Open Practices Award for Open Pedagogy | 2025 Open Education Awards for Excellence
DAHLONEGA, GA — October 23, 2025 — The University of North Georgia Press title Pedagogy Opened: Innovative Theory and Practice, edited by Tiffani Tijerina, has been named a 2025 Open Practices Award Winner for Open Pedagogy by Open Education Global.
About the Award
Presented annually since 2011, the Open Education Awards for Excellence (OEAwards) recognize individuals, projects, and organizations that exemplify innovation and impact in the field of open education. The Open Practices Award specifically honors initiatives that expand access to educational opportunities, promoting and supporting “the use of open educational resources, technologies, and social networks to facilitate collaborative and flexible teaching and learning.”
According to the nominator for Pedagogy Opened:
Pedagogy Opened embodies the values of open education through both content and process—centering collaboration, equity, and student agency. As a collaborative, openly licensed resource, it models op[en pedagogy in action and offers educators practical, inclusive tools to transform teaching and learning. It doesn’t just describe open education—it lives it, inspiring sustainable, participatory change across diverse learning contexts.
About the Book
Pedagogy Opened: Innovative Theory and Practice seeks to advance the study of open and innovative pedagogy through the belief that their impact and reach are increased by research on and analysis of the theory and practice of open pedagogy across the disciplines and via multiple modalities. In this first volume of Pedagogy Opened, seven author teams explore and share their work with open pedagogy in a variety of ways, including through research, practice, and autoethnographic reflection.
This title is available:
- As a free digital download via our university website or Affordable Learning Georgia’s (ALG) Manifold
- For sale in print via the UNG Press Bookstore and Amazon
UNG Press & Open Education
As Georgia’s leading university press for Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Textbooks, UNG Press has long championed affordability, accessibility, and innovation in publishing and education. Through our partnerships with Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG), the University System of Georgia (USG), and eCore, the press has helped save students millions of dollars in textbook costs while supporting instructors with adaptable, peer-reviewed materials.
OEGlobal’s recognition of Pedagogy Opened: Innovative Theory and Practice highlights this ongoing mission, grounded in collaboration and the belief that education should be open and transformative.
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