The Open Education Global recognizes each year since 2011 recipients of the Open Education Awards for Excellence (OEAwards), whose work reflects the outstanding achievements and shared wealth of the open education community.
To appreciate the range of recognition, here are five ones selected at random from the 211 total awards since 2011.
- Werner Westermann Awarded in: 2021
- Dr. Oladele Ogunseitan Awarded in: 2012
- National Digital Library of India (NDLI) Awarded in: 2020
- Actividad Fisica para la Salud Awarded in: 2011
- Sesamath Awarded in: 2014
Explore and get inspired by the full collection in the Awards Hall of Fame.
Award categories are reviewed each year and evolved to ensure they are current, relevant, and reflect the emerging innovations in the Open Education movement. The awards are organized broadly into groups of People in Open (Individual Awards), What We Share (Open Assets), How We Share (Open Practices), and Special Awards. Visit the 2023 Category Explorer to review the current set of awards that open for nomination on May 10, 2023.
The OEAwards (2013, 2014) made me a visible and dominant educator in Taiwan. Utilizing the visibility and influence, I initiated a series of efforts to improve science education in high schools. This year (2021) the efforts are recognized by the most prestigious National Excellent Teacher Award in Taiwan.
National Tsing Hua University, Thermal and Statistical Physics (2013) & General Physics (2014) • Video & Multimedia Award (2013) & Outstanding Course Award (2014)
Thanks to the Award and to the time investment we did internally in METID, the Unit devoted to learning innovation at Polimi, we could organize together with OE Global the 2019 edition of the OE Global Conference and I just finished a course on Open Education with faculty members. We are taking it one step at a time, relentlessly. […]
I’d like to share also that thanks to this first openly licensed MOOC our Polimi Open Knowledge platform is now full of openly licensed MOOCs, and we implemented a process that gives priority to open licenses, embraced by the large majority of our content experts and professors.
Politecnico di Milano, OER101 – Using Open Educational Resources in Teaching Open MOOC Award 2017
Receiving the President’s Award helped me to realize that my many years of behind-the-scenes work had, in fact, been seen and appreciated by my colleagues.
College of the Canyons, Service to OEG, President’s Award 2019
The project focused on creating and implementing an Arithmetic MOOC. I taught several sessions of the class offered to hundreds of students all around the world. That project ended around 2015, however, I have continued to write OER materials and create OER-supported learning opportunities for my students.
Scottsdale Community College, Basic Arithmetic Video and Multimedia Award 2013
Embedding OER into higher education and College Promise programs continues to be a tenet of making a college education affordable for our nation’s students.
We continue to showcase and advocate for OER in College Promise programs at the local and state level.
College Promise. Making a college education freely available, accessible, and affordable has high school has been in the 20th century. President’s Award 2014
The OER Knowledge Cloud became more widely known among OER and MOOC researchers as a result of the award; and we have received a growing number of visits from researchers.
The OER Knowledge Cloud now hosts more than 2700 records by 4667 authors!
Athabasca University OER Knowledge Cloud Open Research Award 2014
Get Inspired! Be Part of the Awards Community Process
The awards provide both recognition but also inspiration for the open education community. All nominations come from that community and the review and award selection process is completed by a committee of past awardees.
We invite all open educators to consider the people, organizations, and projects that inspire them and to please consider entering a nomination for a 2023 OEAward.
- Review and explore the Award categories for 2023.
- Look for inspiration in the awardees of 2022 and 2021, the entire OEAwards archive, the voices of previous winners from the OEG Voices podcasts, or the ten year retrospective of the OEAwards.
- Stay up to date with the current announcements and information for the 2023 OEAwards.
- Review the Nomination Guide for everything needed to submit one (or more!) this year.
- When ready with all of your materials, complete the online nomination form.
Questions or Comments?
For any questions about the OEAwards and the process for 2023, contact us by email at awards@oeglobal.org or post a question in our space in OEG Connect.
Together we stand for a world of openness where knowledge is openly and freely accessible. The Open Education Global acknowledges these efforts, alliances and collaborations through the 2023 OEAwards.
