AMSTERDAM, November 17, 2022 - FeedbackFruits has been shortlisted for the 2022 Reimagine Education Awards with three separate entries: ‘Cultivating 21st-century skills with Team-Based Learning at IE Business School’ in the Innovation in Business Education Award category, ‘Transforming peer and group assessment in online and hybrid learning’ in the Learning Assessment Award category and ‘Co-creating the future of education with EdTech DoTank’ in the Power of Partnerships Award category.
Considered as ‘the Oscars’ of education, the Reimagine Education Awards is the largest global awards program for innovative pedagogies. The Awards, organized by the Wharton School and QS Quacquarelli Symonds, celebrate approaches that enhance student learning outcomes and employability, thus fundamentally changing the educational landscape.
“The Reimagine Education Awards are designed to provide reliable, robust signals to the education sector regarding the quality of teaching and learning across the world’s universities – and those edtech solutions that have most successfully demonstrated their efficacy, uniqueness, and scalability.”
This year’s Awards received over 1100 submissions across 18 different categories, of which the top 18% that demonstrate innovation, versatility, and effectiveness in promoting impactful, collaboration-based pedagogical approaches were shortlisted. In the 2021 Reimagine Education Awards, FeedbackFruits was also chosen as the Gold Winner for the ‘FeedbackFruits Tool Suite’ in the E-learning Award category and the Silver Winner for the ‘Automated Feedback’ in the Artificial Intelligence Award category.
Ewoud de Kok, CEO and Co-founder of FeedbackFruits, credits this achievement to the company’s continuous collaboration with universities to provide innovative, pedagogy-driven solutions for higher education’s changing needs. Ewoud commented:
“As FeedbackFruits, our mission has been cultivating the change-makers of the future and equipping learners with the right skills to this end in collaboration with educators themselves. Being shortlisted for the Reimagine Education Awards two years in a row further validates that FeedbackFruits solutions are making a real impact in lowering the threshold for educators to create transformational learning experiences, so all learners can engage and develop their skills.”
The winners will be announced during the 2022 Hybrid Reimagine Education Conference between 5 and 8 December 2022.
Team Based Learning is a pedagogical tool, co-created with IE Business School, to support a team-based learning activity. The tool supports the iRAT and tRAT steps and can be coupled with other FeedbackFruits tools to form the full team-based learning journey. For further information, visit feedbackfruits.com/team-based-learning
FeedbackFruits peer and group assessment tools consist of six innovative solutions five tools that facilitate feedback between teachers and students as well as among students themselves. The tools are seamlessly integrated into different LMSs to help educators easily create timely and effective feedback assignments. For further information, visit feedbackfruits.com/assessment
Established in 2016, the EdTech DoTank is a co-creation partnership collaboration between FeedbackFruits and higher education institutions to turn educators’ needs and ideas into technological solutions. For further information, visit feedbackfruits.com/edtech-dotank
Reimagine Education is a global conference and competition, open to educational innovators from all around the world. The conference brings together edtech startups, academic faculty from top institutions, Chief Innovation Officers, university leadership, teachers, and other stakeholders in the future of higher education teaching and learning. For further information, visit reimagine-education.com
FeedbackFruits is an EdTech scale-up based in Amsterdam, whose purpose is to co-create pedagogical tools that drive student engagement while increasing teacher productivity. Together with more than a hundred institutions, FeedbackFruits co-developed an LMS-integrated tool suite of online learning solutions with higher education thought leaders. The platform encompasses a range of learning activities within pedagogical themes such as self & peer assessment, online discussion, and team-based learning. For further information, visit feedbackfruits.com
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