{"id":115,"date":"2026-04-27T10:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/oer-at-sps\/?p=115"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:49:24","slug":"emerging-open-leader-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/oer-at-sps\/2026\/04\/27\/emerging-open-leader-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Open Leader Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/sps-faculty-community-hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-08-at-12.21.21-PM-1.png?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/sps-faculty-community-hub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/06\/Screen-Shot-2023-06-08-at-12.21.21-PM-1.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5600\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been an exciting year for OER@SPS. In Fall 2022, Open Education Global (OEG) honored SPS\u2019s Sarah Kresh with their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/awards.oeglobal.org\/awards\/2022\/leadership\/sarah-kresh\/\">Emerging Open Leader<\/a>\u00a0award. The honor is given \u201cto an individual who has demonstrated significant leadership and longstanding involvement with Open Education,\u201d someone \u201cwho has made significant and clear contributions to the furtherance of the Open Education movement, whose contributions to Open Education have spanned regions and\/or had a global impact.\u201d Sarah\u2019s recognition allowed her to be featured in the OEG\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.oeglobal.org\/2023\/05\/26\/voices-57\/\">Voices<\/a>\u00a0podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah shared the OER@SPS story at the 2023 Northeast OER Summit during her keynote entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.umass.edu\/neoer\/2023\/schedule\/1\/\">The Little Team that Could: Scalable Strategies for Supporting an Institutional Culture of OER and Open Pedagogy<\/a>.\u201d OER team members Kelly Hammond and Rowena Li also presented their Pressbooks project, a collaboration with Professor Joan Mosely and Gen Ed Assistant Director Hannah Miller, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.umass.edu\/neoer\/2023\/sustainability\/3\/\">Turning Reliance into Reliability: A Pressbooks and H5P project to replicate an interactive, simulations-rich OER textbook<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been an exciting year for OER@SPS. In Fall 2022, Open Education Global (OEG) honored SPS\u2019s Sarah Kresh with their\u00a0Emerging Open Leader\u00a0award. The honor is given \u201cto an individual who has demonstrated significant leadership and longstanding involvement with Open Education,\u201d someone \u201cwho has made significant and clear contributions to the furtherance of the Open Education [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/oer-at-sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/oer-at-sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/oer-at-sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/oer-at-sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/oer-at-sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/oer-at-sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/oer-at-sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/oer-at-sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/oer-at-sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.sps.cuny.edu\/oer-at-sps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}