Awards Program / About the IELA Awards

The International E-Learning Awards are given each year for the best work in online learning, in two divisions: Academic and Business/Industry. All submissions are evaluated by the IELA Awards Committee, who looks for a variety of attributes. These include, among others, educational soundness and effectiveness, user experience, and overall significance.

The Business Division is intended for courses and products created for organizational learning, professional development, and related purposes, and for software tools used to create products for those audiences. The Academic Division is intended for school and university courses and software used in the creation of academic courses.

The 2026 Business Division winners will be announced at The Learning Ideas Conference 2026, to be held in New York and online from June 10-12, 2026. Winners of the 2026 Academic Division awards will be announced at the ICL Conference in Cologne, Germany. Submissions for the 2026 Business Division awards are now being accepted, and submissions for the 2026 Academic Division awards will open in March of 2026. Please see our Awards Schedule for 2026 submission dates.

With any questions, please contact us at info@ielassoc.org.