• American Educational Research Association (AERA) Online Teaching and Learning SIG Best Research Paper Award 2020 https://www.aera.net/SIG035/Awards
• "This year the AERA Online Teaching and Learning SIG is proud to announce the Best Research Paper Award to: 

1. Hamdan Alamri, King Saud University - Riyadh
2. Victoria Lynn Lowell, Purdue University
3. Sunnie Lee Watson, Purdue University
4. William R. Watson, Purdue University

For their work on “Using Personalized Learning as an Instructional Approach to Motivate Learners in Online Higher Education: Learner Self-Determination and Intrinsic Motivation.”