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CUNA Utilizes Partnerships with Award-Winning eLearning Resources
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Mark Wolff – CUNA Communications; (202) 508-6764; mwolff@cuna.coop
Amy Nigrelli – CUNA Marketing; (608) 231-4246; anigrelli@cuna.coop
MADISON, Wis. (February 6, 2012) CUNA announced today that three of the vendor resources that CUNA utilizes to enhance their online educational products won 2011 Best of Elearning! awards. Among the 2011 award winners were SumTotal Systems, Adobe Connect Pro and Articulate. More information about the 2011 Best of Elearning! awards can be found on the Elearning! article page. To learn more about CUNA’s suite of online educational resources, visit training.cuna.org.
Hosted by Elearning! Media Group, the industry voice of the enterprise learning and workforce technology market, the Best of Elearning! awards are the online educational industry’s premiere awards event. Winners were selected from over 1750 nominations by Elearning! and Government Elearning! magazines’ reader community and altogether, 56 products across 20 categories were honored with Elearning! awards.
Sum Total Systems won the overall category of Best Talent Management system and received Awards of Excellence in the categories of Best Learning Management System and Best Learning Content Management System. Sum Total Systems’ learning management system oversees all aspects of global education and training by automating and optimizing the administration, management, delivery, and end user experience of blended learning programs. CUNA uses Sum Total Systems’ award winning learning management system in CUNA CPDOnline, its popular web-based training service.
Adobe Connect Pro won the overall category of Best Web Seminar Solution and tied for first place in the category of Best Virtual Classroom. Adobe Connect Pro is a web conferencing solution for web meetings, eLearning and webinars, providing engaging, interactive online experiences and assisting in connecting professionals from around the globe. CUNA uses Adobe Connect Pro’s software to support the CUNA Training Bundle and its unlimited access to CUNA webinars and eSchools.
Articulate won the overall category of Best E-learning Development Tool and Best Assessment Tool and won Awards of Excellence in the categories of Best Rapid Development Tool and Best Presentation Tool. Articulate provides software that allows professionals to quickly and effectively produce employee training and other critical learning materials. CUNA CPDOnline users are able to upload Articluate’s award-winning software to CUNA CPDOnline’s site and train employees with their own content.
“When the vendors CUNA uses win awards for excellence, we celebrate their success as a victory for our suite of online educational products,” said Marlo Foltz, Director of Blended Learning at Credit Union National Association. “At CUNA, we take pride in offering our credit union members access to the top online educational resources available in the industry and are very pleased to see our vendors being recognized for the outstanding work that they do. Best in class technology enables us to provide outstanding resources.”
To learn more about CUNA’s suite of online educational resources, visit training.cuna.org.
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