2022 Finalists – Open Education Awards for Excellence | October 2022

"Every year, the Open Education Awards for Excellence recognizes outstanding contributions in the Open Education community, recognizing exemplary leaders, distinctive Open Educational Resources, and Open Practices from around the world. In 2022, we’re announcing the OEAwards shortlist of finalists first. The shortlist celebrates 12 open leaders and 31 open education initiatives and practices across the 14 awards categories.  The shortlist was selected from 89 nominations of open education excellence across 22 countries by the 12 members of the OE Awards 2022 Committee and OEGlobal Board Members....

Open Infrastructure:

• LibreTexts, UC Davis, United States. An extensive curated library of freely available content that fosters more equitable access to high-quality resources and technologies for students and enables instructors to easily create customized resources that help drive learning gains.
• Open Educational Resources American Public University System, American Public University System, United States. An initiative proposed by campus leadership to enhance access to educational resources for students, not only significantly reducing their costs but also increasing the speed of accessing these educational materials.
• TAO, Open Assessment Technologies, Luxembourg. TAO is the only open source, QTI-native item authoring, item banking, and test assembly system available in the EdTech industry, recognized as the leading global assessment platform...."