Open Education Week

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

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

Shifting to Community Owned and Operated Open Knowledge
2025-03-03 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Regina) | University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
To celebrate Open Education Week (March 3 – 7, 2025), the University of Regina Centre for Teaching and Learning’s OEP Program invites you to a special online presentation by Dr. Cable Green, Director of Open Knowledge at Creative Commons.
Abstract
If we are going to solve the world’s most pressing challenges (e.g., climate change), the knowledge about those challenges must be open. This talk will explore what open knowledge structures society might need to ensure the knowledge components necessary for education and science – both critical elements in solving global challenges – are open by default. Open Education and Open Science both require significant, stable public funding. Both education and science are public goods and the production, reuse and revisions of education and science resources should be publicly funded and openly licensed to ensure educational opportunities for all. What might “Community Owned and Operated Open Education” look like? What are the barriers and the opportunities? What if funding currently spent on expensive commercial educational resources were redirected to support the creation, stewardship and sharing of effective OER in every discipline, in every grade level in multiple languages? What if we redirected existing public funding to create a sustained shared open learning infrastructure for the public good?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Open Education & Science Practices 2025 The XII edition of the International Workshop Open Education Week
2025-03-13 11:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | Politehnica University of Timisoara, Bul Vasile Parvan No.2, Timisoara, Romania
Hosted by the Digital Education Department and the Multimedia Center of the Politehnica University of Timișoara, in collaboration with the Alliance of European Universities E³UDRES² and the Ent-r-e-novators project, with the support of IEEE Romania, The XII edition of the International Workshop Open Education Week, with theme ”Open Education & Science Practices 2025” will delve into how open science and open educational resources are integrated into everyday activities, particularly in universities, research projects, and education in general. Emphasis will be placed on the response of educational and research systems to the challenges of emerging technologies of artificial intelligence, virtual reality and blockchain.
The event will be held in a hybrid format, with presentations delivered both physically and virtually.
The workshop aims to bring together international speakers, preparing interactive sessions and discussions and is addressed to teachers, students, as well as actors in the field of education and training, IT trainers or human resources departments.
Participation is free, and attendees can choose between physical attendance at the UPT Conference Center or online participation. Participants will receive Open Education Workshop Participant Open Badges online and Certificates of Participation for physical attendance.

Open Data Day Timisoara 2025
2025-03-15 10:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
Hei, pasionați de date și transparență! Avem vești grozave pentru voi!

Sărbătorim împreună Ziua Datelor Deschise la Timișoara!
Sâmbătă, 15 martie, vă așteptăm la un eveniment despre datele deschise. Acesta face parte din sărbătoarea internațională Open Data Day, dar va fi adaptat la contextul nostru, regional și național. Începem lejer, de la ora 10 – cafeaua este din partea casei – iar de la 10:30 dăm startul primelor prezentări.
Ce vă așteaptă?
𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮̆𝗿𝗶 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲 despre lumea datelor deschise 𝗔𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲, unde puteți afla mai multe despre datele deschise, într-un context mai relaxat 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗻𝗶 𝗱𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 – perfecte pentru a face conexiuni noi
Vom crea un spațiu unde toată lumea să poată interacționa: societatea civilă, reprezentanții administrației locale și centrale, oamenii din mediul academic și din business, dar și cei curioși și/sau în căutare de noi provocări!
Cine poate veni?
Absolut oricine! Nu contează dacă ești expert în date sau doar curios despre cum funcționează lucrurile. Dacă ești interesat de transparență și vrei să afli mai multe, ești binevenit!
Recomandăm să iei cu tine dispozitivul portabil preferat pentru a putea valorifica pe loc noile cunoștințe – un laptop, o tabletă, o agendă, etc. Nu este obligatoriu, dar cu siguranță nu strică!
Stay tuned! În următoarele zile vom dezvălui mai multe detalii despre invitații noștri speciali și despre activitățile pe care le vom desfășura împreună.
Haideți să deschidem împreună ușa către o lume mai transparentă, mai conectată și mai educată! Ne vedem la ICAM!
Participarea este gratuită, dar din motive logistice vă rugăm să vă înscrieți folosind formularul: https://bit.ly/oddtm2025
De asemenea, puteți intra pe site pentru mai multe informații: https://opendataday.ro

Shifting Power: University Openness and Collaboration
2026-02-18 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Regina) | Regina, Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Please join the University of Regina for an Open Education Speaker Series online presentation with Dr. George Siemens, University of South Australia/ University of Texas (Arlington)
Session Description: Universities have become end-consumers of AI. Unlike previous technology innovations, where higher education played an active role in technology developments and adoption, learner and institutional use of AI has advanced with only minimal voice from the university system itself. While frontier labs, such as Anthropic and OpenAI, have focused on offering services for learners, they’ve largely sidestepped the system, leaving universities as spectators. This talk will highlight the urgent need for universities to collaborate around shared data, technology, and services to ensure that the mission of serving learners remains central in the adoption of AI in courses and classrooms. When universities collaborate and pursue open standards, they have a sufficiently powerful voice to shape the products and services offered by big tech companies, shifting power from closed systems to the network of education institutions.

Presenter bio: George Siemens researches how human and artificial cognition intersect in knowledge processes. He co-founded Matter and Space – a human development platform that responds to the systemic impact of AI on learning, human development, and wellness. He now serves as Chief AI Officer at SNHU. He is the founding Director and Professor of the Center for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L) at University of South Australia and developed the Masters of Science in Learning Analytics at University of Texas at Arlington. He has delivered keynote addresses in more than 40 countries on the influence of technology and media on education, organizations, and society. His work has been profiled in provincial, national, and international newspapers (including NY Times), radio, and television. He has served as PI or Co-PI on grants funded by NSF, SSHRC (Canada), OLT (Australia), Intel, Boeing, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Soros Foundation. He has received numerous awards, including honorary doctorates from Universidad de San Martín de Porres and Fraser Valley University for his pioneering work in learning, technology, and networks. He holds an honorary professorship with University of Edinburgh. Dr. Siemens is a founding President of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (http://www.solaresearch.org/). In 2008, he pioneered massive open online courses (sometimes referred to as MOOCs). George is President of the Global Research Alliance for AI in Learning and Education (GRAILE – www.graile.ai).

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

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!

Observatorio de Datos Académicos: SUAyED
2026-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Mexico_City) | México City, Mexico, México City, Mexico
Colección de visualizaciones interactivas desarrolladas en Tableau Public para el análisis de datos educativos y la analítica del aprendizaje. El recurso promueve la alfabetización en datos y el uso pedagógico de paneles interactivos como apoyo a la docencia, la investigación y la toma de decisiones educativas basadas en evidencia.

Student Voice: Results from the Fall 2025 Affordable Instructional Materials Survey
2026-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Mateo, United States, San Mateo, CA, United States
Our students are asking for our help! In Fall 2025, San Mateo Community College District (SMCCCD) conducted a district-wide student survey to understand the impact of the costs of instructional materials, as well as the impact that our ZTC and LTC courses are making in their lives.
The responses from students was overwhelming. Join us as we showcase the students’ experiences and how we are looking to make or suggest changes.

All Things Open 2026
2026-04-06 13:00 - 2026-04-09 16:00 (America/New_York)
Curious about open access, open data, or open educational resources? Join us virtually for Kennesaw State University Libraries’ fourth annual All Things Open Conference from April 6-9 as we celebrate all Open Movements, including…

Open access journals and publishing
Open data
Open educational resources
Open pedagogy and equitable teaching practices
Open repositories
Open science
Open-source software
Open licensing and fair use
Open “hidden gems”
And any other efforts to increase access and equity!

Sessions begin at 1PM ET each day and span undergraduate scholars in open access publishing, zines in open pedagogy, funding and licensing OER, and more!
Our keynote speaker Dr. Katherine Rose Adams is the Higher Education Leadership and Practice (HELP) Doctoral Program Coordinator at the University of North Georgia. She’s a teacher and mentor to graduate students and adult learners, and her research revolves around university-community partnerships and open educational resources.
