Vote for the 2026 Learning Impact Awards
Twelve innovative edtech projects and partnerships are competing in this year's competition. Help decide who wins!
🗳️→ Please review the finalists' videos and project summaries below and evaluate them for their measurable impact on the learning experience, institutional performance, and the digital learning ecosystem.
Online community voting ends on Tuesday, June 2, at noon PDT.
The scores from the public voting are averaged to equal one vote from a Learning Impact Awards Judge.
The results will be announced on Wednesday, June 3, at the 2026 Learning Impact Conference Awards Ceremony in San Francisco, California, USA.
Projects are organized by their Learning Impact Trend Category and listed alphabetically, with their project resources linked at the end.
Educational Insight, Attainment, and Planning
Competency-Based Innovation
- One Platform. One Survey. Delivering PISA 2025 to the World — Online and Offline (Australian Council for Educational Research and Open Assessment Technologies): Video | Paper
Digital Credentials
- Articulating Marketable Skills and Career Readiness at Dallas College Through Digital Badges (Dallas College): Video | Paper
- OZONE-EDU: University-Led Micro-Credentials for Lifelong Teacher Professional Learning (Osaka Kyoiku University) 1EdTech Japan Society 2025 Competition Winner: Video | Paper
- The University of Georgia's Comprehensive Learner Record (University of Georgia): Video | Paper
Learning Analytics
Student Success and Outcomes-Based Learning Support Services
Learning Environment Infrastructure
Educational Accessibility and Personalization
- Beyond Compliance: Developing Scalable AI Workflows for Accessible PDF Remediation (San Jose State University): Video | Paper
- VPAT Evaluator (Center for Distributed Learning, University of Central Florida): Video | Paper
Teaching and Learning Innovation
AI-Augmented Learning Experiences
- Learnvia: Free, AI-Enabled Courseware Turning Gateway Math from Roadblock into Runway (Carnegie Mellon University and Unicon): Video | Paper
- Scaling the Doer Effect: How Bookshelf CoachMe Uses AI-Generated Practice to Drive Student Success (Cal Poly Pomona and VitalSource): Video | Paper