Open Education Week

Beyond Cost Savings: How Open Educational Resources Support Student Mental Health
2026-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Oshawa, Canada, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Description
Textbooks can be expensive, stressful, and sometimes out of reach, and that pressure often shows up in students’ well-being and learning.
In this session, we’ll talk about how Open Educational Resources (OER) can ease some of that stress by giving students free, day-one access to course materials and more flexible, inclusive ways to learn.
Together, faculty and students will explore research, real examples, and small design choices that can make learning feel more supportive, human, and equitable. You’ll leave with practical ideas you can use right away.
Learning Outcomes

Describe how Open Educational Resources (OER) can reduce student stress and support mental well-being by giving examples from research and practice.
Identify strategies for using OER to create more equitable, flexible, and inclusive learning experiences in their own courses or studies.
Reflect on the impact of course materials on mental health and propose at least one actionable change they could make to support student well-being through OER.

Who should participate?
Faculty, students, instructional designers, librarians, and educational developers who are interested in how open educational resources can reduce student stress and create more inclusive learning experiences.
Google Meet Information
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/ddu-wnki-ucm
Or dial: (CA) +1 587-797-8162‬ PIN: ‪854 299 637‬#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/ddu-wnki-ucm?pin=9011646883513

USask Lunch and Learn Panel: Stories From Those Engaged In the Creation of OER
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | ID
Join us at the University of Saskatchewan for lunch and to hear from a panel of instructors and staff who are currently working or have created an open textbook.
Panellists representing the Department of Chemistry, Department of Curriculum Studies, the USask Library, and the new School of Rehabilitation Science will share their stories of why they started these projects and what their experiences have been like.

Keynote – Open Hearts: Empowering Educators with Open Resources and Practices
2026-03-02 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego, United States, San Diego, CA, United States
For Open Education Week San Diego Community College District brings you this keynote talk by Brenna Clarke Gray, Assistant Professor, Learning Design and Innovation and Coordinator, Educational Technologies at Thompson Rivers University.
Session Description
I don’t know about you, but in this particular moment — politically, economically, culturally — I’ve never felt more sharply the distinction between my values as an educator and the realities of the world outside my classroom. To celebrate Open Education Week, then, let’s all take a moment to find hope in the possibilities and promises of open education. In this session, through a little bit of theoretical framing and a lot of practical examples, we’ll discuss how open resources and open practices can empower us as educators to build a more equitable, accessible, and engaging learning experience for our students and for those far beyond our classroom walls. Join me as we open our hearts and share the possibilities of open education in a moment when we all really need to remember how far our good work can spread.
Speaker Details
Brenna Clarke Gray is an open educator and critical technologist powered by righteous indignation and lattes and based at Thompson Rivers University in Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, where she co-founded the TRU Open Press. Her work explores the possibilities of a care-centred approach to the ethical and equitable use of educational technologies. Her most recent work includes the peer-reviewed scholarly teaching and learning podcast Community of Praxis and the forthcoming Routledge Introduction to Canadian Comics. She holds a PhD from the University of New Brunswick, where she was a Canada Graduate Scholar. Outside of the university’s walls, she is an avid reader, compulsive baker, and tired mum. If she was a creature in the Jim Henson cinematic universe, she would be Cotterpin Doozer.

Intro to the LibreTexts LibreVerse
2026-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
If you’ve heard of LibreTexts but aren’t quite sure where to start, this one’s for you. Join a member of our team for a guided tour of the “LibreVerse,” our full ecosystem of free, open tools we’ve built to support educators and students at every stage of their learning journey.
We’ll walk you through our repository of over a million pages of OER content; our Remixer that lets you take any of it and make it your own; Conductor and Workbench for keeping your projects and teams on track; and ADAPT, our open homework and assessment platform; and more.

OER Grant Lightning Talks & Grant Information Session
2026-03-02 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Hamilton, Canada, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
This event features McMaster faculty and instructors who are incorporating open education into their teaching.
Hear from some of the 2025-2026 OER Grantees as they update us on their awarded projects. Learn about the open resources being created for McMaster courses and hear about experiences in creating open and accessible content. Gather ideas for possible OER projects of your own. Find out more about the McMaster OER Grant which will be offered again in Spring 2026.

Science Education for a Just and Sustainable World
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
March 2-6, 2026 marks Open Education Week and UN SDG Action and Awareness Week. Join BCcampus, the BC Open Education Librarians, University Canada West, and Langara College for a celebration of both of these events with keynote speaker Dr. Karen Cangialosi.

As global social and environmental problems grow ever more intractable, we need transformative pedagogies that support our students to become critical, creative social agents capable of building a more sustainable and just world.
Open Pedagogy has the potential to shift our traditional modes of teaching and learning towards practices that nurture students to be creators of knowledge focused on the global good. These hopes could be realized if we are responsive to the dual upheavals caused by AI and the attacks on higher education. We can educate our STEM students to become scientists, and all of our students, to become citizens that are cognizant of an uncertain and challenging future, and work from non-traditional frameworks–those that resist competitive, hierarchical, exploitative models of science.
Key to achieving this vision is teaching undergraduates how to center Open Science as the default for how science is practiced by deeply integrating Open Pedagogical practices that support students to address inherent inequities, problems with data-sharing, and other barriers to the adoption of Open Science. To that end, the OCTOPUS project was developed to support higher education faculty and staff to create openly licensed materials that may eventually constitute a comprehensive undergraduate Open Science-Open Pedagogy program.

Speaker bio
Dr. Karen Cangialosi is a passionate change agent, dedicated educator, and student advocate with national recognition in open education, STEM ed, and digital pedagogy. As a Professor of Biology at Keene State College (now emeritus), she brought open education into the biology curriculum and led campus-wide initiatives to make science education more affordable and inclusive. She now serves as Director of Open Education & Open Science at the RIOS Institute which promotes racial justice and openness in STEM education. Her work centers on transforming higher ed systems to better serve students, especially marginalized students. Her Educause article, An AI-Driven Optimism for Transforming Higher Education (It’s Not What You Think) considers the juxtaposition of AI in education. She continues to advocate for integrating Open Science and Open Education to reimagine how we teach, learn, and collaborate in STEM, always with a focus on transparency, justice, and meaningful change. To that end, she is project director for the OCTOPUS project (Open Collaboration for Transformative Open Pedagogy to support Undergraduate Open Science Education) a collaborative effort between the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium and the RIOS Institute.

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

Atelier Sketchnote | Découverte de l’Éducation ouverte avec l’UC Louvain
2026-03-03 09:30 - 11:00 (Europe/Paris) | Nantes, France, Nantes, France
Animé par le Louvain Learning Lab de l’UC Louvain, cet atelier interactif basé sur des sketchnotes vous permettra de reconnaître et d’expliquer les valeurs et fondements de l’Education ouverte et des REL ainsi que leurs bénéfices pour tous les acteurs et actrices du monde éducatif. Intéressé·e par le partage de ressources éducatives et la collaboration entre enseignant·es et/ou étudiant·es du monde entier, cet évènement est fait pour vous !

The JOERney@UIBK: Experience Talks with Veronica Greco
2026-03-03 10:00 - 10:30 (Europe/Vienna) | Innsbruck, Austria, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
OER creators from the University of Innsbruck will share their personal experiences of developing and publishing Open Educational Resources.
They’ll talk about:

What it was like to work with OER
What they created and why
What they would do differently if they started again
And what advice they would give to anyone new to OER

Today’s talk will be led by Veronica Greco from the Department of Italian Law who will talk about her experiences with the OER Checkliste für die Anwendung der Anspruchsmethode im italienischen Zivilrecht.
Join us for a relaxed coffee break session: Take half an hour, grab a cup of coffee, and get to know the people behind OER at the University of Innsbruck!

AfLIA Open Education Week Virtual Summit
2026-03-03 09:00 - 13:00, 2026-03-04 09:00 - 13:00 UTC | Accra, Ghana, Accra, Ghana
The African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), in collaboration with OER Africa, is pleased to announce the 2026 AfLIA Open Education Week Virtual Summit, scheduled for 3–4 March 2026. The virtual summit will convene librarians, educators, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore how Open Education can expand access, improve equity, and transform learning outcomes across Africa.
Theme: Open Education, Open Possibilities
Open Education is reshaping the global learning landscape by expanding access to open educational resources and practices. It creates new pathways for inclusive, quality, and equitable education. This is particularly important for Africa, which has the world’s youngest population, with over 60 percent under the age of 25 and a median age of 19. Many young people and adult learners still face significant barriers to education due to inadequate resources and persistent equity gaps. Open Education presents an opportunity to address these challenges and to support Africa’s transformation into a global knowledge and innovation powerhouse.
AfLIA strongly believes that African libraries have critical roles to play in bridging digital and resource gaps. Library professionals possess expertise in technology, copyright, and licensing, positioning them as key partners in advancing Open Education. The 2026 virtual summit seeks to bring together stakeholders to share research, case studies, emerging models, and visionary ideas that demonstrate how Open Education can enable transformative, inclusive, and equitable education across the continent.

Tools to support open teaching at TU Delft (Hybrid Event)
2026-03-03 10:45 - 14:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Delft, Netherlands, Delft, Netherlands
Come explore projects & platforms to support open teaching at TU Delft

Join us to celebrate Open Education Week 2026 at TU Delft
How can we make teaching more open and collaborative? This event showcases four excellent initiatives at TU Delft- COMBINE, CAIT, DigiPedia, and Teachbooks designed to help educators create and share high-quality open educational resources.
Come discover how these platforms are shaping the future of Open education at TU Delft.

Why Join Us:
Discover COMBINE: Learn about the €500k Comenius grant for a project creating interactive, “living” textbooks. Link to the project: https://combine.tudelft.nl/info/
Get Hands-on with CAIT: A practical session on how to find and contribute to a community-led archive of teaching materials. Link to the platform: https://cait.beta.praxidike.org/about
Explore DigiPedia: See how you can use a global platform to share and learn open computational methods and software tutorials. Link to the platform: https://digipedia.tudelft.nl/about/
Create with TeachBooks: Learn how to build your first interactive learning module (JupyterBook) with TeachBooks tooling- no prior programming experience needed. Link to the previous presentation: https://zenodo.org/records/17733844
Event Programme (CET): Hybrid Event
10:45 – 11:00 | Walk-in & Welcome
11:00 – 11:25 | Presentation by Dr. Timon Idema (COMBINE programme)
11:25 – 12:15 | CAIT – Hands-on Training (please bring your laptop)
12:15 – 12:30 | Lunch (included)
12:30 – 13:00 | DigiPedia – Presentation & platform demo
13.00- 14.00 | Teachbooks– Workshop (please bring your laptop)
Note: For CAIT session and Teachbooks workshop, please bring your laptop to participate. Creating a GitHub account in advance will save you time for Teachbooks workshop.
Hybrid event: This event will be streamed live for national/international participants. Here is the streaming link: https://youtube.com/live/soxC_w3XsxQ?feature=share
For any questions, please contact Noopur Singh (N.Singh-4@tudelft.nl)

IADT Open Educational Resources (OER) Workshop - in partnership with TUS
2026-03-03 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | Athlone, Ireland, Athlone, Ireland
To mark Open Education Week 2026, TUS is partnering with IADT to deliver an Open Educational Resources (OER) Workshop for IADT faculty.
This workshop will explore:

Defining characteristics of OER
OER examples across design, art, entrepreneurship, business and psychology
Copyright considerations for OER creators
Open Licenses, such as Creative Commons
Open Licensing supports
Mechanisms to share OER to maximise reach, impact and reuse

Ressources éducatives libres (REL): comment les pratiques stimulent l’innovation?
2026-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Description : Ce panel réunit des actrices et acteurs engagés qui partageront des exemples d’accompagnement de personnes enseignantes et étudiantes dans la création ou l’adaptation de ressources éducatives libres (REL). Ensemble, nous explorerons les innovations pédagogiques identifiées dans le cadre de l’éducation ouverte, les obstacles rencontrés et les leviers activés pour les surmonter, ainsi que des conseils pratiques pour les porteurs de projets et leurs accompagnateurs pédagogiques.
Avec la participation et la collaboration de : Paul Lyonnaz, Nantes Université; Anne-Catherine Baseilhac, Nantes Université; Claude Potvin, fabriqueREL et Université Laval; Sophie Depoterre, Université Catholique de Louvain.

Understanding Creative Commons Licenses
2026-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Blacksburg, United States, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Are you curious about Creative Commons licenses? We will discuss what they signify, why they are valuable, what you can do with them — and how. This session from the Virginia Tech Library is relevant to anyone who works with information (that’s you!) and wants to know more about digital citizenship and sharing for the public good. We’ll also discuss “CC Signals” which are designed to communicate author preferences to AI crawlers. Join us for a brief 30-minute presentation and stay until noon for discussion.

OER Champions Showcase at MTSU
2026-03-03 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Chicago) | Murfreesboro, United States, Murfreesboro, TN, United States
This event will feature short presentations from Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) faculty who have developed or adopted Open Educational Resources to enhance student learning.
We’ll also announce our first-ever Textbook Heroes Awards and celebrate a major milestone —$3 million in student savings from Zero Textbook Cost courses.
This session will be facilitated by Ginelle Baskin, Open Education Librarian.

Stronger Together: The Network of Open Organizations
2026-03-03 17:30 - 18:30 (Europe/Paris) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
The Network of Open Organizations is a global alliance of diverse institutions and leaders committed to expanding open education and access to knowledge worldwide. Launched in 2019 and coordinated by Open Education Global, the Network brings together educational institutions, NGOs, inter-governmental bodies, and other open advocates to collaborate on shared goals, including supporting the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER) and advancing broader open education initiatives worldwide. By fostering ongoing dialogue, mutual support, and coordinated action, the Network helps amplify collective efforts, share best practices, and align global, regional, and local strategies for openness in education and beyond.
At its core, the Network serves as a learning and collaboration hub—a space where members exchange insights, and also seek to co-develop initiatives, and engage with complex challenges that no single organisation could address alone.
The Network of Open Organizations meets online on the first Tuesday of each month. Join us for the session during Open Education Week on Tuesday, 3 March from 5:30 pm until 6:30 Paris time to engage with selected representatives of the Network of Open Organizations members, learn about the network activities and future intentions and information on how to join.

Creating Open Content with Pressbooks and H5P
2026-03-03 11:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Hamilton, Canada, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Did you know McMaster has single-sign on to Pressbooks, 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.

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.

Open Education Solutions for Complex Times
2026-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | Regina, Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Join the University of Regina for this special Open Education Week presentation, “Open Education Solutions for Complex Times” with Anne-Marie Scott, Vice President of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Vancouver, BC.
Abstract: Post-secondary institutions across Canada are facing a complex and uncertain future as they rapidly adjust to economic scarcity, and it is clear that business-as-usual operating models will not support us to meet the challenges ahead. Compounding this is a tendency towards historical amnesia and constant reinvention; often the answers we need are already out there waiting to be discovered. The Commonwealth of Learning has a long history of working in contexts where complexity and uncertainty are the norm and has successfully used open education as an effective innovation toolkit. Drawing on examples, this talk will outline the ways in which various elements of the open education ecosystem could be used to meet some of these big challenges in Canada head-on, and (I hope) provide some inspiration to keep us moving forward.
Presenter bio: Anne-Marie Scott is the Vice President of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Vancouver, Canada where she supports COL’s mission and work in open learning for sustainable development across fifty-six countries. She is an internationally recognized expert in digital, online, and open education, with leadership experience across higher education and the non-profit sector. She previously served as Deputy Provost of Athabasca University in Canada, and before that spent nearly two decades at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. She serves on the Board of the Open Source Initiative and continues to teach in the Masters in Learning and Technology at Royal Roads University in Canada.

Mediating Change: Community Networks for Open Education/ Catalyser le changement : réseaux communautaires pour l’éducation ouverte
2026-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Toronto, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
This webinar explores how communities of practice and mediation—and the tools they use to stay informed and build capacity in their profession—can become the driving force behind open professional learning in FSL and French-language education in minority contexts. Building on the Communautés Camerise model, a Canadian project co-led by York, Ottawa, Laurier, 10 school boards and partner organizations, as an interinstitutional space for innovation and training, we will highlight how formal and informal exchanges, resource sharing, and cross-sector collaboration (school boards, postsecondary institutions, and associations) can reduce professional isolation and transform “good ideas and/or practices” into adaptable, transferable open educational resources (OER) for professional learning that can move across contexts.
Participants will examine how mediation across communities (bridging roles, shared protocols, and feedback loops) enables a shift from informal sharing to sustained co-creation of OER : educators exchanging practice-based knowledge, iterating on resources, and producing ready-to-use materials designed to be reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed—principles at the heart of open education. The session will showcase a concrete “ecosystem” that communities can build and maintain together: a hub to design, test, and share professional learning resources and practices; a collaboration incubator to strengthen supportive networks among institutions and individuals; and a living observatory to continuously document needs and support evidence-informed improvement.
During this webinar, participants will discover practical community tools that support the development of open-content prototypes: pedagogical scanning/curation, collaborative work and exchange spaces, shared templates, and lightweight documentation of pathways (from one classroom/ecosystem to another) that preserves context so others can responsibly reuse and modify resources. We will also discuss how a continuous experimentation mindset—including supportive tools such as AI-assisted planning aligned with competency-based assessment such as CEFR/DELF and curriculum—can accelerate iteration while keeping professional judgment, inclusion, and accessibility at the center of instructional design practices for developing teaching units.
By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with: (1) a community exchange map identifying key mediation points and the tools that enable collaboration, (2) an open prototype (resource, workflow, or professional learning content concept) to refine with peers, and (3) a practical plan to sustain OER creation through community governance, shared accountability, and ongoing peer-supported upskilling.

1, 2, 3. Z, T, C. : Simple shifting to Zero Textbook Cost
2026-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | Saskatoon, Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
At Sask Polytechnic, some programs are excited about their adaptation of courses to ZTC.
Join course instructors and program heads as they discuss the advantages (are there any issues?) of going 1,2,3 . . . ZTC. Learn the fastest way to go ZTC and make your course more affordable (and effective). Pre-registration is required. A recording will be available with a link sent out to all registrants.

Wikipedia & Open Pedagogy
2026-03-03 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | St. Catharines, Canada, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
For decades Wikipedia was stigmatized because of its self-governed and open approach to content creation and revision. After 25 years since its launch, Wikipedia has offered a unique opportunity for students in open pedagogical environments. This Brock University session will address the incorporation of Wikipedia assignments into post-secondary courses, popular initiatives that might appeal to instructors and students, and important considerations for instructors who are contemplating incorporating Wikipedia into their course design. Hosted by a Wikipedian/Librarian who brings 10 years of experience editing, teaching, and researching Wikipedia, participants will leave this session with an understanding of what is required to build Wikipedia into an existing or new course, what they can expect from students, and what students can expect to learn.
This Workshop will be lead by Denise Smith, Head, Research Lifecycle, Brock Library

AggieOpen Invited Speaker - From Free to Usable: The Accessibility Promise of OER
2026-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ID
Join us for this year’s AggieOpen Invited Speaker talk, From Free to Usable: The Accessibility Promise of OER! This session explores how digital accessibility, Universal Design for Learning, and upcoming ADA Title II requirements align with the broader mission of open education.
Featured speaker Katie Healey, founder of the A11Y Project and scholar of disability history, brings a disability justice framework to advancing inclusive practices in higher education. Through the University of California Office of the President, she supports more than 120 instructors across all 10 UC campuses in meeting digital accessibility standards. She also hosts the Disability Daily Podcast, highlighting key figures and moments in disability history.
During Open Education Week, Healey will share how accessible design strengthens the impact of OER and supports the diverse ways students engage with course content.
This free event will be held on Zoom. Register to attend!

Opening Knowledge: Open Education at TRU — Impact, Innovation, and Community
2026-03-03 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Kamloops, Canada, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Join TRU Open Press and the Open Education Working Group (OEWG) for a special Open Education Week 2026 panel and showcase celebrating the impact of open education at Thompson Rivers University.
This interactive hybrid event will feature:

A panel discussion with faculty, staff, and student contributors engaged in Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP)
A showcase of selected TRU Open Press projects
Audience Q&A and live engagement opportunities

Panelists will share their motivations, challenges, and successes in creating and adopting open resources, with a particular focus on:

Student affordability
Accessibility and inclusive pedagogy
Collaboration across disciplines
Reducing barriers to learning

Whether you are curious about OER, already engaged in open education, or interested in supporting equitable access to post-secondary learning, this session offers an opportunity to connect, reflect, and explore what openness looks like in practice at TRU.
This event is made possible in part through support from BCcampus as part of Open Education Week 2026. We gratefully acknowledge their leadership in advancing open education across British Columbia and their commitment to improving access, affordability, and inclusion in post-secondary education.
This event is open to all TRU faculty, staff, student, and administrators. Let’s celebrate Open Education Week together and explore how open education strengthens our community.
OEWeek image by Mario Badilla is licensed CC BY 4.0

Related LibGuide: Open Education Resources (OERs) by Brenda Smith

Open Pedagogy: Reinvigorate Class with Renewable Assignments
2026-03-03 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Richmond, United States, Richmond, VA, United States
This is a workshop offered by the J. Sargeant Reynolds Library that will emphasize the instructional side of open pedagogy, exploring the difference between renewable and traditional assignments. We will go over examples of renewable assignments, with an emphasis on the opportunities afforded by online platforms such as Wikipedia and LinkedIn. We will also brush up on Open Education Resources and how to find free textbooks that will be an ideal fit for your class.

Learning Outcomes:

Clear understanding of Renewable Assignments

Ways in which online platforms can be used to leverage student confidence and multiple learning outcomes.

Familiarity with Reynolds Libraries Open Education Resources Faculty Guide.

The JOERney@UIBK: Experience Talks with Elisabeth Militz
2026-03-04 10:00 - 10:30 (Europe/Vienna) | Innsbruck, Austria, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
OER creators from the University of Innsbruck will share their personal experiences of developing and publishing Open Educational Resources.
They’ll talk about:

What it was like to work with OER
What they created and why
What they would do differently if they started again
And what advice they would give to anyone new to OER

Today’s talk will be led by Elisabeth Militz from the Department of Geography who will talk about her experiences with the podcast series FemGeo.
Join us for a relaxed coffee break session: Take half an hour, grab a cup of coffee, and get to know the people behind OER at the University of Innsbruck!

Atelier | Fresque de l’Éducation ouverte
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Paris) | Nantes, France, Nantes, France
La Fabrique REL de Nantes Université et la Chaire Unesco RELIA ont créé la 1ère fresque de l’Éducation ouverte. Au cours de cet atelier collaboratif, à partir de cartes, de quizz et d’échanges guidés, identifiez des situations concrètes où l’Éducation ouverte et les Ressources éducatives libres entrent en jeu. Et reliez les bonnes pratiques à ces cas d’usage pour pouvoir, vous aussi, agir dans votre environnement.

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

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

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

Speakers:

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

… even more members from IRN ISSE

Contact: Ebba Ossiannilsson, Prof. Dr. Sweden
Ebba.Ossiannilsson@gmail.com
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How to find and use Creative Commons licensed Open Educational Resources
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
How to find and use Creative Commons licensed Open Educational Resources is a one hour information session, for University of Edinburgh staff and postgraduate research students, where you’ll learn how to find Creative Commons licensed materials covering different subject areas and topics from a range of online archives, repositories, and websites. We’ll then look at how to re-use and adapt these materials as open educational resource for your own use.
Open to University of Edinburgh staff and students.

Open for Student Success Symposium 2026
2026-03-04 09:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Atlanta, United States, Atlanta, GA, United States
Join Georgia State University for our 4th 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 is free, online, and open to all
and will take place on March 4, 2026 from 9:30am to 4:30pm ET.
Register now!

Our distinguished keynote speaker this year will be Josh Bolick, Head of the David Shulenburger Office Of Scholarly Communication & Copyright at the University of Kansas (KU). With Maria Bonn and Will Cross, Josh co-edited Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge (ACRL, 2023) and co-founded the Scholarly Communication Notebook (SCN). A former presenter for the Open Education Network and OER Research Fellow, he advocates for open access, authors’ rights, open education, and issues related and is interested in OER as a vehicle for expanding scholarly communication knowledge and expertise.

From 2016-2022, he led open education programs at KU and remains engaged in open education advocacy in a variety of ways. He is published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, the Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, PeerJ, and PLOS Biology, as well as other venues. Josh holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and a master’s in library and information studies from Florida State University. In his free time he enjoys cycling, horror, and culinary adventures, especially tacos and barbecue.
In his keynote speech, “Open but Not Finished: What We’ve Won and the Work Ahead,” Bolick will summarize the shift to open, examine emerging and lingering challenges, and consider how the Open Movement can continue progress toward a more open research and teaching culture:
While advocating for openness can feel like a struggle (and it often is), we’ve also achieved a lot over the last 20+ years. Open access scholarship and open educational resources and practices are normalized to a large degree, and that’s worth celebrating. Still, there are significant challenges to further growth, including in hiring, annual review, promotion and tenure, and other evaluation practices and the reward structures that shape and inform them. In this talk, I will summarize the shift to open and what we’ve won, examine emergent and lingering challenges, and consider what we can do to continue pushing for more open research and teaching cultures, with a focus on collaboration and support.
In addition to the keynote speech, the symposium will feature presentations by 22 professionals from nine U.S. states, as well as from Canada and Mexico. A full list of sessions can be found at https://research.library.gsu.edu/open.
Register now for free at https://forms.office.com/r/aZFktr12z3.
