Learning Design Community Awards
The LDC Awards recognize the most impactful and innovative contributions in the learning design community, shining a light on creators who are shaping the future of education.
Meet the 2025 winners
Fanny Tsai
Category 1: Innovative Assessment Design
UC Irvine
Claudia Carrone
Category 2: Collaborative Learning Excellence
EDHEC Business School
Sebastian Pahs
Category 3: Outstanding Engagement Experience
Hong Kong Baptist University
Rewatch the LDC Awards ceremony
Rewatch the 2025 awards ceremony. Explore the winning learning activities and learn more about our jury and their opinions on the future of learning design.
Get exclusive info on the 2026 roadmap and Learning Design Community plans.
Celebrating Innovation and Impact in Learning Design
Launched just a year ago by FeedbackFruits, the Learning Design Community was born from our mission to empower educators through best-in-class learning design. Since then, it has become a global hub for collaboration, inspiration, and the exchange of innovative practices in higher education.
Now, to further that mission, we're introducing the LDC Awards, a celebration of the individuals driving meaningful change through innovation in learning design.
Innovative Assessment Design
Mary Curtin
University College Dublin
Developing critical writing skills through peer review and reflection
Description: Template designed to help students develop critical writing and argumentation skills through peer review, encouraging evidence-based reasoning and professional, reflective feedback.
Fanny Tsai
UC Irvine
Clarity through feedback: A physics peer review workshop
Description: Guide students through structured peer feedback to build feedback literacy and efficiently produce clear, evidence-based team deliverables.
Dr. Rachel Faerber -Ovaska
Youngstown State University
Exploring real-world teaching scenarios through social annotation
Description: Use social annotation to engage with real classroom scenarios, discuss challenges, and reflect critically on effective teaching to support professional development.
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Collaborative Learning Excellence
Claudia Carrone
EDHEC Business School
Interactive case study discussion around an ethical dilemma
Description: Template for students to examine a case, respond to guided questions, analyze diverse perspectives, and engage with peers to build a foundation for deeper inquiry.
Peggy Odom-Reed, Ph.D., SPHR
Cornell University
Enhancing leadership storytelling through peer review
Description: Template to improve students’ leadership storytelling skills by engaging them in giving and receiving peer feedback on video presentations.
Marion Marx
ESSEC Business School
Transformative learning: group discussion and self-reflection
Description: Template designed to support students with analyzing and engaging with alternative perspectives through discussion.
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Outstanding Engagement Experience
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Jeffrey T. Coldren
Youngstown State University
Examining challenging topics through podcast and discussion
Description: Engage students in exploring complex educational topics through podcast listening, discussion, and reflective writing.
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Sebastian Pahs
Hong Kong Baptist University
Using team-based learning to inform project planning
Description: Guide students in applying insights from a field trip through individual and team assessments, peer feedback, and reflective writing to inform future project work.
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Kevin Ngui
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Group feedback:
Lets keep it fair and fun
Description: Template to conduct an anonymous group member evaluation for fair, constructive team feedback that promotes accountability and growth.
Innovative Assessment Design
Collaborative Learning Excellence
Outstanding Engagement Experience
Meet the jury
Gilly
Salmon
Professor, board member, advisor, speaker
Education Alchemists
Michael
Sankey
Professor of technology enhanced learning and teaching
Charles Darwin University
John
Liu
Principal Research Scientist & Director
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
(MIT)
Neil
Greenley
MBA Director and Principal Lecturer
University of Hertfordshire Business School (HBS)
