Saudi Arabia Tops Global Open Education Scene as OERx Platform Wins Excellence Award from OEGlobal

Riyadh: The National Open Educational Resources Platform (OERx), affiliated with the National eLearning Center (NeLC), has won the 2025 Open Education Award for Excellence (OEAwards) from Open Education Global (OEGlobal). According to Saudi Press Agency, the OERx platform received the award in the Innovation in Open Educational Resources category-one of the most prominent international recognitions honoring efforts to promote knowledge sharing and advance open education. This national achievement reflects the unwavering support extended by the Kingdom's wise leadership to the education sector. It also underscores ongoing efforts to foster innovation in education and ensure access for all to high-quality learning resources that contribute to building a globally competitive, knowledge-based society. The award highlights the Kingdom's leading position in the field of e-learning and open education, alongside several advanced countries that also received awards, including the United States, Canada, Spain, Germa ny, and Mexico. It further reinforces Saudi Arabia's pivotal role in promoting educational excellence and expanding learning accessibility, in line with the goals of Saudi Vision 2030 to build a knowledge-based economy driven by human-capital investment and future-skills development.