Submission Requirements

A. Design Team

The design team must consist of 2-5 BYU students. Teams are encouraged to work in partnership with a faculty mentor. See the Team Page for more details.

B. Video Pitch

Each team will post a video to YouTube introducing and explaining their project to the panel of judges and to anyone else who might be interested in their solution. Videos should be a maximum of five minutes, posted to YouTube with tags that include (1) the name of the team and (2) the label "Innovative Instruction Competition 2011".  Each video should display the title screen template with project title and team members names for the first five seconds of their youtube video.

sample title screen

Videos  should be descriptive and persuasive, including

  • a clear description of the core concept (content) to be addressed, along with its rationale;
  • an overview of the  plan;
  • an explanation/demonstration of important features of the plan, including any instructional products created; and
  • a description of how technology is used with the project, along with a rationale for the design and technology use.

C. Links to Instructional Plan and Products

Each team will need to make its instructional plan and products available online for the judges on a webpage. Instructional products created should follow the open content guidelines.

D. Rationale Document

Each team will post a rationale document (in a public Google Doc, two pages maximum) highlighting the important features of the design and explaining how those features will add value towards the goals of the project.