Facilitated by the IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS), the Learning Impact Awards (LIAs) recognize the use of technology that has the greatest impact worldwide in support of the global-learning community. They honour outstanding applications of technology that address the most significant challenges facing today's global education and training industries.

This initial LIA Platinum Award was given jointly to eXact learning solutions and e-LfH for the world's largest and most successful online medical-content-production initiative. Since its inception in 2006, it has delivered more than 450,000 hours (some 48 years) of medical training to more than 750,000 users to date, launching more than a million medical learning objects online to the UK's national health professionals.

On 22 February - a typical e-LfH training day - learners spent more than 1,000 hours online accessing more than 10,000 learning materials produced and managed by e-LfH authors, using the eXact learning LCMS and DR solutions.

"We are very pleased to receive this award", comments Alan Ryan, e-LfH's National Programme Director. "Our mission has always been to provide innovative solutions for healthcare education and deliver very high-quality materials."

Fabrizio Cardinali, VP of Global Business Development at eXact Learning Solutions and the Chair of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), adds, "In 2007, we won another LIA award for the first project developed with e-LfH. Named R-ITI, it used our LCMS and was dedicated to innovation in radiology training. It won a Silver LIA for innovation and research."

"Today, after six years of ongoing developments with e-LfH, we've demonstrated that the combined use of SCORM and IMS standards, reusable learning objects, and XML templating - as extensively automated by our eXact LCMS solution - is an excellent model for the UK's NHS."