All Learning Impact Award nominees are evaluated on how the named product or service addresses the following Learning Impact criteria.
Impact on the Learning Experience
- Improves student retention through more flexible and personalized learning opportunities
- Improves access to education or offers more accessible and inclusive learning experiences
- Engages learners or accelerates the effectiveness of pedagogy in ways that lead to a measurable improvement in learner success
- Enhances self-directed learning, critical thinking, or metacognitive skills
- Supports the development and assessment of key competencies
- Leads to improved learning design or greater access to quality learning materials and curricula
- Enables lifelong learning
- Includes or enables integrated assessment or better assessment of student learning/core competencies
Impact on Institutional Performance
- Has a demonstrable impact on an institution's achievement of its strategic goals
- Enables improved learner and instructor efficiency, resulting in measurable savings in learner or instructor time and effort.
- Represents a marked improvement in access, affordability, or quality of education
- Enables planning or management of competency development
- Facilitates more efficient sharing of best practices
- Helps the institution gain a competitive advantage through its distinctive approach to learning
- Provides clarity on learning outcomes that lead to better student engagement and academic performance
- Improves student achievement and attainment
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 market-leading or innovative 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®, CLR Standard®, Open Badges, etc.)