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!

Nominations for the OER Excellence Awards are due by March 14th, 2026. 

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 jointly coordinated between the University Library and GSU's Student Government Association and Student Public Interest Research Group.

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.”

• Thomas Anderson, Fine Arts
• Maher Atteya, Chemistry
• Ahmed Baosman, Chemistry
• Brennan Chandler, Learning & Science Services
• Urban Cleaves, History/Political Science
• Antara Dutta, Chemistry
• Wen-Shing Dwan, Computer Applications
• Cyntoria Johnson, Criminal Justice
• Shalini Jain Kumar, Physical Sciences
• Sam Su, Math