Open Education Week

Data Reuse Days 2025 (WikiData)
2025-02-18 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-19 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-20 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-21 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-22 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-23 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-24 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-25 17:00 - 19:00 UTC and 2 more dates | Online from Multiple Locations
The Data Reuse Days 2025 is an online event focusing on how people and organizations use Wikidata’s data to build interesting applications and tools. It aims to bring together data reusers and editors to learn from each other and discover cool Wikidata-powered applications. We will also cover technical aspects of Wikidata and share research and ideas for the future of reusing Wikidata’s data.
The event is taking place online, we will have sessions taking place during periods of 2 hours through 8 days: from February 18 to 27, 2025. Find the schedule below on this page. The sessions take place in English, and are open to everyone interested in the topic of data reuse. You have 3 options to watch the sessions:

Attend live in the Jitsi room: you’ll be able to interact with the speakers and other participants. The unique Jitsi link will be added to the Event details shortly before the event, and visible to people who have registered. Note: if you join the Jitsi room, please be aware that we will be recording the call and broadcasting it live on Youtube.
Watch the livestream of the sessions on Youtube: great option if your connection or device doesn’t allow Jitsi, or if you don’t want to appear on the videos. The links will be added in the table below for each session shortly before the event.
Watch the replay videos later on Youtube or Wikimedia Commons: to catch up in case you missed the live transmission, The links will be added in the table below for each session

Open Ed Live
2025-02-25 11:45 - 15:00, 2025-02-26 11:45 - 15:00, 2025-02-27 11:45 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL, United States
Open Ed Live is a free online event aimed at bringing higher ed faculty, librarians, instructional designers, and others with related responsibilities or interests together to explore the boundless opportunities of open education. It consists of three half-day, virtual events with drop-in sessions for extended conversation on key topics.
Hosted by the Division of Digital Learning and UCF Libraries of the University of Central Florida, along with members of the UCF Bookstore, Office of the Provost of Academic Affairs, and teaching faculty.
Speakers representing all levels of colleges and universities will present informational sessions, participate in panel discussions, and lead interactive workshops for attendees.
You’ll receive actionable advice on how to best incorporate open educational resources and practices into courses.
This second annual event acts as a prelude to Open Education Week which takes place March 3-7, 2025. Open Education Week is an annual, global celebration where educators can actively share and learn about the latest achievements in open education.

Carteles Educativos por Wikimedia México
2025-03-03 08:00 - 2025-03-07 17:00 (Europe/London) | México, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
Desde el Programa de Educación de Wikimedia México organizamos una serie de #CartelesEducativos con la comunidad de WikiEducación en el país, a manera de memoria de proyectos y editatones educativos, talleres, cursos, charlas y otras actividades en torno al fenómeno educativo que ha generado el uso e implementación de Wikipedia y los proyectos Wikimedia dentro y fuera del aula en México.
Estos carteles se presentan en el marco de la Semana de la Educación Abierta 2025 (#OEWeek) con el objetivo de incentivar a más personas e instituciones a participar en este movimiento de conocimiento libre, descononización de los saberes y de las diversas comunidades de aprendizajes.
Desde México decimos #WikipediaEsParteDeLaEducación en nuestras Redes Sociales donde podrán encontrar cada uno de las WikiPropuestas pedagógicas.

Open Education Week 2025 - TU Delft Kick-off
2025-03-03 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Panel Discussion: “Building Support for Open Education: Present and Future”
Insights from key stakeholders about current open education initiatives and future strategies.
Panelists:
Willem van Valkenburg (Executive Director, Extension School)
Ingrid Klok (Manager, Library Education Services)
Frank van der Hoeven (Programme Manager, Open Science Programme)
Moderator:
Freek Pols (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Applied Sciences
Poster Session:
• Explore the grassroots projects shaping open education at TU Delft, funded by the Open Education Stimulation Fund (OESF’24)
• Interact with Project leaders who are driving open education forward.

Open Education Awards:
OE Ambassador Awards: Each year, we celebrate 9 TU Delft lecturers (one per faculty and including QuTech) for their advocacy of open education and commitment to openly sharing knowledge and educational resources with the world.
They receive the award from Willem van Valkenburg, Executive Director, TU Delft Extension School for Continuing Education. (See previous winners).
Open Interactive Textbooks (OIT) & Open Textbooks (OTB) awards: In 2024, faculties and the Library celebrated Open Interactive Textbook publications. This year, we again honor our OIT authors while also recognizing OTB authors. These authors play a vital role in maintaining control over educational materials, enhance quality, reduce student costs, and share knowledge globally—well worth the recognition!

Northeast OER Summit
2025-03-03 09:00 - 2025-03-04 17:00 (America/New_York) | University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States
The Northeast Open Educational Resources (OER) Summit is a virtual event for new and experienced OER advocates offering the opportunity to learn and share effective practices in awareness building, implementation, collaboration, strategy, and research.
The theme of our 2025 Summit is All Hands on Deck: Exploring Open Education Through Collaboration and Innovation.

Creating Engaging and Interactive Learning Experiences with Pressbooks + H5P
2025-03-03 14:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Pressbooks, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
>> REGISTER HERE
In this session, we’ll share some high-level principles and examples of how to create engaging learning materials in Pressbooks that encourage active learning through the use of social annotation, inline quizzes and other formative assessments.
We’ll also demonstrate how instructors with access to an enterprise Pressbooks network can easily bring this content into courses taught within a learning management system and see grades updated in real time and get deeper insight into what students are learning as they complete individual activities
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Shaping future generations with AI and OER in Early Development
2025-03-04 08:00 - 12:00 (Africa/Dar_es_Salaam) | TUSOME, Dar Es Salaam, Kinondoni, Tanzania, United Republic of
The event on March 4th during Open Education Week at TUSOME offices will focus on “Shaping Future Generations with AI and OER in Early Development.”
The session will provide an introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and explore its transformative potential in creating Open Educational Resources (OER) tailored for Early Childhood Development (ECD). Participants will gain insights into how AI technologies can enhance the creation of accessible, engaging, and effective educational materials for young learners, fostering more inclusive learning experiences.
Location: Makunduchi Street, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 14108

Teachers Empowering Teachers: Finding and Reusing OER
2025-03-04 12:30 - 13:45 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
What to Expect:

Learn: Examples of best (and worst) practices and common challenges in finding and reusing OER.

Share: Your own experiences, challenges, and successes.

Collaborate: Work with peers to identify solutions and collectively improve OER practices.

This session is perfect for teachers looking to explore new resources, overcome challenges in their teaching, and contribute to a growing Open Education community.
More information and sign-up: https://www.tudelft.nl/evenementen/2025/library/03-mar/open-education-week-2025

How To Use Creative Commons Licenses
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
“Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization that maintains a set of user- and creator-friendly copyright licenses that you can attach to your work to communicate how it can be used and distributed by others.” (quote from this quick start guide).
In this session Kate Langrell, USask Copyright Coordinator, will review the Creative Commons licenses and share how to attach one to your work. She will also touch on the relationship between Generative AI materials and Creative Commons licenses, and what to do if you want to use part of someone else’s work within your own Creative Commons work.

Using Pressbooks to customize Open Educational Resources
2025-03-04 13:00 - 13:45 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Indiana Unviersity Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Interested in free customizable instructional materials? Join us to learn how the Pressbooks online ebook platform can help you find Open Educational Resources (OER), mix and match chapters from multiple books and resources, customize materials to reflect your class’s needs, or create your own content to share with students.
In this webinar we will demonstrate and discuss

accessing Pressbooks
finding OER using the Pressbooks Directory
importing OER content into your own Pressbook
tips on customizing and creating content to meet your course needs

WikiAfrica Hour's Offline Wikis – Kiwix Demonstration
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Online from Multiple Locations
How do we share free knowledge with people who have no stable internet? How do you identify the right offline solution, if you cannot see it in action online first?

Many steps must be taken before offline solutions can benefit the people they are designed for, some of which are quite tricky.
In this OEWeek25 special, following the January edition of WikiAfrica Hour: Offline Wikis, we invite Offline Wiki experts to demonstrate their offline solution. We hope this will make one of the many steps towards offline—the decision phase—easier by showing what you should expect from this platform before you spend hours setting up the hardware, sourcing to the right offline platform, downloading it, and then adding it to your hardware.
In the hot seat for this session is:
✔️ Stephane Coillet-Matillon, who will demonstrate Kiwix

WikiAfrica Hour's Offline Wikis – Internet in a Box Demonstration
2025-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Online from Multiple Locations
How do we share free knowledge with people who have no stable internet? How do you identify the right offline solution, if you cannot see it in action online first?

Many steps must be taken before offline solutions can benefit the people they are designed for, some of which are quite tricky.
In this OEWeek25 special, following the January edition of WikiAfrica Hour: Offline Wikis, we invite Offline Wiki experts to demonstrate their offline solution. We hope this will make one of the many steps towards offline—the decision phase—easier by showing what you should expect from this platform before you spend hours setting up the hardware, sourcing to the right offline platform, downloading it, and then adding it to your hardware.
In the hot seat for this session is:
✔️ Tim Moody, who will demonstrate Internet in a Box

WikiWednesday: Using Wikipedia in the Classroom
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Indiana Unviersity Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Uncover how Wikipedia can transform your classroom into a space for creating and sharing open knowledge.
A monthly Wikipedia skills and interests meetup for the IU Indianapolis community. Come and learn with us!
Topics include:

Wikipedia editing, policies, and tricks
Wikidata editing and tools
Wikimedia Commons editing and tools
Subject focussed editing groups and volunteers
Wikipedia in the classroom

Free food for in-person attendees!
If you plan to come in person to this event, please plan to bring your own computer.

H5P Workshop at McMaster University
2025-03-05 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
eCampusOntario offers free access to H5P, a powerful tool for creating interactive learning elements? H5P allows you to design engaging activities—such as quizzes, drag-and-drop exercises, interactive videos, and more—that can be seamlessly embedded into Avenue to Learn.

This session will provide an overview of H5P and showcase a variety of interactive elements that instructors can use to enhance student engagement in online courses. Whether you’re looking to create dynamic learning experiences or explore innovative ways to present content, H5P offers an intuitive and flexible solution.

Join us to see real-world examples, learn how to integrate H5P into your course, and get started with designing interactive activities for your teaching and learning.

Introducing LibreTexts Academy Center for Open Instructional Innovation and Professional Development
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
LibreTexts Academy is here! Join Director of Curriculum Innovation and Development, Justin Shorb, for an introduction to our Academy Center for Open Instructional Innovation and Professional Development. From year long cohorts to asynchronous webinars, Academy has something for all of the open education advocates and practitioners on your campus.
Be sure to fill out our interest form before attending available at https://libretexts.org/academy.

Introduction to Using Pressbooks
2025-03-05 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Regina) | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Pressbooks is an online platform for creating books (and other book-like learning materials), including open educational resources (OER). It enables authors and publishers to design, format, and share their books in several ways, including in web-based and digital/ebook formats, or as print-ready PDFs. Pressbooks is used by independent authors and educational institutions around the world. In this hands-on webinar, you will learn how to use Pressbooks to create, build, and adapt online books and OER. We will cover the basics of structuring your book, adding and formatting content, and briefly look at some ways you can enhance your book with embedded media (like images, video, and interactive H5P activities).
If you do not already have a USask Pressbooks account, one will be provided for you, along with a “sandbox” book that you can explore during the session and continue building with later.

OE Week at the UBC Emerging Media Lab
2025-03-05 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Want to learn more about EML open educational technology projects? This is the opportunity!
Drop-in on March 5th between 11am and 1pm in room 183 of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre to visit us as we celebrate Open Education in our Demo Space! We are excited to welcome you and share more about how we work as well as demonstrating some of our recent projects. Snacks and giveaways included!
EML produces each project with an eye to open practices. Creating software repositories with open distribution and MIT Licensing on our code, publishing outcomes openly on UBC Wiki to promote further exploration of educational technologies, coaching developers and principal investigators in Open Licensing we apply to the work now and for the future; EML works dynamically to create a meeting place to think ‘open’ here at UBC and beyond.
Can’t make it this time? Don’t worry! The Lab is open weekly for drop-ins from 11 to 1pm on Wednesdays. Or reach out to emergingmedia.lab@ubc.ca to use for your own visiting time!

Open Skilling: Accelerating Workforce Readiness Through Open Education
2025-03-05 22:00 - 23:30 (Asia/Riyadh) | National eLearning Center, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
This online panel discussion from the National eLearning Center of Saudi Arabia will examine how Open Education is revolutionizing skilling and workforce development. The session will focus on use cases, challenges, and opportunities in open skilling, emphasizing industry-driven training models, credentialing, and lifelong learning pathways. Experts will share insights on open credentials, microlearning, and policy frameworks that enable scalable, equitable access to skills development.

LibreTexts Remixing Made Easy: Supporting Faculty in Creating OER Without the Tech Overwhelm
2025-03-05 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Remixing an OER textbook can feel daunting – especially when faced with new platforms and tools. In this session, Cosumnes River College shares practices to utilize support staff to streamline the LibreTexts remixing process. This approach allows faculty to focus on fine-tuning content rather than learning a new interface.
