The process is in motion for the next round of OE Awards for Excellence. Here we provide what you should know about nominating a person or project for an award, how the winners are selected, when they will be announced, and updates along the way.
Nominations for the 2025 awards will open June 9.
What’s New?
- Simpler Award Categories. Rather then the array of 16 different categories from 2024 and earlier, this year, we are streamlining them to three that align with previous year’s awards. Within each category, nominators can identify a focus that includes previous sub categories e.g. “Significant Impact OER”, “Open Collaboration” or define a specific focus for the award name.
- Individual Awards (People of Open)
- Open Assets (What We Share)
- Open Practices (How We Share)
- What is Needed for a Nomination? The 2025 Nomination guide wil include details on what is needed to enter an award, suggestions for crafting your nomination, and template you can use to draft your entry.
- Be Award Inspired for 2025! For a random sample, visit to one randomly chosen award going back to 2011. See all the Awards Inspired tagged posts in OEG Connect and suggestions such as exploring previous awardees in the Hall of Fame, Education for All– the ebook published in 2021 for the 10th Anniversary of the awards, or listening to over 45 episodes of OE Global Voices podcasts with previous winners.
2025 Awards Timeline
| Jun 9 | Call for Nominations opens |
| Jul 11 | Deadline to submit a nomination |
| Jul 28 | Committee review process commences |
| Sep 30 | Shortlist of finalists announced online |
| Oct 14-17 | Winners announced on OE Global Live webcast |
Recent OE Award News Stories
- In a special session at the OEGlobal 2024 conference in Brisbane, Open Education Global honored winners and project representatives of OE Awards that were attending the conference. Executive Co-Directors Marcela […]
- On September 18, 2024, in a live show with previous award winners, Open Education Global (OEGlobal) announced the 2024 Open Education Awards for Excellence (OEAwards 2024) winners. Meet all the winners!
Activity in OEG Connect
- Originally published at: Meet the 2024 Open Education Award Winners attending OEGlobal24 in Brisbane – OEGlobal In a special session at the OEGlobal 2024 conference in Brisbane, Open Education Global honored winners and project representatives of OE Awards that were attending the conference. Executive Co-Directors Marcela Morales and Igor Lesko congratulated all award representatives each […]
- Originally published at: Celebrating Excellence in Open Education – the 2024 OEAward Winners – OEGlobal On September 18, 2024, in a live show with previous award winners, Open Education Global (OEGlobal) announced the 2024 Open Education Awards for Excellence (OEAwards 2024) winners. Meet all the winners! 3 posts – 2 participants Read full topic
- Originally published at: Presenting the Shortlist of Finalists for the 2024 OEAwards – OEGlobal Once again the Open Education Awards for Excellence provides recognition for the people, resources, and practices in Open Education through its community-driven process. After the process of open nominations in May and our committee review we are excited to share now […]
- It’s coming up soon, so add this live webcast to your calendars for the excitement of seeing the official announcement of the recipients of the 2024 Open Education Awards for Excellence. See which of the shortlisted finalists join the Hall of Fame gallery of previous award winners. And because all nominations count, we will share […]
- Here is the early word, especially for the select group of people in OEG Connect that check their updates. The shortlists of finalists, from 2 to 6 per award categories is almost ready to share. Shhhhh! shhhh flickr photo by Srta.Palabrerío shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license You will be able to see the […]