OE Excellence Award for WeLikeSharing
In this year’s international Open Education Awards for Excellence, the ‘Open’ photo competition for TU Delft’s collective WeLikeSharing platform won in the Wild Card category.
Led by Bea de los Arcos, learning developer at the TU Delft Extension School, this yearly photographic competition – started in 2021 and held to coincide with Open Education Week – invites TU Delft’s staff, students and alumni to submit a photograph that represents what openness means to them.
These photos are shared publicly in the image bank in flickr under a Creative Commons license (chosen by the photographers) that states how each photo can be reused.
‘Open’ is one of the tenets of education at TU Delft. With more than 1,000 images and nearly half a million views and counting, WeLikeSharing gives people a fun way to contribute to openness worldwide.
In the words of one of the jury members, the competition is “an excellent initiative, built on democratic and participatory values … a really wonderful way to help anybody to express in a visual way, share, and connect with others”.
Are you also inspired to take photos and share them? Don’t wait until next year’s competition.
Make your photo travel the world: http://bit.ly/WeLikeSharing.
In case you are curious, the 2023 ‘Open’ photo competition winners are:
- Open your eyes to knowledge, open a book! by Brenda Reyes Muñoz, released under CC0
- Portal to different worlds by Bhini Rani Chandan Malagar, released under CC0
- A diverse fundament by Martin Sand, released under CC BY.
Honourable mentions:
- Open window textbook by Carel van der Lippe, released under CC BY-NC-ND
- Late Open Library by Alejandro van Breukelen García, released under CC BY-NC-SA
- Breaking through boundaries by Jochem van den Berge, released under CC0
- Shower of light by Simon Sit, released under CC0.
Whilst the People’s Choice prize went to Light in the distance by Patrick Snitjer, released under CC BY-NC-ND.
