Share this article Share this article BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The global pandemic revealed many heroes in teaching and learning across the world. The Association for Educational Communications and Technology intends to identify and recognize them by establishing the Honoring Educational Revolutions in Online (HERO) Practice Awards. The awards will recognize innovative uses of educational technology across a variety of settings in response to the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts on teaching and learning. Alison Carr-Chellman, AECT incoming president and dean of the School of Education and Health Sciences at the University of Dayton "The pandemic is one of the most significant events in the history of education, an event that has changed our practices nearly overnight"