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

OEP Around the World
2025-03-04 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Das Startchancen-Programm, Berlin, Germany
OEP (Open Education Practices) and OER (Open Educational Resources) both are important pillars of the OE Movement. While OER is well defined and is widely used on a daily basis, OEP may have a broader understanding throughout different stakeholders within the educational sector.
Since its launch in 2022 the German OER Strategy has contributed to a rise in awareness for OEP within various German communities field of OER. But still there is a huge variety in understanding, interpreting and implementing OEP (at least in Germany).
Thus, there are several initiatives trying to establish a better understanding of OEP in Germany. As a major German project management Agency, we aim to support these initiatives. Therefore, we will offer a session in which we want to gather different understandings of OEP throughout the world of Open Education.
If you work with OEP in any way we invite you to share and discuss with us your definition and/or understanding of OEP.

Affordable Learning KY's Virtual Symposium - Community Connections: A Place for Everyone
2025-03-04 09:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Affordable Learning Kentucky, 100 Airport Rd, Frankfort, KY, United States
Join ALKY for a day-long symposium celebrating OE community connections in Kentucky and beyond.
Sessions will include a keynote with Dr. Natalie Allen from OpenStax, an exploration of the possibilities afforded by the Manifold digital publishing platform with Robin Miller of CUNY, student and faculty panels on the impacts of OER and OEP, and an OER treasure hunt.

TeachBooks Workshop: Implement your Ideas Now!
2025-03-04 15:45 - 17:45 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Are you interested in creating an online interactive textbook? Have you seen other online educational resources and are ready to dive deeper? This hands-on workshop will guide you through the process of creating and using online textbooks in your teaching. The TeachBooks Team has helped dozens of teachers create their own online books, even those without prior programming experience!

Event Details:
Date: 4th March
Time: 1545-1745 hrs.
Location: Blue Room, TU Delft library
What you will learn:

Practical tools and workflow for creating an online textbook.
Tips for integrating them effectively into your teaching.
Strategies for collaborating with colleagues and students to co-create resources.
How to publish your book with TU Delft Open
You will have your own online book by the end of the session—we guarantee it!

Whether you’re new to Open Education or an experienced practitioner, this workshop offers actionable takeaways to enhance your teaching practices.

If you would like to learn more, visit teachbooks.io. A laptop is recommended for this session, but you are also welcome to participate as an observer. Special software is not required (except a web browser); creating a GitHub account in advance will save you sometime during the workshop.
Sign-up and more information: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/events/2025/library/03-mar/open-education-week-2025

Getting Started with Open Pedagogy
2025-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Brock University, 1812 Sir Issac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
This resource-rich virtual workshop will introduce Open Pedagogy, a student-centered and collaborative approach to teaching and learning that foregrounds access, justice, and learner agency. Drawing on inspiring examples from a wide variety of disciplines, participants will learn how to infuse principles of open pedagogy into their learning activities, policies, and assessments.
This OEweek workshop is suited for educators who are new to open educational practices as well as more experienced open pedagogues.

Beyond the Price Tag: Students on Textbooks & OER
2025-03-04 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at Arlington, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, TX, United States
Textbooks draining your wallet? Let’s talk about it—over free coffee and donuts!
Join us for Beyond the Price Tag, a peer- to-peer interactive student event where we’re diving into the real cost of textbooks and how Open Educational Resources (OER) can make a difference. Share your thoughts on textbook affordability by answering a quick, thought-provoking question—because your voice matters!
Event Co-hosted by the Open Education Student Advocacy Group (OESAG).

Open for Antiracism: Leveraging Open Education to Support Antiracism in the Classroom, 4 years in review
2025-03-04 09:00 - 09:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA, United States
In this 45-minute panel discussion, we address the question: “How can the open education field engage effectively with antiracist pedagogy?” The Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR) provides an example from its four years of programming that supports. California community college faculty to transform their classrooms to be antiracist through the affordances of OER and open pedagogy. Now in its fifth year, OFAR has supported almost 200 instructors from over 40 institutions to learn to adapt and author OER, integrating antiracist activities and perspectives and co-creating materials with their students.
Two propositions inform the design of OFAR:

Academics wish to change their classroom practices to be antiracist and need guidance on promising practices and a safe place to explore with peers;
OER and open pedagogy can be effective tools to transform classrooms to be antiracist.

Program participants learn about antiracist pedagogy, OER, and open pedagogy. Participants then implement a change to their teaching by integrating OER or open pedagogy to make their class antiracist. Participants receive ongoing support through webinars, coaching, and OER support.
In this session, attendees will learn about program design and research on faculty perceptions and student outcomes. In addition, attendees will hear from one of the program’s course facilitators about the successes and challenges of leading faculty in a discovery of the intersections between open education and antiracist pedagogy.The audience will be invited to share how they can apply this work in their own context to improve student success for marginalized and underserved students.
Panelists:

Laura Dunn, Program Director, Open for Antiracism, Director of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, Santa Clara University
James Glapa-Grossklag, Co-Director, Open for Antiracism, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons
Joy Shoemate, Course Developer and Facilitator, Open for Antiracism, Director of Online Education, College of the Canyons

Registration is required

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.

In the OEG Voices Podcast Studio with Amanda Coolidge, Marcela Morales, and Maren Deepwell
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
Along with our OE Week Live webcasts, during Open Education Week we also run “live” recording sessions for new episodes of the OE Global Voices podcast. You can sign up to be there in the “studio” as we record, almost like hearing it first before it hits the web site as a published podcast.
Our podcast studio is open for special conversation Tuesday March 4, 2025 when Alan Levine hosts an open conversation with Amanda Coolidge, Executive Director of BCcampus, Marcela Morales, Executive Director OEGlobal, and Maren Deepwell, Leadership Coach/Hybrid Working Consultant and former Executive Director of ALT-C.
All three bring their experience in leading open education organizations and working online, and will reflect on how now in 2025 more than even before, the important of finding small things of joy in our practice. This topic emerged in an exchange following Alan’s visit to Maren’s podcast. Amanda had listened and sent appreciation for the episode in a message also saying something profound:

It truly feels like this “rediscovering the joy in small things in our practice” is more important than ever in our contexts (globally and nationally)

The podcast will be recorded in Zoom (cameras never required) and we have seats in the studio is available for those interested who register to secure a seat. Hear the voices, ideas and perspectives of these three leaders. We aim for a lively and open conversation. You can be part of the action, or just to listen in by signing up to be in the studio. You can also wait until the podcast is published later at https://voices.oeglobal.org/.

Featured Image: Remix of OEGlobal Voices podcast images with From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come) flickr photo by evil nickname shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license

5 Practitioners in 50 minutes
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Minnesota State, Saint Paul, MN, United States
We all know of the impact OER has in the classroom, but there is important work going on outside of it as well. This session will have five different individuals within the Minnesota State system who are working with OER in different ways.

Jodi Ondich from Lake Superior College works in their Center for Teaching and Learning
Kim Johnson from Minnesota State University, Mankato will speak to the work she is doing with students in Sierra Leone
Jennie Simning and Brenda Besser will be highlighting the work they do in the Inver Hills Community College Library
Gabriella Bosompem is a student at Century College shares her experience with OER textbooks
Fran Kennedy is an Instructional Designer at Minnesota State

Accessibility Workshop – Building Accessible Word Documents
2025-03-04 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at Arlington, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, TX, United States
This workshop is Presented by University of Texas at Arlington’s Electronic and Information Resources Accessibility Coordinator, Laura Hopkins, MS ITM, CAPM, CPACC, CTCD/CTCM .
Join a hands-on workshop led by Laura Hopkins focused on making your Word documents accessible and adaptable across platforms. Developing accessible Word documents is essential for streamlining projects in Pressbooks, improving electronic theses and dissertation (ETD) submissions for graduate students, and sharing your work in a format that’s usable and inclusive for all.
This two-hour session includes an hour of expert training followed by an hour of application time to practice techniques, from color contrast and alt text for images and formulas to accessible table creation, styles, and heading structures.
Attend “Accessibility Workshop – Building Accessible Word Documents” via Teams

Curation as a Teaching Strategy
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
We typically associate the word “curation” with art galleries and museums, but with the burgeoning availability of open education resources, it can also be part of a content creation strategy.
Sifting through the vast amounts of relevant content online can be challenging, but also presents opportunities to selectively collect astonishing and high-quality pieces, carefully authored by others and potentially of great value to your learners. Curating existing online materials can also offset resource-intensive media productions, such as filming and creating videos that are normally included in content-focused designs. This presentation will focus on the process of finding, evaluating, selecting, arranging, annotating and contextualizing existing and quite often, freely-available, online learning materials in order to create a rich learning experience.
Whether you plan to curate all of the content, or also want to create some your own, we will explore what mix is right for you, and look at a few tools that can help make the process easier.

The Future of Pedagogy: Ethical and Inclusive AI in OER Development
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario Tech U, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
This session explores the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in enhancing Open Educational Resources (OER) while ensuring ethical implementation. By proposing a framework to integrate ethical and inclusive AI practices, it emphasizes transparency, fairness, privacy, and accountability. The session demonstrates how AI can scale content creation, improve accessibility through translation and adaptive technologies, and personalize learning experiences, all while promoting equity and inclusivity in education. Drawing on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), we will discuss inclusive practices that support the future of OER, addressing ethical challenges such as algorithmic bias and offering strategies for responsible, open, and equitable AI adoption.

UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship Information Session
2025-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Montgomery College, 900 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, MD, United States
During Open Education Week, Montgomery College will host an information session on the global award-winning (2020 OE Award for Excellence) United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship.
In its eighth year, this fellowship consists of more than 15 institutional partners throughout North America and Asia, involved hundreds of faculty, and impacted thousands of students through renewable assignments. Join the information session to learn how you can participate as a faculty fellow or as an institutional partner.

The Agreements that Allow Us to Care for Each Other – Aggie Open Invited Speaker, Jessie Loyer
2025-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UC Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, United States
The UC Davis Library’s AggieOpen Invited Speaker Series addresses important issues in Open Education and allows speakers to share their research with a broader audience. Our 2025 Invited Speaker, Indigenous Engagement Librarian Jessie Loyer, will explore the history of Open Access and draw upon histories of caretaking in her talk, “The Agreements that Allow Us to Care for Each Other.”
“In this time of rising fascism, white supremacy, and dehumanization, practitioners of open pedagogies can ask ourselves: what agreements have shaped the caring impulse behind our work? How do agreements such as treaty-making between Indigenous nations and nation-states inscribe intergenerational caretaking? How can we learn from our predecessors’ choices to build connections that allow us to survive and thrive?”
Join us during this year’s Open Education Week as Jessie considers these questions alongside participants through her scholarship on Indigenous relationality in digital spaces, Open Education, and digital kinship.
About the Speaker: Jessie is Cree-Métis and a member of Michel First Nation. She is the Indigenous Engagement Librarian at the University of Alberta in Calgary and a guest on Treaty 7 and Blackfoot territory. Her research examines Indigenous perspectives on information literacy, supports language revitalization, and creates ongoing research relationships using the nêhiyaw minâ otipêmisiw concept of kinship.

Webinar: Affordable and Accessible Learning
2025-03-04 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Centre of Canada, Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada
Presented by the Canadian Coalition for Affordable Learning
With the recent decrease in international learners studying in Canada and with threats of trade wars and tariffs looming, the Canadian Coalition for Affordable Learning is presenting an exclusive workshop about accessible and affordable learning in postsecondary education.
On March 4 at 2pm EST, join Alexandra Marcaccio (Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries), Amanda Coolidge (BCcampus), Carley McDougall (Campus Manitoba), Clint Lalonde (BCcampus) and Robert Luke (eCampusOntario) to learn about the best practices in digital education, open education, and more. Together, we’ll discuss how we can provide learners with better access to postsecondary education during a time of economic uncertainty.
During times of economic recession people tend to go back to school, especially for programs oriented around skills. With the recent reduction in international education and with threats of trade wars and tariffs looming, a focus on accessible and affordable learning is even more important – to encourage more people to reskill and upskill, and to access learning when and how they need it. Accessible and affordable learning is about supporting digital by design education at scale by fostering inclusion in digital environments and offering options for learning that engage multiple modalities – face to face, hybrid, and online. Supporting open education and the use of Open Educational Resources is common among our organizations. These provide important low-cost learning resources for students, promoting access and engagement.
The workshop includes a panel discussion, a showcase of successful initiatives across Canada, and a facilitated group discussion. Discover how we can work together to create a more equitable and affordable educational landscape for students across Canada.

Turning Data into Action: Responding to Illinois Students’ Need for Equity of Course Materials
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, 1704 Insterstate Dr, Champaign, IL, United States
In this webinar, hear how a diverse group of institutions are responding to Illinois students’ course material experiences and preferences expressed in the 2023 Illinois Course Materials Survey: Student Perspective. Representatives from College of DuPage, Lincoln Land Community College, Millikin University, Oakton College, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale will describe their institutional support and methods for distributing the statewide survey, their methods for analyzing and sharing the survey data, and what impacts and benefits have resulted.
Presenters: Amber Burtis, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Scott Ebbing and Tammy Kuhn-Schnell, Lincoln Land Community College; Lauren Kosrow, College of DuPage; Michelle Oh, Oakton College; Amanda Pippitt; Millikin University.
Moderated by Nicole Swanson, Elizabeth Clarage, and Michele Leigh, CARLI

Learners as Creators: An Introduction to Open Pedagogy
2025-03-04 13:30 - 15:00 (America/Regina) | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
In this session, participants will learn how to use open pedagogy to increase learner engagement and reduce concerns related to students using GenAI outside of accepted guidelines and rules. Participants will have an opportunity to draft a new or revised assessment in alignment with the principles of open pedagogy.

Interview: Open Educational Practices – Dr Rajiv Jhangiani
2025-03-04 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
In this interview, Dr Rajiv Jhangiani highlights the importance of open educational practices (OEP) in democratising learning. He advocates for student-centred pedagogies, including co-creation of course policies and assessments, to enhance engagement and agency. Additionally, he stresses the growing focus on social justice within OEP, particularly in redistributive, recognitive, and representational justice, while also addressing critical concerns like accessibility and student intellectual property rights.

The Triple A’s of Ancillaries: Advancing Academic Achievement
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
This interactive session will highlight best practices implementation strategies, and the positive impact of LibreTexts ancillaries on student comprehension, retention, and application of course content. It features the presenter’s firsthand experiences in leading a cohort of subject matter experts in communication to create ancillaries for a LibreTexts textbook.

Open Education Connections: K-12 and Higher Ed
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Open Oregon, Portland, OR, United States
Interested in collaborating with K–12 educators and leveraging Open Educational Resources (OER) in teaching and learning?
Barbara Soots, Assistant Director, Open Education & Instructional Materials in Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, leads a session exploring the use of open resources and open education pedagogy in K–12 education. Discover how OER is being utilized and developed in K–12 settings to align with state learning standards, provide districts with the flexibility to adapt resources to meet diverse student needs, and promote equitable access to high-quality instructional materials for all students.
We will discuss strategies and lessons learned from both Washington’s and Oregon’s K-12 OER initiatives, and delve into the challenges and opportunities in this evolving landscape.
This webinar takes place from 1:00-2:00 pm Pacific time, March 4, 2025. The session will be recorded and captioned to share later. We will enable automatic captions in the session

Math Brunch at OE Week
2025-03-05 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Within the framework of Open Education Week (OE Week 2025), the EPSEB library at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya organize the workshop Open educational resources: Gate2Math, by the teacher Carles Serrat.
Gate2Math is a tool that facilitates access to online mathematical resources in a open and freeThis workshop is aimed at students and teaching and research staff (PDI) of all levels, with the aim of raising awareness of the possibilities offered by this platform for learning and teaching mathematics.

Order date: March 5 from 12 p.m. to 14 p.m
place: EPSEB library
You must bring a laptop.

To conclude the session, a brunch will be offered for all attendees.

Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities (Hybrid Seminar)
2025-03-05 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Join us for an afternoon of talks exploring Wikimedia in the curriculum, Scottish history and historical data (accused witches and religious change in early modern Scotland) and opening up the collections of the National Library of Wales!
Wikibase is the underlying platform that powers Wikipedia’s sister project, Wikidata, and as an open source platform, it allows users to create their own version of Wikidata with their own field names while still being able to connect to and leverage data from Wikidata. As such, it offers more quality control and bespoke opportunities for collections and research dataset holders.
Data skills for all!
As part of our ongoing mission to support our open knowledge and data skills commitments, this HYBRID seminar ( REMOTE participation available!) will build on prior learning and past seminars hosted by the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society (CDCS) in 2019.
We see this seminar as our next logical opportunity to support teaching and learning at the University at a time of curriculum transformation. The University has developed a framework for future skills in the curriculum to include data skills for all. This seminar will showcase a number of case studies of how Wikipedia and Wikidata have been included as curriculum elements in teaching and the impact that can have on students working on large and open data sets.
Jason Evans, Open Data Manager at the National Library of Wales, will expound on how the National Library has shared its collections as linked open data to Wikidata over the last eight years (including the opportunities and benefits of doing so) AND will also showcase their new SNARC Wikibase (Semantic Name Authority Repository Cymru) to ensure they can leverage the vast amount of complementary data in Wikidata through federated queries but also now have both a controlled vocabulary and access control for their authority records.
Dr. Chris Langley, The Open University, is a historian working with Wikibase to create a database of the General Assemblies of Scotland following his Wikidata work on the Mapping the Scottish Reformation project.
SCHEDULE:

3:00 pm – 3:10pm: Welcome from Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh.
3:10 pm – 3:25pm: ‘Wikidata in the Curriculum’ – Ewan McAndrew will preface our two guest speakers with a general introduction to student work with Wikidata assignments including the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland project and Tower Block Archive.
3:25 pm – 3:35pm: ‘Mapping Religious Change in Early Modern Scotland’ – Dr. Chris Langley (The Open University) will introduce the ways in which Wikibase Cloud can be used to structure historical data. In particular, the talk will explore how to use Wikibase and LeafletJS alongside textual sources relating to seventeenth-century Scotland.
3.35 pm – 4.00pm: ‘Wikibase for Name Authority at the National Library of Wales‘ – Jason Evans (National Library of Wales) on the modest goal of creating a knowledge graph of all Welsh cultural heritage data. Learn how NLW’s Wikibase is helping them take their first steps. The talk will highlight the benefits of using Wikibase alongside Wikidata to build a linked network of entities across multiple collections.
4:00pm – 4:10pm: ‘Wikimedia in Education: Booklet of Case Studies (v2.0)’ – Satu Kapiainen (Information Services, University of Edinburgh) will showcase the new edition of our booklet of 21 case studies of how Wikimedia is being used as a form of learning technology in UK education.
4:10 pm – 4:30pm: – Q&A with all the speakers.
4:30pm – 5pm:- Tea and coffee and general mingling/discussion.
5pm: Thanks and event close.

Zoom link for remote attendance
Wikibase for Name Authority at the National Library of Wales (Jason Evans)
With the modest goal of creating a knowledge graph of all Welsh cultural heritage data, learn how our Wikibase is helping us take our first steps. The talk will highlight the benefits of using Wikibase alongside Wikidata to build a linked network of entities across multiple collections.
Speaker bio
Jason Evans is the Open Data Manager and Wikimedian at the National Library of Wales. Working at the intersection of access policy, data science and digital engagement Evans aims to make cultural heritage collections more accessible and discoverable through new policy and practice.
Mapping Religious Change in Early Modern Scotland (Dr. Chris Langley)
This talk will introduce the ways in which Wikibase Cloud can be used to structure historical data. In particular, the talk will explore how to use Wikibase and LeafletJS alongside textual sources relating to seventeenth-century Scotland.
Speaker bio
Dr. Chris Langley is a historian of early modern religious culture, especially in Scotland: he wants “to understand how people in the past experienced religion and how it fit into their lives”. Chris uses digital techniques, including open linked data, to understand religious change. His current research project explores the Scottish General Assemblies between 1638 and 1653.
Map of Accused Witches of Scoland v2.0 – a student project 5 years in the making
Year on year, students on the Design Informatics MA/MFA programme derived meaningful learning experiences through engaging practically with data skills and Scottish accused witches to support course learning outcomes. Our open data Map of Accused Witches in Scotland project (2019) then helped surface data from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, as linked open data and provided five student interns with rich learning opportunities to geolocate all the historic placenames mentioned and put the individual human stories behind the data on the map for the first time, allowing them to be explored as never before. For five years, this resource has helped raise awareness of, and discourse about, the Scottish witch trials (1563-1736) at a national and international level and been utilised by school pupils, teachers, researchers, authors, historians, journalists, and members of the public all around the world; demonstrating the interest in, and benefits of, such work.
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh, will provide a brief overview of the project’s creation and highlight the contributions of everyone involved.
Who is this event for?
Humanities students, Informatics and Computer Science students, the CDCS past attendees, AI researchers, Data researchers, attendees from our 100 strong launch event for the Map of Accused Witches v2 launch, Library and University Collections staff, National Library of Scotland metadata staff, Informatics staff etc.
Anyone interested in the possibilities of staff and students sharing data to Wikidata and/or creating their own collection/research database in Wikibase.
An open data future?
If our Map of Accused Witches project could be considered Open Data ‘Project A’ then ‘Project B’ has been the Dr. Chris Langley’s work on Mapping the Scottish Reformation site which explores the Scottish clergy during the 16th and 18th century: where they were employed, how they moved around, where they were educated and more.
Both the Map of Accused Witches and Mapping the Scottish Reformation projects demonstrated the usefulness for students & researchers of taking the hitherto de facto print resources, The Sourcebook of Witchcraft by Christina Larner and the Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, for the exploring of the Scottish Witch Trials and the Scottish Reformation respectively and updating, improving and augmenting these resources as digital tools using linked open data on a sustainable platform AND providing students with much needed opportunities for learning of digital and data skills – both through practical coursework and through internship opportunities.
Both of these projects showcased their initial ideas in CDCS seminars in 2019. And both have moved on in the last five years considerably, especially given discussions on data quality, maintaining the data, controlling access to the data and the usefulness of high quality of data for LLMs/artificial intelligence.
So a final outcome would be to see Open Data ‘Project C’, ‘Project D’, ‘Project E’ etc. etc. to build on the learning from the Map of Accused Witches project and Mapping the Scottish Reformation and provide more opportunities for students to learn data skills through practical engagement with research and collections datasets… and with Scottish history.

DePauw Affordability Champions: A panel discussion of PALSave Open Educator Award winners.
2025-03-05 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, United States
The Open Educator Award at DePauw University recognizes innovation and excellence in support of textbook affordability and student success.
DePauw faculty Sarah Rowley, Nipun Chopra and Humberto Barreto have been recognized with this award by the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI), a consortium the DePauw Libraries are a member of. These and other DePauw faculty have participated in PALNI’s PALSave program, whether that be through adopting an open textbook, redesigning a course using free resources for students, or authoring their own open access textbook. They will present their pedagogical experiences at this panel presentation, which falls during Open Education Week, an annual opportunity for sharing and learning about the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide.

Open Up: Eliminating Barriers in Education
2025-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Loyalist College, Belleville, ON, Canada
Brought to you by Collab4Open
Open educational resources are innovative not just because they are free but because of how teachers adopt and creatively adapt them, bringing them to life in the classroom or to reach every student. This session introduces Open Educational Resources and Practices, how to spot an open resource and where to find them.

Virginia Tech Author Stories from the Field: Managing Creation of a Student-Authored Open Textbook
2025-03-05 12:20 - 13:10 (America/New_York) | Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Are you looking for ways to collaborate with students to create something useful that can be publicly shared? Join Donna Westfall-Rudd, Program Coordinator of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Graduate Teaching Scholars program and Anita Walz, Assistant Director of the University Libraries’ Open Education Initiative as they discuss the process of envisioning, developing, creating, and publishing the student authored and edited open textbook: ‘Teaching in the University: Learning from Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty’ https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/universityteaching and https://doi.org/10.21061/universityteaching

Open Pedagogical Practices: How to be Open in your classroom
2025-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | SCFL 1-096@NorQuest, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
In this presentation, you will hear from Dr. Robert Lawson and Gayle St. Denis about the foundation of open pedagogy and the opportunities it presents. Open pedagogy empowers students to become involved in the development or co-development of educational resources. At some institutions, students are now co-creating multiple-choice questions, case studies, Wikipedia articles, and even textbooks.
In this session you will review how open education can promote social justice and provide students with the 21st-century skills they will need upon graduation. You will also explore ways to scaffold this approach for you and your students. Come join us to learn more about this exciting and rewarding learning approach!

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.

The Evolution of Open and Distributed Learning
2025-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Edmonton) | Athabasca University, 1 University Dr, Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
“The rise of online education has transformed teaching and learning paradigms. These changes are fueled by advancements in technology and the demand for flexible, inclusive access to education—even in times of war and epidemic. Online educational practices emphasize interactivity, learner autonomy and self-direction, and accessibility, while theoretical frameworks have expanded to address issues such as openness, digital equity, attrition, engagement in virtual environments, and the design of learning-centered curricula. This evolution has created opportunities and challenges as researchers explore digital tools and platforms to measure if they enhance learning effectiveness and address diverse learning needs.” (Anderson et al., 2025)
In this session, Dr. Connie Anderson and Professor Emeritus Terry Anderson will review the role and impact of open and distributed learning over the last twenty-five years and explore how it may continue to evolve into the future.
The Evolution of Open and Distributed Learning
Dr. Connie Blomgren and Professor Emeritus Terry Anderson
March 5, 2025, 11am MT
http://www.cideresearch.ca/session/blomgren-anderson-2025
This is the second session in the CIDER series celebrating Open Education Week 2025 and the 25th anniversary of the open access journal, The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning. These three free, online sessions exploring the critical role of openness in education will be held on Monday, March 3, Wednesday, March 5, and Friday, March 7, 2025.

Open Applications: NorQuest UNSDG Open Pedagogy Fellows
2025-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | SCFL 1-096@NorQuest, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Hear from inaugural NorQuest UNSDG Fellows Arvind Bhogal and Fauziya Ali about their experiences with this global award-winning fellowship!
They will share experiences with international inter-institutional partnerships, creation of renewable assignments aligned with specific Sustainable Development Goals, and the impact on their pedagogy and student experience. The session will include time for discussions and allow session participants to explore opportunities for their own engagement in the fellowship and in open classroom practices!
