Pune, Maharashtra -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/01/2012 -- eSchool Media Inc. announced the winners of its 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards, honoring the best products and services in education technology. Raptivity, the leading rapid interactivity building tool from Harbinger Knowledge Products, won 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards in the K-12 category. Practicing educators along with school and college administrators nominated their favorite educational technology product or service. No vendor nominations were allowed in this complete process. The winning products and services were divided into three categories: K-12, Higher-Education and Honorable Mention.

“Last fall, we asked our readers to give their top picks for school hardware, software, websites and services. Nearly 1,400 readers responded via one of our three websites: eSchoolNews.com, eCampusNews.com, and eClassroomNews.com. In nominating their favorite products, we asked readers to tell us how they’re using these products to improve teaching, learning, or school administration—and to what effect. We then chose the 50 best responses, which appear alphabetically by product name and grouped into two categories: K-12 and higher education.” - said Dennis Pierce, Editor, eSchool Media

“It's indeed a proud moment for Raptivity to be ranked among the Top 50 Education Technology Products in the K-12 category. We are excited to receive this recognition of being a 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards winner” said Seema Chaudhary, President of Harbinger Knowledge Products Inc. “Raptivity team is always on fore-front to serve customers and meet their changing eLearning needs. eSN Readers’ Choice Awards confirms that our customers value the services provided by Raptivity team. We thank all our Raptivity users for expressing their satisfaction through their votes.”

To read more details about the award visit: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/01/03/our-readers-top-ed-tech-picks-for-2012

For a PDF copy of the award publication, visit: http://www.eschoolnews.com/files/2012/01/eSMRCA2012.pdf

About eSchool Media Inc
With an audience of more than one million education decision makers, eSchool Media Inc. is the parent organization of three robust print, digital, eMail and video networks providing breaking news and vital information to brand-specifying buyers at every level of the education field. These three leading education-technology publication networks are – eSchool News (K-20), eCampus News (Higher Ed) and eClassroom News (Teachers).

About Raptivity
With Raptivity, users can create interactivity rapidly and add it conveniently to their eLearning content. With interactive content, learning experiences become memorable and drop-out levels go down.

Raptivity provides a pre-built library of rapidly-customizable interaction models. The library consists of interactive exercises, diagrams, games, simulations, 3D virtual world interactions, videos and 170+ such pre-built interaction models based on best practices in instructional design. Users can customize them to create any number of variations. The content published by Raptivity is a single flash file so it fits right into hundreds of eLearning tools and can be used anywhere. With its patented technology and open architecture, Raptivity is at the forefront of rapid interactivity technology.

Raptivity has won numerous awards in various categories, including the e-Learning Guild Platinum Award for highest user satisfaction in the simulation tools category and LearnX Award for best rapid e-Learning tool. It has also been voted number one by users in various categories usage and usability categories. In 2011, Raptivity has won the 17th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (Bessie) 2011 in the Online Technology Tool category. For more information on Raptivity, visit www.raptivity.com.

About Harbinger Knowledge Products
Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development.

Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA) and through its partner network worldwide.

For three consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world's top 100 private technology companies.

Harbinger’s patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity and Raptivity Presenter, innovative YawnBuster, and cutting-edge SiteJazzer and TeemingPod.

For more information on Harbinger Knowledge Products, visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.