The Open for Student Success Symposium

Are you a student at Georgia State University?

Ask your professors if they are using open educational resources in their courses!

Then, nominate a GSU educator for an OER Excellence Award. You can submit more than one nomination!

Are you an educator at Georgia State University?

Nominate a colleague who uses open educational resources in their courses for an OER Excellence Award!

The OER Excellence Awards all-campus event is the sister event for the Open for Student Success Symposium at Georgia State University. The mission of the OER Excellence Awards is to facilitate a peer-nomination process where faculty are celebrated by their colleagues and students for their use of open educational resources in course instruction. This event is coordinated by GSU's Student Government Association and Student Public Interest Research Group under the mentorship of GSU library information professionals.

As defined by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Open Educational Resources (OER) "are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that:

• reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license [AND]
• that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.”

Nominees must:

• Be a current educator at Georgia State University
• Have used, adapted, or produced an open educational resource for course instruction at Georgia State University
• Meet the description of the category for which they are being nominated

Animation in OER:

recognition award for a GSU educator who produced an open educational resource in an animated/video format. 

OER Cross-Collaboration:

recognition award for a GSU educator who produced an open educational resource in collaboration with an educator not affiliated with GSU. 

Documentary Filmmaker in OER:

recognition award for a GSU educator who facilitated the publication of a student-produced open educational resource.

International OER Adaptation:

recognition award for a GSU educator who adapted an open educational resource by producing a translation of the original in another language.

Recurring OER Character:

recognition award for a tenure-track or tenured GSU educator who used an open educational resource in course instruction.

Sound Effects in OER:

recognition award for a GSU educator who created an open educational resource in audio format.

Supporting OER Character:

recognition award for a GSU educator who adapted an open educational resource to include charts, graphs, images or other visual content to enhance the reader experience.  

OER Advocate:

recognition award for a non-tenure-track GSU educator who used an open educational resource in course instruction.

Locally Grown OER Hero:

recognition award for a GSU educator who used an open educational resource published through the University System of Georgia in course instruction.

OER Accessibility Champion:

recognition award for a GSU educator who created an accessible adaptation of a less-accessible open educational resource. 

Adaptive OER Crewmember:

recognition award for a GSU educator who adapted an open educational resource to include references relevant to their individual students.  

Innovative OER Producer:

recognition award for a GSU educator who created an open educational resource for an emerging field or on a timely subject.

Unique OER Character:

recognition award for a GSU educator who created an original open educational resource.

Rising Star for OER:

recognition award for a GSU Graduate Teaching Assistant who used an open educational resource in course instruction.