This is a recognition specifically for all of the listed editors, authors, artists and peer reviewers of Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures.
The timing of this work born into the turmoil and unsettling of the global pandemic but also on the backdrop of continued social upheaval, neoliberalism, and seemingly eroding of the values of open education make a strong case for it’s purpose not just being as to raise a flag for hope, but also to generate action towards addressing these issues. This was very well evident in the OER24 keynote “The future isn’t what it used to be: Open education at a crossroads” by its co-editors that was not a celebration of a published open work, but again, a call for cooperation and action going forward.
This award goes to 118 people
79 Authors and Artists
Alex Abrahams, Tel Amiel, Patricia Arinto, Jyoti Arora, Jess Auerbach Jahajeeah, Frances Bell, Dina Zoe Belluigi, Kate Bowles, Julie Byrne, Lorna Campbell, Leslie Chan, Elizabeth Childs, Raewyn Connell, Paola Corti, Eamon Costello, Philip Mbulalina Dambisya, Robin DeRosa, Maeve A. Devoy, Janaina do Rozário Diniz, Amber Donahue, Flora Masumbuo Fabian, Tim Fawns, Sharon Flynn, Giulia Forsythe, Primo G. Garcia, Mona Ghali, Brenna Clarke Gray, Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela, Jonathan Harle, Carol Hordatt Gentles, Jonathan Jansen, Jonny Johnston, Perpetua Joseph Kalimasi, Su-Ming Khoo, Benedict Khumalo, Rehema Kilonzo, Caroline Kuhn, Gloria Lamaro, Tamara Leary, Rob Lowney, Jim Luke, Albert Luswata, Felicitas Macgilchrist, Sheila MacNeill, Eimer Magee, Mpine Makoe, Ana Katrina Marcial, Niamh McArdle, Kyla McLeod, Sanjaya Mishra, Pradeep Kumar Misra, Kate Molloy, David Moloney, David Monk, Morag Munro, Lou Mycroft, Chrissi Nerantzi, Edwin Ngowi, Juuso Henrik Nieminen, Femi Nzegwu, Fernandos, Ekaterina (Katya) Pechenkina, Judith Pete, Paul Prinsloo, Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli, Aleya Ramparsad Banwari, Jasmine Ryan, Anne-Marie Scott, George Sfougaras, Damary Sikalieh, Sherri Spelic, Suzanne Stone, Clare Thomson, Vicki Trowler, Kristin van Tonder, George Veletsianos, Michaela Waters, Andreas Wittel, Kyle Wright
36 Peer-Reviewers
Ishan Abeywardena, Jane-Frances Agbu, Najma Aghardien, Ibrar Bhatt, Carina Bossu, Cheryl Brown, Linda Castañeda, Manuel Joāo Costa, Alison Farrell, Jairo Fúnez-Flores, Peter Goodyear, Himasha Gunasekara, Sandhya Gunness, Melissa Highton, Phil Hill, Mandy Hlengwa, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Petar Jandrić, Christopher Knaus, Allison Littlejohn, Tristan McCowan, Gita Mistri, Erick Montenegro, Marcela Morales, Hoda Mostafa, Simbarashe Moyo, Jackline Nyerere, Larry Erhuvwuoghene Onokpite, Luci Pangrazio, Rubina Ramparsad, Shikha Raturi, Jen Ross, Bonnie Stewart, Marwan Tarazi, Melody Viczko, Ben Williamson
3 Editors
Catherine Cronin, Laura Czerniewicz, Larry Erhuvwuoghene Onokpite
About Higher Education For Good
After decades of turbulence and acute crises in recent years, how can we build a better future for Higher Education?
Thoughtfully edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, this rich and diverse collection by academics and professionals from across 17 countries and many disciplines offers a variety of answers to this question. It addresses the need to set new values for universities, trapped today in narratives dominated by financial incentives and performance indicators, and examines those “wicked” problems which need multiple solutions, resolutions, experiments, and imaginaries.
About Higher Education for Good
This mix of new and well-established voices provides hopeful new ways of thinking about Higher Education across a range of contexts, and how to concretise initiatives to deal with local and global challenges. In an unusual and refreshing way, the contributors provide insights about resilience tactics and collective actions across different levels of higher education using an array of styles and formats including essays, poetry, and speculative fiction.
With its interdisciplinary appeal, this book presents itself as a provocative and inspiring resource for universities, students, and scholars. Higher Education for Good courageously offers critique, hope, and purpose for the practice and the trajectory of Higher Education.
See also
- Higher Education For Good: curating a cohesive book (Laura Czerniewicz blog)
- HE4Good editorial principles: heterogeneity, care, and community (Catherine Cronin blog)
It seems evident in the representational breadth of authors, the multimodality of their expression, but more so, in the stories of what went into the creation of this work, this is a definitive example of global, open collaboration purposefully driven.
Award Nominator
The book fosters collaboration among individuals from around the globe, particularly amplifying unprivileged voices and promoting socially just perspectives. As an open-access book, it fully supports the exchange of ideas facilitated by technology. Its journey of collective hope and positive imagining is driven by the extensive representational breadth of the authors and the multimodal perspectives and stories they share in this work.
Award Reviewer
This collaboration is a great example of how a large multinational group of people can come together to create an open resource that makes a case for open education and its power to transform higher education (and by extension, society) for the better. The scale of this collaboration and the breadth of topics addressed are impressive.
Award Reviewer
