2025

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.

timeline

Submissions
period

Open / Closed
1 Sept - 14 Oct

Jury
deliberation

Open / Closed
15 Oct - 26 Oct

Voting period

Open / Closed
27 Oct - 25 Nov

Awards
Ceremony

11 Dec

Join the LDC Awards Ceremony

Join us on 11 December at 16:00 CET for the first edition of the Learning Design Community Awards Ceremony. Streaming live from Amsterdam, the event celebrates this year’s standout learning activities and explores the future of learning design. Join live to follow the winners announcements, take part in a panel discussion with our expert jury and connect with the worldwide Learning Design Community.

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Agenda

16.00 to 16.05

Welcome

A warm opening from the FeedbackFruits team to set the tone for a shared celebration of learning design excellence.
    16.05 to 16.15

    The Learning Design Community story

      How the community has grown from its launch to today, the impact created in 2025, and a look at what we will build together next year.
      16.15 to 16.25

      FeedbackFruits product insights

        An exclusive preview of the innovations coming in 2026 that support structured, engaging, and future ready learning experiences.
        16.25 to 16.45

        Expert jury panel discussion

        A lively conversation with members of our jury exploring the trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the future of learning design.
          16.45 to 16.50

          Introducing
          the awards

          An overview of this year’s award categories and what the jury looked for when recognising outstanding learning activities.
            16.50 to 17.40

            The awards winners

            Celebration of the three winning learning designs. Meet the creators, hear their stories, and discover ideas you can bring back to your own courses and programs.
              17.40 to 17.50

              End of the event

              Final reflections, key takeaways, and an invitation to stay involved in building the future of learning design with FeedbackFruits and the community.
                ABOUT

                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.

                Shortlisted templates

                Meet the 2025 shortlisted templates

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                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.

                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.

                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.

                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.

                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.

                CATEGORIES

                Innovative Assessment Design

                Recognizing creative approaches to measuring learning that go beyond conventional formats and spark deeper student insight.

                Collaborative Learning Excellence

                Highlighting designs that effectively foster meaningful peer interaction.

                Outstanding Engagement Experience

                Celebrating designs that ignite student motivation, sustain attention, and create connections with learning content.
                jury

                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)

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