Open Education Week

Announcement of Creative Commons Open Education Platform Activity Winners!
2025-03-03 09:30 - 2025-03-07 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online from Multiple Locations
Between March 3 and 7, in honor of Open Education Week, Creative Commons will announce the winners of a community-run competition for open education activities. Run through the Creative Commons Open Education Platform, a global community group of approximately 1000 members, the competition invited community members to propose open education projects, eligible for up to US$ 5K in funding. The community then reviewed proposals and voted on their top choices.
Creative Commons will grant the community winners funding for their work in 2025, announcing the winners during Open Education Week on Medium.
See Creative Commons: We Like to Share for updates, and please join us in congratulating the winners!

OER Project Management: A Strategic Framework
2025-03-03 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Effective OER program management in higher education goes beyond good intentions—it requires strategy, structure, communication, and project management (PM) tools.
Join Rachel Fleming, OER Librarian at Irvine Valley College, as she explores OER PM methodologies, including Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Critical Paths, risk assessment, and stakeholder engagement/information behaviors, while providing practical strategies for sustainability and scalability.
This presentation will cover project scope, scope creep, implement tracking systems, basic communication management, and leverage free PM software like LibreTexts Conductor pages to streamline collaboration at the individual project level.

5 Z-Degree Campuses in 50 minutes
2025-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Minnesota State, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Ten Minnesota State colleges currently offer Z-degrees, with 15 more colleges and universities on the way. Hear stories from five Z-degree campuses.

Century College: Transforming Higher Education
Lake Superior College: Sustaining a Z-Degree
Minnesota State Community and Technical College: Navigating Sustainability and Innovation
Northland Community & Technical College: OER Culture-Building
Rochester Community and Technical College: Teamwork Makes the Z-Degree Work

eCampusOntario Open Library Forum on Affordability
2025-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | eCampusOntario, 372 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Join the eCampusOntario Open Library team in an open discussion on Affordability, Open Education, and Low-cost designations in higher education. We’ll be presenting some findings on affordability initiatives across Ontario’s post-secondary sector and spotlighting efforts at various institutions across the province. Participants will be able to help co-design the future of affordability and sustainability, with an eye towards finding common definitions and shared languages to ensure OER and other resources can support keeping post secondary education affordable for all learners.

Joignez-vous à l’équipe de la bibliothèque ouverte eCampusOntario dans une discussion ouverte sur l’abordabilité, l’éducation ouverte et les désignations à faible coût dans le domaine de l’enseignement supérieur. Nous présenterons certaines conclusions sur les initiatives en matière d’abordabilité dans le secteur postsecondaire de l’Ontario et mettrons en lumière les efforts déployés dans divers établissements de la province. Les participants pourront prendre part à la conception participative de l’avenir de l’abordabilité et de la durabilité. L’objectif : trouver des définitions et des langages communs afin que les REL et d’autres ressources puissent contribuer à maintenir l’enseignement postsecondaire à un niveau abordable pour tous les apprenants.

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

DOERS3: Advancing OER for All through Practical Tools
2025-03-07 12:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online from Multiple Locations
Join us for a brief 30-minute session to learn the work DOERS3 is doing to update the rubric formerly known as the Equity Through OER Rubric, which is currently under revision for its 2.0 update. In the session, you will hear how the group is moving forward with updates based on feedback and lessons learned from its 2022-23 pilot program. You’ll also hear about their plans for running a second cohort to pilot their updated 2.0 rubric, which will be more expansive and comprehensive.
Presenter: Liliana Diaz Solodukhin, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Student Success and P20 Alignment at the Colorado Department of Higher Education and Lead of the Advancing OER for All Working Group for DOERS3

Why Zero-Textbook-Cost Degrees Are Vital to Your Distance Education Strategy
2025-03-07 13:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Ellucian, Reston, VA, United States
As colleges and universities expand and refine their online offerings, affordability remains a critical factor in student enrollment and retention. Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) degrees not only reduce financial barriers but also enhance accessibility, equity, and student success in distance education. This session explores how implementing ZTC degrees can strengthen your institution’s online strategy, improve course completion rates, and leverage emerging technologies to create dynamic, cost-effective, and personalized learning experiences.

The HAN Change Approach
2025-04-09 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | HAN University of Applied Sciences, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
In this webinar for OEGlobal members, we’ll explain the HAN change approach to digital education. Our 12-year program includes 5 subprojects:

Support
Change Management
Technical Infrastructure
Professionalize, Recognize & Appreciate
Startups

Enjoy our webinar and engage with us about our approach.

Background info

Who is HAN University of Applied Sciences?
We are HAN University of Applied Sciences, an inclusive knowledge institution with 13 schools, 36,000 students and over 80 degree programs, located on the campuses in Arnhem and Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. We offer students a springboard to a future as professional and global citizen in a society that is constantly changing. The region is our campus; our students learn at HAN and beyond. And we conduct practice-based research with, for and at companies and organizations. Together with our partners, students and staff, we are making a difference and broadening our horizons. Together we are working towards a smart, clean and social world of tomorrow!
What are our goals on digital education?
HAN is committed to providing educators and students with easy access to high-quality digital educational resources at realistic costs. We also develop digital learning materials ourselves and share them openly to contribute to the (inter)national supply. With this approach, HAN stimulates, facilitates, and evaluates the realization of this vision. This will be done in 4 phases. Phase 2 started in January 2025.
Learn more about the HAN Change Approach: Recognizing, rewarding and incentivizing working with digital and open educational resources

Keynote: Open and the Oligarchs: Planting Seeds in a World on Fire (Dr. Robin DeRosa)
2025-05-13 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | Regina, Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Dr. Robin DeRosa has been working on open initiatives, including projects around OER, open pedagogy, and open access to research, for more than a decade. She has been interested not only in the practices that animate open, but also in the values that power an open vision for the future of education and knowledge-sharing. But recently, Robin has come to question the efficacy of the work in which she has been engaged. How can such well-conceived, thoughtful praxis around “open” be gathering steam at the same time as our public educational institutions, our libraries, and our publishing models creep closer toward privatization or economic ruin? How can our community’s investments in equity and access be thriving even as global political contexts bend toward neoliberalism, plutocracy, and fascism? This presentation will reimagine the “tragedy of the commons,” not as Garrett Hardin (mis)understood it in his seminal 1968 essay of that name, but in its current state. As LA burns and Trump ascends, we will pause and ask tough questions about where open education has gotten us.
Speaker bio: Dr. Robin DeRosa is the Director of Learning & Libraries at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire (USA). She has previously been an English professor, the chair of a customized major program for undergraduates, and the director of a faculty development center. Robin is an advocate for public higher education and has been working on OER and open pedagogy initiatives at institutions around the world for more than a decade. You can read more about Robin at her website, robinderosa.net
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Time:11:00am – 12:00pm
Time Zone:Saskatchewan Time

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.

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.

Open to All: Accessibility in the LibreVerse
2026-03-03 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
Open education only works if everyone can access it. That’s why LibreTexts is currently conducting a comprehensive accessibility audit of our platform and features, with the results shaping both our updated conformance documentation and a clear roadmap to remove barriers for students and content authors alike.
Our goal is to meet or exceed the Revised 508 Standards and WCAG 2.1 AA because accessibility isn’t a checkbox, it’s a core part of what it means to build education that truly belongs to everyone. Accessibility conformance documentation is already available, and we encourage anyone who encounters an accessibility concern to report it directly to us. We also provide a full suite of authoring tools to help content creators build with accessibility in mind from the start.

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
Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/32914498970710?p=EBrRzeuucxkYlwaZtL
Meeting ID: 329 144 989 707 10
Passcode: [REDACTED]

LibreTexts ADAPT: Homework Reimagined
2026-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
ADAPT, LibreTexts’ open homework and assessment platform, is designed to do exactly that. Join our Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, for a guided tour of everything ADAPT has to offer:
– 240,000+ openly licensed questions
– Adaptive Learning Trees and personalized learning models
– Built-in analytics and an Early Warning System powered by predictive analytics
– Seamless LMS integration with Canvas and Blackboard
– Mobile clicker functionality right in your classroom
– Support for WebWork, IMathAS, H5P, and Native QTI
ADAPT is built to be more powerful than traditional publisher platforms and more affordable. Because the cost of a homework platform should never be a barrier to student success.
This is open education in action. Come see what it looks like.

A Community Like No Other: LibreTexts Academy and LibreNet Consortium
2026-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
The LibreTexts Academy is the professional development hub of the LibreVerse, designed for faculty who are serious about open education but don’t have unlimited time to figure it all out alone. Whether you’re adopting an existing open textbook for the first time, or building a fully custom course from the ground up, the Academy meets you where you are and takes you where you want to go.
Monthly webinars, twice-weekly office hours, and self-paced training modules cover everything from getting started with ADAPT to remixing content to making your materials accessible. For those ready to go deeper, cohort programs, in-person workshops, and instructor certifications let you build real expertise and walk away with credentials to show for it.
The goal is simple: spend less time troubleshooting and more time teaching. Your students pay less. Your course feels like yours.
The LibreNet Consortium is a community of passionate educators dedicated to growing sustainable open education initiatives at their institutions. No matter where you are in your journey to bring down the cost of education, and create more equitable pathways for your students, the LibreNet Consortium provides the tools you need to ensure your efforts are sustainable for the road ahead.
Whether you connect with us through Academy or the LibreNet (or both!), you will join a community that’s been doing this work — together — for decades.

Transforming Learning in an Age of Information Abundance
2026-03-05 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Regina) | Saskatoon, Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Dave Cormier shares strategies for teaching in the digital age. Help students thrive in an information-rich world.
Pre-registration is required. A recording will be available with a link sent out to all registrants.

Finding the Human Connection in a Digital World: Using Discuss-It to Build Community, Promote Critical Thinking, and Shift the Focus of Assessment
2026-03-06 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sacramento, United States, Sacramento, CA, United States
In an age of automation, how do you ensure that student work remains a reflection of genuine learning?
Join us to learn about Discuss-It, an openly-licensed tool within the LibreTexts platform. Discuss-It transforms discussions into interactive, multimedia exchanges through audio, video, and text. Learn how integrating voice and video responses can boost engagement, build community, and bring human presence back to your courses regardless of your discipline.
Register for Finding the Human Connection in a Digital World

The Future is Now: LibreTexts and AI
2026-03-06 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
The intersection of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still emerging, but momentum is growing rapidly. An important step forward came last year with the launch of the AI Co-Author tool, designed to support OER development and improve accessibility remediation. Building on this progress, the LibreTexts development team has introduced a comprehensive AI Initiative to expand and deepen AI integration across the LibreVerse ecosystem.
This presentation reviews the current state of AI development within LibreVerse, highlighting tools already underway and early implementation efforts. It outlines short-term goals focused on pilot programs, platform integration, and faculty support, as well as a long-term vision for a scalable, interoperable, and equity-centered AI infrastructure that advances teaching and learning nationwide.
Planned innovations include context-aware AI tutors embedded in digital textbooks; automated generation and evaluation of formative homework; AI-supported writing and research tools; and AI-guided coding and data science assistance within Jupyter environments. By embedding adaptive tutoring and personalized learning support throughout LibreVerse, the initiative aims to reduce equity gaps and broaden access to high-quality resources. Instructors will gain AI-assisted tools for content creation, grading, analytics, and pedagogical insight, supported by professional development. Grounded in LibreTexts’ OER framework, the initiative emphasizes transparency, interoperability, and evidence-based evaluation to ensure responsible and effective AI integration in open education.

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!

Flourishing Futures: Open Education for People, Place, and Planet at College of the Rockies
2026-03-12 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Edmonton) | Cranbrook, Canada, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Flourishing Futures celebrates the link between ‘open’ and ‘sustainable development’ as a practical strategy for connecting people, place, and planet. Virtual attendees are invited to tour digitally interactive Spotlight Stations that shine a light on the creative and innovative ways Open Education and SDGs can be combined to benefit students, instructors, and communities at College of the Rockies and beyond.
During the synchronous Lunch and Learn component, enjoy lunch while learning from innovators as they highlight a web of inspiring ideas, themes, and exemplars that arise when we blend open education, SDGs, and skill-building for a thriving, sustainable future.
