LearnfulCongratulations to the team behind K-12 Studio — winner of the 2026 Open Education Award from Open Education Global (OEGlobal), in the Open Practices category, recognized for Facilitating Open Collaboration Among K-12 Teachers.
K-12 Studio is a Canadian, open platform built for teachers to share, discover, and adapt classroom materials, with a particular focus on Ontario’s K-12 French as a Second Language (FSL) community. It’s led by Marie Péguret and Mirela Cherciov at Glendon College, York University, and funded by Canadian Heritage and the Ontario Ministry of Education.
Built on our OER Studio platform
K-12 Studio is built on Learnful’s OER Studio platform. When Péguret and Cherciov set out to design an FSL-focused open resource hub for Ontario teachers, we worked with them to shape it: licensing clarity, straightforward language, quick access to Ontario-aligned resources, an AI-assisted submission process, and the collaboration tools that let teachers share and adapt each other’s materials. That early work, and the consultations and testing that followed, is what became the platform teachers use today.
It’s a genuinely nice thing to watch a project we helped build grow into something a national and international open education community is recognizing on its own merits — one award reviewer singled out the platform’s use of AI to remove technical barriers to sharing as a standout feature.
Why this one matters
FSL teachers in Ontario have long dealt with a fragmented resource landscape: materials scattered across personal drives, inconsistent licensing, and an overreliance on materials built for other markets entirely. K-12 Studio set out to fix that by building a culture of sharing and collaboration among the teachers actually doing the work, not just a repository someone uploads to once and forgets.
That’s the part of “open education” that’s easy to skip past: openness isn’t just free access to existing material, it’s building the infrastructure and the norms that make ongoing sharing and adaptation actually happen. This award is recognition of exactly that groundwork.
You can view the full list of 2026 Open Education Award winners at awards.oeglobal.org.
Congratulations again to Marie, Mirela, and the whole K-12 Studio team. We’re glad to have been part of the early chapter.
Learn more about OER Studio: https://learnful.io/oer-studio/
The Learnful team