The International ELearning Association (IELA) Awards are bestowed on an annual basis for the best projects and solutions in eLearning, mobile learning, and blended learning across two divisions: Academic and Business/Industry. All submissions are evaluated by the IELA Awards Committee, which looks for a variety of attributes. These include educational soundness and effectiveness, usability, and overall significance.

Organisations from all over the world submitted applications for the highly esteemed Award. According to Dr. David Guralnick, Chairman of the IELA Awards Committee, this year’s set of submissions was of "particularly high quality". The IELA committee, which consisted of experts in the eLearning field, selected the top nine applicants as winners, runners up, and honorable mentions. Speexx was chosen as the winner in the “Blended Learning” category for its online language-training solution, which combines innovative self-paced eLearning tools with live communication-skills training by certified native speakers for Business English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French.

Armin Hopp, Founder and President of Speexx, commented, "We are delighted and honored to be selected for the IELA Award. As a global provider of innovative online language-training solutions, Speexx strives to fulfill the highest qualitative standards in the talent-management sector. Winning the Blended Learning category Award bears testimony to the results delivered by our perfect blend of online learning tools, real-life communication skills training, and active coaching. On behalf of Speexx, I would like to thank our customers for their continued support and the IELA judging panel for this accolade."

Award winners were announced at the IELA Awards Ceremony in New York at the ICELW Conference.