Open Education Week

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.

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!

Creative Commons Licenses: What are they, and how can I use them?
2025-03-04 14:30 - 15:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Karlstad University, Universitetsgatan 2, 65188 Karlstad, Sweden
Creative Commons licenses are a possibility for you, as a creator of an original work, to define the copyright of your work, making it more shareable. In this workshop we explain the licensing elements and how it is possible to combine them.
We will also guide you through how you might be able to use Creative Commons licenses for your work.
This workshop is held in Karlstad University Library, in the Learning lab on floor 3. It is also possible to attend via Zoom, more details on event page.
Presenting: Sandra Nelson and Mas Karin Gustafsson, Creative Commons certified librarians at Karlstad University Library

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

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.

Unbottling the GenAI: a workshop exploring Gen AI and Open Educational Resources
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Regina) | Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
This workshop will focus on practical magic where you will co-create a textbook chapter and explore how AI can be used in OER.
Join Lucas Wright and Will Engel, experts from the Learning and Teaching division of the University of British Columbia for an interactive online workshop about generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) and Open Educational Resources (OER). We will also explore legal and ethical issues, such as copyright and privacy. You can still catch our event recordings, if you missed the registration.

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

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.

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.

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!

The Triple A’s of Ancillaries: Advancing Academic Achievement
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
This interactive session will highlight best practices implementation strategies, and the positive impact of LibreTexts ancillaries on student comprehension, retention, and application of course content. It features the presenter’s firsthand experiences in leading a cohort of subject matter experts in communication to create ancillaries for a LibreTexts textbook.

Introduction to Building Courses in LibreTexts ADAPT Open Homework and Assessment Platform
2025-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, as he gives you a firsthand look at how to build courses in LibreTexts open homework and assessment platform, ADAPT. 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.

WikiAfrica Hour's Offline Wikis – Kiwix Demonstration
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Online from Multiple Locations
How do we share free knowledge with people who have no stable internet? How do you identify the right offline solution, if you cannot see it in action online first?

Many steps must be taken before offline solutions can benefit the people they are designed for, some of which are quite tricky.
In this OEWeek25 special, following the January edition of WikiAfrica Hour: Offline Wikis, we invite Offline Wiki experts to demonstrate their offline solution. We hope this will make one of the many steps towards offline—the decision phase—easier by showing what you should expect from this platform before you spend hours setting up the hardware, sourcing to the right offline platform, downloading it, and then adding it to your hardware.
In the hot seat for this session is:
✔️ Stephane Coillet-Matillon, who will demonstrate Kiwix

How can I use Open Educational Resources (OER)?
2025-03-05 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Karlstad University, Universitetsgatan 2, 65188 Karlstad, Sweden
What impact can Open Educational Resources (OER) have for you, as a teacher? And how can you use them when teaching?
Librarian Inga-Lill Nilsson talks about the advantages of Open Educational Resources (OER) and how you, as a teacher, can create and use them when teaching.
This workshop is held in Karlstad University Library via Zoom, more details on event page.

WikiAfrica Hour's Offline Wikis – Internet in a Box Demonstration
2025-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Online from Multiple Locations
How do we share free knowledge with people who have no stable internet? How do you identify the right offline solution, if you cannot see it in action online first?

Many steps must be taken before offline solutions can benefit the people they are designed for, some of which are quite tricky.
In this OEWeek25 special, following the January edition of WikiAfrica Hour: Offline Wikis, we invite Offline Wiki experts to demonstrate their offline solution. We hope this will make one of the many steps towards offline—the decision phase—easier by showing what you should expect from this platform before you spend hours setting up the hardware, sourcing to the right offline platform, downloading it, and then adding it to your hardware.
In the hot seat for this session is:
✔️ Tim Moody, who will demonstrate Internet in a Box

Virginia Tech Author Stories from the Field: Managing Creation of a Student-Authored Open Textbook
2025-03-05 12:20 - 13:10 (America/New_York) | Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Are you looking for ways to collaborate with students to create something useful that can be publicly shared? Join Donna Westfall-Rudd, Program Coordinator of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Graduate Teaching Scholars program and Anita Walz, Assistant Director of the University Libraries’ Open Education Initiative as they discuss the process of envisioning, developing, creating, and publishing the student authored and edited open textbook: ‘Teaching in the University: Learning from Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty’ https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/universityteaching and https://doi.org/10.21061/universityteaching

Introducing LibreTexts Academy Center for Open Instructional Innovation and Professional Development
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
LibreTexts Academy is here! Join Director of Curriculum Innovation and Development, Justin Shorb, for an introduction to our Academy Center for Open Instructional Innovation and Professional Development. From year long cohorts to asynchronous webinars, Academy has something for all of the open education advocates and practitioners on your campus.
Be sure to fill out our interest form before attending available at https://libretexts.org/academy.

Empowering Course Design with Open Educational Resources (OER) in Learning Management Systems (LMS)
2025-03-05 13:30 - 13:42 (America/Toronto) | University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Presented by Shahram Fardadvand.
The integration of Open Educational Resources (OER) with Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Moodle and Canvas is redefining course design by enabling educators to create accessible, flexible, and dynamic learning experiences. This session explores how Pressbooks, an open-source publishing platform, improves LMS capabilities by simplifying the integration of Open Educational Resources (OER) into well-structured course designs. Pressbooks offers powerful export options for designing courses that combine chapters and materials from diverse OER sources. Educators can remix, adapt, and integrate content into unified course modules while retaining the interactivity and accessibility essential for today’s learners.
This presentation demonstrates how Pressbooks empowers educators to build flexible courses tailored to their curriculum by embedding resources directly within LMS platforms. Educators can improve teaching by using Pressbooks’ easy integration. This integration helps deliver content better and engages learners more. Examples of successful course designs will show how combining material from different Open Educational Resources (OER) improves teaching and learning.
Participants will learn to utilize Pressbooks and the LMS to create interactive, accessible, modular courses. This method provides equitable access to quality education and enables educators to tailor learning for diverse audiences.

OE Week at the UBC Emerging Media Lab
2025-03-05 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Want to learn more about EML open educational technology projects? This is the opportunity!
Drop-in on March 5th between 11am and 1pm in room 183 of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre to visit us as we celebrate Open Education in our Demo Space! We are excited to welcome you and share more about how we work as well as demonstrating some of our recent projects. Snacks and giveaways included!
EML produces each project with an eye to open practices. Creating software repositories with open distribution and MIT Licensing on our code, publishing outcomes openly on UBC Wiki to promote further exploration of educational technologies, coaching developers and principal investigators in Open Licensing we apply to the work now and for the future; EML works dynamically to create a meeting place to think ‘open’ here at UBC and beyond.
Can’t make it this time? Don’t worry! The Lab is open weekly for drop-ins from 11 to 1pm on Wednesdays. Or reach out to emergingmedia.lab@ubc.ca to use for your own visiting time!

Creative Commons Licenses
2025-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD), San Mateo, CA, United States
Join librarians Vincent Kang and Majdolene Dajani from Skyline College as they help faculty understand the power of Creative Commons licenses and how we can use them to share and protect our work.
Note: While this presentation’s audience is primarily those in the San Mateo County Community College District (California, USA), it is open for all who wish to join us.

Introduction to Remixing OER with LibreTexts
2025-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join a member of the LibreTexts team as we show you how to use our state of the art Remixer to remix existing OER. With an easy to use drag and drop functionality, and over a million pages of content from which to choose, we think you’ll agree the LibreTexts Remixer can help you take your OER to the next level.

Coalinga College Embraces Academic Freedom With LibreTexts
2025-03-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Coalinga College, Coalinga, United States
Coalinga College received the ASCCC 2024-2025 Exemplary Program Award this year for the extraordinary feat of moving from 10% OER adoption rates amongst full-time faculty to 85%. Situated in a town of 17,000, Coalinga College serves the town and an area of surrounding communities over 2000 square miles.
Some of the Coalinga faculty join us today to talk about their understanding of students’ needs and how OERs have helped them engage their students in the learning process. OERs, and LibreTexts’ Remixer tool, have made it simple to include all and only the material they want to present, in the order that they consider best, without having to worry about students getting lost.
Faculty are no longer bound by what a publisher thinks the content presentation should be. And they can ensure they have the materials they need from Day One, so they no longer need to delay diving into the materials. Faculty time can be spent teaching instead of having to wait for students to have the books delivered.
Four faulty members will discuss their experiences with OER adoption, and how they continue to make change for their community.

How Not to Be an Accidental Pirate
2025-03-05 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD), San Mateo, CA, United States
Many folks figure that they can use anything in their courses under the guise of Fair Use. What most people don’t realize is that there are rules and regulations of what can be used under Fair Use and the Teach Act. Come join librarian Carlos Luna and OER/ZTC Coordinator Sarah Harmon of Cañada College as they show folks how not to be an accidental pirate, and how OER and other zero-cost methods can help you stay clear of piracy.
Note: While this presentation’s audience is primarily those in the San Mateo County Community College District (California, USA), it is open for all who wish to join us.

LibreTexts Remixing Made Easy: Supporting Faculty in Creating OER Without the Tech Overwhelm
2025-03-05 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Remixing an OER textbook can feel daunting – especially when faced with new platforms and tools. In this session, Cosumnes River College shares practices to utilize support staff to streamline the LibreTexts remixing process. This approach allows faculty to focus on fine-tuning content rather than learning a new interface.

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).

Strategies for Developing Open Education Resources (OER) in Health Professions Education
2025-03-06 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | ScholarRX, Elizabethtown, KY, United States
Join us for an insightful session during Open Education Week titled “Strategies for Developing Open Education Resources (OER) in Health Professions Education.” This workshop, led by experts in medical education and OER development, will explore the transformative potential of open educational resources in health professions education.
Participants will gain an understanding of the foundations of OER, discover free and low-cost tools for creating and sharing OER, and learn how to design and implement OER programs to enhance global access to quality education. Through interactive engagements and real-world examples, this session will equip educators with the knowledge and tools to build collaborative, scalable, and accessible learning ecosystems. Whether you’re new to OER or looking to expand your expertise, this workshop will provide valuable insights and practical strategies to advance health professions education worldwide.
