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Mediating Change: Community Networks for Open Education/ Catalyser le changement : réseaux communautaires pour l’éducation ouverte
Tue March 3, 2026 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm GMT
This webinar explores how communities of practice and mediation—and the tools they use to stay informed and build capacity in their profession—can become the driving force behind open professional learning in FSL and French-language education in minority contexts. Building on the Communautés Camerise model, a Canadian project co-led by York, Ottawa, Laurier, 10 school boards and partner organizations, as an interinstitutional space for innovation and training, we will highlight how formal and informal exchanges, resource sharing, and cross-sector collaboration (school boards, postsecondary institutions, and associations) can reduce professional isolation and transform “good ideas and/or practices” into adaptable, transferable open educational resources (OER) for professional learning that can move across contexts.
Participants will examine how mediation across communities (bridging roles, shared protocols, and feedback loops) enables a shift from informal sharing to sustained co-creation of OER : educators exchanging practice-based knowledge, iterating on resources, and producing ready-to-use materials designed to be reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed—principles at the heart of open education. The session will showcase a concrete “ecosystem” that communities can build and maintain together: a hub to design, test, and share professional learning resources and practices; a collaboration incubator to strengthen supportive networks among institutions and individuals; and a living observatory to continuously document needs and support evidence-informed improvement.
During this webinar, participants will discover practical community tools that support the development of open-content prototypes: pedagogical scanning/curation, collaborative work and exchange spaces, shared templates, and lightweight documentation of pathways (from one classroom/ecosystem to another) that preserves context so others can responsibly reuse and modify resources. We will also discuss how a continuous experimentation mindset—including supportive tools such as AI-assisted planning aligned with competency-based assessment such as CEFR/DELF and curriculum—can accelerate iteration while keeping professional judgment, inclusion, and accessibility at the center of instructional design practices for developing teaching units.
By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with: (1) a community exchange map identifying key mediation points and the tools that enable collaboration, (2) an open prototype (resource, workflow, or professional learning content concept) to refine with peers, and (3) a practical plan to sustain OER creation through community governance, shared accountability, and ongoing peer-supported upskilling.
