Best/Excellent Paper Awards

The 2025 International Conference on Open and Innovative Education (ICOIE 2025) will be attended by academics, professional experts and practitioners. As we are receiving notable contributions from international academicians, researchers, professionals and practitioners, we would like to recognize the best contributions to open and innovative education.

1. One Best Paper Award will be presented to the author(s) of the best paper at ICOIE 2025.
2. Authors of other outstanding papers may be presented with an Excellent Paper Award.
3. The paper must meet the following eligibility criteria in order to compete for the Best Paper Award/Excellent Paper Award.
   
   • The paper must make a significant contribution to open and/or innovative education and should be well-written.
   • The paper must have been received by the deadline specified by the conference secretariat.
   • The paper must not been submitted for publication or has been accepted for presentation elsewhere.
   • The author(s) must present the paper at the assigned paper session of ICOIE 2025.
4. A Selection Panel for the awards will be established by the Organizing Committee of ICOIE 2025. This panel will consist of experts from relevant fields.
5. Each paper being considered for the awards will be first evaluated by the Programme Committee of ICOIE 2025 and then by the Selection Panel.
6. The evaluation criteria are:
   
   • The paper (75%)
     
     • Significance: The contribution of the paper to the field with an emphasis on theoretical development and/or educational practices.
     • Methodology: The extent to which the methods and approach are appropriate.
     • Originality: The extent to which the paper is innovative in terms of its sources of information, design, analysis and/or discussion approach.
   • Oral presentation (25%)
     
     • The quality of the presentation in terms of the content and effectiveness.
7. The winner will receive a certificate.
8. The winning author(s) will be invited to extend their papers and submit them for publication in an edited book or a special issue of a refereed journal.
9. Financial support will be provided to sponsor paper awardees to publish papers in a special issue of a refereed journal.