“The Codie awards, established by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) to showcase what it considers the best software products and services that were introduced last year, announced its list of finalists last week. The finalists in categories associated with higher education were:
Best Postsecondary Education Instructional Solution:
. ALEKS, from ALEKS Corp. / McGraw-Hill Higher Education
. Advanced Listening, from DynEd International, Inc.
Sanako Lounge, from Sanako Corp.
EndNote, from Thomson ISI ResearchSoft
. Reel Society, from WILL Interactive, Inc./ McGraw Hill – Higher Education
Best Education Administration Solution:
. e*Assessment, from Harcourt Supplemental
Publishers / Wireless Generation
. GPS smartPortal, from iAssessment, LLC
. Maple T.A., from Maplesoft / Brownstone
Research Group, Inc.
. PowerSchool 3.6, from PowerSchool / Apple
. SCT Banner, from SCT
Best Educational Special Needs Solution
. Kurzweil 3000, from Kurzweil Educational Systems
. LearnStar SC-from ESL Module, LearnStar Inc
. deafplanet.com, from marblemedia
. NEARStar, from Pacific Resources for Education
and Learning
. TIENET, from TIECorp
Best Educational Total Comprehensive Solution
. Blackboard Learning System, from Blackboard Inc.
. Discourse, from Educational Testing Service (ETS)
. Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators,
from ESRI Press
. The Achievement Planner, from Kaplan K12 Learning
Services
. Yearly ProgressPro, from McGraw-Hill Digital
Learning”
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