Marshall University's website and mobile application Clio, which alerts users to historically and culturally significant sites around them, won a national award for innovation, according to a Monday news release.
Campus Technology, a monthly digital magazine, named the Clio project one of two Education Futurists, a category recognizing forward-thinking projects that use cutting-edge technology.
"We were impressed with the crowdsourcing philosophy behind Clio, the way it draws on the collective knowledge of the community to create a valuable resource that is available to anyone," said Rhea Kelly, executive editor of Campus Technology, in the release. "And the idea of an individual professor creating a tool and contributing it to the broader digital ecosystem is something that represents the future of higher education - a commitment to openness and collaboration."
Marshall and other award winners will be honored at a ceremony at the 2016 Campus Technology Conference at Boston in the beginning of August.