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NSTA Learning Center Awards

Featured herein are several national awards the NSTA Learning Center has received since 2007. The NSTA Learning Center is a scalable and sustainable e-PD solution with high quality resources and planning tools developed to assist both individual and groups of teachers at the school, district, or state levels with their ongoing PD efforts. With over 35,000 educators and 173 unique state/district/school deployments adding over 208,000 resources across their personal libraries, the NSTA Learning Center appreciates these distinctions. If you have input you would like to provide, please do not hesitate to use our help desk ticket system to provide us with feedback.


Featured Awards


2009 Golden Lamp Awards 2009 Golden Lamp Awards Finalist
Category: Professional Development
Sponsored by: The Association of Educational Publishers


The Golden Lamp Awards are one of educational publishing's longest-running and most prestigious traditions. The category of Professional Development incudes products directed at the education professional and contain information on classroom management, instructional techniques, and education theory and practice.


The NSTA Learning Center has been recognized as one of four Professional Development (PD) finalists given its entry as a scalable and sustainable solution with high quality e-PD resources, opportunities, and planning tools to assist both individual educators and district administrators with their ongoing local face-to-face PD efforts. We appreciate this distinction by the Association of Educational Publishers.




2007 Learning Content Management Project of the Year:
The NSTA Learning Center, Training Magazine, 2007


The awards are the first time these have been offered by Training Magazine and the judges included an esteemed panel, several of which are listed below:

  • Jay Cross, chief scientist, Internet Time Group
  • Margaret Driscoll, learning and development consultant, IBM Business Consulting Services
  • Charles Jennings, global head of learning, Reuters, UK
  • Michael McGinnis, training manager, Bose Corporation
  • Bryan Chapman, chief learning strategist, Chapman Alliance LLC
  • Sonya Calooy, senior learning design professional, Shell Learning
  • Andy Gibbons, author, "Computer-Based Instruction: Design and Development," chair, Department of Instructional Psychology and Technology, BYU

Our selection for the Learning Content Management Project of the Year was one category, which NSTA now holds company with other first time awardees such as Price Waterhouse Coopers, Peace Corps, Sun Microsystems, and Cisco Systems.




2007 Learning Leader: Organizational Management Excellence for
The NSTA Learning Center, Bersin & Associates, 2007


The Bersin & Associates Learning Leaders Program is a research-driven program designed to recognize innovation and excellence in critical areas of corporate training. Bersin & Associates recognizes up to 18 organizations that have developed and implemented unique and innovative approaches to learning and development resulting in significant business improvement.


Prior 2006 winners include General Motors, MetLife, Symantec Corporation, and Alcatel-Lucent to name a few. The NSTA Learning Center e-Learning portal received the distinction as one of the 2007 award recipients for Organizational Management Excellence.


Featured Article: ELearning Magazine Learning Leaders Article