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

2020 recipient is Carlos Delgado Kloos 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

The Search for the MOOC Credit Hour
James J. Lohse, Filipe Altoe, Jasmine Jose, Andrew N. Nowotarski, Farrukh Rahman, Robert C. Tuck, David A. Joyner (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America)

Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials: A Comic-Based MOOC
Jessica Sandland, Emma Vargo, Jonathan Paras, George Varnavides, Sarah Warkander, Polina Anikeeva (MIT, United States of America)

Best Student Paper

Reacting to COVID-19 campus imminent closure: Enabling remote networking laboratories via MOOCs
Nina Slammick-Krijestorak, Johann M. Marquez-Barja ( University of Antwerp & imec, IDLab, Belgium)

Investigating the feasibility of using Video Lecture Capturing as a teaching and learning tool: A case of a rural university in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Azile Gcaleka, David Tatenda Risinamhodzi (Walter Sisulu University, South Africa)

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

Justin Reich
The Three Big Bets of MOOCs and What Comes After

Carlos Delgado Kloos
Adjusting the Parameters of Educational Models