Ubongo was selected for the Global EdTech Award, proudly sponsored by Google Cloud, and worth $25,000 in Google Cloud credits. Ubongo is a Pan-African social enterprise that leverages the power of entertainment, mass media, rigorous research, and kid-centred design to bring effective, localized learning to African families at low cost through the technology they already have. As Africa’s largest classroom, Ubongo provides free edutainment programs on TV, radio, and digital. The educational shows are available in 11 languages in 40 countries, reaching 24.6 million families. The content improves cognitive development, learning outcomes, and social-emotional skills while ensuring every child can experience fun in learning.

Snapplify for Education is the continent’s regional award winner. The Good Work Foundation, in South Africa, receives four awards: one silver and three bronze.
Mosabi, from Sierra Leone takes the regional silver award while in the discipline awards, it takes Bronze for Business Education. Jumpstart Academy form Cameroon, takes the bronze regional award.

Following last year’s success with the University of Sydney Business School winning the overall education prize with their initiative Job Smart, the top university achiever is again an Australian university.

The Queensland University of Technology, QUT Design for Impact winning solution, selected by the Reimagine Education Grand Jury to win the Global Education Award (worth $25,000 in cash funding, sponsored by QS), delivers an innovative interdisciplinary approach. Transdisciplinary ‘Impact Labs’ were introduced across the QUT Bachelor of Design curriculum in 2019. Drawing on stakeholder feedback reflecting shifting employer and global needs, the four units, ‘Place’, ‘People’, ‘Planet’ and ‘Purpose’, aim to future-proof design students’ careers. Labs facilitate the development of students’ theoretical understandings of societal and global issues.

Reimagine Education 2021 shed light on the excellence of innovative solutions enhancing learning outcomes and employability for a future billion learners. In addition to the three overall awards, it rewarded innovation in sixteen main award categories (including AI, VR/AR, e-learning, educational apps and more), six disciplines (arts & humanities, business education, engineering & IT, life sciences, natural sciences and social sciences) and regional awards.

The complete list of winners includes links to the 2’ video summary for each project.

The Reimagine Education Awards are open to edtech companies, universities, schools, and educational non-profits worldwide. Contested by applicants from eighty-four nations, they seek to offer global higher education a platform through which outstanding pedagogical innovation can be identified and rewarded.

Nunzio Quacquarelli, CEO, QS and co-founder of Reimagine Education, said: “At the end of the second consecutive disruptive year for global higher education, it has been a pleasure and a privilege to offer a platform to the projects, pedagogies, and solutions that represent the future of educational provision. With over 300 independent judges participating in the evaluation process, plus a distinguished 20 persons Grand Jury, our winners have received the unequivocal backing of expert educationalists across the world. They should take exceptional pride in their achievement.”

Next year’s Reimagine Education Award Competition will open on Monday 21st March 2022. Application is free of charge in perpetuity, and those interested in submitting should visit www.Reimagine-Education.com.