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Celebrating Excellence in Open Education – the 2024 OEAward Winners

On September 18, 2024, in an exciting live show featuring previous OEAward recipients, Open Education Global (OEGlobal) announced the award winners of the 2024 Open Education Awards for Excellence (OEAwards 2024).

The OEAwards recognize outstanding contributions to open education across 16 categories across four core segments. The annual global celebration recognizes outstanding contributions in the Open Education community, exemplary leaders, distinctive Open Educational Resources, Open Practices worldwide, and inspiring innovations.

This year, the OEAwards process received and reviewed nominations for more than 120 people and projects from 29 countries. The 30-member review committee (comprising previous award winners) and the OEGlobal Board of Directors reviewed the nominations to yield the shortlist of finalists and this collection of 25 Award Winners for 2024.

Keep reading to meet the winners!

If you missed the excitement, you can watch the OEAward show anytime. Click on the YouTube image above!

Meet the 2024 Award for Excellence winners

People of Open: Individual Award Winners

Open Education is only possible due to the work and passion of extraordinary people. The 2024 Open Education Awards for Excellence recognizes these People of Open with Individual Awards:

  • The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Martin Weller at Open University, United Kingdom.
  • The President’s Award goes to Lisa Young at Maricopa Community Colleges, United States.
  • The Catalyst Award goes to Melody Chin at Singapore Management University, Singapore.
  • The Catalyst Award goes to Kimberlee Carter at Conestoga College, Canada.
  • The Leadership Award goes to Colin de la Higuera at Nantes Université, France.
  • The Leadership Award goes to Laura Czerniewicz at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
  • The Open Educator Award goes to Maria Luisa Zorrilla  at Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico.
  • The Student Award goes to Carleigh Charlton at Brock University, Canada.

Meet the eight 2024 Individual Award Winners…

What We Share: Open Assets Award Winners

Open assets are what open education initiatives produce and use: tangible goods (usually digital) with educational purpose and value. Open assets are created, curated, and distributed in ways that make them freely accessible, usable, and improvable by others. The 2024 Open Assets Awards Winners are:

  • The Open Curation / Repository Award goes to 101 Creative Ideas to Use AI in Education: A Crowdsourced Collection, which includes contributions from members of the University of Leeds, University of Calgary, University of Macedonia, University of Suffolk, and University of the Arts London in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Greece.
  • The Open Infrastructure award goes to the Open Music Academy, which is published and maintained by Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, Germany.
  • The Open Reuse / Remix / Adaption Award goes to The Remixer Machine, created by Visual Thinkery in the United Kingdom.
  • The Significant Impact OER Award goes to Frontiers for Young Minds, which was created by Frontiers for Young Minds in Switzerland.
  • An additional Significant Impact OER Award goes to Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers from multiple contributors based in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Europe, and Papua New Guinea.

Meet the five Open Assets Award Winners…

How We Share: Open Practices Award Winners

Open Practices are collective behaviors and techniques that open up access to educational opportunities. The 2024 Open Practices Award Winners are:

  • The Open Collaboration Award goes to all the people involved in creating the book “Higher Education for Good,” which was created by 118 people worldwide, including 79 authors and artists, 36 peer-reviewers, and three editors.
  • The Open Collaboration Award goes to the CAUL Open Educational Resources Collective facilitated by the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL), Australia.
  • The Open Pedagogy Award goes to the WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique (WikiChallenge African Schools) annual contest in primary schools across 10 francophone African countries created and managed by Wiki In Africa in collaboration with Fondation Orange.
  • The Open Research Award goes to the Call For Science: Revolutionizing Open Educational Research, which is facilitated by the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.

Meet the four 2024 Open Practices Award Winners…

Special Awards

While the core categories of OE Awards (individual, resources & practices) remain the same each year, we always look for ways to reflect new trends and emerging innovations recognized through awards that change with the times. The Award winners in this years’ Special Awards category are:

  • The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award goes to Doing the Work: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Open Educational Resources and Equity-minded Open Course Design, facilitated by Open Oregon Educational Resources, United States.
  • The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award goes to Open for Antiracism (OFAR), a five year project conducted withing the California Community College System by CCCOER and the College of the Canyons, United States.
  • The Enacting SDGs Award goes to the Education in Emergencies (EiE) Package created by the Education Above All Foundation, Qatar.
  • A new category for 2024: Open With Artificial Intelligence Award goes to Open Audio – OER Audiobooks created and published by Los Angeles Harbor College, United States.
  • The Open With Artificial Intelligence Award goes to AI and Open Education for All from the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico.
  • The Wildcard Award goes to the Fabrication Laboratory – Fab Lab Kä Träre at UNED de Costa Rica, Costa Rica.
  • A second Wildcard Award goes to Gettin’ Air With Terry Greene, hosted at Trent University by VoiceEd Radio, Canada.
  • A third Wildcard Award goes to Editing Wikipedia as Academic Activism by Lucy Moore at the University of York, United Kingdom.

Meet the eight Special Awards Winners…

These individuals and organizations have demonstrated exceptional commitment to advancing open education practices and resources. Read more about them via the Meet the 2024 Winners pages or directly in the OE Awards Hall of Fame.

Congratulate and engage the winners in OEG Connect

What do you think of the winners? Add to the discussions below and share your experiences of these people and projects by clicking on reply in OEG Connect below.

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Who would not want to be part of something called “We Like Sharing” especially when encouraged by the enthusiastic voice of Bea de los Arcos? This clever idea for a photo competition from TUDelft held annually since 2021 is less about prizes and more about generating an understanding of openness through the sharing of photographs, and at the same time, creating a rich visual collection of images representing openness… shared openly.

We Like Sharing has planned each year to coincide with Open Education Week and was also recognized in 2023 with an OE Award For Excellence in the Wildcard category. This conversation was recorded in late January 2025 in hopes of generating more interest, but was hardly necessary given the quality of this year’s 150+ submissions and the winners selected by public vote.

As usual there are more interesting, and anticipated, ideas and understandings that come from our OEGlobal Voices conversations. Listen to learn not only about We Like Sharing, but also Bea’s path from the seaside of Galicia, Spain to the innovative university in the city in the Netherlands painted by Vermeer, and maybe even a hint of bagpipes.

Listen to our conversation, get inspired to go outside with your camera and find interesting details to photograph… and hopefully share.

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In This Episode

FYI: For the sake of experimentation and the spirit of transparency, this set of show notes alone was generated by the AI “Underlord” in the Descript editor we use to produce OEGlobal Voices.

In this episode, Alan Levine talks with Bea de los Arcos about her inspiring project, “We Like Sharing.” They discuss how the initiative encourages Creative Commons licensing, open sharing of photographs, and the value of appreciating and documenting beauty in everyday moments. They also explore Bea’s personal journey, her love for walking, and the importance of community in open education.

  • Introduction and Background
  • Bea’s Personal Journey and Influences
  • Living and Working in Delft
  • Overview of the Extension School
  • Inspiration Behind ‘We Like Sharing’
  • The Evolution of ‘We Like Sharing’
  • Impact and Stories of Reuse
  • Ideas for Encouraging Participation
  • Bea’s Personal Interests and Hobbies
  • Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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I love this photograph, it was one of the winners from last year. And it is a white wall and there are lots of hearts painted in different colors on the door.

It’s a wall and a door and lots of hearts.

So for some reason I love that photograph because there’s so much love in just the one wall. It’s actually called “Love on a Wall.” And that was picked up in Flickr by the algorithm In Explore. It attracted lots of views. so that allows me to go back to the [photographer] in this case, that person wants to remain anonymous. But it allows me to go to this person and say, “Hey, this is what’s happening for your photograph.” And of course they get super excited, “Wow!”

I know [many photos] have been reused because I see them on presentations by colleagues. So [they] pick the photograph, put it on a slide, and that’s a beautiful example of reuse.

But in this case, it was more interesting because one of those little hearts on the wall, so not the whole photograph, was used on the cover of a little booklet from the University of Leeds, a little booklet, called, “With Love from Your Supervisor.” It’s about giving advice to o PhD students about how to go about research. The cover is a little person holding the book and all these hearts. That’s love from your supervisor and that heart is one of the hearts in “Love on a Wall”. So I thought it was just amazing.

Bea de los Arcos on reuse of a We Like Sharing photo

A white wall and a door painted with scores of colourful hearts. ”Open is sharing love anywhere, any time, for everyone.”
Love on a wall flickr photo by Pelerecho shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license. This photo was a winner in the 2024 We Like Sharing photo competition.
Credits for cover art of With Love from a Dissertation Supervisor.
Cover art of With Love from a Dissertation Supervisor. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), 3D Art and design, Odysseas Frank, OD-3D artstation portfolio
Hearts on cover: Detail from “Love on a wall” photo by Pelerecho, released under
CC BY, part of the “We like sharing” collection, TU Delft, University of Technology,
The Netherlands, OEWeek24 Photo Competition entry number 81,
https://flic.kr/p/2pBDByZ
A look down to the study places below, from high inside the cone of the Library in TU Delft,
TU Delft Library by Carel van der Lippe, released under CC BY-NC-ND
At first glance, this image might seem like an abstract composition, but it captures a simple, everyday object—stacked chairs—transformed through perspective and repetition. The interplay of light on the chrome frames, the precise alignment, and the rhythmic curves create a striking modern aesthetic. Taken inside the Architecture Block, this image reflects how design exists in even the most functional elements of our surroundings.
Abstract utility by Krishna Koushik Venigalla, released under CC BY-NC-SA
A cat, looking out of an open window in a brick wall,
The Observer by Jonas Leander von Heusinger, released under CC BY-NC-SA
Looking up to the sky from the bottom of a canyon with wavy walls.
Moving spaces by Tian Qing Yen, released under Public Domain Dedication (CC0)

We encourage you to visit the full collection of over 1500 openly licensed images curated over the five years of We Like Sharing Open Photo Competition. Each image’s caption includes description text suitable for an alt image description and cut and paste text for full attribution to the photographer who shared it. If you reuse any images, please consider leaving a comment in flickr or contacting Bea, so she can communicate this back to the photographer.

We full expect to see We Like Sharing back in 2026 for Open Education Week. This is a very replicable activity and we have previously discussed with Bea in OEG Connect about what it takes to organize a spin off version.

It comes to you. One of the photographs that I took was when I was waiting for the tram and I just looked down. There was a campaign in Delft at the time around violence against women. [Someone] had this stamped on the pavement this hand and a message “stop violence against women.”

So, I was thinking, wow, become a bit more curious about what it is that is happening around you. Don’t look at your phone with your apps or your messages. No, just look. Look away from your phone– maybe that’s what it is. — look away from your phone. What can you see?

Bea de los Arcos on looking at the world around you

An open hand painted on the pavement beside the words 'Stop geweld tegen vrouwen', 'stop violence against women' in Dutch.
Stop flickr photo by B. de los Arcos is shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)

Our open licensed music for this episode is a track calledPhoto Album by Crowander shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.. Like most of our podcast music, it was found at the Free Music Archive (see our full FMA playlist).

Finally, this was another episode we are recording on the web in Squadcast, part of the Descript platform for AI enabled transcribing and editing audio in text– this has greatly enhanced our ability to produce our shows. We have been exploring some of the other AI features in Descript, but our posts remain human authored except where indicated otherwise.

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