The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

Hybrid Harbors: Immersive Learning Spaces for Unsafe Regions
Nataliia Lazebna, Kateryna Lut

Using Zoom Avatars to Weaken Zoom Fatigue in Tertiary Education
Gerhard Hube, Nicholas Müller, Hakan Arda, Christian Möllmann

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

Reducing Achievement Gaps: Exploring How Learning by Doing Can Support Diverse Student Success
Rachel Van Campenhout, Martha Hubertz, Patsy Moskal, Benny G. Johnson