Open Education Week

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.

DigiPedia: Facilitating Flexible Curriculum Development
2025-03-06 12:30 - 13:45 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Let’s celebrate the Day 4 of OE week 2025 at TU Delft by joining us for a community lunch and an interactive session designed to discover how innovative tools like DigiPedia can increase the flexibility of your curriculum design and inspire your teaching.

Event Details:
Date: 6th March
Time: 1230-1345 hrs.
Location: Blue Room, TU Delft library
Includes Lunch

Session Highlights:

Presentation: Explore modern approaches to curriculum innovation.
Interactive Session: Share insights, brainstorm ideas, and gain inspiration to enhance your courses.

If you’re looking to integrate open education practices into your curriculum design or want to learn new approaches to innovation in education, this session is for you!

Beyond Mandates: Fostering a Culture of Open Access Book Publishing
2025-03-06 12:30 - 13:45 (Europe/London) | University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Attempts to incentivise open access for books have, to date, largely centred around policy interventions that mandate publication in open formats and venues. Today we have OA book policies from funders in the UK, Netherlands, Austria, Norway, Ireland, and Portugal; and the Council of the EU has said that for publicly funded research, open access should be “the norm” for monographs as well as articles.
But the big stick of mandates can be a blunt instrument and very often add a heavy compliance burden on scholars and HE institutions. A more effective and lasting avenue to OA for books might be to embed open research and publishing cultures within universities and more widely. But currently, HEIs often incentivise closed access publishing (deliberately or passively) by cleaving to the status quo in terms of recognising career advancement and in terms of publishing venues and how those venues are supported. How might this paradigm be shifted towards openness?
This session will feature short presentations from expert scholars, librarians and publishers, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A. We will address these central questions: how can we incentivise researchers to publish their books OA? How can institutions signal more strongly that publishing openly should be important, and reward those who do so? How might a culture of open research be fostered within and beyond the book publishing process?
Changing the way the sector approaches reward and recognition for scholars could be a big driver for change in open access book publishing – going beyond mandates to offer positive reasons to embrace openness.
Join us for this online event, presented in partnership by Copim and the Knowledge Equity Network. Featuring contributions from guest speakers, Lucy Barnes (Senior Editor and Outreach Coordinator, Open Book Publishers), Gavin Beattie (Associate Director: Research & Impact, Libraries & Collections, King’s College London), Jill Claassen (Section Manager, Scholarly Communication & Research, University of Cape Town), Kevin Sanders (Open Access Engagement Lead, Open Book Collective) and Chaired by Sally Dalton (Head of Library Research Services: Open Research, University of Leeds).

Tricky CC License Questions Call in Show (OEWeek Live)
2025-03-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
This is a special themed topic OEWeek Live for Open Education Week 2025 featuring a team of Creative Commons Experts, facilitators of the Creative Commons Certificate program.
Yes choosing a license from the list is one thing, but there are always complexities that arise in practice. We’ve asked our panel to come with a few “tricky” questions but we want to also give the audience a chance to pose theirs. As always, we are not offering legal advice (we will here “IAmNotALawyer”) but a great opportunity to hear our guests describe their approach to answering CC questions.
Guests confirmed so far include:

Shanna Hollich (Creative Commons)
Jonathan Poritz (Independent consultant, and CC Certificate facilitator)
Jennifer Hughes (CC Certificate facilitator)
Jennifer Campbell (CC Certificate facilitator)
Suzanne Wakim (CC Certificate facilitator)

Watch live where we we invite tricky CC questions and comments from the audience sent through the chat. Or submit them ahead of time via the call-in web form https://forms.gle/MFK1b8Hm2bBGvc4B7 or watch the recording later:

Learn More:

Open Education Week https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/
CC Certificate Program, https://certificates.creativecommons.org/
OE Week Live Schedule https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/oeweek-live-webcasts/7383
Copyright First Responders Pacific Northwest https://copyrightfirstresponderspnw.org/

Featured Image: Composite image including Old TV – Time Tunnel – Cameron Highland flickr photo by liewcf shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license with Open Education 2025 Week banner by Mario Badilla at OEGlobal and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Inset image includes Outdated Technology – Telephones and Radio flickr photo by MissouriStateArchives shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) and overlay of Creative Commons logo (CC0). Maybe the panel can suggest the best reuse license and check us on our attribution!

Leveraging LibreTexts and OER to Design AI-Enhanced Assignments
2025-03-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join Ly-Huong Pham, Evergreen Valley College, as she discusses how LibreTexts’ remixing capabilities help faculty design assignments that integrate AI while fostering student engagement and critical thinking.
By seamlessly combining different OERs or chapters, educators can create flexible learning experiences that encourage deeper inquiry. She will share insights from her experience working with students, highlighting their challenges, responses, and lessons learned.

Copyright Mythbusters Workshop and © Microcourse
2025-03-06 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD), San Mateo, CA, United States
Copyright is tricky business! Join librarians Pia Walawalkar and Ame Maloney of Skyline College to discuss copyright myths and facts related to OER adoption.
Note: While this presentation’s audience is primarily those in the San Mateo County Community College District (California, USA), it is open for all who wish to join us.

Interactive Asynchronous Discussions with Discuss-It in LibreTexts’ ADAPT
2025-03-06 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Ready to energize your asynchronous online discussions? In this session, our panel of instructors will introduce Discuss-It, a powerful extension of the LibreTexts’ ADAPT homework platform that fosters active learning, student engagement, and collaboration in online courses.
This tool, available for free in California, supports asynchronous student-to-student interaction and instructor-student communication through multimedia options, enhancing the learning experience for all students. Discuss-It also prioritizes accessibility and inclusivity, offering features like auto-captioning, and auto-transcription with editing capabilities in multiple languages, powered by OpenAI’s Whisper technology. With its seamless integration with Canvas and other learning management systems for automatic gradebook syncing, Discuss-It can be a powerful teaching tool and streamline course management for instructors.
Discuss-It allows students to engage in threaded discussions using text, audio, and video responses, creating a more interactive and engaging online learning environment. By promoting creativity and enabling students to express their thoughts in diverse ways, it encourages meaningful conversations with their peers. Peer review and feedback are also integral to Discuss-It, promoting reflection and increasing accountability among students.
Join us to discover how Discuss-It can transform online learning by creating an engaging, inclusive, and collaborative learning environment.

Check H5P accessibility and more - CARETAKER
2025-03-07 10:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Oslo) | Skien, SKIEN, Telemark, Norway
We are excited to introduce the H5P Caretaker, a valuable tool designed to help you assess your H5P files for accessibility, licensing, and usability issues. This initiative is the result of a collaborative effort between Oliver Tacke and NDLA.
Please note that the H5P Caretaker is still in development, and we welcome your feedback to help us improve the service. The initial version is fully operational and available for you to test during this web conference.
As adherence to accessibility standards becomes increasingly vital, it’s essential that we equip ourselves with the right tools and resources to streamline this process. The H5P Caretaker aims to make your experience as seamless and up-to-date as possible.
We invite you to explore the H5P Caretaker with us!
Read more about the technical implementation
Presenters:

Jan Frode Lindsø
Oliver Tacke
Knut Inge Skifjeld

Imagine a gender equal world – help write women onto Wikipedia for IWD!
2025-03-07 13:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
“Women in Red” – a Wikipedia editathon celebrating the lives and contributions of all the inspiring women of Scotland (and around the world) missing from the world’s go-to site for information.
Wikipedia is the 8th most visited website in the world but lacks diversity in its editors and its articles. Only 20.02% of biographies on English Wikipedia, the world’s go-to source of information, are about women. Women are not a minority and we can #ChooseToChallenge the paucity of stories currently shared on the open web and #InspireInclusion. This event will focus on improving the representation of inspiring women online.
Participants will learn how to edit Wikipedia pages during a hybrid event (online webinar AND in person meetup in the University of Edinburgh Main Library on the 6th floor in the Digital Scholarship Centre) and will be supported over the afternoon to help create new pages for notable individuals who are not currently on Wikipedia (perhaps from BBC’s 100 Women 2025) and/or help improve already existing Wikipedia pages.
No prior knowledge required as training will be provided for those with no Wikipedia editing experience.
You’ll learn a new digital skill in a social & supportive setting and meet like-minded event participants all passionate about improving representation online to help close the gender gap for the benefit of millions of readers all around the world.

1:00 pm – 1:15pm: Welcome and Tea/Coffee
1:15pm – 2:15pm: Wikipedia training from Ewan McAndrew.
2:15pm – 2:30pm: Tea and Coffee break
2:30 pm – 4:30pm: Research and Editing with aim to publish by 4:30pm.
4:30pm – 5:00pm: Publishing your edits, recap and event close.

Join us as we help make Wikipedia better!
Then you can check how long it takes for it to appear in Google’s top ten results!
Have a look at the event page to see if there are pages you would like to help edit/create and if you fancy learning more about Wikipedia ahead of time then you can view the Wiki Basics site.

Open for Student Success Symposium
2025-03-07 09:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Online with Georgia State University Library, Atlanta, GA, United States
Join Georgia State University Library for Our
3rd Annual Open Education Week Celebration,
where professionals and students unite with the common purpose
to learn and share insights about open and affordable education.
The Open for Student Success Symposium
March 7, 2025
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET
Free, Online, and Open to All
Register Here
The symposium’s theme this year is
Open Education: Fueling Equity in Learning
And we will have the honor of welcoming two keynote speakers:

Paola Corti, Open Education Community Manager at SPARC Europe and Project Manager for METID at Politecnico di Milano, will share how her work is breaking barriers in the Open Education Movement by harnessing an international network of librarians. Paola will present her keynote, titled “Opening Knowledge: A Natural Approach,” exploring the practice of lifelong learning and its impact on both students and teachers. She will also share tools to discuss the concept of openness, including the ENOEL Playing Cards and related gameplays.

Virginia Clinton-Lisell is Associate Professor of Education, Health, and Behavior with the College of Education & Human Development at the University of North Dakota and Primary Researcher for the Open Education Research Fellowship. She holds a master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from New York University and a doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Virginia will present her keynote, titled “The Inaccessibility of Access Codes: Student Experiences with Online Homework Systems,” sharing findings from a survey of almost a thousand college students about the costs of homework access codes and their impact on student finances, grades, and stress levels.
See the full event schedule at:
research.library.gsu.edu/open

AI Literacies for Open Educators: An Exploration
2025-03-07 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Online from Multiple Locations
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming education, bringing both opportunities and challenges for open educators. This interactive workshop, hosted by Dr Doug Belshaw and Dr Angela Gunder, explores a plurality of “AI Literacies” for understanding and applying AI within open education.
Drawing from the recently-published paper– part of MIT’s AI and Open Education Initiative– AI Literacies and the Advancement of Opened Culture: Global Perspectives and Practices, the session will provide a structured introduction to AI literacies. The hosts will then guide participants through a discussion around the ethical, technical, and pedagogical implications for open educators using generative AI.
Finally, participants will be encouraged to add any relevant openly-licensed resources to an open access repository.
Key takeaways for participants:

A practical understanding of AI literacies as they apply to open education.
An approach to help co-create definitions and frameworks relating to AI literacies in specific contexts.
Access to an open repository of AI and open education resources.

Pressbooks 101
2025-03-07 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Pressbooks is an easy-to-use open content publishing platform for creating (or adapting) online resources such as textbooks, guidebooks, modules, lab manuals, student-generated assignments, and more!
This session will provide an overview of Pressbooks and the dynamic features that are natively baked in – including H5P interactivity, Hypothes.is annotation and embedded multimedia. If you’re looking to self-publish content of any length, and want a simple tool that enables customization, flexibility and accessible, varied publishing formats with web-hosting options, Pressbooks may be right for you.
We’ll look at examples of instructor-created and student-created content and get you started on using Pressbooks for your teaching and learning.

Emerging Technologies in International Education
2025-03-07 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Edmonton) | Athabasca University, 1 University Dr, Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
“Bridging the gap between theory and practice is essential for advancing education. While theoretical frameworks provide foundational understanding, their real-world application ensures relevance and impact. Educators and institutions are challenged to translate scholarly insights into actionable strategies that address challenges in open and distributed education. This dynamic exchange between research and practice fosters innovation, improves teaching effectiveness, and enhances learning outcomes. Extending scholarship to practice also enriches research, as practical applications often reveal new areas of inquiry, leading to a continuous cycle of knowledge generation and refinement.” (Anderson et al., 2025)
In this session, Drs. Adnan Qayyum and Levina Yuen will outline key emerging online technologies and their potential to enable and transform education on a global scale.
Emerging Technologies in International Education
Dr. Adnan Qayyum and Dr. Levina Yuen
March 7, 2025, 11am MT
http://www.cideresearch.ca/session/qayyum-yuen-2025
This is the third and final session in the CIDER series celebrating Open Education Week 2025 and the 25th anniversary of The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning.

NMOER Event: Finding and Evaluating Open Materials for Accessibility
2025-03-07 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | University of New Mexico, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Continuing the Proactive Accessibility OER Series 2025, this workshop helps faculty finalize their OER projects by focusing on sourcing and evaluating open materials for accessibility.
Participants will learn how to identify and assess openly licensed resources for critical accessibility features such as screen reader compatibility, proper tagging, and alt text. Faculty will also explore strategies for adapting and customizing materials to meet accessibility standards while adhering to licensing requirements. This session will equip attendees with a comprehensive understanding of how to integrate accessible practices into their projects and finalize materials that are inclusive, effective, and ready for publication or distribution.

Editing Wikiquote with the Wiki Loves Women team
2025-03-08 16:00 - 17:30 UTC | Wiki in Africa, South Africa
Join Zita Ursula Zage, Florence Devouard and Afek Ben Chahed to explore collaborative with initiatives like Wiki Loves Women’s ‘#SheSaid‘ Campaign which document quotes from Black women, non-binary, and LGBTQI+ individuals who have inspired many in the fight against patriarchy and the eradication of gender-based violence aligns perfectly with our theme. During this session, participants will learn how to edit Wikiquote, a free online compendium of sourced quotations from notable people and creative works in every language. This session will be presented in English, on the 8th March 2025 at 16:00 UTC.
Registration link.

Photography Basics For Wikimedia Commons
2025-03-08 17:00 - 18:00 (Africa/Lagos) | Wiki in Africa, South Africa
Wiki Loves Africa is organizing a training for its participants to guide them on how to upload files for the photography contest.
This training will focus on the basics of photography and also there will be demo on how to make simple edits on an image to enhance the quality.
The training will be delivered in English.

Podcasting as Open Pedagogy
2025-03-10 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Podcasting provides students with the opportunity to gain experience in open educational practices including finding and using openly licensed audio and sharing their academic work with the wider community. Learn how to create your own podcast in this introductory and interactive workshop.
This workshop will cover all levels of podcast production including content creation, recording, editing, and promotion. No previous podcasting experience is necessary. This workshop will also cover the basics of Audacity, the free and open source audio editing software. Audacity can be used for many digital projects including podcasts, oral histories, and voice overs or narration. Participants will learn how to record and edit audio using Audacity, as well as how to import music and sound effects.
Pre-requisites: None. This workshop is intended for beginners. To get the most out of this workshop consider downloading Audacity at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.

Viquipèdia:Viquimarató Dones i Salut (Wikipedia : Women and Health Wikimarathon)
2025-03-24 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Aquesta viquimarató forma part de les activitats del Projecte Dones i Salut a la Viquipèdia i els seus objectius principals són analitzar el contingut actual relacionat amb la salut de les dones a la Viquipèdia, millorar els articles existents i crear-ne de nous per cobrir les llacunes identificades. L’equip de treball d’aquest projecte està coordinat per RedCAPS encarregat de revisar i aportar informació rellevant per validar el contingut de cadascuna de les entrades en què treballarem.

Objectius

Millorar la qualitat del contingut i les referències dels articles a la Viquipèdia.
Traduir entrades ja existents en altres llengües.
Incorporar la perspectiva de gènere en els articles
Aportar imatges a Wikimedia Commons.
Completar les entrades de Wikidata corresponent

OER Collective Community Day
2025-03-25 10:30 - 15:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Australia, Australia
Kick off the year with inspiration, connection, and collaboration at the OER Collective Community Day on Tuesday, 25 March 2025, from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM ACDT on Zoom!
This annual event is your opportunity to engage with the OER Collective community, share insights, and gain new strategies to advance open education at your institution. Whether you’re a seasoned advocate or just beginning your OER journey, there’s something for everyone.
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Dave Ernst, Executive Director of the Open Education Network, as our keynote speaker. Throughout the day, interactive sessions will explore OER advocacy and critical conversations, a deep dive into some of the OER projects within the Collective, and practical strategies for supporting OER at your university — even without a dedicated OER team.
Don’t miss this chance to connect with peers, learn from experts, and energise your open education efforts for the year ahead!

Slido will be used to facilitate the Q&A section of the session. Participants are encouraged to submit questions in advance.

WikiAfrica Hour's Offline Demos – MoodleBox and Kiwix – Offline OER
2025-03-25 15:00 - 16:00 (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 first online?
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 ( https://bit.ly/WAH_Ep42_YT ), 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:
✔️ Dan McGuire and Shadrach Ankrah, members of Sopal, who are going to discuss the combination of offline solutions MoodleBox and Kiwix
Join this #OEWeek conversation on Offline!

Open Science e OER per gli studi umanistici
2025-04-08 16:30 - 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Seminario interno di approfondimento per gli studenti del Laboratorio di Informatica Umanistica del corso di laurea in Lettere Moderne (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro). Sarà presentato il panorama OER – Open Educational Resources (Creative Commons Search – Open Education Consortium – OERCommons) e verrà introdotto il concetto di Digital Object Identifier (DOI) attraverso la piattaforma Zenodo.org.
