Unisfair and Medco Sweeps Brandon Hall Learning Award for Excellence in the “Best Use of Virtual Worlds for Learning” Category
Unisfair and Medco Health Solutions Inc. (NYSE: MHS), a leading pharmacy benefit manager, swept the “Best Use of Virtual Worlds for Learning” category and won the prestigious Brandon Hall Learning Award, beating over 200 other programs. Unisfair and Medco were recognized for breaking new ground with virtual training events.
“We are honored to be recognized with the prestigious Brandon Hall Learning Award,” said Hoang Vuong, CEO of Unisfair. “We’re proud to share this recognition with Medco, who has truly set the bar in hosting an engaging and cost-effective virtual training event.”
The Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards program is in its 16th year of recognizing the best in innovative learning content, technology, and initiatives in workplace learning. This year’s entries included 214 submissions and the entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent senior judges.
The award recognizes a fully interactive 5-day virtual training event held in Unisfair’s Virtual Classroom in 2009, which replaced Medco Health Solutions’ traditional sales training. This virtual training event won for serving more than 800 people for 5 days, delivering combination of online learning, live chat, discussion forums, immersive booths and downloadable collateral, and saving Medco more than one million dollars without sacrificing effectiveness.
“These winning entries are very impressive,” said Brandon Hall, Ph.D., chairman of the Awards program. “We are thrilled to recognize innovative learning of such high quality.”
In addition to higher attendee satisfaction, companies leveraging the Unisfair Virtual Classroom have reported a 95 percent reduction in training costs, with the average cost per attendee going from $2,000 and more to under $100. By replacing traditional training with a virtual classroom, companies are able to save millions of dollars without sacrificing effectiveness.
The Unisfair Virtual Classroom provides trainers a great opportunity to teach in a motivating environment and monitor learning process. Other features of the Unisfair Virtual Classroom include:
This marks the fourth award Unisfair has been recognized in 2010. Unisfair has also been recognized with three prestigious awards in 2010: the AlwaysOn OnMedia 100, the AlwaysOn Global 250 and the Beagle Research Sustainability Award.
“We are honored to be recognized with the prestigious Brandon Hall Learning Award,” said Hoang Vuong, CEO of Unisfair. “We’re proud to share this recognition with Medco, who has truly set the bar in hosting an engaging and cost-effective virtual training event.”
The Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Awards program is in its 16th year of recognizing the best in innovative learning content, technology, and initiatives in workplace learning. This year’s entries included 214 submissions and the entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent senior judges.
The award recognizes a fully interactive 5-day virtual training event held in Unisfair’s Virtual Classroom in 2009, which replaced Medco Health Solutions’ traditional sales training. This virtual training event won for serving more than 800 people for 5 days, delivering combination of online learning, live chat, discussion forums, immersive booths and downloadable collateral, and saving Medco more than one million dollars without sacrificing effectiveness.
“These winning entries are very impressive,” said Brandon Hall, Ph.D., chairman of the Awards program. “We are thrilled to recognize innovative learning of such high quality.”
In addition to higher attendee satisfaction, companies leveraging the Unisfair Virtual Classroom have reported a 95 percent reduction in training costs, with the average cost per attendee going from $2,000 and more to under $100. By replacing traditional training with a virtual classroom, companies are able to save millions of dollars without sacrificing effectiveness.
The Unisfair Virtual Classroom provides trainers a great opportunity to teach in a motivating environment and monitor learning process. Other features of the Unisfair Virtual Classroom include:
- A suite of interactive communications tools such as video, audio, text, slides, blogs, instant messaging and Skype-enabled voice and video chat.
- The rich, fully customizable learning environment makes participants feel as if they’re right in a classroom.
- An agenda builder lets attendees easily build their own class schedules.
- Live chat translation helps bridge language barriers by enabling discussion in 50 different languages.
- Networking capabilities allow attendees to easily connect with others using interest matching tools, creating interest groups and share information.
- Report on attendees’ interactions and rank them with Unisfair Engagement Index
This marks the fourth award Unisfair has been recognized in 2010. Unisfair has also been recognized with three prestigious awards in 2010: the AlwaysOn OnMedia 100, the AlwaysOn Global 250 and the Beagle Research Sustainability Award.
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