HOUSTON (November 11, 2005) – Questia Media Inc., the world's largest online academic library and research service, has won Technology & Learning magazine's 2005 Award of Excellence program for the Questia Classroom. The prestigious 23-year-old program honors software and Web products for innovative initiatives and superiority over similar products within the industry.
More than 30 educators, who spent countless hours at computer labs in the San Francisco Bay Area school district and tested more than 130 entries, judged the winners for the 2005 competition. This is Questia's first time to receive this honor.
The Questia Classroom is a resource to help teachers develop, organize, and assign reading lists and lesson plans. With the Questia Classroom, teachers have the ability to create assignments, attach assignments to specific classes, view a student's activities, and create resource lists from Questia's online digital library. Questia's growing collection includes more than 60,000 full-text books and more than one million journal, magazine, and newspaper articles for academic research.
“We are privileged to be included among this exceptional group of forward thinking technology products,” said Troy Williams, president and CEO of Questia Media. “This recognition is a testament to our quality of service and level of commitment by the entire Questia team.”
About Technology & Learning
Technology & Learning (www.techlearning.com), published by CMP Media LLC, San Francisco, Calif., is the number one publication in the K-12 educational technology market. In 2002, Technology & Learning was recognized for its commitment to excellence, receiving several of the industry's top media accolades, including a Maggie Award for Best How-To Article. In 2003, the magazine received two Distinguished Achievement Awards from the Association of Educational Publishers.About Questia
Questia Media, Inc. provides the world's largest online academic library and research resource. Students, instructors, and lifelong learners in more than 190 countries use Questia's collection of full-text, copyrighted books and articles for scholarly research.
A digital toolkit enables researchers to highlight text, properly cite passages, and automatically generate bibliographies and footnotes. In addition, Questia provides a personalized workspace for each user, complete with an individual bookshelf and reference resources. Designed for use by educators and students to enhance curricula, the Questia service also includes the Questia Classroom, a teacher/student resource center that integrates the digital library content into class instruction.
Questia's unlimited, 24/7 access allows researchers to simultaneously use every item in its online, scholarly library from any connected corner of the world.
Founded in 1998, Questia Media is based in Houston. For more information, visit http://www.questia.com/.