Welcome

Registration for entries is now open for the Learning Technologies Awards 2025. There are 21 categories to choose from, providing an incredible opportunity to profile the great work you are doing. Elevate customer trust and confidence, attract potential investors, provide employees with international recognition for their work, and entice new business prospects.

If you have any queries regarding your submission or the Awards in general, please email Jo Penton at jo.penton@learningtechnologiesawards.co.uk

Entry registration fees

1-2 entries: £180 plus VAT per individual entry
3-7 entries: £175 plus VAT per individual entry
8 or more entries: £170 plus VAT per individual entry

Key dates for your calendar

25 July 2025: Entry and submission deadline
August 2025: First round of judging
9 September 2025: Shortlist announced
11 September 2025: Table bookings open
Late September 2025: Shortlist presentations to a judging panel online
12 November 2025: Gala evening where winners are announced!

Best learning technologies project - commercial sector

This award seeks to recognise where excellence in the application of learning technologies across the board has met organisational needs and led to a lasting, measurable and positive impact. The project may consist of a single intervention or a broader implementation of learning technologies.


£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Best learning technologies project - public & non-profit sector

This award seeks to recognise where excellence in the application of learning technologies across the board has met organisational needs and led to a lasting, measurable and positive impact.

The project may consist of a single intervention or a broader implementation of learning technologies.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Excellence in the design of learning content - commercial sector

This award recognises excellence in the way every aspect of the design of content that enables effective learning. The focus of the award is how well the learning content embodies the principles of evidence-based learning design and cognitive science, and the ways in which the design facilitates learning to meet a defined performance need.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Excellence in the design of learning content - public & non-profit sector

This award recognises excellence in the way every aspect of the design of technology-based content enables effective learning. The focus of the award is how well the learning content embodies the principles of evidence-based learning design and cognitive science, and the ways in which the design facilitates learning to meet a defined performance need.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Best use of AI in learning

This award seeks to recognise excellence in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform learning. Credit will be given for clear and inspiring accounts of how AI tools, methods, or approaches have been adopted to help organisations improve performance, deliver efficiencies, or overcome challenges in ways commonly considered difficult or unachievable by other means.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Best use of social and collaborative learning technologies

The usefulness of social and collaborative technologies to increase the reach and power of informal learning has proved very successful in many organisations. This award seeks to reward excellence in organisations’ application of social and collaborative technologies in enhancing learning opportunities and meeting performance and organisational needs.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Best technology-based onboarding programme

One of the most popular uses of learning technologies is to provide an onboarding programme that introduces new employees to an organisation and their role within it. This award is aimed at onboarding programmes that use learning technologies to speed up and smooth employees’ induction to help them become integrated in the organisation and effective in their new role.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Most innovative new learning technologies product

As we have seen repeatedly over the past few decades, innovative products have the potential to revolutionise the way learning is designed, delivered, supported, enhanced or managed. This award seeks to recognise such products.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Best technology-based learning game

This award seeks to recognise technology-based games that play a key role in the support of specific learning aims. We will recognise innovative uses of these techniques, as well as the extent to which they lead to greater engagement, enjoyment and motivation, and provide a more effective learning experience than more traditional approaches.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Best use of simulations or virtual environments for learning

This award seeks to recognise simulations and virtual environments that play a key role in the support of specific learning aims. We will recognise innovative uses of these techniques, as well as the extent to which they lead to greater engagement, enjoyment and motivation, and provide a more effective learning experience than more traditional approaches.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Best online distance learning programme

Distance learning courses have been enhanced considerably by the use of the internet as a means for accessing content, assessment, communication and collaboration. The majority of distance learning courses now include a considerable online component, sometimes blended with face-to-face, print and other media.

This award seeks to recognise those distance learning programmes which have made excellent use of online media and tools to facilitate learning. The award is particularly focused on those programmes that employ a range of methods and media over many weeks or months of part-time study, typically leading to a formal qualification.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Best use of blended learning - commercial sector

Learning technologies are often only part of a bigger, blended learning programme of activity designed to bring about change. This award seeks to find examples of outstanding blended learning, in which learning technologies and other strategies and media have been applied to complement each other to achieve an overall organisational goal.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Best use of blended learning - public & non-profit sector

Learning technologies are often only part of a bigger, blended learning programme of activity designed to bring about change. This award seeks to find examples of outstanding blended learning, in which learning technologies and other strategies and media have been applied to complement each other to achieve an overall organisational goal.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Best use of learning technologies to ensure compliance with external regulations or internal policies to manage organisational risk

One of the most common uses of learning technologies in organisations is to deliver ethics and compliance learning courses and programmes to ensure compliance with external legislation and regulations or internal policies to manage organisational risk. However, all too often, such courses and programmes are seen within organisations as more of an inconvenient necessity than a valuable opportunity, so they can vary greatly in effectiveness and impact. This award seeks to celebrate those 'Compliance' learning programmes that go beyond a 'tick in the box' and deliver true organisational impact.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Best learning platform implementation

A learning platform has the potential to have a huge positive impact within an organisation. This award seeks to recognise that impact in terms of contribution to organisational success, use of new technologies, impact on learners and return on investment.

The learning platform will consist of a single implementation or cloud solution for a specific organisation. The term ‘learning platform’ can also be interpreted widely to include all forms of systems that manage the learning processes of an organisation, for example LCMSs and other software systems that help organise and support learning.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Best use of learning data analytics to impact learner and business performance

Many organisations are increasingly looking towards the emerging role of data analytics to provide valuable insights into the impact of their learning programmes on both learner and business performance, and to inform important business decisions.

The judges will look for analytics that go beyond the traditional learning consumption data (i.e. ‘completions'), and will want to see how a digital learning programme, campaign or experience has delivered measurable change.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

The best digital learning transformation programme

Many organisations are undertaking fundamental transformations to how learning and development are being enabled by embracing the benefits of embedding digital learning technologies into their ways of working, their methodologies and the structures at the heart of their business strategy. This isn’t about a singular course or implementation but genuine transformation that fundamentally changes how learning is enabled and how it impacts people, culture and the organisation.

‘Digital learning transformation’ here means much more than simply ‘going online’, and judges will want to know how meaningful transformation has been planned, implemented and supported, and what its impact has been on the organisation.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Learning technologies team of the year

This award recognises teams who have achieved a positive change within their organisation using learning technologies as a performance development tool.

The team may have implemented a new programme or used many different ways to ensure that the adoption and take up of new tools has made a demonstrative and highly effective impact on the organisation and how it performs against its objectives. The team may have produced a new technique that saves time and money in achieving performance change using learning technologies.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Learning technologies organisation of the year

To win this award, organisations must demonstrate a positive contribution to their service or product offering backed up by solid customer service, account and project management. They must also show that they have made positive steps in exceeding customer expectations and that these are backed up by testimonials and other supporting evidence.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Learning designer of the year

This is an individual award that recognises the contribution that learning designers make to the success of learning technologies projects. Learning designers are taken to mean those who work with subject matter experts to specify and write learning materials subsequently realised by learning developers and graphic artists. The award is assessed based on consistent high quality and effective learning design over at least four years.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)

Learning developer of the year

This is an individual award that recognises the contribution that developers make to the success of learning technologies projects. Developers are taken to mean anyone involved in realising designs specified at the learning design stage, and thus may include software developers, graphic artists or video developers. The award is assessed based on consistent high quality and effective development work over at least four years.

£ 180.00 +VAT (20%)


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