ALT Awards 2025

The ALT Awards 2025 will open for entries in May

The ALT Awards celebrate and reward excellent research and practice and outstanding achievement in Learning Technology. Established in 2007, the Awards have set a benchmark for outstanding achievement in Learning Technology on a national scale and attract competitive entries from the UK and internationally. All entries are reviewed by an independent judging panel chaired by the President of ALT.  

2025's Awards Ceremony will take place as part of the ALT Annual Conference in October. You can find out more about the Annual Conference on our website.

Award categories

This year, we are delighted to announce the return of all 6 Awards from 2025, as well as the Community Choice Award. The following award categories will be awarded:

  • ALT Award for Individuals
  • ALT Award for Institutions and Teams
  • ALT Award for Leadership in Digital Education
  • ALT Award for Digital Transformation (in partnership with Jisc)
  • ALT Award for Case Studies of Ethical EdTech 
  • ALT Award for Technology in Adult Learning
  • ALT Community Choice Award

 

We are pleased to welcome back the ALT Community Choice Award again this year. This special award allows our ALT Community to vote for their winner, and all entry submissions can opt to be included for this award. Entries who opt in, will be judges in the award category they have entered, and then also added to the Community Choice Award running. Voting for our community will open for this award over the summer. 

Judging criteria

Entries are judged (from the completed entry form only) in answer to the following criteria:

ALT Award for Individuals

ALT Award for Institutions or Teams

ALT Award for Leadership in Digital Education

ALT Award for 

Digital Transformation in partnership with Jisc

ALT Award 

for Case Studies of Ethical EdTech 

ALT Award for Use of Technology in Vocational Education in partnership with Ufi VocTech Trust

Open to individuals from all education and training sectors. 

Open to institutions and teams from all education and training sectors.  Open to professionals from all education and training sectors. This can be a joint entry where appropriate. 

Open to teams, departments, or faculties from all education and training sectors. 

Open to entries for case studies of products, services, platforms and/or successful implementation of ethically driven policies and guidance.  Open to individuals and teams from FE and the adult vocational skills and training sector

This Award celebrates outstanding achievements of individuals in a research, technical, supportive, design, developer, administrative, academic or hybrid role. 

 

Should demonstrate significant impact on practices within your organisation, community, or sphere of influence. 

This Award is for teams and institutions and recognises outstanding strategic enhancement of the design, development and delivery of online and blended education.

 

Should demonstrate positive impact on the learner experience and sustainable development of academic practice in the digital environment.

This Award celebrates individuals in a leadership position within their institution or in their sector who influence strategy, policy and culture change. 

 

Must, in part, demonstrate impact through sector and institution-wide instruments, such as: the NSS, FELT, staff surveys etc. Submissions could  include  examples of strategy and policy, institutional culture change, redesign of governance and ongoing contributions to national and international professional communities.

This Award in partnership with Jisc recognises how teams/departments are enabling digital transformation in their organisation.

‘Transformation’ being a progressive systemic change in practices, processes, services and partnerships which improves the working lives of staff, has a positive impact on the student experience (including teaching, learning and assessment) and can be demonstrated to be sustainable in the broadest sense. 

Applications should provide evidence to demonstrate how the work/initiative maps to the Jisc framework for digital transformation. See Taking digital transformation forward in your organisation - Jisc for further guidance on digital transformation.

Applications should provide evidence on how the work has impacted on their organisation and effected change.
 

This Award celebrates outstanding case studies demonstrating the ethical use of Learning Technology.

We are looking for case studies which demonstrate application of the FELT framework dimensions and address ethical considerations or challenges in relation to educational technology.  
Examples may include, but are not limited to,  online assessment, learning design, the use of AI, decolonising the curriculum and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion through use of Learning Technology. 

This award in partnership with Ufi VocTech Trust recognises achievement in the use of technology for vocational education. It is for individuals and teams who are working innovatively with technology to help people develop and improve their skills for work.

Should demonstrate a commitment to using innovative technological approaches to vocational education which have a positive impact on learners.

Please find a definition of vocational education here.

The judging criteria are informed by the CMALT principles

  • A commitment to exploring and understanding the interplay between technology and learning
  • A commitment to keep up to date with new technologies
  • A commitment to communicate and disseminate effective practice
  • An empathy with and willingness to learn from colleagues from different backgrounds and specialism
 

All entries should demonstrate alignment with the Framework for Ethical Learning Technology (FELT) and specifically FELT four core principles: Awareness, Professionalism, Care & Community and Values. 

 

How to Enter

Entries will open in May, keep an eye on our social channels for more information.

Short-listing

The judging panel will review all entries and the highest scoring entries in each category are short-listed as a finalist. All entries will be notified whether they have been short-listed by August. 

Finalists

Following the shortlsting all finalists will be notified and invited to attend the Award Ceremony.

For more information on the Awards or if you have any questions, please contact awards@alt.ac.uk

Judging panel

The expert panel of judges is chaired by David White, President of ALT.

Name

Institution 

Heather Serdar

LDN Apprenticeships

Laura Milne

University of Chester

Salimeh Pour Mohammad

Warwick Business School

Lisa Bradley

Queen's University Belfast

Denise Sweeney

University of Nottingham

Sarah Knight

Jisc

Kelly Gilman

Jisc

Matt Wingfield

Independent EdTech Consultant

Richard Walker

University of York

Steph Comley

University of Exeter

Sharmen Ibrahim 

Activate Learning

Claire Stocks

University of Chester
Gearoid O'Suilleabhain

MTU

Shane Cronin

MTU

Alicia Moreno Gimenez

Lancaster University

Ruth Powell

UAL

Zoe Tierney

Burton & South Derbyshire College

Dave White

President of ALT

Matt Jevons

University of Leeds

Emma Dibb

University of Leeds

Nurun Nahar

University of Greater Manchester 

Clare Thomson

Heriot-Watt University
 

Award Ceremony

The Awards will be presented during the Gala Dinner at the ALT Annual Conference 2024. You can find out more about becoming an Awards Ceremony sponsor by contacting us at awards@alt.ac.uk. More Ceremony details will follow soon. 

Winners of the Awards

You can find out more about the winners of the Awards from previous years here

Winners of 2023's Team Award: City, University of London's Digital Education Team