Awards

Meritorious Service Award

This prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to the administrative and management efforts for the conference.

  • Prize: Plaque and Certificate
  • Funding: Funded by the IEEE Education Society
  • Eligibility: Must be a member of the IEEE and preferably a member of the IEEE Education Society
  • Basis for Judging: Dedication, effort and contributions to the conference as judged by the conference Steering Committee members
  • Presentation: Opening Ceremony of the annual conference

Meritorious Service Award

2019 recipient is Anant Agarwal for outstanding contributions to the IEEE LWMMOCS conference.

Best Paper Awards

Best Paper Awards from the technical program are given to both students (Best Student Paper) and non-student presenters (Best Paper):

  • Prize: Certificate
  • Eligibility: Authors of presented submissions in the technical program
  • Basis for Judging: Review results and session chair evaluation of the quality, originality, and attractiveness of the conference presentation
  • Presentation: Closing Ceremony of the annual conference.

Best Paper

Improving MOOC quality using learning analytics tools
Jeffrey S. Cross, Nopphon Keerativoranan, May Kristine Jonson Carlon, Yong Hong Tan, Zarina Rakhimberdina, Hideki Mori (Tokyo Tech, Japan)

F-Lingo: Integrating lexical feature identification into MOOC platforms for learning professional and academic English
Alannah Fitzgerald, Jemma König, Ian H. Witten (The University of Waikato, New Zealand)

Best Student Paper

How Student Background and Topic Impact the Doer Effect in Computational Thinking MOOCs
Jitesh Maiyuran1, Ayesha Bajwa1, Ana Bell2, Erik Hemberg1, Una-May O'Reilly1 (1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CSAIL, United States of America; 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America)

Federal Funding Opportunity Announcements as a Catalyst of Students’ Projects in MOOC Environments
Enrique Alvarez Vazquez, Mary Pearson, Lauren Singelmann, Ryan Striker, Ellen Swartz (North Dakota State University, United States of America )

Best Lightning Speaker Award

The Best Lightning Speaker Award is awarded for outstanding presentation by one of the invited Lightning Speakers.

  • Prize: Certificate.
  • Eligibility: Invited Lightning Speakers
  • Basis for Judging: Voting by the conference participants evaluating the quality, originality, and attractiveness of the conference presentation
  • Presentation: Closing Ceremony of the annual conference

Best Lightning Speaker Award

Ting-Chuen Pong
Using MOOCs and Experiential Learning for Competency Development