myON Named SIIA Education CODiE Award Finalist for Best Educational App for a Mobile Device

April 22, 2015 - PRLog -- myON Earns Prestigious Education Industry Recognition for the 3^rd year in a row

myON (http://www.myon.com), a business unit of Capstone and leading provider of personalized literacy solutions to the K-12 marketplace is pleased to announce that myON is a finalist for the 2014 SIIA Education CODiE Awards for the Best Educational App for a Mobile Device.  The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premier award for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing product excellence for 29 years. The awards have over 85 categories and are organized by industry focus of Content, Education, and Software.

This year’s program features 28 Education categories, several of which are new or updated to reflect the latest industry trends and business models. New this year, top awards in three overall Education categories will also be presented. Overall categories include Best PK-12 Solution, Best Postsecondary Solution, and Best Education Solution. All winners will be announced during a special awards dinner at the nation’s leading education technology conference, the Education Industry Summit (http://www.siia.net/eis), in San Francisco on May 5. The announcement will also be live streamed.

myON has created a literacy ecosystem that personalizes the reading experience for every learner (http://www.myon.com) by combining a state-of- the-art learning platform that offers over 8,000 titles, the Lexile® Framework for Reading, digital literacy tools and embedded metrics. myON’s mobile strategy enables reading anytime, anywhere kids want to read, regardless of whether they have an internet connection or not.  myON has a unique mobile offering for it’s readers, allowing them to leverage existing technology; computers, laptops as well as access through five app platforms (iPad, Android, Chromebook, Kindle Fire HD and Amplify) allowing reading any time on any device.   Data collected while a student reads offline is automatically synched the next time the device has a connection.

“Since our 2011 CODIE win for Innovation Incubator Award in the “Most Likely to Succeed” category, myON has continued its rapid expansion that is truly transforming the way kids learn. Every day, we impact the lives of the 5.4 million students reading on myON by providing them a unique, personalized literacy experience. In just one single school year students have read over 21 million books and logged more than 476 years of reading.  These numbers will continue to grow, our team at myON works tirelessly to support each and every one of these students to foster a lifelong love of reading,” said Todd Brekhus, myON president.  “Our mobile strategy is driving astronomical growth in literacy, to be recognized by SIIA as a solid provider of mobile learning opportunities is an honor that I am thrilled to share with the entire myON and Capstone team.”

“This year’s finalists are breaking ground with new business models and innovative products. We are pleased to recognize the best in educational technology with these 157 products,” said Karen Billings, vice president of the SIIA Education Technology Industry Network. “I look forward to honoring them all in May at the Education Industry Summit.”

Details about each finalist are listed at siia.net/codies/2015/finalists.asp.

About SIIA

SIIA is the leading association representing the software and digital content industries. SIIA represents approximately 800 member companies worldwide that develop software and digital information content. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to the leading companies that are setting the pace for the digital age. For more information, visit www.siia.net.The Education Technology Industry Network (ETIN) of SIIA serves and represents more than 200 member companies that provide educational software applications, digital content, online learning services and related technologies across the K-20 sector. The Division shapes and supports the industry by providing leadership, advocacy, business development opportunities and critical market information. For more information on ETIN of SIIA, visit siia.net/etin.

SIIA Communications Contact:

Allison Bostrom | 202.289.7442 | abostrom@siia.net

About myON

myON, a business unit of Capstone is a personalized digital literacy environment that creates collaborative learning opportunities. myON expands the classroom for teachers and students by providing unlimited access to the largest collection of more than 8,000 enhanced digital books with multimedia supports, real-time assessments and close reading tools. myON empowers students and teachers with real-time, actionable data—number and type of books opened and read, time spent reading, results of regular benchmark assessments, and more—based on embedded Lexile assessments that measure student reading growth. With myON, every student experiences the benefits of personalized literacy instruction to propel them to new and unlimited opportunities.