Announcing the Winners of Tech & Learning's Best of 2024 Awards

Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024 Highlights Innovative Educational Technology Products

The Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024 celebrated the most outstanding educational technology products from the past year, honouring solutions that excel in supporting teachers, students, and education professionals in the classroom, professional development, and management of education resources.

The winners in the Primary, Secondary, and Higher Education categories include:

Primary Education:

The NEXT Hub by Clear Touch won in the Primary category.
Winners were chosen based on high scores across the criteria of ease of use, value, versatility, and utility.
Teachers' Curriculum Institute (TCI)'s Bring Science Alive! and Social Studies Alive! K-5 programs are nominated products in the Primary Education category.
Vivi's Vivi Video and Text Announcements, Makina Editorial's MakeMake Digital Library en Español, Edmentum's Exact Path, and Pixton Comics Inc.'s Pixton are also nominated products in the Primary Education category.
TechTerra Educaton's STEM in a Box, Wonder Workshop's Make Wonder, and SchoolStatus's SchoolStatus Attend are nominated products as well.
Acer's Chromebook Plus 514, Capstone's The PebbleGo Suite, Pikmykid's School Messaging, SMART Technologies' Lumio, and Reading Horizons' Reading Horizons Discovery Product Suite are also nominated products in the Primary Education category.
Other nominated products include Clear Digital's The Müv, Seesaw Learning's Seesaw Instruction & Insights, Benchmark Education Company's Benchmark Universe, Samsung Electronics America's WAD, Otus, Learning Genie, Inc.'s Learning Genie, Inc., MobyMax, eGlass's eGlass Lightboard, Instructure's Mastery Connect, FEV Tutor, Age of Learning's My Reading Academy Español, My Math Academy, and My Reading Academy, Defined Learning, Pitsco Education's LUMA, Presence's Presence Therapy Platform, Kibeam Learning's Inc.'s Kibeam Reading Wand and Kibeam.com's Kibeam, Curriculum Associates' i-Ready, MAXCases' MAXCases Shield Extreme-X2 Case with 3.5mm Adapter and Tamper-Resistant Design, Pocketalk's Pocketalk S2 Plus, and Reading Horizons' Reading Horizons Discovery Product Suite.

Secondary Education:

Edmentum won multiple awards for innovation in digital learning, which includes products relevant to secondary education.

Higher Education:

Study.com’s Free, AI-enabled Praxis Core Test Prep, which is targeted for licensure pass rates improvement, won a Gold Stevie Award representing higher education innovation.
Other winners in the Higher Education category include Anthology, Blackboard by Anthology, AVer Information Inc. USA, TR315, BenQ, ideaCam S1 Pro, BenQ Board RP04, Bloomberg, Bloomberg for Education, Cisco, Cisco Networking Academy, ClassLink, Copyleaks, AI Detector, Crestron Electronics, Inc., Crestron 1 Beyond i-Series Cameras, D2L, D2L Lumi, Gale, part of Cengage Group, Gale Digital Scholar Lab, Gale Literature Resource Center, Instructure, Canvas LMS, IXL Learning, Rosetta Stone, Realms IP.TV, EduxGen.AI, Samsung Electronics America, WAD, Smart Monitor M80D, 27" ViewFinity S8, Science Interactive Group, Science Interactive, Sharp Information and Imaging Company of America, X171 Laser Projector, Turnitin, Turnitin's AI Writing Detection Feature + Product Portfolio, WIN Learning, Academic Skills Courseware, My Work Ready, and Zoom Communications, Inc., Zoom Workplace for Education.

Christine Weiser, content director for Tech & Learning, commented on the explosion of innovation in educational technology in 2024 and the impressive breadth of the winning products. BenQ's BenQ Board RP04 and ideaCam S1 Pro are nominated products in both the Primary and Higher Education categories. ClassLink is a nominated product in all three categories: Primary, Secondary, and Higher Education. D2L's D2L Lumi is a nominated product in all three categories as well.

The NEXT Hub by Clear Touch, a versatile and user-friendly solution, won in the Primary category of the Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024.
Teachers' Curriculum Institute's Bring Science Alive! and Social Studies Alive! K-5 programs are nominated products in the Primary Education category, offering interactive and immersive learning experiences.
Edmentum won multiple awards for innovation in digital learning, with solutions pertinent to both secondary and higher education.
In the Higher Education category, Study.com’s Free, AI-enabled Praxis Core Test Prep stood out for its potential to improve licensure pass rates.
Winners in the Secondary Education category, besides Edmentum, include Anthology, Blackboard by Anthology, AVer Information Inc. USA, TR315, BenQ, and Cisco Networking Academy, among others.
Christine Weiser, content director for Tech & Learning, highlighted the explosion of innovation in educational technology, with BenQ's BenQ Board RP04 and ideaCam S1 Pro being nominated in both the Primary and Higher Education categories.
ClassLink and D2L's D2L Lumi are noteworthy, as they are nominated products in all three categories (Primary, Secondary, and Higher Education), underscoring the importance of technology in education-and-self-development.