologist Dr. Tony Karrer and associate director of R&D at the Learning Technologies Centre in the University of Manitoba and founder of Complexive Systems inc., George Siemens.
The conference was all about getting together interesting people who bring with them different perspectives and meaningful conversations around innovation in workplace learning. Over a thousand people signed up to the event and there was at least a hundred in each session.
Whilst presenting the award to Thinking Worlds, Jay Cross said that the tool was “really exciting and just wonderful,” and George Siemens outlined the authoring tool’s simplicity of use and ability to create 3d immersive simulations for low cost and in a short timeframe as reasons why the tool was so interesting and deserving of an award for innovation.
