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Enspire Wins Gold Brandon Hall Learning Award

AUSTIN, TX – Nov. 19, 2009 – Enspire Learning, a leader in developing innovative learning solutions, won a Brandon Hall Gold Excellence in Learning award in the Best Custom Content category.

The winning course, “Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life and Palliative Care,” was created for the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. Enspire created a virtual hospital in which critical-care nurses interact with several patients in end-of-life care situations. Learners review patients’ files before entering their rooms, monitor symptoms, and provide care based on their assessments. The high degree of detail and characters’ raw emotions combine to provide a realistic, educational situation. Each module includes video segments, patient charts, information segments, exploratory activities, conversational segments, feedback, and debriefs.

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Chief Learning Officer Recognizes Enspire with Learning in Practice Award

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – Sept. 29, 2009 – Enspire Learning received a prestigious Learning In Practice award today from Chief Learning Officer magazine. Enspire Learning was awarded the bronze Excellence in Simulations and Games Award for its development of a next-generation simulation.

The award-winning simulation was created for a major hotel chain and mirrors challenges that hotel managers face. In the simulation, learners practice making decisions about group block management, stay restrictions, and inventory control.

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iThryv and Enspire Learning Partner to Deliver Business Finance Education to iThryv’s Users

AUSTIN, TX – Sept. 3, 2009 – iThryv, the creator of a next generation online banking suite, has partnered with Enspire Learning to deliver Fluent in Finance as a free service for iThryv’s users.

Fluent in Finance is a web-based, interactive business finance curriculum that teaches through tutorials and case studies and allows learners to practice new skills through interactive exercises. The curriculum covers basic business finance concepts such as unit economics, breakeven analysis, reading financial statements, budgeting, and cash flow analysis.

The iThryv platform allows financial institutions to target their online banking to specific demographics. The iThryv platform delivers both promotional and educational content to users based on users’ age, financial profile, and actions within the platform. It helps financial institutions match users with new products and services aligned with their goals. It also provides users with essential personal financial literacy knowledge.

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Inc. Magazine Unveils List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

NEW YORK, NY – Aug. 12, 2009 – Inc. magazine today ranked Enspire Learning number 3561 on its third annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies.

Enspire Learning is a leading provider of simulation-based management training, leadership development experiences, and online learning solutions. Enspire Learning believes learning that is interactive, meaningful and fun creates a workforce that is more engaged, more capable, and able to provide better business results.

“We are proud to have achieved 67 percent growth over the past 3 years,” said Bjorn Billhardt, CEO of Enspire. “We have a phenomenal team at Enspire and they have worked hard to create innovative learning experiences that have provided real value to our clients. Over the past three years we completed our first seven figure custom e-learning outsourcing project, won accolades for many of our simulation projects, and launched successful products including Executive Challenge, a leadership development simulation, and Fluent in Finance, a business acumen curriculum.”

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Enspire Wins Six in Horizon Interactive Awards Competition

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – May 15, 2009 – The Horizon Interactive Awards, a leading international interactive media awards competition, announced the 2009 award winners to highlight this year’s “best of the best” in interactive media production.

Enspire Learning was recognized for their excellence with six awards across the Training, Consumer Information, Video/Short Film, and Public Service categories.

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Entertainment Approach to Financial Literacy Works to Reverse Debt Culture

BOSTON, MA – Feb. 13, 2009 – Doorways to Dreams Fund (D2D) launched today its new financial literacy video game, Celebrity Calamity, to help address concerns about high personal debt levels in the US.

“We’re using the idea of video games, a market that is exploding, to reach out to low and middle income Americans to teach good credit habits in a fun and engaging manner,” said Nick Maynard, Director of Innovation and New Product Development with D2D.

The game’s premise involves serving as business manager for three capricious celebrities – Jessica Albudget, Buster Buyin, and Missy Moolah. Navigating the world of debit and credit cards unsuccessfully will get the player fired, while successful money management exposes players to increasingly challenging financial situations. “The connection to financial literacy becomes apparent when our test audience, low-income single moms, starts playing,” said Maynard. “Although Celebrity Calamity just looks like a fun game, we are quickly seeing a sharpened understanding of APR and finance charges among players in preliminary testing.”

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