OCW People's Choice Award: Most Open! And the winner is College Open Textbooks!

Great News! 

Education-Portal.com just announced the winners of their first annual OCW People’s Choice Awards, which honor the best of the Open Education Movement.   Over 4000 people voted for their best educational resources in this inaugural contest.

College Open Textbooks was recognized as the OCW People’s Choice Winner for Most Open. According to Education-Portal.com, “Openness is a key part of any OCW – after all, it’s in the name. But what providers excel at giving their users a wealth of material to access and lots of different ways to do it? The nominees in this category all understand that to make courseware truly open, variety and depth are key.”  The finalists included Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) and UC Irvine OCW.

Other winners included Open Course Library, FGV Online, African Virtual University OER, Open Study, MIT Physics and more.  For more information on the complete list of winners, go to http://education-portal.com/articles/OCW_Peoples_Choice_Award_Winners_Final_List.html