The Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024 celebrates educational technology from the last 12 months that has excelled and shone in supporting teachers, students, and education professionals in the classroom, for professional development or general management of education resources and learning. Qualifying products include those that have been launched, relaunched, or saw a significant upgrade or version introduced in 2024 that have helped schools improve teaching and learning
Whether the product is for those in Primary, Secondary or Higher Education, these awards provide a great opportunity for forward-thinking edtech companies to gain exposure to Tech & Learning's audience of 90k decision makers.
The entry deadline is currently set for 11:59 ET January 10, 2025. Begin your entry by clicking the button below or continue to read through the awards site for more information on eligibility, benefits for entering, and information on the Awards of Excellence.
Winning products will be showcased in a special edition of Tech & Learning distributed to the T&L readership, which is built of education professionals, district leaders, and school administrators.
All winners will receive a winner's package. This will include a fully-licensed winners badge for in-house promotion, a designed social post, press release, and template winners email.
A Tech & Learning Award of Excellence: Best of 2024 is a highly recognized accolade provided to only the best in EdTech, based on evaluation by a panel of education-experts.
How Nominees Are Evaluated
Tech & Learning is looking for the brightest new products in the educational space – the tech that’s been turning heads and helping teachers and students to learn faster, easier, and more successfully than ever before.
Each nominee will have to answer the following questions:
- What specific problem does this product solve?
- How did your product exceptionally support teaching and learning in 2024?
- How does your product address the challenges facing education today?
So what does that mean in practice? It means our judges will be thinking about questions like:
- Is your product easy to use and does it include support for teachers as needed?
- Does your product simplify and enhance the teaching and learning experience?
- Is your product flexible to support both in-person and asynchronous online teaching and learning?
- How is your product unique compared to others in the market?
- Can your product be easily integrated with existing products being used in schools?
Tech & Learning's panel of educators and judges will evaluate each of these answers, along with the product descriptions, images, and case studies. The panel will score each product on Ease of Use, Value, Versatility, and Utility. The products that score the highest across all the criteria will be named as winners in this year's Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024.
Any company that has a product that supports innovative, effective teaching and learning which launched, relaunched or saw a significant upgrade or version introduced in 2024 is eligible.
Winning an Award of Excellence tells the industry that your product has been approved by the most important audience - the educators themselves. The top products will be selected and featured in a special edition of Tech & Learning magazine. In addition to promotion through Tech & Learning, winners will receive a winners package containing a range of assets, in addition to a full-licensed winners badge, to promote their success.
All entries are due by 11:59 ET January 10, 2025.
We apply a volume-based pricing discount to our awards, as such prices reduce with the number of nominations that you enter. See below for details around this, if you have any questions then please contact us.
Single entry: $625.00
Your next 2-4 entries: $595.00 per entry
Any additional entries: $525.00 per entry
The categories are broken down into Primary (Tools for K-6 grade education), Secondary (7-12), and Higher Education. You may enter the same product into multiple categories.
Yes. There is no limit to the number of products you may nominate. Each requires a nomination form and entry fee(s).
Entries will be passed through a panel of Tech & Learning advisors. Evaluation criteria includes:
- Ease of use
- Value
- Versatility
- Product solves a problem
Winners will be announced in January 2025 and will feature in a special issue of Tech & Learning following the announcement.
Please contact Beckie Sirs (beckie.sirs@futurenet.com) with any questions.
Editorial questions
Content Director, Tech & Learning
Christine Weiser
christine.weiser@futurenet.com