LDC Awards 2026 and Partner Impact Report

From course redesign to institutional impact

Real change in teaching often begins with one educator and one course. Meet the nine LDC Awards regional winners, see how learning design grows from a single course into impact across a whole institution, and celebrate it together at InspirED.
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How one course becomes institutional impact

Good ideas in teaching often stay inside one course, with no simple way to share them, support them or show that they work. We believe every good learning design deserves to travel further, and here we show the whole journey through the people, the evidence and the community behind it.
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Step 1 · One course

Meet the regional LDC Awards winners

Nine winning designs from three regions show how one learning design can change the way students learn.
Meet the winners
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Step 2 · Many institutions

Read the Impact Report

See what learning design made possible for students, educators and institutions for the academic year 2025/26.
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Step 3 · One community

Celebrate the LDC Awards winners

Register to watch the reveal of the 3 LDC Awards Global Winners, live-streamed from the InspirED conference
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LDC Awards 2026 regional winners

Nine winning designs
you can bring into your own course

Our juries chose one winner in each category for every region: active learning excellence, feedback and assessment innovation, and leveraging AI in learning design. Every winning design is published as a template in the Learning Design Community, so you can explore it and adapt it for your own students.
APAC
Europe
Americas
Active Learning
Excellence

Sebastian
Pahs

Hong Kong Baptist University

Discussion and peer feedback on project concepts in game design
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Feedback & Assessment Innovation

Tanya
Evans

University of Auckland

Explain & Assess: peer review of mathematical reasoning videos
Read the story
Leveraging AI in
Learning Design

Isaac Ka
Chun Wan

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

AI literacy for handling bias, hallucinations and cognitive offloading
Read the story
Active Learning
Excellence

Vasileios
Karamanis

American College of Greece

Interactive Document for exploring active and technology enhanced learning
Read the story
Feedback & Assessment Innovation

Stuart
Scott

University of Bath

Group Member Evaluation of teamwork and communication skills
Read the story
Leveraging AI in Learning Design

Michelle
Sisto

EDHEC Business School

Peer Review of AI assistants
built by students
Read the story
Active Learning
Excellence

Michael-Benjamin
Minotti

Boston University

Podcast and peer discussion on red flag legal issues
Read the story
Feedback & Assessment Innovation

Max
Chao

UC Irvine

Asynchronous team critique of live case presentations
Read the story
Leveraging AI in Learning Design

Fanny
Tsai

UC Irvine

Beyond the first AI answer: compare, verify and explain
Read the story
The nine regional winners now go forward to the global round. We will announce the three global winners, one in each category, live at InspirED on 3 December, in Brisbane and online.
Partner Impact Report 2025/26

One year of learning design, in numbers

One redesigned course tells a powerful story, and when the same thinking spreads across many institutions, it becomes evidence. Our Partner Impact Report shows what changed for students, educators and institutions, and shares four practical steps you can take to get started.
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For students

9/10

for the usefulness of peer and group feedback

Each answer helps educators see who understood and who needs support, long before the exam.

For educators

86%

of activities are built from a proven design

Educators reuse best practice across courses and build in minutes rather than weeks.

For institutions

60%

of partners doubled their reach by year three

As the partnership grows, proven designs reach more students within each institution.
InspirED 2026 · Thursday 3 December · QUT, Brisbane and online

Celebrate with us on 3 December

Register to watch the reveal of the three LDC Awards Global Winners, streamed live from the InspirED conference at QUT in Brisbane. Wherever you are, you can join us online and celebrate the educators and learning designers whose course redesigns stood out this year.

11:30AM - 12:00PM AEST
QUT Campus, Brisbane
Watch the ceremony online
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Better teaching, at scale

Inside the LMS
you already use

FeedbackFruits runs inside Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard and Brightspace, so educators start from their own courses without learning a new platform.

Backed by evidence

Evidence from 200+ partner institutions and independent research shows how learning design supports teaching and learning.

Built with educators

The Learning Design Community brings together designs shared by educators worldwide, so good ideas can be explored and reused by everyone.

What could this mean for
‍your institution?

Every story on this page began with one educator who wanted something better for their students. If you would like to explore how the Learning Design System could help your educators design better teaching and build evidence of true learning, we would love to talk with you.
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Frequently asked questions

What are the LDC Awards?

The Learning Design Community Awards celebrate educators who use FeedbackFruits to create learning experiences that are more engaging, more inclusive and more effective. In 2026 we introduced regional rounds, so nine regional winners now compete for three global titles.

When are the global winners announced?

We announce the three global winners, one in each category, live at InspirED on 3 December. The ceremony takes place in Brisbane, and you can also watch it online from anywhere in the world.

Can I use winning designs in my own course?

Yes, every winning design is published as a template in the Learning Design Community, so you can explore it, adapt it to your own course and use it with your students. If you would like help getting started, we are happy to think it through with you.

Can I join InspirED if I am not in Australia or New Zealand?

Absolutely, you can watch the LDC Awards ceremony online from anywhere in the world, so the whole learning design community can celebrate the winners together.

What is in the Impact Report?

The Partner Impact Report 2025/26 shows what a year of learning design looked like across 200+ partner institutions, 33K+ educators and 1M+ students. It covers the pressures on teaching quality, how our partners used learning design, what it produced and the impact we are working towards, with four practical steps to get started.

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