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SUMMARY:Shifting to Community Owned and Operated Open Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Open Education Week (March 3 – 7\, 2025)\, the University of Regina’s Centre for Teaching and Learning OEP Program invites you to a special online presentation by Dr. Cable Green\, Director of Open Knowledge at Creative Commons. \nAbstract\nIf we are going to solve the world’s most pressing challenges (e.g.\, climate change)\, the knowledge about those challenges must be open. \nThis talk will explore what open knowledge structures society might need to ensure the knowledge components necessary for education and science – both critical elements in solving global challenges – are open by default. Open Education and Open Science both require significant\, stable public funding. Both education and science are public goods and the production\, reuse and revisions of education and science resources should be publicly funded and openly licensed to ensure educational opportunities for all. \nWhat might “Community Owned and Operated Open Education” look like? What are the barriers and the opportunities? What if funding currently spent on expensive commercial educational resources were redirected to support the creation\, stewardship and sharing of effective OER in every discipline\, in every grade level in multiple languages? What if we redirected existing public funding to create a sustained shared open learning infrastructure for the public good?
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/shifting-to-community-owned-and-operated-open-knowledge/
LOCATION:University of Regina\, Regina\, Saskatchewan\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Climate Action,Open Science
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SUMMARY:OEWeek Live: March 5 More Open Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Here we are in the mid-point of Open Education Week 2025 and this is another in a series of our OEWeek Live webcasts\, organized as an informal conversations. For each show we invite a group of open educators willing to have a discussion that lacks an agenda and slides with bullet points. \nThese conversational sessions start with sharing of their current projects\, activities\, and interests but flow into general discussions of what is happening in the world of open education. \nGuests confirmed so far include: \n\nSally Chan (Leeds University) on Carbon literacy and University of Leed’s new open Climate Action Training course\nNate Angell (Nudigital) and Anna Mills (College of Marin) on their newly published paper “Are We Tripping? The Mirage of AI Hallucinations”\nDick Heller (University of Newcastle\, Australia) on Contribution of open access to social justice and knowledge equity (see related event)\nGirish Bhuteja (Conestoga College) on sharing and learning with OER\n\n  \nWatch live and send questions and comments through the chat or watch the recording later \n\nLearn More: \n\nOpen Education Week https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/ \nOE Week Live Schedule https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/oeweek-live-webcasts/7383
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/oeweek-live-march-5-conversations/
LOCATION:Online from Multiple Locations
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Climate Action
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SUMMARY:Open Science: Climate Change & the Global Commons (Knowledge Equity Network)
DESCRIPTION:Join Knowledge Equity Network for an inspiring session on how commons-based approaches to Open Science can catalyse the impact of climate research\, challenge misinformation and enable solutions focussed research for a sustainable future. \nIn this session\, we’ll explore how Creative Commons licensing plays a vital role in making climate research freely accessible. By enabling researchers worldwide to access and build on this knowledge\, we open the door to innovative solutions. For example\, efforts are underway to ensure all research cited in the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Report is openly accessible – providing a powerful tool to challenge misinformation and foster new research into climate change and its mitigations. \nWe’ll also dive into the significant role of Wikipedia\, with its 24 billion monthly page views\, as a trusted source of climate-related information. Managed by a collaborative community of editors and contributors\, Wikipedia ensures up-to-date research is available to both the public and AI systems that rely on its entries. \nIn this session\, we’ll be joined by guest speakers\, Monica Granados (Director of Open Science\, Creative Commons) and Tatjana Baleta (Wikimedia Visiting Fellow for Climate\, University of Exeter: Global Systems Institute)\, in conversation with Nick Sheppard (Open Research Advisor\, University of Leeds). \n\nIPPC Reports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change#List_of_all_reports\nCreative Commons Open Climate Data Project: https://creativecommons.org/about/open-science/open-climate/\nCreative Commons Licencing: https://creativecommons.org/\nWikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation: https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.509
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/open-science-climate-change/
LOCATION:University of Leeds\, Woodhouse Lane\, Leeds\, West Yorkshire\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Climate Action
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SUMMARY:Keynote: Racing Towards a Wasted Future: Generative AI and the Resurgence of Nuclear Energy (Dr. Marco Seiferle-Valencia)
DESCRIPTION:As the potentials and promises of generative AI sweep into the field of Open Education\, educators and advocates have a holistic responsibility to think deeply and expansively about the known and still emerging environmental impacts of these technologies. Demand for energy by the hungry server farms that create so-called artificial intelligence is bringing damaging and dangerous energy practices back from the grave\, including the resurrection of previously shuttered coal and nuclear power plants. How can we as Open practitioners reconcile the long standing historical and contemporary violence of coal and nuclear power production with the desire to widely embrace and experiment with generative AI? This talk will review the most recent research on AI energy demands and the environmental impacts\, as well as provide a brief history and contextualization of the current issues with nuclear waste\, pollution\, and accidents in North America\, primarily in the United States and Canada. Attendees will be invited to reflect deeply on what we stand to lose and gain with the widespread adoption of generative AI in society\, and hopefully leave inspired to mindfully use generative AI\, with its current promise and future perils in mind. \n\n\nSpeaker bio:  \nDr. Marco Seiferle-Valencia serves as Associate Professor and Open Education Librarian at the University of Idaho. His research interests span a wide range of topics\, notably community archives\, the history and current practices of BIPOC feminisms especially in libraries and information environments\, and environmental justice. Marco is also a co-creator of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective\, which collects imperiled histories of Chicana civil rights activism. \n\nDate: Wednesday\, May 14\, 2025 \nTime: 11:00am – 12:00pm \nTime Zone: Saskatchewan Time (CST)
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/keynote-racing-towards-wasted-future/
LOCATION:University of Regina\, Regina\, Saskatchewan\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,Climate Action,Open Educational Practices
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SUMMARY:Open to All: Accessibility in the LibreVerse
DESCRIPTION:Open education only works if everyone can access it. That’s why LibreTexts is currently conducting a comprehensive accessibility audit of our platform and features\, with the results shaping both our updated conformance documentation and a clear roadmap to remove barriers for students and content authors alike. \nOur goal is to meet or exceed the Revised 508 Standards and WCAG 2.1 AA because accessibility isn’t a checkbox\, it’s a core part of what it means to build education that truly belongs to everyone. Accessibility conformance documentation is already available\, and we encourage anyone who encounters an accessibility concern to report it directly to us. We also provide a full suite of authoring tools to help content creators build with accessibility in mind from the start.
URL:https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/open-to-all-accessibility-iibreverse/
LOCATION:Davis\, United States\, Davis\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Climate Action,Digital Skills,Equity and Access,Open Education Resources,Open Repositories,Social Justice,Sustainability
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