These awards recognize instructors who leverage technology to:

Foster Engaging Interactions: Instructors use technology to connect their learners beyond the classroom, such as through thoughtfully curated social media platforms, multimedia resources, and online discussion forums. Instructors using technology this way facilitate dynamic, collaborative learning experiences that transcend the boundaries of the traditional classroom.

Enable Immersive Learning: Technology is used in ways that help the learners explore and apply what they are learning in new ways. Creative use in this category could include mobile applications, simulations, gaming environments, and virtual/augmented reality technologies that transport learners into immersive, interactive worlds that deepen their understanding and promote active exploration.

Enhance Classroom Engagement: Instructors using technology for engagement create a more stimulating and inclusive learning atmosphere. Examples of this include using interactive tools like unexpected uses of PollEverywhere and audience response systems, uses of technology to provide exciting collaborative experiences, or incorporating technology in ways that provide multiple means of participation.

Optimize Learning Platforms: Instructors that use Canvas, Zoom, and other educational technologies beyond traditional lectures and resource delivery. Creative uses should significantly amplify the potential for intellectual growth, social connection, and personalized learning pathways within and beyond the digital classroom, such as using discussion boards for debates, breakout rooms for group problem solving, or an ed tech tool for social annotation discussion questions.

Through this award, Tufts celebrates the visionary educators who seamlessly integrate emerging technologies to cultivate dynamic, engaging, and future-focused learning environments. We invite students from all disciplines to nominate instructors whose creative application of technology has profoundly enriched their academic journeys and inspired their intellectual curiosity.