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Raptivity Releases the Next Evolve Interaction – Visual Assessment

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Raptivity, the award winning rapid interactivity builder tool from Harbinger Knowledge Products, announces the release of Visual Assessment, the sixth in the series of Raptivity Evolve.
The Visual Assessment interaction allows course creators to present an assessment in many different and interesting ways by incorporating text, images, video and audio. It can be effectively used in both exercise and test modes and can be customized for various scenarios ranging from mini course modules to open book assessments.

“The launch of the Visual Assessment interaction by Raptivity Evolve is yet another feat that we have successfully accomplished towards creating and delivering value to our customers. What makes this interaction unique is the variety in its utility; with one interaction serving multiple purposes, course creators will have ample scope to use it, in line with their respective learning objectives,” said Seema Chaudhary, President, Harbinger Knowledge Products Inc.

To know more about Visual Assessment and see samples of how it can be used in a variety of creative ways, visit http://www.raptivity.com/media-news/334-raptivity-releases-visual-assessment

About Raptivity

Raptivity® is a rapid interactivity builder that allows you to quickly and easily create learning interactions. It has a diverse variety of 180+ interactions to select from. Raptivity helps the educators and trainers to enrich their content with the well-designed interactions from various categories like games& simulations, presentation aids, visual aids, brain teasers, assessments and many more.

Raptivity® is a much awarded product and has been appreciated by various learning bodies. It was recently adjudged the ‘the “Best Rapid eLearning Tool” award at Africa Learning & Development Leadership Awards 2012. It has won LearnX Learning and Technology Impact Awards for Games and Simulations Category. Raptivity has also bagged the 2012 reader’s Choice Award by eschool Media. Along with this, the product was also honored with 18th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIE). For more information, please visit the website www.raptivity.com or contact Harbinger Knowledge Products at 425.861.8400

About Harbinger Knowledge Products

Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development. Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA) and through its partner network worldwide.

For three consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world’s top 100 private technology companies. Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity®, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, please visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.

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Webinar on “First Look at Raptivity with Tin Can Output”

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Interactive webinar with Andy Whitaker from Rustici Software on February 28, 2013

Raptivity, the leading rapid interactivity builder tool, has lived up to its promise and will be releasing Raptivity v7.4 with Tin Can support on February 13, 2013. Raptivity v7.4 will have Tin Can support for its Essential Pack which comprises of 35 interactions.

On the occasion of this launch, Raptivity has organized a webinar featuring guest speaker, Andy Whitaker, Tin Can Strategist from Rustici Software. Andy’s prime responsibility involves helping people understand what Tin Can is all about. In addition to this, he also plays a crucial role in Business Development where he advises and helps people decide the utility of Rustici Software solutions.

In this webinar, Andy will explain what is Tin Can API and how is it different from SCORM, while elaborating on the importance and use of Tin Can in the eLearning space. He will be accompanied by a Raptivity Expert who will introduce Raptivity and showcase some Raptivity interactions with Tin Can support and its benefits in creating a dynamic learning experience.

Webinar Details:
Date: February 28, 2013
Timings: 10:00 am – 10:45 am PST
Join us on February 28, 2013 to know more about the importance of Tin Can API in eLearning and to have a first look at Raptivity v7.4 with Tin Can support.

About Rustici Software

Rustici Software creates products that simplify conforming to learning standards like SCORM and AICC. They create the best SCORM compliance products on the market. They have been solving SCORM problems exclusively since 2002, and are continuing to pave the way for e-learning standards with the Tin Can API.

About Raptivity

Raptivity® is a rapid interactivity builder that allows you to quickly and easily create learning interactions. It has a diverse variety of 180+ interactions to select from. Raptivity helps the educators and trainers to enrich their content with the well-designed interactions from various categories like games& simulations, presentation aids, visual aids, brain teasers, assessments and many more.

Raptivity® is a much awarded product and has been appreciated by various learning bodies. It was recently adjudged the ‘the “Best Rapid eLearning Tool” award at Africa Learning & Development Leadership Awards 2012. It has won LearnX Learning and Technology Impact Awards for Games and Simulations Category. Raptivity has also bagged the 2012 reader’s Choice Award by eSchool Media. Along with this, the product was also honored with 18th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIE). For more information, please visit the website www.raptivity.com or contact Harbinger Knowledge Products at 425 861 8400.

About Harbinger Knowledge Products

Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development. Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA) and through its partner network worldwide.

For three consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world’s top 100 private technology companies. Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity®, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, please visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.

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EducationDynamics Releases 2011-12 eLearning Index; Reveals Compelling Trends in Online Education

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Annual Report Provides Unmatched Insights into Prospective Student Demand for Online Degrees and Opportunities for Growth in Sector

Hoboken, New Jersey, January 25, 2012 – EducationDynamics, higher education’s leading marketing information and technology services company, today released its 2011-12 eLearning Index, complete with five-year trends and analysis. The annual report delivers the most comprehensive review of the online education market currently available, providing unparalleled intelligence to help colleges and universities as they consider entering the market or expanding their catalog of online programs. The index evaluates data from more than 3,400 degree programs offered by more than 200 accredited institutions, and not only reveals the most popular online degrees, but also highlights growth opportunities related to areas of study where prospective student demand is not yet met.

“For more than five years, the eLearning Index has been required reading for colleges and universities as they develop their online program and course offerings,” said Carol Aslanian, Senior Vice President of Aslanian Market Research at EducationDynamics. “This incredible resource takes the guess work out of the online education market, enabling institutions to better determine what program levels, fields of study and majors will serve students best, while also providing ROI.”

EducationDynamics first published the eLearning Index in 2007; since then, several interesting trends have emerged regarding the shape of demand for online programs. Among the findings:

Associate’s level Health Programs have risen from number three to being number one, replacing Business, which has fallen to number two.

Bachelor’s level demand has remained relatively unchanged with Business degrees maintaining the largest percentage of market demand, followed by Humanities, Social Sciences and Health Professions.

MBA and other Business masters degrees have seen the most precipitous decline in demand as a percentage of market-share, dropping from number one to number four.

Education degrees have seen the greatest demand growth, relative to percent of market share, moving from number three in the 2007 report, to number one in 2011.

Doctoral degrees in the field of Education have remained the largest field of study demanded by prospective students. In the same period, degrees in the Health Professions dropped from number two to number four, with Social Science jumping from number four to number two.

The 2011-12 eLearning Index analyzes data collected in 2010 from eLearners.com, an EducationDynamics web resources that connects prospective students with online degree programs. During each quarter of 2010, EducationDynamics examined prospective student interest in more than 3,400 degrees listed on eLearners.com offered by more than 200 colleges and universities of all institutional types and categorized into one of four degree levels (e.g., associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate), across eight fields of study (e.g., education, engineering and science, visual and performing arts, etc.) and 96 majors (e.g., business administration, design, music, etc.).

Three core indices drive the analyses and resulting identification of degrees with high student interest and opportunity for growth: the eLearning Demand Index, eLearning Supply Index and eLearning Growth Index. Each index score provides an evaluation of degree level, field of study and major as it relates to demand, supply and growth in the online education marketplace.

Below are the top-line results of the 2011-12 eLearning Demand Index by degree level:

Rank Associate’s Bachelor’s Master’s Doctorate
1 Health Professions Business Education Education
2 Business Humanities
& Social Sciences Health Professions Humanities
& Social Sciences
3 Humanities Health Professions Humanities
& Social Sciences Business
4 Education Education Business Health Professions
5 Criminal Justice Computer & Criminal Justice Criminal Justice
& Law Information Sciences & Law & Law

EducationDynamics has made an executive summary of the 2011-12 eLearning Index available online; however, to order a complete copy of the report, colleges and universities should contact Carol Aslanian at 201.377.3321 or caslanian@educationdynamics.com.

About EducationDynamics
EducationDynamics is higher education’s leading marketing information and technology services company dedicated to helping institutions find, enroll and retain students. Its content-rich and highly visible education websites, including EarnMyDegree.com, EducationConnection.com, eLearners.com, GradSchools.com, StudyAbroad.com, TestDriveCollege.com, TestDriveGradSchool.com and its special interest microsites, make EducationDynamics the premier provider of qualified prospective students for colleges and universities. In addition, the company offers a full suite of Web-delivered services proven to drive enrollment growth and reduce student attrition, as well as other innovative solutions including LeadWatchLive, its Web-based inquiry management system. Through Aslanian Market Research, the company brings decades of proprietary research, unparalleled market and student intelligence and best practice insights to clients. For more information, visit http://www.educationdynamics.com/.

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New Release of Raptivity Brings Unparalleled Flexibility to Interactivity Design

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Harbinger Knowledge Products today announced the release of a new version of its flagship interactivity building software, Raptivity. The new version 6.5 includes a string of features that enable more flexibility and extensibility for E-Learning course creators to design interactive courses.

The new release sports several exciting features. While some of the incorporated features are ideas derived from customer feedback, others are designed to offer greater flexibility to the interactivity templates. The two core packs, Essential and Zest now come with a new media toolbox, which allows users to add additional media such as videos, images, textbox and buttons to the interactions. eLearning course creators can now incorporate additional media objects within the Raptivity interactions for an enhanced professional look. After releasing mobile publishing in its core Essential Pack last year, this release now extends the feature to five more packs out of the total fourteen packs.

“Flexibility and extensibility have always been vital to E-Learning course creation, right from the early days of CBT [Computer-based Training],” said Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director of the Harbinger Group. “The emergence of new rich media, faster connections, near-ubiquity of laptops, devices and Internet connections has added a new meaning to interactivity in online learning. The new release sets the bar even higher when it comes to flexibility as course creators have novel and easy means to build media rich rapid interactions.”

The new customizability in the six product packs is christened ‘FlexiRaptivity’ in keeping with the theme of flexibility afforded by the new design. Seema Chaudhary, President of Harbinger Knowledge Products, commented, “What is required of a rapid development tool is constantly evolving among the course designer community. Over the last year, we have spoken to numerous customers and evaluated their feedback and request for new features. We are very pleased to announce that many of the new feature additions in this release are a result of these valuable customer suggestions.”

Features that are a direct result of customer feedback include the video support, blank template option, right to left language support, hyperlinking capability and the much awaited ability to support greater text length.

To learn more about Raptivity, visit http://www.raptivity.com.

About Raptivity

With Raptivity, users can create interactivity rapidly and add it conveniently to their e-Learning content. With interactive content, learning experiences become memorable and drop-out levels go down.

Raptivity provides a pre-built library of rapidly-customizable interaction models. These interaction models are based on best practices in instructional design. Users can customize them to create any number of variations. The content published by Raptivity is a single flash file so it fits right into hundreds of e-Learning tools and can be used anywhere. With its patented technology and open architecture, Raptivity is at the forefront of rapid interactivity technology.

Raptivity has won numerous awards in various categories, including the e-Learning Guild Platinum Award for highest user satisfaction in the simulation tools category and LearnX Award for best rapid e-Learning tool. It has also been voted number one by users in various categories usage and usability categories.

For more information on Raptivity, visit http://www.raptivity.com

About Harbinger Knowledge Products

Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development.

For two consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world’s top 100 private technology companies.

Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), San Jose (CA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA), London (UK) and through its partner network worldwide.

Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity, innovative YawnBuster and cutting-edge TeemingPod.

For more information, visit www.harbingerknowledge.com