OEG Announces the Recipients of the 2020 Open Education Awards for Excellence, Open Assets Awards, Open Practices Awards, and Special Awards

CONCORD, Mass. - Oct. 11, 2020 - PRLog -- The Open Education Awards for Excellence provide an annual recognition to outstanding contributions in the open education community. The awards are presented by the Open Education Global Board of Directors to recognize truly exceptional work and dedication to open education.

Join us in congratulating the following award recipients:

OPEN ASSETS AWARDS, what we share

BEST OER: Open RN Nursing Pharmacology textbook
Institution: Chippewa Valley Technical College, Eau Claire, United States

OPEN CURATION / REPOSITORY: Repositorio Latinoamericano de Convocatorias Educativas
Institution: RELACE, Monterrey, Mexico

OPEN REUSE / REMIX / ADAPTATION: The OER Starter Kit Workbook
Institution: Lehman College, Bronx, United States

BEST OPEN TOOL: Manifold Scholar
Institution: City University of New York, New York, United States

OPEN PRACTICES AWARDS, how we share it

OPEN PEDAGOGY: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship
Institution: Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland, United States

OPEN COLLABORATION: Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW)
Institution: University of Nova Gorica and UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning at Jožef Stefan Institute

OPEN RESEARCH: GO-GN Research Methods Handbook
Institution: The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

OPEN POLICY: Dispositivos tecnológicos para el estudiantado de la UNED
Institution: Universidad Estatal a Distancia, San José, Costa Rica

OPEN INNOVATION: OERcamp
Institution: J&K – Jöran und Konsorten Agentur für zeitgemäße Bildung, Hamburg, Germany

SPECIAL AWARD: OPEN RESILIENCE AWARDS

I Learn at Home
Institution: UNED, Madrid, Spain

Project SALUS, Node COVID-19
Institution: Instituto Americano Cultural SC, Mexico City, Mexico

National Digital Library of India (NDLI)
Institution: Indian Institution of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

SPECIAL AWARD: UNESCO OER IMPLEMENTATION

UNESCO/ICDE Chair Open Educational Movement for Latin America International: Cooperation in support of UNESCO's recommendations 2019
Institution: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

About the Open Education Awards for Excellence https://awards.oeglobal.org/

The Open Education Awards for Excellence provide annual recognition to outstanding contributions in the Open Education community, recognizing exemplary leaders, distinctive open educational resources, and open projects & initiatives.

About the Open Education Global https://www.oeglobal.org/

Open Education Global is a member-based, global, non-profit supporting the development and use of open education around the world to expand access to education enabling every person on earth to access and contribute; improve the quality of education; make ducation more affordable; improve student success; foster collaboration and sharing through co-creation of education materials and the freedom to use, customize, improve and redistribute them; generate pedagogical innovation using the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet; and to foster international partnerships and a global participatory culture of learning, creating, sharing and cooperation.