Congratulations to Andrea Ward, Senior University Teacher in People Development, Leadership and Change, who will be part of the judging panel for the 2021 Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards.
Selecting from 521 candidates – almost twice as many as last year’s 263 – the Awards Steering Committee selected 225 expert educators to contribute their knowledge and experience to the evaluation of this year’s applications.
Key facts about this year’s cohort include:
- Judges hail from 45 countries and territories, with all six continents represented by at least one evaluator.
- The most-represented countries and territories are: United States (41 judges), Australia (19), United Kingdom and Mexico (17 each), Malaysia (16), and Hong Kong (11).
- Judges have, on average, 19.25 years of experience in the education sector.
The judging process will be divided into three rounds of independent judging and three rounds of internal moderation, conducted between 4 October and 10 December. It culminates in the live selection of the 2021/22 Reimagine Education Overall Winners which will take place during the Reimagine Education Conference’s Award Ceremony – education’s ‘Oscars’ night (10 December, 18:05 GMT).
Andrea Ward said: “It is a real privilege to be selected to be part of the judging panel. I am excited to be part of the Reimagine Education Awards and look forward to reviewing innovative approaches that enhance student learning outcomes and employability while contributing to the future of higher education teaching and learning.”
Jack Moran, Reimagine Education Program Manager, said: “The Reimagine Education Awards are designed to provide reliable, robust signals to the education sector regarding the quality of teaching and learning across the world’s universities – and those edtech solutions that have most successfully demonstrated their efficacy, uniqueness, and scalability.”
“Providing such signals relies upon the unparalleled power of peer review – the collective wisdom of a record number of highly-experienced educators. We are delighted that the scope of this initiative continues to grow, and, in our most competitive candidate cohort ever, congratulate all of our judges on their selection. Global, multisectoral and multidisciplinary, they are well-placed to evaluate an application base that is equally so.”
The full list of 2021’s judges can be found at: https://www.reimagine-education.com/judging-panel/.
The Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards – offering $50,000 and global visibility to their winner – are accepting Award submissions until Sunday 3 October, 23:59 BST.
Applicants can begin their Reimagine Education journey at no cost at https://portal.reimagine-education.com/.
The Reimagine Education Awards are co-organized by QS Quacquarelli Symonds – global higher education analysts and compilers of the QS World University Rankings – and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Now in their eighth year, they illuminate world-class teaching and learning innovation across 16 Award Categories, and solicited 1472 submissions from universities and edtech companies in 2020.