Innovation Awards

If Periodicals refer to AEP’s history, the Innovation Awards look toward its future. The Innovation Awards recognize forward-thinking products that are pioneering changes in the education landscape. Creative methods and new theories on effective instruction and other educational practices as well as inventive tools that aid in teaching, professional development, assessment, and management have a new home.

View the entry categories here.

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Entry Requirements

• For the entry requirements, click here.
   
• Please note any special entry requirements listed in the individual category descriptions.
   
• Failure to follow the entry directions may result in a low evaluation score and/or disqualify your product and forfeit its right to be judged. If there are any questions, please read the Awards FAQ and/or call us at 302-295-8351.
  

Your entries will not be judged until payment is received.

Judging
Innovation entries are judged against other products in their entry category with no subdivisions. For more about the judging process visit the Judging page.

Finalists and Winners
Innovation Finalists are announced in a press release when the judging process is completed in April. At this point, product and company names will be posted in the Awards section of the AEP website. Winners are announced at the AEP Awards Banquet & Gala in June in Washington, DC.

Entry Fees

The 2012 AEP Awards entry period is closed. Finalists will be announced in April.

 

If you have questions about payment or the payment process, please contact Brian Sime at 302-295-8344.

 

Pedagogy/Methodology – This category centers specifically on new strategies, theories, or styles in instructional design and approach. Networked Learning Tools – These entries enable the creation of Personal or Professional Learning Networks by and for students and teachers, respectively. Digital Games/Game Creation Tools – This category covers any educational or learning game along with any tools to create learning games, gamification software, and platform modifications that teachers/developers are using for educational purposes. Mobile/Wireless Learning Tools – These are products created exclusively for mobile devices (including smart phones, tablets, and any portable screens with internet access that do not have full PC capabilities) and make use of features, like geolocation and gyroscopic functionality, that are unique to these devices. Simulation Tools – This category encompasses simulations, virtual environments/worlds, meeting spaces, 3-D modeling tools, etc. Student Response/Assessment/Data Management – This category is for Student Response Systems or systems that allow students to provide real-time or asynchronous formative or summative assessment data to teachers. Data Management includes software developed to help teachers and students make sense of formative and summative assessment data. Emerging Technology – Entries that do not clearly fit into the any of the above categories or a product that is a combination of technologies that does not fit one of the above categories should be entered here.