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About the WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award
The WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award recognizes outstanding efforts by member institutions and organizations in applying innovative solutions to a challenging educational need.
WCET envisions a future where high-quality digital learning fosters success for educators and learners.
To highlight the outstanding contributions in digital learning within higher education, we invite our members to nominate exceptional work for the 2025 WOW Awards. Show us how your organization or institution is using digital learning and technology to drive transformation and enhance learner success. We can’t wait to be wowed!
2025 Eligibility
To qualify for this award, nominees must be a WCET member institution or organization in good standing. Check our list of members or join us and become a WCET member now!
Institutions or organizations that received the WCET Outstanding Work award in 2024 are not eligible to submit a nomination this year, but they will again be eligible next year. A work nominated last year that did not receive the WCET Outstanding Work award may be updated and resubmitted using the 2025 criteria.
2025 Nominations
2025 Nominations open on April 14, 2025.
The nomination form includes the following questions:
- How has the nominated project/initiative/program, etc., positively impacted learner success, including student engagement, retention, or academic performance?
- How has the nominee leveraged technology or digital learning tools to address specific educational challenges?
- How does the nominee’s work promote equitable access to education for all learners?
- How does the nomination align with WCET’s mission, vision, and values?
Judging and Notification
The WOW Awards Committee, comprised of WCET member volunteers, will review all nominations and will select the recipients. The WCET Outstanding Work Awards Committee may grant a maximum of three awards and reserves the right to grant fewer than three awards.
Judges will review submissions regarding the innovative nature of the digital learning initiative/project and its impact in higher education.
Winners will:
- Receive a digital WOW Award to display electronically on your website and/or social media.
- Be invited to submit a guest post on WCET Frontiers.
- Be honored at the Awards Celebration Luncheon during the WCET Annual Meeting.
- Be awarded a plaque during the Awards Celebration.
- Be featured in a national press-release with winners of WCET awards.
Award Timeline:
- April 10, 2025 – May 15, 2025 – Nomination Submission Period
- May 15, 2025 – Final Submission Deadline
- May 16, 2025 – June 2025 – Judging Period
- August 2025 – Final Award Notifications
- October 2025 – Awardees honored at WCET 2025
Have questions? We’re here to help, contact us at wceinfo@wiche.edu.
Past WOW Award Winners
See the innovative work addressing important higher education challenges recognized by past WOW awardees in our full list of previous recipients.
