The video, which lasts13 minutes and was released last March, has become the first 3D animated experience with didactic aims. It has enhanced Aula365, where over 4,000 learning contents among interactive films, cards and summaries on the main school curricula can already be found. The video can be seen in the following link.
�Aula365 has achieved the development of the largest learning social web for kids in Latin America. In it, kids are the main protagonists and conversation, interactivity and co-creation are encouraged. We�re immensely proud of receiving this prize and will reaffirm our commitment to education and permanent innovation, without letting enjoyment aside�, states Pablo Aristiz�bal, CEO at Competir, the Argentinian company expert in innovative solutions applied to knowledge production through the application of new technologies.
The video, prizewinner at the Expotoons Festival as the best Technological Innovation applied to Education, is the first of the series �The Creators� Family�, with already seven episodes in which different adventures are told. They can be seen in Aula365 and are the result of the joint work of a team of 80 professionals in several fields.

Aula365, the largest learning social web has been awarded the Prize to the Business Creativity 2012, in the category Public Services, instituted by the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC).

The learning platform was also a finalist in the categories Marketing, Commercialization and Sales, Interactive Media and Education in the event organized by the Peruvian Institution of Tertiary Studies.

According to the UPC web, this prize aims to reward the most outstanding contributions to creativity in business with a significant impact on the benefit of consumers and users, as well as on the company itself.

The company has widen for the term of a month, as from today (Friday, 17) the free access to academic contents hosted in its social web Aula365 Speedy, to enable the continuity of the students� learning process in the region.

Likewise, it has also extended the validity of discounts already in course in the region for fixed and mobile communications up to and including Sunday June 26.

Telef�nica Foundation, through its program Telef�nica Volunteers is also organizing a solidarity campaign to collect non-perishable foods, blankets and other materials to give away to the communities of Bariloche and Villa La Angostura.

As a safety measure to protect the staff, the company has distributed among its employees one thousand masks and one hundred goggles to guarantee the sanitary conditions necessary to perform their duties in the open air.

SOURCE: GACETA MERCANTIL http://www.gacetamercantil.com.ar/notas/5161/telefonica-libero-acceso-contenidos-educativos-zona-afectada-cenizas.html

Buenos Aires, April 28 (EFE) � An educational web has invited kids from Argentina, Colombia and Spain to take part in the creation of a comic about the way they foresee the future, in a challenge to beat the Guinness record as the comic with the greatest number of authors in the world.

�How do you imagine the world in the future?�, is the question released by the Buenos Aires Book Fair through the web Aula365, seeking to encourage the kids to contribute to the largest �Social Collaborative Comic� in Latin America, as stated by the organizers to Efe.

The initiative has been launched by Telef�nica and the Argentinian company Competir, which developed Aula365, for all kids in Argentina, Colombia and Spain, the countries where this Spanish group supports this learning platform with over half a million users.

Along 60 weeks from next Monday onwards, the web designers will publish an episode of the comic whose last panel will be empty, for the kids to suggest its content.

Every week, the three funniest or most innovating panel contents will be selected so that the kids themselves vote for the one they regard most attractive for the continuation of the comic till its end. �We seek to encourage kids �collaboration on Internet. We want to achieve this same dynamics in learning: that kids can produce an answer, an opinion, whenever they�re faced with a doubt�, declared to Efe Leonardo Rubino, Chief of Services and Contents at Telef�nica in Argentina.

Pablo Aristiz�bal, president at Competir, empathized that the aim of this initiative is to �strengthen the philosophy of Aula365, which is supported on kids� collaboration and participation in learning�. At the end of the year, the comic created by the kids will be printed with a view on beating the Guinness record as the comic with the greatest number of authors in the world.

Aula365 is regarded as �the largest virtual school in the world� owing to the fact that it includes the main basic contents for kids� and teenagers� learning. It works in eleven countries in America and Europe thanks to the economic support of actions of social business responsibility.

Competir has launched in Mexico its educational platform Aula365, aimed to provide multimedia interactive learning resources to support the education in the country.

The platform commercialization will be in charge of the Group Autofin and the users will have the possibility of creating their own Avatars, invite friends, and contact each other, thus creating a social web within a safe environment.

Aula365 is already present in more than 15 countries around the world, and its adaptation to the Mexican market has entailed an investment of over 500 million dollars.

In Aula365 students will have access to videos, exercises, games, glossaries, animated graphics, blogs, biographies, a teacher in their e-mail, as well as to simulators, forums and opinion surveys, among others. According to Pablo Aristiz�bal, CEO at Competir, Aula365 has been designed to �improve the kids� education in Mexico, by means of online mechanisms easy to adopt, funny, safe and of a high quality at the same time�. �The main aim is that students enhance what they learn in class in a more experiential way�, he added.

Aula365 already counts over two million users in America and Europe, and in Mexicos the starting point is to surpass 200 thousand users in the first year.

SOURCE: RED USERS http://www.redusers.com/noticias/aula365-llega-a-mexico/

Competir.com will take part for the fourth consecutive year in BETT 2013, The Learning Technology Event, to be hold in London.

Buenos Aires, January 2013 � Competir.com, the Argentinian company expert in innovating solutions for knowledge production through the application of new technologies, has been invited for the fourth consecutive year to take part in one of the most significant events in the world in the field of learning technologies � BETT, British Education and Training Technology � to be hold from January 30th to February 2nd in London.

Competir.com will launch the new version of Aula365, as the first learning transmedia in the world which is present in every stage of kids� family and school life, and ensures parents a trustworthy safe environment.

A mobile application will also be launched which will enable kids to access to hundreds of Aula365 multimedia contents on topics of the school curricula any time anywhere. The apps have been designed in HTML5 for Android, IOs and W8.

Likewise, Kids� News will be introduced at the event. It is the first interactive school newspaper for students and teachers interaction with the Web via Augmented Reality and now also via mobile technology, a solution developed by Aula365, as a tool which capitalises on new technologies to potentiate enjoyable collaborative learning.

With over 30 thousand visits, the BETT gathers the community of specialists in learning technologies during four days, with the aim of contributing to the creation of collaborative content for the industry of education.

Competir�s learning solutions are currently used by over 2 million users in America and Europe in countries as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, Dominican Republic, the USA, Spain and Italy.