ICED Awards
Celebrating outstanding contributors.
Spirit of ICED Award
The purpose of The Spirit of ICED Award is to recognise and celebrate individuals or groups who have made an outstanding contribution to advancing the object of ICED to advance education worldwide by promoting, sustaining, and increasing individual and collective knowledge and understanding of all aspects of educational development in higher education, and the aims of ICED, which are to:
- Serve as a hub, networker, curator, and disseminator for educational development practitioners, researchers, and resources
- Help new and existing Member Networks develop their capacity for educational development through the sharing of good theory, practice, problems, and solutions.
- Increase the number of partner organisations of ICED and help educational developers in countries or regions where no network organisations exist
Nominees are defined as individuals or groups who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in educational development. The key criteria for selection are as follows:
- Perceived opportunities for expanding the boundaries of educational development and acted to bring visions to reality
- Used evidence to bravely challenge and improve existing educational development practice
- Actively disseminated educational development practice and/or theory across boundaries
- Provided a role model to educational developers
IJAD Article of the Year Award
The International Journal for Academic Development Article of the Year award was created in 2013 to honour the best article published in IJAD each year, as judged by a panel of academic development experts from the IJAD editorial board.