Open Education Week

Uses and Abuses of AI Agents in Education (OneHE webinar)
2026-02-11 21:10 - 21:40 (Europe/London) | York, United Kingdom, York, United Kingdom
In this webinar, Anna Mills will explore how student and teacher uses of agentic AI browsers affect higher education. She will describe possible applications of agentic browsers for teaching assistance and ways to reduce these browsers’ privacy and security risks.
These days, “AI agent” sometimes refers to a custom chatbot and sometimes to an agentic AI browser that will take actions on the user’s behalf, like clicking and filling out forms autonomously. In this webinar, Anna Mills, English Instructor, College of Marin, USA, will clarify how students might be using agentic AI browsers to automate homework completion and what can be done about that, and will look at ways educators might consider using them to assist their teaching without jeopardizing student data.
This webinar is open to all interested educators.

Shifting Power: University Openness and Collaboration
2026-02-18 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Regina) | Regina, Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Please join the University of Regina for an Open Education Speaker Series online presentation with Dr. George Siemens, University of South Australia/ University of Texas (Arlington)
Session Description: Universities have become end-consumers of AI. Unlike previous technology innovations, where higher education played an active role in technology developments and adoption, learner and institutional use of AI has advanced with only minimal voice from the university system itself. While frontier labs, such as Anthropic and OpenAI, have focused on offering services for learners, they’ve largely sidestepped the system, leaving universities as spectators. This talk will highlight the urgent need for universities to collaborate around shared data, technology, and services to ensure that the mission of serving learners remains central in the adoption of AI in courses and classrooms. When universities collaborate and pursue open standards, they have a sufficiently powerful voice to shape the products and services offered by big tech companies, shifting power from closed systems to the network of education institutions.

Presenter bio: George Siemens researches how human and artificial cognition intersect in knowledge processes. He co-founded Matter and Space – a human development platform that responds to the systemic impact of AI on learning, human development, and wellness. He now serves as Chief AI Officer at SNHU. He is the founding Director and Professor of the Center for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L) at University of South Australia and developed the Masters of Science in Learning Analytics at University of Texas at Arlington. He has delivered keynote addresses in more than 40 countries on the influence of technology and media on education, organizations, and society. His work has been profiled in provincial, national, and international newspapers (including NY Times), radio, and television. He has served as PI or Co-PI on grants funded by NSF, SSHRC (Canada), OLT (Australia), Intel, Boeing, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Soros Foundation. He has received numerous awards, including honorary doctorates from Universidad de San Martín de Porres and Fraser Valley University for his pioneering work in learning, technology, and networks. He holds an honorary professorship with University of Edinburgh. Dr. Siemens is a founding President of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (http://www.solaresearch.org/). In 2008, he pioneered massive open online courses (sometimes referred to as MOOCs). George is President of the Global Research Alliance for AI in Learning and Education (GRAILE – www.graile.ai).

RIOS Institute Brew & Banter with Dr. Allison Lester
2026-02-27 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Albuquerque, United States, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Brew and Banter is RIOS’ monthly virtual series where community members come together for informal conversations about current topics in STEM education. Each session offers a chance for attendees to share updates, spark new ideas, and learn from one another in a relaxed, welcoming space.
Today’s guest is Dr. Allison Lester, AI Literacy Professor at Arizona State University, on “Co-Creating with AI to Enhance Critical Thinking”
As generative AI reshapes higher education, many instructors are responding with tighter rules and greater surveillance. This session offers a different entry point. Drawing on classroom-based inquiry and open pedagogical practices, it explores how co-creating with AI can strengthen critical thinking when learning environments are built on trust, shared norms, and student authorship. Rather than focusing on rules or detection, the session highlights co-creating AI policy with students as a meaningful learning activity. Participants will see how shared agreements about AI use can open space for ethical reflection, student voice, and deeper engagement.
Through classroom examples, the session illustrates how students use AI to build tools and projects, encounter ethical challenges, and return to collective norms around verification, responsibility, and judgment. Designed for higher education faculty across disciplines, this session offers practical strategies and a clear framework for integrating AI in ways that align with existing teaching values and support thoughtful, student-centered learning.

Créer, innover, partager : un processus de travail autour de l’IA pour produire des Ressources Éducatives Libres accessibles à tous
2026-03-02 08:00 - 09:00 (Europe/Paris) | Paris, France, Paris, France
Pour l’Open Education Week, Aunège Association Universitaire en Economie Gestion, propose son 10ème Café IA sur la création et le partage de vos cours. Les inscriptions à la session 10 sont ouvertes : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemraWDk90OESfLkaVYwOa7DD_0bbpfKQVP921Sjrdu_kAZPg/viewform?pli=1
Série de Petits déjeuners : “L’IA au service de la pédagogie” organisée par AUNEGE en collaboration avec la FNEGE et IAE FRANCE – Ecoles Universitaires de Management.
📌 Venez nous retrouver pour la session 10 :
💬 “Créer, partager : un processus de travail autour de l’IA pour produire des Ressources Éducatives Libres accessibles à tous*”
*à partir d’un article éponyme à paraitre en avril dans la revue “Médiations & Médiatisations”
Petit déjeuner proposé et animé par :
Mona Laroussi, Professeure des universités, Directrice de l’Institut de la Francophonie pour l’Éducation et la Formation
Christophe FOURNIER, Professeur des universités, Président d’AUNEGe
📅 le mardi 03 mars 2026
🕣 8h30 à 9h00 (heure de Paris)
Pour nous rejoindre merci de vous inscrire :
🔗 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemraWDk90OESfLkaVYwOa7DD_0bbpfKQVP921Sjrdu_kAZPg/viewform?pli=1
⚠️ Fermeture des inscriptions le lundi 02 mars à 17h (heure de Paris)
L’invitation Zoom vous sera envoyée quelques heures avant le webinaire.
N’hésitez pas à vous inscrire et à faire suivre cette invitation !
Au plaisir de vous retrouver le 03 mars prochain !

Manos a la Wiki: construyendo el conocimiento abierto en la era de la IA
2026-03-02 15:00 - 2026-03-03 19:30 (America/Monterrey) | Monterrey, Mexico, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Para celebrar la Semana de la Educación Abierta, la Facultad de Psicología, con el apoyo del Club Rotary Youth Exchange Distrito 4130 y Mensa México, invita a participar en la Semana de la Educación Abierta: Manos a la Wiki: construyendo el conocimiento en la era de la IA, que se llevará a cabo los días 2 y 3 de marzo de 2026.
Exploraremos las realidades y los retos que enfrentan las teorías del aprendizaje con el desafío impuesto de la tecnología, particularmente la inteligencia artificial y su auge mundial actual. Desde el constructivismo hasta el conectivismo, buscaremos encontrar las preguntas correctas para que en sociedad sea posible encontrar sus respuestas. Este evento culiminará en un Editatón buscando asegurar que la información disponible para la ciudadanía sea veraz, científica y de calidad.
Más información: https://psicologiauanl.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/semana-internacional-de-la-educacion-aberita-2026/
Participa e involúcrate. ¡Te esperamos!

OEWeek Live! Beyond ChatGPT: GenAI in Action
2026-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Get ready for our live streamed demos aimed at showing you first hand what Generative AI can do for educators that goes beyond the typical perception of the popular ChatGPT interaction, and not just “prompt engineering”.
We have lined up three demos to perhaps make you say “Wow” but maybe also “Oh my ______”. Watch the demos live streamed on YouTube and send your comments and questions directly through chat to the guests in studio.
We do not flip slides and show screenshots on OEWeek Live, you will see screen shared live demos in action and than have an opportunity to contribute to a lively conversation. Our guests in the studio include:
Watch What an Agentic Browser Can Do on a Student’s behalf
Anna Mills English/Writing instructor and an early AI inquisitor, will demonstrate something that may make your jaw drop. Beyond the chat interface we are used to are “agentic browsers” that can be set loose online to perform tasks for us. Anna has published several videos showing tools like Perplexity Comet, ChatGPT Atlas, and Google Gemini completing quizzes and replying to discussions in a Learning Management System, all while logged in as a learner (without any direct involvement by the student). She argues for the platforms to provide better guardrails.
Anna Mills teaches writing at College of Marin and previously taught at City College of San Francisco for 17 years. Her collection “AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry” is featured in the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse; it includes a curated collection of articles, a set of sample AI essays, and a list of strategies for mitigating educational harms associated with large language models. She has also written an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook, How Arguments Work: A Guide to Writing and Analyzing Texts in College, which has been widely praised and used at over 45 colleges. As the English Discipline Lead for the Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges OER Initiative, she leads professional development workshops on OER and collaborative annotation. Anna earned a master’s degree from Bennington College in Writing and Literature with a focus on nonfiction writing, and her essays have appeared in journals such as The Writer’s Chronicle, The Sun, and Salmagundi.
Two Autonomous Agents Work Together to Generate OER
Yasin Dahi founder of Learnful will show us GenOER an experimental platform designed for educators to generate OER (including interactive H5P activities) that are fully designed and created by autonomous agents. The system deploys a powerful model of a pair two autonomous agents working together that simulate the principles of educational design — and Educator Agent and a Designer Agent. “GenOER is not just a tool — it’s a testbed for exploring one of the most pressing questions in open education today: what happens when the “author” of an open resource is an algorithm? I hope GenOER sparks discussion, critique, and collaboration across the OER community. This is an experiment, but one that asks real questions about scale, pedagogy, licensing, and the future of authorship.”
Yasin is the founder of Learnful, an EdTech software company based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He develops open-source solutions focused on open education and digital learning. His projects — including H5P Studio, GenOER, and Axiom — aim to democratize access to software tools for OER, H5P, and AI.
An OER Repository with an AI Assisted Form that Writes the Metadasta
Muriel Peguret and Mirela Cherciov from the Camerise Project at York University’s Glendon Campus will be showing a new tool for using AI to generate metadata for OER that is submitted for Camerise K-12 Studio (a project being demonstrated in another OEWeek Event)
Muriel Péguret received her PhD in FSL Applied Linguistics from Dalhousie University in 2009. She is an Associate Professor at York University in French Studies (Glendon College) and the Faculty of Education. She co-leads with Mirela Cherciov the Camerise K-12 Studio project (built by Learnful Labs Inc.), a repository of French as second language OER for K-12 teachers.
Mirela Cherciov is an Associate Researcher who is developing, in collaboration with Muriel Péguret, an OER platform for K-12 FSL teachers. She holds a PhD in French Studies from the University of Toronto. She conducted research on first-language attrition and bilingualism across the lifespan and has been teaching FSL and linguistics courses.
Watch live here or return later to see the recording.

Image Credits: Old TV – Time Tunnel – Cameron Highland flickr photo by liewcf shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA 2.0) license remixed with OEW OEWeek image by Mario Badilla licensed CC BY 4.0 and Bart Fish & Power Tools of AI / Behaviour Power / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0

No-Cost Textbooks and AI: How AI is Powering Free and Open Course Materials, a Lecture and Discussion by David Wiley
2026-03-03 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Winter Park, United States, Winter Park, FL, United States
As generative AI increasingly impacts higher education, long-standing assumptions about textbooks, course materials, and access to knowledge are being reexamined.
In this lecture and discussion, David Wiley, an internationally recognized leader in Open Educational Resources, explores how generative AI intersects with Open Educational Resources in the context of the college classroom. He examines both the opportunities and tensions of AI-powered course materials and what they mean for affordability, pedagogical innovation, and the future of learning.
Whether you’re new to OER, experimenting with AI in your teaching, or just interested in the idea of no-cost course materials, this session offers a timely and grounded perspective on where free and open learning materials may be headed next.
Students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors are welcome to attend. Food and refreshments will be provided.
Hosted by Rollins College Olin Library. Lecture funded by the Thomas P. Johnson Grant Fund.

Lighten Your Load: Using AI Tools to Enhance OER
2026-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Mateo, United States, San Mateo, CA, United States
Are you hesitant to adopt Open Educational Resources (OER) because you miss the robust support materials provided by major publishers? Join San Mateo CCCD Textbook Affordability Solutions Workgroup for a practical workshop that bridges the gap between free content and engaging learning materials, with apps available within Canvas and the district. We will demonstrate powerful workflows: first, using Google Gemini to instantly “remix” open content into accessible summaries and ancillary materials; and second, deploying Nectir AI within Canvas to act as a coach or tutor.
Takeaways:

Learn to use current available tools, i.e. Gemini, NectirAI, to generate ancillary course materials, test banks, and more
Learn to use CCCCO provided tools, i.e., Gemini, to enhance audio visual materials

90-Minute Webinar: Water is Still Life – Visualizing Native and Indigenous Resistance to Generative AI
2026-03-03 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Albany, United States, Albany, OR, United States
Join Marco Seiferle-Valencia, Open Education Librarian, University of Idaho, for a talk on the AI environmental challenges presented by the mass adoption of generative AI.
A brief breathing practice with Marianne Tanner, Part-time Faculty Librarian, Portland Community College, will help us envision our own roles as information and truth protectors.

Be the change you want to see: Applications of Seamless learning. Research projects from the International Research Network for Innovative Sustainable and Seamless Education (IRN-ISSE)
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Lund, Sweden, Lund, Sweden
The International Research Network for Innovative Sustainable and Seamless Education (IRN-ISSE) is a global research partnership that began at mLearn 2018 at Concordia University in Chicago. The vision of IRN-ISSE is to build an international community of practice, inviting researchers and specialists to collaborate for the greater good, with a specific focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4): “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.” The mission of IRN-ISSE is to study, support, inform, share, and implement research globally to improve access to and quality of education worldwide. The goal is to stand together and learn with and from each other, striving to remain at the forefront of innovative, sustainable, and seamless educational practice
The community has a global reach, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and India. The partnership is working on several initiatives, such as:

The Seamless Learning Experience Design Model, which identifies five themes relevant to designing a seamless learning experience: 1) seamless learning concepts, 2) positive concepts, 3) practical concepts, 4) human concepts, and 5) design concepts. Based on these five concepts, a Seamless Learning Experience Design (SLED) framework was developed.
Research and ongoing work include the “Be the change to see the change” (this was the theme for interviews and larger podcasts) initiative, and on-demand, driven learning.

What you can expect:
During this webinar, you will meet some of the partners in IRN-ISSE. You will hear about their research and ongoing initiatives. You will have the opportunity to discuss with the team and the audience the interesting changes in education, including those brought about by the AI era. You will also learn how you can become involved in the IRN-ISSE partnership.

Speakers:

Helga Hambrock. Dr. S Africa, Co-ordinator
Ebba Ossiannilsson, Prof. Dr. Sweden
Ioana Andrea Stefan, Dr. Romania
Karen Ferreira Meyers, Prof. Dr. Eswatini

… even more members from IRN ISSE

Contact: Ebba Ossiannilsson, Prof. Dr. Sweden
Ebba.Ossiannilsson@gmail.com
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/32914498970710?p=EBrRzeuucxkYlwaZtL
Meeting ID: 329 144 989 707 10
Passcode: [REDACTED]

From Shared Curriculum to AI Co-Creation: A Hands-On Workshop with TAI
2026-03-04 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Chicago) | Elizabethtown, United States, Elizabethtown, KY, United States
At OEWeek 2025, ScholarRX explored strategies for developing open education resources (OER) in health professions education, grounded in the idea of a shared global curricular ecosystem. This year, we take the next step.
What happens when AI becomes a collaborative partner in building and localizing open curriculum?
This interactive workshop invites participants to move beyond discussion and into design. Using TAI (Teaching with Artificial Intelligence), ScholarRx’s AI teaching assistant, attendees will experiment with AI-supported curriculum creation in real time. While ScholarRx’s roots are in health professions education, this workshop is designed for educators and instructional designers across higher education.
Rather than positioning AI as a tool that does the writing for you, we frame it as a partner to help educators:

Clarify learning objectives
Structure modular learning experiences
Generate formative questions
Transform existing materials (e.g., PowerPoints, PDFs, lecture transcripts)into structured learning experiences
Localize and adapt materials for different learners
Translate and expand open resources responsibly

Participants will work individually or in small groups to develop a draft open learning module relevant to their own context, with TAI as a co-creator. Participants are encouraged to bring an existing slide deck, document, or transcript they’d like to reimagine.
Workshop Outcomes

By the end of this session, participants will:
Develop a draft open learning module using AI-supported instructional design
Identify where AI meaningfully supports
and where it should not replace — educator expertise
Understand practical considerations around licensing and attribution in AI-assisted OER development
Gain hands-on experience using TAI in a structured instructional workflow

An Open Introduction to Film: Lessons from a NotebookLM Case Study
2026-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Mateo, United States, San Mateo, CA, United States
Join us for an exploration of how NotebookLM can support the development of Open Educational Resources (OER). We’ll share insights and examples from an Introduction to Film course and discuss potential applications across disciplines. All experience and curiosity levels are welcome.

ADAPT and AI: An Instructor's Success Story
2026-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
This session demonstrates practical ways to build and deploy homework in LibreTexts ADAPT using WeBWorK algorithmic problems.
WeBWorK uses a complex Perl-based language called PG, and writing questions in PG can be challenging. Most PG examples online focus on math, physics, and engineering. As a life science professor, I want to bridge that gap by bringing algorithmic biology problems, which are often more descriptive than numerical, into LibreTexts ADAPT using WeBWorK.
In this session, I will show new instructors how to use AI to turn a conceptual homework idea into a fully functional WeBWorK problem, without needing to know how to code. The talk will demonstrate how large language model agents such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex can produce working WeBWorK problems when given solid documentation and required to check output using a local renderer.
A brief course case study will show how a problem concept can become a working WeBWorK assignment through an iterative workflow.

Unlock Knowledge
2026-03-04 21:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Souse, Tunisia, Souse, Tunisia
Les Ressources Éducatives Libres (REL) : Innover, Partager et Réutiliser
La Chaire UNESCO Éducation ouverte pour un enseignement innovant, intelligent et inclusif de l’Université de Sousse, en collaboration avec la Cellule d’Innovation Pédagogique et Numérique Sousse , l’Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales Carthage, l’Université de Carthage et la Chaire de prospective, anticipation et décision stratégique de l’IHEC Carthage, organisent un webinaire dédié à la découverte et à la valorisation des Ressources Éducatives Libres (REL).
🎯 Objectifs du webinaire
Ce webinaire vise à :

Sensibiliser les étudiants à l’importance des REL dans un contexte d’éducation ouverte et inclusive
Faire découvrir les principes, les licences et les usages des Ressources Éducatives Libres
Encourager la production, l’adaptation et le partage de contenus pédagogiques
Développer une culture de collaboration et d’intelligence collective

📚 Pourquoi participer ?
À l’ère du numérique et de l’innovation pédagogique, les REL représentent une opportunité majeure pour :

Accéder gratuitement à des ressources de qualité
Adapter les contenus aux besoins spécifiques des apprenants
Contribuer activement au savoir commun
Partager les connaissances avec leurs communautés académiques et professionnelles

👩‍🎓 Public cible

Étudiants de toutes disciplines
Enseignants et formateurs
Responsables pédagogiques
Toute personne intéressée par l’éducation ouverte et l’innovation numérique

Fresh and Easy? Authentic Assessment for the Communication Studies Open Educational Resources (OER) Classroom in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sacramento, United States, Sacramento, CA, United States
The current surge of generative and agentic AI can mean having to shift gears constantly as an instructor. No matter the course and no matter the AI policy, this session will help support you in your OER classroom to find low-lift ways to refresh content, revise assessments, and identify boundaries or policies that align with your educational philosophy without having to overhaul your entire course.
Register for Fresh and Easy? Authentic Assessment for the Communication Studies OER Classroom in the Age of AI

IA et Éducation : Deux adversaires faits pour s'entendre - par Markus Deimann
2026-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris)
L’IA générative offre un potentiel transformateur pour le mouvement des REL en réduisant considérablement les obstacles à la création, à la révision et à la localisation de contenus, ce qui accélère efficacement la production de matériel pédagogique de haute qualité. Dans un cadre pédagogique ouvert, l’IA permet aux étudiants et aux enseignants de dépasser la consommation passive pour devenir des conservateurs et des créateurs actifs, approfondissant ainsi leur esprit critique et leurs compétences collaboratives.
Dr Markus Deimann est directeur général d’ORCA.nrw, un consortium de 36 universités publiques de Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie qui promeut les ressources éducatives libres. Ses recherches portent sur l’analyse critique des technologies éducatives, la théorie de l’éducation ouverte et les dimensions idéologiques de la numérisation de l’enseignement supérieur.
Cette conférence aura lieu en anglais.

Global to Local: Reimagining OER Localisation in Higher Education
2026-03-05 07:00 - 08:00 (America/Vancouver) | Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
This Open Education Week online panel from the Commonwealth of Learning presents fresh insights into Open Educational Resource (OER) localisation across the Commonwealth.
Facilitated by Professor Lynne Bowker (Laval University) and Dr Jako Olivier (Commonwealth of Learning), the session is linked to their forthcoming edited volume, Localisation of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education. Speakers from Canada, India and South Africa will share brief presentations on new research, exploring themes such as generative AI, multilingual and Indigenous knowledge integration, student-centred localisation, and policy-driven approaches to adapting OER for local contexts.
Programme
1) Introduction – Jako Olivier & Lynne Bowker (5 minutes)
2) Short presentations (40 minutes)
– Reimagining OER Localisation through Generative AI: A Conceptual Framework for Higher Education (Adit Gupta, Manas Ranjan Panigrahi, Mool Raj & Aakriti Singh)
– Ubuntu and Open Knowledge: A Theoretical Lens on Indigenous Knowledge Integration in Multilingual OERs (Napjadi Letsoalo)
– Science is tough but so are you: localising resources and centering student experiences (Michelle Willmers, Dale Taylor, Bianca Masuku, Glenda Cox & Mohammed Kajee)
– From Global Openness to Local Flexibility: The Discursive Localization of OER in Ontario’s Virtual Learning Strategy (Mara Bordignon)
3) Questions and answers (13 minutes)
4) Closing remarks – Jako Olivier & Lynne Bowker (2 minutes)

K-12 Studio Demo: An OER Repository for French K-12 Teachers
2026-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Toronto, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
In this demo, we will showcase our brand new OER platform for French as a second language teachers at K-12 levels (K-12 Studio) built by Learnful Labs Inc.
The overarching goal of K-12 Studio is to offer FSL teachers in Ontario and beyond a trusted, well-organized space where they can safely share, adapt, and create curriculum or general subjects-aligned resources, while benefiting from peer exchange, professional recognition, and pedagogical support. By streamlining collaboration, the initiative aims to reduce duplication of effort, lightens workload pressures, supports well-being, and strengthens teacher retention across Ontario.
Our platform features a novelty : an AI-assisted resource submission form. This will help teachers save time and still ensure discoverability of their resources.
This project is funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Ontario Ministry of Education.

How to turn your classroom sketches into editable objects instantly
2026-03-05 15:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sunnyvale, United States, Sunnyvale, CA, United States
Teachers still think with pencils, markers, and quick sketches. The problem starts when those sketches need to become clean, reusable teaching materials. In this 30-minute OEWeek session, chemistry teacher Nick DeMello will share how he keeps the human part of teaching intact while producing clearer, faster-to-update lesson visuals.
Then we’ll demo Comak, an AI tool that turns hand-drawn STEM diagrams (from paper, whiteboards, or textbook photos) into clean, editable diagram objects you can place into PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote, or Canva. The goal is simple: spend less time redrawing and more time teaching.
You’ll leave with a practical workflow you can use the same day, plus examples that work especially well for chemistry, maths, and physics lessons. Open educators and classroom teachers are welcome, whether you are OER-focused or just looking for a better way to create and share learning materials during Open Education Week.

Webinar: Expand your reach with Open Educational Resources & AI tools
2026-03-06 10:00 - 11:00 (Asia/Singapore) | Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Join Nanyang Technological University Library (Singapore), in collaboration with Brian Barrick, Associate Professor of Political Science at Los Angeles Harbor College, for a talk that will give you insights into Open Educational Resources.
Areas covered

How emerging AI technologies are changing how information is shared and consumed
Ways to create AI-narrated audiobooks and images easily
Why OER are especially well-positioned to benefit from AI advances

Event information
Date: 6 March 2026
Time: 10am –11am (Singapore time)
Platform: Zoom
If you would like to attend, please register at this link. You may also wish to register to receive the recording if you are unable to make it to the live event.

Workshop Open Education & Science Practices 2026
2026-03-06 10:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | Timisoara, Romania, Timisoara, Romania
The 13th edition of the International Open Education & Science Practices Workshop is organized on Friday, March 6, 2026, by The Politehnica University of Timișoara, through the Digital and Distance Education Department, together with European Universities Alliance E³UDRES² and Accelerate Future HEI, with the support of IEEE Romania, within the Open Education Week 2026, supported by Open Education Global, in room K1, Conference Center of Politehnica University Timișoara.
Theme:
Under the theme “Digital and emerging technologies in education and science“, the presentations will focus on how open science and open educational resources are applied in everyday life, especially in the context of universities, research projects, and education in general. An emphasis will be placed on the response of educational and research systems to the challenges of emerging technologies of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and blockchain.
The workshop aims to bring together international speakers, preparing interactive sessions and discussions. It is addressed to teachers, students, as well as actors in the field of education and training, IT trainers, or human resources departments.
Participation is free, and attendees can choose to attend in person at the UPT Conference Center or participate online. Participants will receive Open Education Workshop Participant Open Badges online and Certificates of Participation for physical attendance.
The workshop brings together international speakers, with Keynote speaker – Dr. Jesus Alcober – UNITE! European University Alliance, aUPaEU (on-site), Marina Marchisio, University of Torino (online), Mark Frydenberg, Bentley University, USA (online), Prof.Em.Dr.ing. Radu Vasiu – UPT (on-site), Prof. dr. Carmen Holotescu – UPT (on-site), Dr. Diana Andone – UPT (on-site), Conf. dr eng. Vlad Mihăescu – UPT (on-site), dr. dr. eng. Andrei Ternauciuc – UPT (on-site), Conf.dr.ing.Silviu Vert & Drd.ing. Diana Szekely (on-site), Conf. Dr. Gabriela Grosseck (on-site), Conf.dr.ing. Muguraș Mocofan (on-site), and colleagues from partner universities are preparing interactive sessions and discussions and is addressed to both teachers and students, but also to actors in the field of education and training, IT trainers, or human resources departments.

Utah Higher Education OER Summit
2026-03-06 09:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | Salt Lake City, United States, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
A gathering of leaders and practitioners from Utah’s public and private higher education institutions to share best practices, brainstorm on solving key issues, and promoting OER and affordable learning materials (ALM).
See full details in agenda.

IA Aprende
2026-03-06 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Mexico_City) | México City, Mexico, México City, Mexico
El recurso está dirigido principalmente al estudiantado, docentes y público en general interesados ​​en integrar la Inteligencia Artificial Generativa (IAGen) en su práctica académica o profesional. Introducir de manera accesible y fundamentada, qué es la IAGen, cómo funcionan los modelos de lenguaje de gran escala y cuáles son sus alcances y limitaciones dentro del contexto educativo. A partir de un enfoque pedagógico centrado en la agencia humana, la presentación enfatiza que la calidad de las respuestas generadas depende del pensamiento crítico, la intencionalidad didáctica y el diseño de instrucciones (prompts).

The Future of OER in the AI Age
2026-03-06 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Chicago) | Chicago, United States, Chicago, IL, United States
For many years, Open Educational Resources have offered instructors the ability to create, share, curate, and customize teaching materials to better meet their needs and those of their students. Now, with the widespread availability, increasing ease of use, and improving outputs of AI tools, instructors also have the ability to remix those high-quality resources and even create new materials derived from them.
This session from the University of Chicago brings together two experts in OER and AI in education to discuss the functional, ethical, and pedagogical considerations that relate to this work:

Lawrence Davis, Professor of History at North Shore Community College, creator of open educational resources and facilitator of OER and AI training at NSCC and EDUCAUSE.
Delmar Larsen, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis, and founder of LibreTexts.

90-minute Webinar: AI, Copyright, and Open Education: What We Know Now
2026-03-06 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Albany, United States, Albany, OR, United States
Cohosted by Open Oregon Educational Resources and Copyright First Responders Pacific Northwest.
Join the Copyright First Responders Pacific Northwest to explore the emerging intersection of AI, copyright, and open educational resources.

The Future is Now: LibreTexts and AI
2026-03-06 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
The intersection of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still emerging, but momentum is growing rapidly. An important step forward came last year with the launch of the AI Co-Author tool, designed to support OER development and improve accessibility remediation. Building on this progress, the LibreTexts development team has introduced a comprehensive AI Initiative to expand and deepen AI integration across the LibreVerse ecosystem.
This presentation reviews the current state of AI development within LibreVerse, highlighting tools already underway and early implementation efforts. It outlines short-term goals focused on pilot programs, platform integration, and faculty support, as well as a long-term vision for a scalable, interoperable, and equity-centered AI infrastructure that advances teaching and learning nationwide.
Planned innovations include context-aware AI tutors embedded in digital textbooks; automated generation and evaluation of formative homework; AI-supported writing and research tools; and AI-guided coding and data science assistance within Jupyter environments. By embedding adaptive tutoring and personalized learning support throughout LibreVerse, the initiative aims to reduce equity gaps and broaden access to high-quality resources. Instructors will gain AI-assisted tools for content creation, grading, analytics, and pedagogical insight, supported by professional development. Grounded in LibreTexts’ OER framework, the initiative emphasizes transparency, interoperability, and evidence-based evaluation to ensure responsible and effective AI integration in open education.

Open Education Talks- Utilizing GenAI and Technology in Supporting OE and OER
2026-03-11 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Denver) | Calgary, Canada, Calgary, AB, Canada
Open Education Talks is a series of 15-minute lightning talks and digital posters about facets of open education. These talks aim to create an accessible, virtual space for conversations about open education. We welcome proposals from educators, students, administrators, librarians, instructional designers, and all other roles related to the design, delivery, and evaluation of open education in post-secondary institutions. We encourage student-led or partnered talks that showcase the critical role of student leadership and student-educator collaborations in open education. To register for these Zoom sessions, visit: https://ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpfuuhqjsiE9xwLFkoS4uK-KLd0bwXMbkC
Utilizing GenAI and Technology in Supporting OE and OER

Beyond Openness: Transdisciplinary Collaboration as the Heart of Open Education in the Age of AI – Sandra Abegglen, Mohammadmadhi Zanjanian, Alexandra Poppendorf (University of Calgary – Alberta, Canada)
Building Trust Through AI Transparency in OERs – Amanda Grey and Karen Meijer (Kwantlen Polytechnic University – British Columbia, Canada)
Opterna: BCcampus Open GenAI Project – Elizabeth A. Childs (Royal Roads University – British Columbia, Canada), Robynne Devine, and Harper Friedman (BCcampus – British Columbia, Canada)
Thinking Outside the Box! Creating and Implementing a Secondary Database as a Teaching Tool for Dental Students – Nazlee Sharmin and Ava Chow (University of Alberta – Alberta, Canada)
A Critical Examination of the Economics of Open – Mima Diab (University of Calgary – Alberta, Canada)

Tuesday Demos Live: AI Declaration Statement from Kwantlen Polytechnic University
2026-03-17 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Regina) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Learn about and try out yourself the AI Declaration Statement developed at OEGlobal member Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU). The template is woven into a Pressbooks Template offered to KPU faculty as a starting step for creating OER AI Declaration Statement template.

When: Tuesday, March 17 10:00am – 11:30am PDT (check for local time)
Where: Register to attend via zoom
Recording: Now available https://youtu.be/fbgALYrRMrc
Discuss: in OEG Connect

Amanda Grey from KPU will share how and why the template was developed, including its being remixed from Kari Weaver’s The Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework and the Me and My Machine Labels developed at Fontys University of Applied Science.

Amanda shared the template last November in OEG Connect plus she and Karen presented it this week as a lightning talk for the Open Education Talks series.

This is not just talking over slides! Amanda and Karen will lead us through a guided practice of creating your own statement. So come with an OER you developed with GenAI assistance and leave with your own AI Declaration Statement you can add to it.

We will see as well some techniques KPU is trialing to have GenAI draft the statement and learn about ideas they have to make a version that is interactive.

This is also the first/premiere of our new series of Tuesdays Demo Live sessions offered by us where OEGlobal Members are here for both telling and showing their open education related projects and resources. To accomodate global schedules, these will take place at various times on future Tuesdays.

This is also offered in conjunction with Open Education Week which does not stop after one week!
Links Mentioned

KPU AI Declaration Statement https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/booktemplate/front-matter/ai-declaration-statement/

Part of KPU Pressbooks Template https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/booktemplate/
AI Use Self-Assessment Rubric [DOCX] https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/263/2026/03/AI-Use-Rubric-for-OER-Creation.docx
Amanda shared AI Declaration Statement in OEG Connect https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/ai-declaration-statement/8313

The Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework by Kari D. Weaver https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/26548/34482

Based on Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) https://etflin.com/information/credit-taxonomy
Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) resource hub https://credit.niso.org/

Me and My Machine Labels https://mmmlabel.tech/
AI Generated Cover for Introductory Canadian Tax – 2nd Edition (KPU) https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/introcanadiantax2e/
Who Owns AI Generated content, by Rory McGreal
Anna Mills shares using agents to take quizzes in an LMS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV_vzeDbswiSJsToK0mcULiqa12fxM_lT

TCC Preconference AI Innovators: Building a Culture of Shared Learning and Creativity with AI
2026-03-25 14:00 - 15:30 (Pacific/Honolulu) | Honolulu, United States, Honolulu, HI, United States
Offered as a free open event as a inducement to signup for the full TCC Online Conference!
Engage in discussion with the founding members of Mid-Pacific’s AI Innovators, a student-led club at Mid-Pacific creating a culture of shared learning around the practical application of AI. The Innovators host monthly forums bringing together students, faculty, and community experts to share knowledge, generate spirited conversation, and offer insight into real and relevant Innovative uses of AI. The session will explore three themes:

Preserving creativity and originality when implementing AI in creative fields
Deepening learning through AI as a thought partner rather than a shortcut
Aligning values with practice to build confidence using AI in ways that support personal passions and goals

Centering Humanity and Compassion in Our Approach to AI
2026-04-08 17:00 - 18:00 (Africa/Cairo) | Cairo, Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
We would like to invite you to a session offered by the Wellbeing Higher Education Network (WHEN), in collaboration with Equity Unbound.
This online gathering will feature a spotlight session titled Centering Humanity and Compassion in Our Approach to AI, led by Equity Unbound co-leads Maha Bali and Mia Zamora.
In light of our current reality and the growing presence of AI in higher education, this session will offer a space to reflect together on how we can stay grounded in humanity, care, and compassion in the ways we engage with these tools. We hope you can join us.
