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Home > 2023 Shortlist of Finalists


2023 SHORTLIST OF FINALISTS

Every year the Open Education Awards for Excellence recognizes outstanding
contributions in the Open Education community, recognizing exemplary
individuals, distinctive Open Educational Resources, and innovative Open
Practices from around the world.

To widen the scope of recognition, in 2023 we are first announcing this OEAwards
shortlist of finalists that celebrates 14 individuals and 34 open education
initiatives and practices across the 16 awards categories. 

The shortlist was selected from 172 nominations of open education excellence
representing 38 countries in a process conducted by the 20 members of the OE
Awards 2023 Committee and the OEGlobal Board Members.

Explore the finalists listed below for each award category and look to add
messages of encouragement and gratitude in OEG Connect.


PEOPLE IN OPEN

Catalyst Award


ABBEY ELDER

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY, UNITED STATES

Abbey Elder has broadened access to the Open conversation by sharing resources
with a focus on helping faculty and staff, who are new to Open Education,
explore the field with confidence.

Learn More…


KATHY ESSMILLER

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, UNITED STATES

As the coordinator of OpenOKState, Kathy works with the Library to support
collaboration and innovation among faculty, instructors, administrators, and
students working to increase access to meaningful research, teaching and
learning resources and experiences.

Learn More…


JONATHAN PORITZ

INDEPENDENT, ITALY

Jonathan Poritz has been lighting the spark of open education throughout his
career, a tenured professor, OE coordinator, facilitator of the Creative Commons
Certificate, and now as an independent consultant in the Open Movement.

Learn More…


JENNRYN WETZLER

CREATIVE COMMONS, UNITED STATES

As Director of Learning and Training at Creative Commons, Jennryn supports the
ideals of the Open Education movement through her own practices and creates
engagement in openness with a global community.

Learn More…

Educator Award


MAHA BALI

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO (AUC), EGYPT

Maha’s work on open pedagogy and practices is an important contribution to the
field and she brings an important diversity, equity and inclusion voice to open
education. 

Learn More…


JAMES BRUNTON

DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY, IRELAND

James is a leading Irish scholar and practitioner in the area of Open Education
Practice. He uses Open Educational Practices (OEP) in his teaching and research
practice and is an advocate in his programme, institution, nationally and
internationally.

Learn More…



Student Award


HENRY AGNEW, ETHAN TURNER, AND MATTHEW BARKOVICH

LIBRETEXTS, UNITED STATES

LibreTexts is nominating a team of three undergraduates who as successive
generations of student developers on the project were critical in creating the
award winning technology that makes LibreTexts work.

Henry Agnew…

Ethan Turner…

Matthew Barkovich…


YASSER TAMER ATEF

THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO (AUC), EGYPT

At only 21 Yasser Tammer is a strong disability advocate and researcher with a
deep interest in exploring the interplay between disability and accessibility.
He participates in Twitter conversations related to disability in a way that
“calls people in not calling them out.”

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Leadership Award


CATHERINE CRONIN

INDEPENDENT, IRELAND

An independent scholar focused on critical and social justice approaches to
open, digital, and higher education. Catherine has played a significant role at
the intersection of online learning and open education researching and providing
guidelines on policy and practice, but perhaps most importantly on the
conceptual understandings of what open education is.

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PATRINA LAW

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, UNITED KINGDOM

Under Patrina’s leadership, the global reach of Open Educational Resources
through OpenLearn is now considered by many to be the jewel in the crown of
Europe’s largest distance learning university.

Learn More…


LISA PETRIDES

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN EDUCATION, UNITED STATES


Lisa Petrides’ connection of knowledge management to education is a singular act
of human genius– to envision  a new academic discipline that also overlaps with
a related set of public policies, none of which existed at the time she created
ISKME.

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MARTIN WELLER

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, UNITED KINGDOM

Martin’s leadership and championing of open education is second to none in terms
of influence at The Open University. His thoughtful and pragmatic approach has
directly influenced practice in hundreds of institutions that take inspiration
from The Open University.

Learn More…


WHAT WE SHARE

Open Curation / Repository


MADA ICT-AID OER HUB

QATAR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY CENTER MADA, QATAR

The Mada ICT-AID open competency framework and OER Hub expands capabilities in
the realm of digital accessibility toward empowering students with disabilities
and fostering open and inclusive digital education.

Learn More…


PROYECTO EDIA

CEDEC – INTEF, SPAIN

CEDEC promotes actions and strategies to further develop the design, use,
adaptation and general uptake of open educational resources through the EDIA
Project, including the creation and testing of OER and related tools,
professional training about OER, active education methodologies and free
software.

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STORYWEAVER

PRATHAM BOOKS, INDIA

Publisher Pratham Books offers through Storyweaver a digital repository of
thousands of multilingual story books addressing the needs of disadvantaged
children globally, especially where gaps in local language reading resources is
a significant barrier to literacy.

Learn More…


VCCS TRANSFER COURSE MAPPING HUB

VIVA OPEN, UNITED STATES

This hub includes OER selected by librarians across the state of Virginia to be
aligned with Virginia Community College System  transfer courses. 

Learn More…

Open Infrastructure


CONVOERTER

RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY, GERMANY

The comvOERter assists teachers by simplifying the OER creation process. The
tool supports common presentation and document formats as input, detects
embedded images that can be replaced with openly licensed images, and
automatically sets the correct license.

Learn More…


OPENVERSE

WORDPRESS FOUNDATION, UNITED STATES

The successor to the original Creative Commons Search, Openverse currently
indexes over 700 million CC licensed image and media items. It aggregates
results from multiple public repositories into a single catalog, and facilitates
reuse through features like machine-generated tags and one-click attribution.

Learn More…



Open Reuse / Remix / Adaptation


《少年的自我療傷—甘耀明《殺鬼》少年圖書改編》客家語多媒體教材

NATIONAL CHIA TUNG UNIVERSITY, TAIWAN

Using Pressbooks, Kuang-Chih Hsu, built an Open Textbook for “Self-Healing of a
Teenager: a Picture Book Adapted from Ghost Slayer by Gan Yaoming.” This book
remixed content from open resources to bring to life Chang Wan-Ju’s unpublished
picture book.

Learn More…


FRANÇAIS INCLUSIF

BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY, UNITED STATES

Created by a K-16 team, Français Inclusif provides a complete curriculum for
first-year and second-year French. The team not only revised and remixed
existing OER text, but also created significant ancillary materials including
assessments, task-based activities, cultural reflections, slide decks, and
embedded authentic materials.

Learn More…


HUM 1: MODERN HUMANITIES ON MANIFOLD

KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE, UNITED STATES

This comprehensive multimedia Humanities textbook published openly in the
Manifold platform provides the key support for the College Now program where
high school students earn both college credit who lack access to necessary
course resources.

Learn More…


LIDA103FR

UNESCO, ICDE, OERU,L’UNIVERSITÉ NUMÉRIQUE, UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH HAMIDOU KANE–
MULTINATIONAL

LIDA103fr is the French adaptation of the OERu’s open course “Open Education,
Copyright, and Open Licensing in a Digital World” created to support capacity
development in OER for Francophone countries. The adaption included both
translation and cultural validation and is currently being adapted at Université
Cheikh Hamidou Kane (Senegal).

Learn More…

Significant Impact OER


AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AUDIOBOOK

LA HARBOR COLLEGE, UNITED STATES

Brian Barrick and student Sarah Arya collaboratively recorded an audio version
of OpenStax American Government 3e making it more accessible for commuters,
visually impaired, and English Language learners. The site includes additional
instructor resources.

Learn More…


FUTURUM CAREERS’ EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

FUTURUM CAREERS, UNITED KINGDOM

Researchers share here STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and
Medicine) and SHAPE (Social sciences, Humanities and the Arts for People and the
Economy/Environment), resources that help them communicate their research in an
accessible and engaging way to a global audience of teenagers.

Learn More…


UNDERSTANDING HOMELESSNESS IN CANADA: FROM THE STREET TO THE CLASSROOM

MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS, CANADA

This open textbook engages learners in critical discussions about real world
social issues alongside leading researchers in the field and people with lived
experience.

Learn More….


UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING (UDL) FOR INCLUSION, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND
ACCESSIBILITY (IDEA)

MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS, CANADA

Designed to address accessibility requirements, this guide was created to also
inspire people to go beyond the minimum and consider Universal Design for
Learning in making higher education more accessible and inclusive. It also
includes a consideration of UDL through the lens of Indigenous peoples and
pedagogies.

Learn More…


HOW WE SHARE

Open Collaboration


EXERCISE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN INDIGENOUS HEALTH

MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS, CANADA

Exercise and Physical Activity in Indigenous Health helps learners to develop a
cultural awareness of Indigenous health and has served as an example of a
decolonializing pedagogical approaches to both collaboration and learning.

Learn More…


THE NATIONAL TEACHING REPOSITORY

MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS, UNITED KINGDOM

An online searchable database designed to foster the collective production and
sharing of open resources, with a shared goal to support the continual
improvement of learning and teaching. 

Learn More…


STEAM OER LATAM COMMUNITY

TECNOLOGICO DE MONTERREY, MEXICO

The STEAM OER LATAM community aims to promote, strengthen and disseminate STEAM
education through STEAM territories, the movement of open educational resources
and open educational practices in Latin America.

Learn More…


REGIONAL LEADERS OF OPEN EDUCATION NETWORK (RLOE)

CCCOER/OE GLOBAL, UNITED STATES

RLOE supported over 100 participants to design and begin to implement open
education strategic plans at their institutions that included initiatives in
professional development, forming partnerships, integrating DEI principles and
more.

Learn More…

Open Pedagogy


BUDS, BRANCHES AND BARK: A GUIDE TO WINTER IDENTIFICATION IN THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST

BRITISH COLUMBIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CANADA

Professor Julia Alards-Tomalin lead a project that involved over 200 BCIT
students across 3 schools who contributed to the development this engaging
openly licensed guide to plant and wildlife identification.

Learn More…


COMPETENDO DIGITAL TOOLBOX

DARE DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION IN EUROPE, GERMANY

Competendo is a free and open toolbox for democracy learning, digitalisation and
non-formal education that promotes democracy-related and competence-centered
learning.

Learn More…


OPEN FOR ANTIRACISM PROGRAM

CCCOER, UNITED STATES


This program was developed to respond to growing awareness of structural racism
in higher education and centered on the application of open pedagogy and OER as
tools to help faculty change their way of teaching.

Learn More…


OPEN FOR INCLUSIVE EXCELLENCE

NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, UNITED STATES

This professional development program advances the intersection of Open
Educational Resources (OER), Open Pedagogy (OP), and Culturally Responsive
Pedagogy (CRP) to support faculty in becoming more culturally responsive and
inclusive of the learning.

Learn More…

Open Policy


WASHINGTON OER AND LOW-COST LABELING POLICIES

WASHINGTON STATE BOARD FOR COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGES, UNITED STATES

Through student-led policy establishment, data-driven consensus building,
effective implementation, and evaluation, these policies demonstrate a
comprehensive and strategic approach to improving equitable access,
affordability, and educational quality for students.

Learn More…




Open Research


ANNUAL TOP 10 “GOOD READS” IN OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS IN DIGITAL EDUCATION

DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY, IRELAND

Focuses on the diverse nature of open research in digital education and helps
promote open scholarship and research dissemination through open-access
publications.

Learn More…


OPENRESEARCHLAB

TECNOLOGICO DE MONTERREY, MEXICO

An open virtual laboratory using advanced technologies to help educators develop
integrative thinking and scale up research competences, academic literacy and
reasoning for complexity, through channels of openness in research and
dissemination processes.

Learn More…


SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL FOR MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION

LEHMAN COLLEGE, UNITED STATES

The special issue focuses on pedagogical considerations and practical
applications of equitable OEP, specifically on the practical elements and
research on implementing OEP for social justice and equity. 

Learn More…




SPECIAL AWARDS

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion


A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF STRUCTURAL RACISM IN ACADEMIA: FROM A(DMINISTRATION OF
JUSTICE) TO Z(OOLOGY)

COLLEGE OF MARIN, UNITED STATES

A structural racism guidebook that informs readers about how structural racism
played a role in 43 higher education discipline areas to help instructors
incorporating this untold history into their teaching practices.

Learn More…


ENHANCING INCLUSION, DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND ACCESSIBILITY (IDEA) IN OPEN
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER)

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA

A framework and practical suggestions for enhancing inclusion, diversity, equity
and accessibility (IDEA) in OER, developed for authors and librarians to apply
practical strategies for producing diverse, inclusive and accessible OER and
open textbooks.

Learn More…


GO-GN EDI GUIDELINES: EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN OPEN EDUCATION WITH A
FOCUS ON AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA

GO-GN, UNITED KINGDOM

A research effort to explore EDI in Open Education (OE) in regions that are
often marginalized from the main discourse. While there are developments in OE
in Africa and Latin America, it is a region where voices are still not fully
heard or recognized.

Learn More…


MAAMWI HUB

MULTIPLE ORGANIZATIONS, CANADA


Developed with the Indigenous Peoples Education Circle, representing Indigenous
education at all 24 colleges in Ontario. The Maamwi Hub is Ontario’s access
point for open, credible educational resources on Indigenous history, culture,
knowledge and current worldviews.

Learn More…

Open Resilience


ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT OPEN VIRTUAL HUB (ADOVH)

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA (UNISA), SOUTH AFRICA

The hub was created to develop students’ digital competencies and create
inclusive and equitable opportunities to succeed in the transition from
print-based teaching materials, face-to-face tutorial support, and venue-based
examinations to a fully technology-mediated learning experience.

Learn More…


RESPONSIVE OER FOR UKRAINIANS

OPENLEARN, UNITED KINGDOM

OpenLearn has both translated into Ukrainian their key learning materials and
developed new courses and resources aimed at serving the refugee population in
the UK and the people accessing content remotely from Ukraine. OpenLearn has
supported more than 5,000 people with these translated resources, and they have
been well received by those supporting Ukrainian refugees.

Learn More…



Wildcard


“IS THIS AN OER?” ADDRESSING THE COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OPEN AND
AFFORDABLE COURSE MATERIALS

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING, UNITED STATES

A valuable guide on what is and is not open educational resources and most
importantly, why this distinction matters. With four informative sections, as
well as additional handouts and resources, the creators provide a “one-stop
shop” for boosting knowledge and confidence in this topic, from learning how to
identify an open educational resource to advocating for OER initiatives at your
own campus.

Learn More…


“WE LIKE SHARING” OPEN PHOTO COMPETITION

DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, THE NETHERLANDS

Conducted each year during Open Education Week, ‘We Like Sharing’ fosters this
feeling through a photo bank of highly recyclable, multiple-use images created
by TU Delft staff, students, alumni, their friends and families aligning with a
yearly theme. All these images are openly licensed and available for reuse. 

Learn More…



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