Connexions is one of six winners of a 2011 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) award presented by the Qatar Foundation.  The annual WISE award recognizes "innovative educational projects from around the world."  This year's theme was "Transforming Education: Investment, Innovation and Inclusion."  Connexions, one of the first repositories of free, open-source textbooks via the Web was founded in 1999.  Connexions is among the world's largest open-education platforms; it makes available more than 19,000 modules (textbooks, lessons) used by more than 2 million people each month.

Connexions Director and Founder Richard Baraniuk plans to attend the WISE Summit 1-3 November 2011 in Doha, Qatar.  Previous award winners have included academics like MIT OpenCourseWare and nongovernmental organizations like Smallholder Farm Rural Radio in Nigeria.