OES (Online Education Services) has been recognised with multiple top honours at the 2025 LearnX Awards, with its Learning Design Team acknowledged for excellence across AI innovation, digital learning environments, video production, and learning design capability. 

These results reflect OES’s position as a global leader in learning design and production, trusted by universities worldwide to deliver high quality online education at scale. The success of OES’s Learning Design Team is backed by decades of collective experience, an evidence-based methodology, and a deeply collaborative academic partnership model. 

Strong Results at the 2025 LearnX Awards 

Established in 2007, the LearnX Awards recognise global excellence in learning, HR, EdTech, AI technology, and talent development. With entries from more than 30 countries, the program brings together leading universities, government organisations, and major international brands, reflecting its scale, competitiveness, and standing in the sector. 

OES continues to set benchmarks for quality and innovation in online learning, with a track record of being recognised as an industry leader in learning design at past LearnX Awards.  

At this year’s awards, OES received six major accolades, including four Platinum awards and two Diamond awards. 

OES’s 2025 LearnX Platinum Awards 
Best Talented Team: EdTech Learning Design Team 
Best Talented Team: EdTech Leadership Team 
Best AI Tech: AI Tech (EdTech Learning Design) 
Best AI Tech: AI Tech (Learner Support)  

OES’s 2025 LearnX Diamond Awards 
Best EdTech: Digital Learning Experiences and Environments 
Best EdTech: Video  

These awards bring OES’s total LearnX recognition to 35 awards since 2020, underscoring consistent excellence across its global learning design and production practice. 

David Robertson, OES’s Director of Learning Design, said of the recent awards: 

“The six LearnX awards that the team have won for 2025 — including four Platinum and two Diamond — recognise not just technical excellence, but the global collaboration and care that underpin our work.” 

“They reflect our commitment to serving students who are often underrepresented in higher education, and to continually pushing the boundaries of what online learning can achieve. I could not be prouder of the team, and I’m thrilled to see their skills and expertise acknowledged in this way.” 

Jon Davey, who commenced in the role of Chief Executive Officer of OES in December 2025, said: 

“These LearnX Awards reflect the innovation, care, and global collaboration that sit at the heart of OES. Our Learning Design teams continue to raise the bar for what high quality online learning looks like, bringing together strong academic partnerships, pedagogical rigour, and leading edge technology to create genuinely transformative student experiences.” 

“I am incredibly proud of the Learning Design teams across Melbourne, Cape Town, and the UK who contributed to these outcomes. Their work strengthens our university partnerships and helps thousands of students to access engaging, high-quality education every day. Congratulations to everyone involved.” 

Global Scale, Deep Expertise, Industry Leading Capability 

OES (Online Education Services) operates one of the most established learning design and online learning delivery practices in the education sector.  

The company has an exemplary reputation for quality online learning methodologies, having partnered successfully with top ranked universities in Australia and globally, as well as organisations delivering online education via corporate training programs, community colleges, and professional development settings. 

With more than 400 learning design specialists globally, the organisation delivers continuous, always on capability across Australia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, where the business operates as OES Learning Solutions. 

David Robertson reflects on the expertise of the OES Learning Design Team that enables their continuing success: 
 
“Our Learning Design team spans across Melbourne, Cape Town, and Birmingham, united by a shared purpose: making complex on campus learning accessible, engaging, and meaningful online.” 

“What makes our team particularly well equipped to deliver exceptional learner centric experiences is that many of us have been online learners ourselves, so we bring a deep sense of empathy to the work we do. We understand the unique needs of online learners — and we are committed to continuing to seek out their insights and perspectives as those needs evolve within an everchanging online environment.” 

To date, OES has designed and delivered more than 12,000 online learning units, supported by an integrated production ecosystem spanning learning design, assessment development, video and animation, multimedia and podcasting, quality assurance, and educational technology. 

OES’s learning design approach is grounded in: 

• Rigorous, evidence based online pedagogy 
• Collaborative, iterative design and build processes 
• Genuine academic partnership and codesign 
• A strong focus on innovation, quality, and student engagement 
• Flexible frameworks that adapt to diverse disciplines and learning contexts 

Courses designed by OES consistently achieve strong outcomes for students, as well as for partner institutions. 

Some of OES’ successes to date include: 

• Recruitment and support for more than 120,000 online students globally
• Delivery of 138 programs across a range of academic disciplines 
• More than 12,000 learning units delivered across undergraduate and postgraduate tertiary courses, short courses, and vocational education programs 
• A global workforce of more than 1,800 experts delivering solutions with education partners across five continents 
• More than 36 industry awards since 2021 in recognition of superior-quality learning design solutions 
• An 88% student satisfaction score, consistently outperforming industry benchmarks