Comenius EduMedia awards event 2019
Extract from the IB&M – Institute for Education and Media press release from 27 June 2019
This year’s Comenius-EduMedia seals and medals were awarded for the 24th time today in Berlin. The Gesellschaft für Pädagogik, Information und Medien e. V. (GPI) has been honouring outstanding digital educational media for work, education, school, culture and leisure since 1995.
In the wake of digitalisation with mobile and just-in-time learning, interest in the Comenius Award continued unabated in 2019. Over 200 manufacturers, publishers, projects and authors from 14 countries from Iceland to Cyprus submitted digital educational products to undergo a manufacturer-neutral quality check. After all, digital educational media must also be designed and realised according to classic didactic principles. The GPI fulfils this requirement with the Comenius EduMedia Awards.
At the invitation of GPI e. V., over 200 guests attended the awards ceremony, which this year took place at the Chamäleon Theatre in the historic Hackesche Höfe in Berlin. After an introductory speech by Prof. Dr Christoph Klimmt from the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media on the psychology of gamification, the awards were presented in the four categories of didactic multimedia products, general multimedia products, teaching and learning management systems and computer games with skills-enhancing potential on the basis of the GPI‘s IB&M quality criteria (www.comenius-award.de).
Our software Learn Reading the right way Exercice Edition was awarded a Comenius EduMedia Siegel during the event.