Open Education Week

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’s Centre for Teaching and Learning 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?

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!

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

STEMfest 2025
2025-03-06 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Parham Road Campus 1651 E. Parham Road, Richmond, VA, United States
In case you don’t know STEMfest, it is a free interactive event held on the Parham Road campus of Reynolds Community College for students, faculty, staff, families, science enthusiasts… basically everyone… and this video explains it all.
That evening there will be sessions spanning across topics in physics, molecular biology, microbiology, engineering, information technology, healthcare, computer science, and math to name a few. This year we are expanding to include careers associated with these disciplines, a goldfish petting zoo, and open education (free!!!) textbooks.

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

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.

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
Microsoft Teams meeting
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Workshop Open Education & Science Practices 2026
2026-03-06 10:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | Timisoara, Romania, Timisoara, Romania
The 13th edition of the International Open Education & Science Practices Workshop is organized on Friday, March 6, 2026, by The Politehnica University of Timișoara, through the Digital and Distance Education Department, together with European Universities Alliance E³UDRES² and Accelerate Future HEI, with the support of IEEE Romania, within the Open Education Week 2026, supported by Open Education Global, in room K1, Conference Center of Politehnica University Timișoara.
Theme:
Under the theme “Digital and emerging technologies in education and science“, the presentations will focus on how open science and open educational resources are applied in everyday life, especially in the context of universities, research projects, and education in general. An 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 workshop aims to bring together international speakers, preparing interactive sessions and discussions. It 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 to attend in person at the UPT Conference Center or participate online. Participants will receive Open Education Workshop Participant Open Badges online and Certificates of Participation for physical attendance.
The workshop brings together international speakers, with Keynote speaker – Dr. Jesus Alcober – UNITE! European University Alliance, aUPaEU (on-site), Marina Marchisio, University of Torino (online), Mark Frydenberg, Bentley University, USA (online), Prof.Em.Dr.ing. Radu Vasiu – UPT (on-site), Prof. dr. Carmen Holotescu – UPT (on-site), Dr. Diana Andone – UPT (on-site), Conf. dr eng. Vlad Mihăescu – UPT (on-site), dr. dr. eng. Andrei Ternauciuc – UPT (on-site), Conf.dr.ing.Silviu Vert & Drd.ing. Diana Szekely (on-site), Conf. Dr. Gabriela Grosseck (on-site), Conf.dr.ing. Muguraș Mocofan (on-site), and colleagues from partner universities are preparing interactive sessions and discussions and is addressed to both teachers and students, but also to actors in the field of education and training, IT trainers, or human resources departments.

Open Source in Higher Education at SCaLE
2026-03-06 10:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Princeton, United States, Princeton, NJ, United States
New for SCaLE 23x: Open Source in Higher Education
Organized by the Apereo Foundation
Join us at SCaLE 23x, the largest community-run open source and free software conference in North America, for a brand-new Co-Located Event spotlighting one of the most vital frontiers for open source: higher education and research.
The Apereo Foundation, a longtime leader in open source innovation for academia, is proud to organize the inaugural Open Source in Higher Education Co-Located Event, bringing together educators, technologists, researchers, and open source contributors who are reshaping the future of learning and teaching, research, and campus infrastructure.
To attend Open Source in Higher Education purchase a SCALE pass.
Why This Matters
Colleges and universities have—and continue to be—fertile ground for open innovation, as exemplified by Linux and FreeBSD. From institution-wide platforms to grassroots departmental tools, open solutions are enabling academic communities to take control of their digital futures.
This event will explore how open source is:

Supporting collaborative development across institutions and disciplines
Enabling sustainable, mission-aligned technology on campus
Fostering open educational practices and tools for teaching and learning
Driving new opportunities for companies and projects entering the academic space

Schedule
Check out the full SCaLE Schedule here. You’ll find the Higher Education track in room 211 on Friday, March 6.

Friday, March 6, 2026 – 10:00 to 18:00

WS#14 Embrace the Open: Connect Open Education and Open Science recognition practices in your institution
2026-03-12 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Rome)
We are delighted to invite you to the fourteenth event in our ENOEL Workshop series, organised by SPARC Europe and the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL), on 12 March 2026, 3-4:30 p.m. CET, our second event during OE Week 2026. The workshop topic is “Embrace the Open: Connect Open Education and Open Science recognition practices in your institution”.

Our workshop facilitators are:

Marta Bustillo (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Sylvia Moes (SURF, Netherlands)
Monique Schoutsen (Radboud University, Netherlands)

We will have the pleasure of having as our guest speaker Dr Marijn Post (HAN University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands)

What to Expect:
During the workshop, you will learn about the challenges and opportunities to promote the recognition of Open Educational practices in your institution by connecting them to Open Science. You will also explore the key factors needed at your institution to support lecturers in creating OER and to encourage open educational practices regarding recognition.

With other participants, you will further reflect on your role in promoting Open Educational practices within Open Science as a librarian, and have a discussion about it. Don’t miss this chance to explore Open Education Librarianship and Open Science with other international librarians and open education experts.

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

Explore connections between Open Education and Open Science
Identify strategies for promoting recognition of Open Educational Practices as part of Open Science initiatives
Apply practical approaches to integrate Open Education and its recognition into Open Science workflows in your own institutional context
Reflect on your role and potential contribution as a librarian in advancing Open Educational Practices within Open Science.

The previous webinar recordings are available as usual 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!

Atelier de développement de WikiSavoirs, le réseau Wikimédia collégial et universitaire de la francophonie canadienne
2026-03-12 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
WikiSavoirs sera un réseau décentralisé de personnes œuvrant dans et autour des institutions collégiales et universitaires, et il sera dédié au déploiement des savoirs libres à travers les projets Wikimédia : Wikipédia, Wikidata, Wikimédia Commons, Wikisource, etc.
Objectifs :
1) Faire participer la communauté collégiale et universitaire au développement du Réseau Wikisavoirs;
2) Explorer l’intérêt, les pratiques et les besoins « wiki » de cette communauté, en plénière et en sous-groupes de travail.
Avec la participation et la collaboration de : Johanne Lebel, rédactrice en chef du Magazine de l’Acfas

Bridging knowledge gaps through collaboration: Wikimedia in South Africa and the UK
2026-03-24 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London) | Leeds, United Kingdom, Leeds, United Kingdom
This Knowledge Equity webinar focuses on advancing knowledge equity through Wikimedia initiatives and open education, with a particular emphasis on South African and UK perspectives. During this session we will explore how collaborative efforts between Wikimedia communities, Open Education and Open Research networks can:
• Empower local knowledge creation and representation.
• Address systemic barriers to access and participation in digital knowledge platforms.
• Highlight successful models of community engagement
• Foster cross-regional collaboration to build inclusive, sustainable knowledge ecosystems.
The session will look at practical strategies for increasing the reach of Wikimedia, the importance of language diversity, and the ethical dimensions of open knowledge production. We will also reflect on how global partnerships can support local and regional initiatives.
Tuesday 24 March, 12:00 – 13:00 GMT / 14:00 – 15:00 SAST

Guest speakers:
Herschal Jackson is the inaugural Executive Director of Wikimedia South Africa (Wikimedia ZA), leading the chapter’s transition toward greater professionalisation of its operation, strategic growth and the amplification of its presence within the global Wikimedia community.
Previously serving as Executive Coordinator of Wikimedia ZA, he strengthened organisational systems, advanced program delivery, and facilitated the 2023 Strategic Planning Meeting. He has played key roles in major initiatives, including co‑organising WikiIndaba 2024 and leading on SWiP Phase 2, a multilingual knowledge‑equity project supporting student contributors across South Africa and neighbouring SADC countries, working in their own languages.
Herschal was instrumental in guiding the development and ratification of Wikimedia ZA’s 2024–2026 strategy and established governance subcommittees to support its implementation. His leadership continues to shape a resilient, collaborative, and future‑focused chapter for Wikimedia ZA.
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Lucy Crompton-Reid joined Wikimedia UK as Chief Executive in October 2015, where she has spearheaded a focus on equity and inclusion on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. Lucy leads the charity’s work in advocating for a healthy online information ecosystem, and promoting Wikimedia as an important tool in the development of vital media and information literacy skills.
Lucy sits on the British Library Advisory Council, the Board of Advisors for the Khalili Foundation and the External Advisory Board for AI For Collective Intelligence (AI4CI), a UKRI National AI Research Hub. She also Chairs the local arts charity where she lives in rural Scotland.

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.
