eLearning XHTML editor, eXe, wins People's Choice award

The New Zealand-developed web editor may have missed out on the big awards at a major US education conference this year, but it ran away with the now-compulsory “People’s Choice” gong.   The eLearning XHTML editor (eXe), a tool for developing educational content for websites without the need to know web languages, was vying with other technologies at the Learning Impact conference in Austin, Texas. eXe won a consolation “learning impact leadership award” at the conference but also ran away with the People’s Choice award.

The eXe software is an environment for authoring web-based e-learning content and is freely available for Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. It has been downloaded thousands of times and is available in more than two dozen language translations.

It has been adopted by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science’s “Open Source and Standards in Education” software distribution and was also named as one of the top 100 tools for learning in 2007 compiled by the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies in the UK.

In addition to its awards, the application also performed exceptionally well in a live test of how well software complied with the Common Cartridge specification, developed by standards consortium IMS Global. The Common Cartridge defines a commonly supported content format, able to run on any compliant Learning Management System (LMS) platform.

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