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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.

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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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Welcome to the home of podcasts produced by Open Education Global. These shows bring you insight and connection to the application of open education practices from around the world. Listen at podcast.oeglobal.org

OEG Voices 073: Board Viewpoints with Katsusuke Shigeta and Rajiv Jhangiani

Get to know the influences, insights, and perspectives of two of the current members of the OEGlobal Board of Directors. In this episode we listen to separately recorded conversations with Katsusuke Shigeta, a long time board member from University of Hokkaido in Sapporo, Japan plus hearing from one of our newer board members, Rajiv Jhangiani of Brock University, in Ontario, Canada. This is another episode of our Board Viewpoints series.

Katsu was a guest on our second episode of OEGlobal Voices, published in 2020. And we last had a podcast conversation with Rajiv in 2021 following his recognition of an OE Award for Excellence as an Emerging Leader. Much has changed and evolved for both these open educators who play a key role for Open Education Global.

Each guest shares a bit about the places in the world they grew up, perspectives on school, paths to open education, current interests and projects, plus a little bit about what they enjoy doing outside of work. Listen to the full episode to hear interesting surprises from both Katsu and Rajiv, plus they share a three word description of each other!

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

In Episode 73 of OEGlobal Voices, host Alan Levine welcomes two members of the OEGlobal Board of Directors: Katsusuke Shigeta and Rajiv Jhangiani. Katsu discusses the importance of understanding and incorporating open educational practices internationally, and shares updates on his OER initiatives, challenges, and his creative project with Adobe Express. Rajiv reflects on his journey into open education, current initiatives at Brock University, and broader discussions on open science and generative AI. The episode concludes with personal stories and insights from both guests, painting a comprehensive picture of their contributions to open education.

  • Intro Music and Selected Episode Quotes
  • Meet Katsu Shigeta
  • Changes in Education Post-COVID
  • Challenges and Successes in OER Projects
  • Creative Learning with Adobe Express
  • Perceptions of Open Education in Japan
  • Rajiv Jhangiani Joins the Conversation
  • Navigating Life as an International Student
  • A Twist of Fate: From Theater to Psychology
  • Discovering Open Education
  • Provincial Research and Institutional Self-Assessment
  • Current Projects and Initiatives at Brock
  • The Future of Open Education
  • Balancing Work and Personal Life
  • Closing Thoughts and Reflections

Additional Links and Quotes for Episode 73

This is a point, I focus on to have better skills and knowledge [on] how to create digital materials would be nice for students to show their outcomes and what they learn in the class. This kind of skill could be effective after they graduate the higher education institution. So I try to connect the creative learning creative learning aspects, to show the authentic assessment and show the learning outcomes in the university together.

Katsu Shigeta on teaching digital skills

Katsu shared this photo of the `1991 Honda Beat he has restored and enjoys driving around the roads of Hokkaido.

I think that’s part of the joy to interact with folks like that, who again, like Robin [DeRosa], give you the confidence and support that you can experiment, that you can, improvise, and you can do so knowing that it’s all right. If you fall flat, it’s okay. It’s not a big deal.

And that’s part of that vulnerability of openness. And I think modeling that is important, but it’s a special treat to be able to do it, especially in front of people who you adore so much.

Rajiv Jhangiani on OER24 keynote

And I think one concern in general, which has already been an issue is just the, it’s like paving over the etymology of knowledge. a core value of open licensing is attribution.

Losing that is damaging, is dangerous. It’s theft. So that’s damaging. The normalization of that, because this is going to happen anyway. You’re denying progress if you’re not serving students, if you don’t equip them to use. What I think is really missing over here is that critical, generative AI literacy.

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And every time you’re going to get the same kind of little jingle around it’s here and it’s going to hit you. And you can’t bury your head in the sand. But at the same time, I think what you don’t want to do either is to not just not bury your head in the sand, but not just stand there on the shore with your mouth open wide and just swallow the salt water without thinking.

Rajiv Jhangiani on Artificial Intelligence and values of openness

Rajiv Jhangiani shows that his CC license is real- a carving made by the partner of Rajiv’s colleague Robin DeRosa

Our open licensed music for this episode is a track called The View From The Window by Ian Sutherland licensed under a Creative CommonsAttribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Like most of our podcast music, it was found at the Free Music Archive (see our full FMA playlist).

This was another episode we are recording on the web in Squadcast. This is 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 unless indicated otherwise.

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