Tata Interactive Systems Launches the LEARNow(TM) Learning Design Challenge in Europe

MUMBAI and LONDON, January 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Invites all Learning Designers to Participate

Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has announced the LEARNow^TM Learning Design Challenge (LDC), 2013. The contest, thrown open to learning designers across Europe, begins today and ends on 15^th February, 2013.

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Using TIS's mobile authoring tool, LEARNow™, participants have to create a 5 minute learning nugget on the topic 'How can I get my CEO (even) more interested in training?'

Based on TIS's proprietary FRUN (Fluid Resolution Universal Navigation) technology, the LEARNow™ platform offers authoring and publishing tools to seamlessly deliver content across multiple operating systems and devices like smartphones, tablets and laptops. To win the competition, the content submitted by contestants must look equally splendid on a PC, tablet or a smartphone!

Entries for the LEARNow^TM Learning Design Challenge will be judged by Donald Taylor - Chair, Learning and Skills Group and Learning Technologies Conference. Don will evaluate the entries on below parameters:

• Does the content meet the learning objective?
• Is it suitable for deployment on mobile devices as well as PCs?
• How innovative is the approach?

The winner will be announced on the 4^th of March on the LEARNow^TM website and gets an iPad 4!

A free LEARNow^TM Mobile authoring license is being provided for this competition. To register and download the licence, visit http://www.learnow.com/LDC

About Tata Interactive Systems:

Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) is the world’s leading developer of learning solutions. TIS’s learning solutions are designed to enable organizational initiatives across industry verticals including education; government and defense; telecommunications and ICT; pharmaceuticals and health care; banking, financial services, and insurance; airlines, transportation, logistics, and hospitality; consumer package goods; and manufacturing, energy, and construction.

With a team of over 800 multi-disciplinary specialists, TIS creates 3000+ hours of learning content across 220+ concurrent projects every year. TIS’s solutions have proven their effectiveness at more than 60 Fortune 500 companies, leading educational institutions, and government departments.

TIS is the only learning solutions organization in the world to be assessed at Level 5 in both the SEI-CMM and P-CMM frameworks. Its solutions have won prestigious awards including Brandon Hall, APEX, BETT, and BIMA.

Areas of Business

TIS caters to three segments – corporate, education, and government. It offers clients learning solutions that include:
• Educational multimedia & blended learning
• Web-based training & courseware
• Simulations
• Software solutions
• Game-based learning

The scope of TIS’s learning solutions encompasses on-boarding, sales training, process training, product training, curriculum design, assessments, soft skills training, and technical training.

Location

TIS has development centers in Germany, Switzerland, and India. Its sales and marketing operations span the US, Canada, the UK, mainland Europe, the Middle East, and India.

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SOURCE Tata Interactive Systems, A Div. of Tata Industries Ltd.