The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, announced on March 31 the 157 finalists in Education categories for the 2015 SIIA CODiE Awards.
Practice Spanish: Study Abroad
(please find also Serious Games Providing Real-World Spanish Language Practice), developed by Muzzy Lane Software in partnership with
McGraw-Hill Education, has been named a finalist in three categories:
Best
ELL/World Language Acquisition Instructional Solution
Best
Game-based Curriculum Solution
Best
Postsecondary Personalized Learning Solution
Practice
Spanish places college students in a fictional town in Colombia where they
interact with local residents and complete quests using the native language.
"We're
grateful for the recognition and delighted that McGraw-Hill asked us to apply
our design and development skills to help their talented team bring this
product to market," said Bert Snow, vice president of design at Muzzy
Lane.
"Personalized
learning in its many forms, including games and data-driven instruction,
represents one of the best tools we have to make learning more engaging and
effective," said Michael Ryan, vice president of products at McGraw-Hill
Education's Higher Ed group. "With McGraw-Hill Practice games like
Practice Spanish and Practice Marketing, we've tapped into the way today's
students learn most successfully in order to create more immersive experiences
that improve results."
Member voting for the 2015
CODiE Awards is now open!
SIIA
members review and vote for CODiE nominees from April 3 until April 10,
2015. Member voting is the second round of the CODiE Award review process and
primary contacts from SIIA member companies are invited to review the products
and vote on what they believe is the best product in each category.
Only active
SIIA Members may vote in the second round and Member companies are provided one
vote per company in each category within their designated interest area.
Unlike the
first round, the second round of the CODiE Awards is not an intensive
product review, because SIIA Members are invited to vote in multiple categories
over a shorter timeframe.