Education-Portal.com People’s Choice Awards Nominees Announced!

Education-Portal.com announced the nominees for its 2012 People’s Choice Awards, honoring the Best in Free Online Education. List of nominees:

Best User Experience:

•   Flat World Knowledge
•   UC Irvine OCW
•   American Museum of Natural History

Best Video Lectures:

•   TedEd
•   MIT OCW
•   UCLA Video Lectures

Best Non-Video Open Education Resource:

•   Students Circle Network
•   Wikiversity
•   OER Glue

Most Engaging Resource:

•   Khan Academy
•   iTunesU
•   FGV Online

Best Instructional Supplement:

•   The College Open Textbooks
•   DNA from the Beginning
•   Learner.org

Most Interactive Resource:

•   Open Culture
•   Bridge to Success
•   Tufts OCW

Most Open Resource:

•   Kansas State University Human Nutrition (HN 400) Flexbook
•   Open Michigan
•   DS106

Most Progressive:

•   Process Arts
•   African Virtual University
•   Open Badges

Best New Face in the Free Education Movement:

•   Udacity
•   Coursera
•   CrashCourse YouTube

Best Advocate for Free/Open Education:

•   Nicole Allen, Textbook Rebellion
•   Nick Shockey, Right to Research Coalition
•   David Wiley, BYU

For more information about the nominees for 2012 People’s Choice Awards and to vote please visit:

Voting closes on Friday, August 31.