The 2024 Open Education Awards for Excellence (OEAwards24) nomination period ended on June 30.
The first review shows that this year’s pool of nominations is strong and truly award-worthy, with over 110 133 people, resources, and projects nominated. We’ve also received a good balance of submissions across the four main awards categories, with 37 Individual nominations, 31 Open Asset nominations, 18 Open Practices nominations, and 27 nominations for innovations in the Special Awards category.
The nominations exhibit the global diversity of the open education community, with nominations received in English, German, French and Spanish. All the nominations currently gathered represent the full breadth of open education excellence from 29 countries – Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Mauritania, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States, and Viet Nam.
What now?
In mid-July, the 29-member OEAwards24 panel, made up of previous award winners, will review and rate nominations. These will be ranked and compiled into the Shortlist of Finalists, which will be shared by August 30. The winners will be announced in a live online event on September 18.
The Awards as a celebration of Open Education Success
There are many great stories that have come out of the OEAwards over its long history. You can catch up with past award winners in the following ways:
- The latest OEGlobal Voices podcasts featuring
- Read about or watch our OEAward Impact Stories – we’ve been assembling short audio clips of these stories into a collection of audiograms – watch them on the YouTube playlist.
We’d love to add your story! Share it with us at awards@oeglobal.org.
I’ve been most fortunate to peek at the nominations as the flow in, and have to say this is one impressive pool of nominations.
If it were me, I’d give every nomination an award. You can be sure that like last year we will be listing and linking all nominations.
Because I enjoy photographs, actual human generated imagery, I want to say to all the people who entered a nomination:
Thank You! flickr photo by cogdogblog shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license
And keep tuned to our OE Global Voices podcast series with award winners. It takes me almost the full year to catch up, but I am just now editing a recording with Nikki Andersen, University of South Queensland, winner of the 2023 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award for an OER created as an Australian context guide and framework for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility.
And scheduled too are ones with 2023 Leadership Awardee Patrina Law and with Bea de los Arcos for WIidcard category winner for We Like Sharing
Awards season is moving quickly towards our September announcement of winners.