All Learning Impact Award nominees are evaluated on how the named product or service addresses the following Learning Impact criteria.
Impact on Personalized Learning
- Enables customized student learning
- Enhances the effectiveness of pedagogy or learner engagement
- Enhances self-directed learning, critical thinking, or metacognitive skills
- Supports the development and assessment of key competencies
- Provides greater access to proven quality instructional strategies
- Offers greater convenience for learners
- Enables lifelong learning
- Includes or enables integrated assessment or better assessment of student learning/core competencies
Impact on Institutional Performance
- Promotes institutional success and improvement
- Enables improved learner and instructor efficiency
- Represents a radical improvement in access, affordability, or quality of education
- Enables planning or management of competency development
- Facilitates more efficient sharing of best practices
- Provides a distinctive organizational learning advantage
- Boosts clarity of learning outcomes
- Improves results in mastery of subject matter as measured by formative or summative assessments
Impact on the Digital Learning Ecosystem
- Demonstrates the ability of products to work together in innovative ways
- Provides a seamless way to incorporate advanced functionality requiring little or no faculty, teacher, or learner training to use
- Utilizes open standards for data, content, or services
- Shares data, content, or services seamlessly with other applications from other vendors at a minimal cost
- Combines best-of-breed products from multiple vendors that share data, content, or services
- Has enabled and caused practical feedback into the standards process to improve future interoperability standards
- Utilizes 1EdTech standards or services demonstrated by certification to standards (such as LTI®, QTI®, Common Cartridge®, Caliper Analytics®, OneRoster®, Comprehensive Learner Record, Open Badges, etc.)