OU open education experts and projects recognised at the OEGlobal awards

"To have won the OE Global Leadership Award is deeply humbling and I’m truly grateful that the work to reshape OpenLearn over the last 10 years is recognised. The team that develops, commissions and drives the technical infrastructure of OpenLearn are some of the most committed people I have ever worked with and who are also driven to support the social mission of the Open University. Providing digital badging for free learning has been a passion of mine and I’m grateful for having had the opportunity to develop this over the years and for us all to see the impact this has had. It knits together a range of open standards and endeavours in openness by recognising learning achievements for those that need them most. "

“It’s an honour to be nominated for the Leadership award, and to be in the company of three other excellent leaders in the open education field. The OEGlobal community is one we have worked with consistently over the 10 years of the GO-GN project, so this nomination, along with the other ones for GO-GN resources and members is a mark of the Open University’s standing and reputation in the global open education research community.”

OpenLearn is constantly striving to reach those who need free education and the invasion of Ukraine was a huge motivation to modify our technical systems to take on the Ukrainian alphabet within OpenLearn, not just for some specific courses, but in its navigation and layout. The content we were able to translate aligned with what we knew Ukrainians were studying, all of which was a complete departure from what they had been studying prior to the invasion. It was a huge effort by the team to get content translated and functioning on OpenLearn in a few months but also gratifying to see so many learners using it. Hence, we’re enormously grateful for an organisation like OE Global to recognise and award this work.