Announcing the 2013 Learning Awards winners
London (UK), February 2013 - The learning community's top organisations and outstanding individuals gathered in London to celebrate the seventeenth annual Learning Awards. The Popular BBC Breakfast host Susanna Reid hosted the event which took place at the five-star Dorchester Hotel, on London's Park Lane. The ceremony was filled with international figureheads from the global learning community, who joined the awards finalists to celebrate outstanding success across fourteen award categories.
The standout categories included Learning Company of the Year, which was won by The Mind Gym. The category for Learning Department of the Year, which was dominated by a host of household names including McDonald's Restaurants, Legal & General, and Ernst & Young, was won by First Data.
This year's Colin Corder Award for services to learning was presented to Jane Hart. Jane is renowned for her commitment to the learning profession and in particular for helping the sector embrace new tools and models for learning.
The complete list of recipients of the seventeenth annual Awards
Apprenticeship Programme of the Year (sponsored by OCR)
Winner: QA
External Learning Project of the Year (sponsored by RICOH)
Winner: Toolwire & Leeds Metropolitan University
Learning Technologies Solution of the Year (sponsored by Microsoft Learning)
Winner: LearningAge Solutions
Live Online Learning Facilitator of the Year (sponsored by Saba)
Winner: Lorna Matty, Crown Agents
Innovation in Training Services Award (sponsored by Afiniti)
Winner: SpeakingPal
Instructional Designer of the Year (sponsored by Toolwire)
Winner: Moira Nicolson, Saffron Interactive
Internal Learning Project of the Year (sponsored by QA)
Winner: National Express Bus
Social Media Programme of the Year (sponsored by Blue Eskimo)
Winner: QA
Staff Development Programme of the Year (sponsored by The Learning and Performance Institute)
Winner: Market Makers
Learning Company of the Year (Sponsored by Prometric)
Winner: The Mind Gym
Learning Department of the Year (Sponsored by KnowledgeAdvisors)
Winner: First Data
Trainer of the Year (Sponsored by BCS)
Winner: Sadi Khan, Nobel Khan
Learning Manager of the Year (sponsored by SAS)
Winner: Ashley Sterland, DLA Piper UK LLP
The Colin Corder Award (sponsored by Cisco)
Winner: Jane Hart
