Skip to main content
  • 49

    nominations

  • 7

    countries

  • 31

    judges

  • 6

    winners

Meet the 2025 Award Winners

Northeast Iowa Community College

Modern States Education Alliance

Upper Grand District School

University of Central Oklahoma

MGH Institute of Health Professions

Singapore Polytechnic

Northeast Iowa Community College

Transformative Accessibility Hub

A centralized Accessibility Hub simplified accommodation management, reducing staff workload and improving student engagement.

  • Leveraging existing interactive Brightspace tools at no additional cost to the college
  • Automated delivery of 12,000 personalized messages to 350 students 
  • Students have accessed accommodation letters over 3,000 times
Read Story Read Story

Modern States Education Alliance

Making Higher Education More Accessible

Offer free online courses that are available to anyone and teach the content needed to take and pass the credit-bearing CLEP exams.

  • 200,000+ courses and 150,000+ CLEP exams completed
  • 35%+ year-over-year growth
  • Automatically fulfills 95% of all voucher requests and respond to learners in minutes rather than days 
Read Story Read Story

Upper Grand District School

Agile and Responsive Professional Learning

Adaptable PD system has helped educator effectiveness, and improved student outcomes and teacher satisfaction.

  • 67% of students moving out of math risk categories
  • 26% improvement in early reading interventions across a 10-week cycle
  • 545% access rate among 199 grade 3, and 529% access rate among 140 grade 6 educators in Professional Learning VLE
Read Story Read Story

University of Central Oklahoma

Elevating Faculty Development

The learning platform has helped educator effectiveness and improved student outcomes and teacher satisfaction.

  • DFW rates declined 3% for fully online courses and 6% for hybrid courses
  • 85% of online faculty opted in for voluntary recertification
  • Improved ranking in Newsweek’s America’s Top Online Colleges for four years in a row
Read Story Read Story

MGH Institute of Health Professions

Shaping the Future of Healthcare Professionals

The scalable, engaging and self-reflective course evolves each academic year to address contemporary issues in healthcare equity.

  • Reached 3,500+ learners over five years
  • 93% of participants found the program useful for their professional or educational goals
  • 87% of participants reported a change in perspective on health equity-related concepts
Read Story Read Story

Singapore Polytechnic

GenAI Upskilling for Staff

Designed within three months, the GenAI learning package features adaptive learning pathways for foundational and advanced training.

  • 1400+ staff upskilled
  • 94% completion rate within the first six months
  • Increased engagement with AI-related projects, with four staff groups securing national grants
Read story Read story

View Past Year’s Winners


Excellence Award winners represent a diverse community of educators and technologists dedicated to creating transformative learning experiences that improve learner outcomes. Their stories of overcoming challenges and implementing innovative solutions inspire progress across the education sector and help shape the future of learning. By sharing their proven methodologies and measurable results, these leaders pave the way for broader systemic change.

2024 Winners

2023 Winners

2022 Winners