EQUELLA from Pearson Wins 2014 Software & Information Industry Association CODiE Award

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May 15, 2014, 13:25 ET

New York (PRWEB) May 15, 2014 -- EQUELLA from Pearson is the winner of a 2014 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Award. Honored in the Best Campus Academic Management Solution Award category, EQUELLA is a digital repository that offers institutions a single system for managing, storing, and providing shared access to valuable teaching and learning, research, media and library content.

Established in 1986, the CODiE Awards honor outstanding achievement across the software, digital information and education technology industries. Award winners are selected by a combination of educator judges who carefully review each nomination to determine finalists and SIIA member-companies who vote for the winner.

“Colleges, universities, school districts and libraries have a wealth of valuable digital resources and EQUELLA helps them manage and access this content quickly and easily,” said Peter Van Tienen, vice president, repository solutions and strategy, Pearson EQUELLA. “Providing the education community with solutions that meet real world challenges and improve learner outcomes is at the core of Pearson’s mission. It is an honor to earn this prestigious award from the ed-tech industry.”

EQUELLA is currently in use in a wide range of schools, districts, universities, community colleges, state systems and departments of education, government agencies, not-for-profit organizations and corporations worldwide. It has been deployed for copyright resource collections, research materials, management and exposure of materials through websites and portals, content authoring, workflow, institutional policy, document management and a variety of customized services.

By centralizing search and access of learning content into a single repository, EQUELLA provides a variety of benefits, including:

  • Access to internal and external content
  • Powerful search capabilities
  • Integration with multiple learning management systems
  • Anywhere, anytime access for multiple users
  • Course authoring and sharing made easy
  • Customization and alignment with the institutional/organizational brand

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Contact:
Stacy Skelly, stacy.skelly(at)pearson(dot)com, or (800) 745-8489

Stacy Skelly, Pearson, http://www.pearson.com, +1 (800) 745-8489, [email protected]