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The Leading Edge of Open Education: Meet the 2026 Awardees of the OE Awards for Excellence
Wednesday October 7, 2026 1:40pm - 2:45pm EDT
7 DR5
ID: 33277

By the start of this conference, Open Education Global will have announced the winners of the 2026 Open Education Awards for Excellence, the fifteenth year of this community driven program to recognize the people, projects, and practices that exemplify open education in action. We bring together representatives of this years awardees from both ones present at the conference and others who will join is online. Each will share conversational style an overview of the work for which they were recognized, but also to share what motivates them. This is an opportunity for those attending the conference to extend congratulations, for the awardees to express appreciation, and most importantly to build stronger interconnections within the open education community.Since 2011, the OEAwards have recognized over 300 individuals, projects, and practices. Over the past few years, we have been sifting the awards from a "competition" like focus on the "winners" to a celebration and making visible all-- the details of hundreds of nominees are shared. Furthermore, the program is extending itself into an ongoing encouragement all year long of "micro-recognition" as expressions of gratitude for the often invisible work that makes open education possible.Join us for a conversation with the people identified through the program who are modeling in action what Open Education does around the world.
Speakers
avatar for Marcela Morales

Marcela Morales

Executive Co-Director, Open Education Global
Marcela is an avid promotor of access to knowledge and a true believer in the power of education to transform lives and societies all around the world.  She believes that education is an essential, shared, and collaborative social good for which we are all responsible.As Co-Executive... Read More →
avatar for Alan Levine

Alan Levine

Director of Community Engagement, Open Education Global
Alan Levine explores the potential of new technologies for education. In 1993 he set up a web server on a Mac SE/30 at the Maricopa Community Colleges and has not left since. His current role is Director of Community Engagement at Open Education Global. Before that he provided consulting... Read More →
Wednesday October 7, 2026 1:40pm - 2:45pm EDT
7 DR5 MIT Samberg Conference Center, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02139 USA
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