Interview: OER and Social Justice – Glenda Cox
2025-03-03 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The interview highlights the intersections of open education and social justice, emphasising the potential and challenges posed by generative AI. While AI can exacerbate the digital divide by benefiting higher-income countries with better infrastructure, open education remains a critical tool for ensuring equitable access to learning materials through OER. Additionally, the interview emphasises the importance of student co-creation in knowledge production while noting the need for government policies that promote transformational justice by integrating open education into national frameworks.

Hunting for Open Educational Resources Suited to Your Discipline (In Person)
2025-03-03 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Toronto) | Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Open Educational Resources (OER) are free learning materials for students, which can easily be adapted or tailored for accessible, course-specific learning. This workshop introduces OER basics such as renewable assignments and open textbooks and their place in the open ecosystem. You will learn to search for and discover OER relevant to your courses and disciplines.
In an open document, we will collaboratively search OER repositories for materials that can be added to Concordia’s OER By Discipline Resource Guide, which you might find useful to your studies. Through collaborative small group discussions and guided practice, you can benefit yourself and your fellow students, and leave equipped to advocate more effectively for OER in your classrooms.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the basic differences between OER, paywalled textbooks, and pirated resources
Search OER repositories for OER suited to your courses
Co-adapt Concordia’s OER By Discipline Resource Guide – 2nd edition

Part of Open Education Month at Concordia University Library

Poco a poco, se va lejos: Developing a Spanish Z-degree at Colorado State University Pueblo
2025-03-03 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Denver) | University of Northern Colorado, 406 Dunne Dr., Greeley, CO, United States
This talk explores the development and implementation of the Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Spanish degree at Colorado State University Pueblo, a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). It examines both the theoretical and practical considerations that shaped the process, emphasizing how a custom-built curriculum can integrate students’ lived experiences and identities while aligning with program objectives and course learning outcomes. This approach enhances accessibility while advancing inclusion, diversity, equity, and student-centered pedagogy.
As with any creative endeavor, the curriculum continues to evolve through ongoing refinement and improvement. The presentation will highlight key lessons learned, challenges faced, and potential alternative approaches, offering recommendations for those interested in developing a Z-degree. Ample time will be provided for questions and discussion.

Introduction to LibreTexts ADAPT Open Homework and Assessment Platform
2025-03-03 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, as he gives you an inside look at LibreTexts open homework and assessment platform, ADAPT. Participants will get a firsthand, guided tour on how ADAPT is changing the game when it comes to homework platforms in higher education. Currently sponsored by the California Education Learning Lab (CELL), ADAPT is free for all California instructors and students. For educators outside of California, ADAPT is available at cost–with a price point far below what traditional publishers charge.

OER Panel: Faculty Showcase
2025-03-03 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego Community College District, San Diego, CA, United States
In this panel, faculty members will share their experiences integrating OER (Open Educational Resources) into their online courses. This presentation will highlight innovative approaches to using OER to enhance student learning, improve accessibility, and reduce textbook costs. We will showcase a variety of courses that have successfully adopted OER, providing insights, best practices, and lessons learned. Whether you’re new to OER or looking for inspiration to refine your course materials, this session will offer valuable takeaways and real-world applications.
Join the San Diego Community College District Open Ed Week via Zoom Events and attend this faculty showcase hosted by Madeline Button, OER Analyst and Kelly Spoon, Math Faculty at Mesa College.

Colorado's K-12 OERColorado Hub and Microsite Platforms
2025-03-03 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | OERColorado, Denver, Colorado, United States
In celebration of OE Week 2025, the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) is hosting a webinar showcasing Colorado’s K-12 OERColorado Hub and Microsite Platforms.
CDE invites anyone interested in learning more about Colorado’s work with OER in K-12 education to join us on Monday, March 3 between 4:00PM – 5:00PM MST in Zoom.
Email our OERColorado Team at OERColorado@gmail.com with any questions!

Connecting the Opens: A Panel Discussion for the Future Professoriate
2025-03-03 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Join the Virginia Tech University Libraries and invited guests for a discussion for future professors regarding open access, open educational resources, and open data. University Libraries’ faculty will provide brief overviews of open publishing, open educational resources, and open data to provide some general information on the topics.
Guest presenter, Dr. Laura Neser, Department of Geosciences will discuss her work adapting openly-licensed content into the first and second editions of Introduction to Earth Science. Presenters will discuss how aspects of open have impacted their career development as well as how they have incorporated open practices into their research and scholarship, and the audience will be invited to participate in the robust conversation. All are welcome!

Shaping future generations with AI and OER in Early Development
2025-03-04 08:00 - 12:00 (Africa/Dar_es_Salaam) | TUSOME, Dar Es Salaam, Kinondoni, Tanzania, United Republic of
The event on March 4th during Open Education Week at TUSOME offices will focus on “Shaping Future Generations with AI and OER in Early Development.”
The session will provide an introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and explore its transformative potential in creating Open Educational Resources (OER) tailored for Early Childhood Development (ECD). Participants will gain insights into how AI technologies can enhance the creation of accessible, engaging, and effective educational materials for young learners, fostering more inclusive learning experiences.
Location: Makunduchi Street, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 14108

Open Education Italia presents the Dubai Declaration on OER to the Italian Community
2025-03-04 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Rome) | Open Education Italia, Bologna, Italy
On the occasion of Open Education Week 2025, taking place from March 3 to 7, the Open Education Italia network is organizing a meeting dedicated to presenting the Dubai Declaration on Open Educational Resources (OER) “Digital public goods and emerging technologies for equitable and inclusive access to knowledge”. The event aims to explore the implications and opportunities offered by the recently adopted international document, fostering discussion among experts, educators, and librarians.
The meeting, scheduled for March 4, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM CET, will feature Javiera Atenas, Senior Lecturer in Learning and Teaching at the University of Suffolk, UK, who, in collaboration with Dr. Tel Amiel, UNESCO Chair in Open Education and Technologies for the Common Good in Brazil, contributed to drafting the 2024 Declaration. Other participants include Paola Corti from Politecnico di Milano and OE Community Manager of the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL), Fabio Nascimbeni, from the European Training Foundation, and Damiano Orrù, representing the Italian Library Association (AIB), along with researchers, teachers, and professionals in the education and library sectors.
The meeting will provide an opportunity to learn about the recent UNESCO declaration on OER and discuss its role in the Italian context. It will particularly focus on open access policies and strategies for integrating open educational resources into teaching practices and library management.
Event Program:

OEWeek25 and introduction to the UNESCO Recommendation – Paola Corti
The Dubai Declaration and the concept of Common Digital Goods– Javiera Atenas
The role of libraries in open education – Damiano Orrù
Discussion: experiences and perspectives on OER adoption in Italy – Fabio Nascimbeni
Q&A and Conclusions

This initiative is aimed at researchers, librarians, teachers, and anyone interested in open education. Participation is open to all and free of charge, but registration on the Open Education Italia website is appreciated.
For more information and to register for the event, visit www.openeducationitalia.it or contact info@openeducationitalia.it.

Open Education Week 2025 at Gdańsk University of Technology
2025-03-04 11:30 - 2025-03-05 23:50 (Europe/Warsaw) | Gdańsk University of Technology, Narutowicza st. 11/12, Gdańsk, Pomeranian, Poland
Gdańsk Tech University librarians are inviting everyone, including students and academic teachers, to two short training sessions devoted to Open Educational Resources.
The first training, on March 4, will be dedicated to free academic textbooks that can be found on the Internet, legally downloaded and used during classes at the university. The second one will take place on March 5 and will present platforms with online courses designed by leading world universities, which will certainly help you acquire knowledge and consolidate acquired skills.
The training will be online via the MS Teams platform, to take part in the meeting, simply click on the link. The training will be conducted in Polish at 10:30 am and in English at 11:30 am it takes approximately 20 minutes.

Training: Open academic textbooks at your fingertips 04 March 11:30 am
Training: Open online courses – professional knowledge for everyone 05 March 11:30 am

We count on your presence!

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

ENOEL WS#10 Embrace the Open: Advocating for Open Education through its own tools
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Rome) | Europe, Rome, Italy
We are delighted to invite you to the tenth event in our ENOEL Workshop series, organised by SPARC Europe and the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL): “WS#10 Embrace the Open: Advocating for Open Education through its own tools”.
Our workshop facilitators are:

Sylvia Moes (SURF, Netherlands)
Lambert Heller (TIB- Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany)

Our workshop guests, open to sharing their experience as OE teachers, are:

Katja Politt (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Paul Gobee (University of Leiden, Netherlands)

Paul Gobee will take us on his journey of creating an open content platform for anatomy education and its connection to the national platform edusources. Paul has been working for 10 years on the creation of OER, and was successful in finding funding for the development of this platform and, with this initiative, sharing insights specifically for librarians on how they can support open educational resources.
Katja Politt has been creating OER to teach German linguistics in higher education for eight years. She especially likes to develop games, from smaller crossword puzzles up to fully gamified courses on syntactic analysis, in order to make seemingly boring topics more fun. When developing the materials, she always involves both students and colleagues for feedback. Many of her students are aspiring teachers, and publishing her materials as OERs allows her students to bring the fun to their classrooms easily, too.
What to Expect:

An in-depth look at how an open content platform was conceived and built
The challenges educators face in adopting and utilising open content resources
The ongoing struggle against commercial publishers and their influence on educational materials
The challenges for educators when creating OER and receiving community feedback
OER as a stepstone to improving the quality of teaching
Strategies for librarians to ensure quality, accessibility, and sustainability in OER while curating and promoting OER.

The chat will be open for the audience to ask questions and engage in the discussion directly with our experts.
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

understand the importance of grouping OER, in different formats and for different potential reusers, into subject-specific collections, to support the work of experts and ease the retrieval process.
Identify strategies to effectively disseminate resources that can be key to advancing the work of content experts at your local level while giving them the opportunity to be known and recognised.
Better understand the role of individual educators and communities of practice in developing and distributing OER.
Generate ideas of small steps to take towards opening up your own teaching materials
Collaborate with content experts and librarians to find, reuse, adapt resources for a specific knowledge domain.
Discuss the role of librarians as reliable partners in making quality resources visible and reusable by partnering with content experts.

Please join us. Register using this link: https://tinyurl.com/ENOELWorkshop10
The previous webinar recordings are available in the ENOEL Workshops playlist on our @ENOELforOpen Youtube Channel. Slides, workshop plans and other resources are openly available in the SPARC Europe Collection on Zenodo.
We hope you can make it, and we encourage you to share this with your colleagues!

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

Ready, Set, Open!
2025-03-04 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, Canada
Brought to you by Collab4Open.
Are you curious about OER and want to learn more about the creation process? Join this informative session led by experienced OER creators, who will walk you through the steps of developing an OER. The presenters will cover how to assess readiness for an OER project, as well as share key highlights and challenges along the way.

By Students for Students In-person Information Booth (Conestoga College, Doon Campus)
2025-03-04 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Dr, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Visit our in-person information booth at our Doon Campus, run by the Open Learning co-op and work-study students. Get informed on the basics of OER and be entered to win prizes. This event is geared towards current students but everyone is welcome!

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).

LibreTexts Office Hours
2025-03-04 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Did you know LibreTexts holds twice weekly office hours, every week? Whether you have a quick question or something that needs more in-depth answers, drop in anytime between 9-10 am PST every Tuesday and Thursday and chat with a member of our team.

Hands-On OER: Crafting Engaging Content with H5P and Pressbooks
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | St Claire College, Chattam-Kent, ON, Canada
Brought to you by Collab4Open.
Dive into the world of Open Educational Resources with this hands-on workshop designed to get you creating and experimenting! Learn the basics of H5P and Pressbooks to develop dynamic, interactive content that will captivate your students. Join us for an exciting session and empower yourself with the tools to innovate and inspire in the digital classroom.
Create an H5P and/or Pressbooks account prior to joining for the full benefits of participation.

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

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

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

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

OER Information Table @ Columbus State Community College
2025-03-04 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Columbus State Community College, 550 E Spring St, Columbus, OH, United States
Table for students and faculty to learn more about Open Educational Resources and how they can be and are implemented on campus.

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.

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.

Open Textbook Review Workshop
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | University of New Mexico, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Explore open textbook solutions for your pedagogical needs by attending a free workshop facilitated by the Open Education Network. Higher education faculty in New Mexico are invited to a workshop where you will learn about open textbooks, where to find them, and the criteria that the OEN uses to evaluate the textbooks in their Open Textbook Library.
Participants who attend the workshop will be eligible to review an open textbook and receive a $200 stipend. These OEN workshops have resulted in a 45% adoption rate by participating faculty.

San Diego Community College District OER Grants
2025-03-04 11:00 - 23:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego Community College District, San Diego, CA, United States
Across the state of California, funding is becoming more readily available for efforts in OER. Join this presentation to become familiar with grants available to faculty who are interested in adopting or developing OER and explore application process.
Join the San Diego Community College District Open Ed Week via Zoom Events and attend this presentation session with Dr. Melanie Nakaji, American Sign Language Instructor at City College.

Reduce Student Costs, Boost Success: Open Resources for the Win
2025-03-04 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Parham Road Campus 1651 E. Parham Road, Richmond, VA, United States
Discover a wealth of open educational resources available through the VIVA Textbook Faculty Portal, the Open Textbook Library as well as other OER repositories.
During this session, Librarians Robin Pesko and Denise Woetzel from the Reynolds Community College Library will talk about navigating OER repositories and metafinders to find resources for your classes, previewing and requesting textbooks through the VIVA Textbook Faculty Portal, formats available through the Open Textbook Library, Creative Commons licenses, best practices for attributing resources, and VIVA Open Adoption and Course grants.

Introduction to LibreTexts Commons&Conductor Platform
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join a member of the LibreTexts team as we introduce you to our Commons & Conductor platform. A multi-functional platform that provides enhanced searching capabilities across all of LibreTexts over one million page of openly licensed content via the Commons, as well as a project management platform that provides a gathering point for all of your authors to share, search, and remix OER developed and curated by your community in the Conductor. And speaking of community, you can use the Conductor to plan, collaborate, and manage OER efforts across your campus. And best of all: it’s completely free!
