Open Education Week

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.

Tricky CC License Questions Call in Show (OEWeek Live)
2025-03-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
This is a special themed topic OEWeek Live for Open Education Week 2025 featuring a team of Creative Commons Experts, facilitators of the Creative Commons Certificate program.
Yes choosing a license from the list is one thing, but there are always complexities that arise in practice. We’ve asked our panel to come with a few “tricky” questions but we want to also give the audience a chance to pose theirs. As always, we are not offering legal advice (we will here “IAmNotALawyer”) but a great opportunity to hear our guests describe their approach to answering CC questions.
Guests confirmed so far include:

Shanna Hollich (Creative Commons)
Jonathan Poritz (Independent consultant, and CC Certificate facilitator)
Jennifer Hughes (CC Certificate facilitator)
Jennifer Campbell (CC Certificate facilitator)
Suzanne Wakim (CC Certificate facilitator)

Watch live where we we invite tricky CC questions and comments from the audience sent through the chat. Or submit them ahead of time via the call-in web form https://forms.gle/MFK1b8Hm2bBGvc4B7 or watch the recording later:

Learn More:

Open Education Week https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/
CC Certificate Program, https://certificates.creativecommons.org/
OE Week Live Schedule https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/oeweek-live-webcasts/7383
Copyright First Responders Pacific Northwest https://copyrightfirstresponderspnw.org/

Featured Image: Composite image including Old TV – Time Tunnel – Cameron Highland flickr photo by liewcf shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license with Open Education 2025 Week banner by Mario Badilla at OEGlobal and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Inset image includes Outdated Technology – Telephones and Radio flickr photo by MissouriStateArchives shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) and overlay of Creative Commons logo (CC0). Maybe the panel can suggest the best reuse license and check us on our attribution!

LibreTexts Office Hours
2025-03-06 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.

Growing Institutional OER Programs: Is Pressbooks Right for You?
2025-03-06 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Toronto) | Pressbooks, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Many colleges, universities, and higher education systems rely on Pressbooks’ open publishing platform as an essential part of their technology infrastructure to support OER and other institutional publishing programs.
This session provides a guided show-and-tell about Pressbooks networks and what to consider as you make choices around open publishing tools for your campus community. What goals can Pressbooks help you achieve? How do Pressbooks networks work, and what’s required to make them successful? How can this toolset help you manage, scale and sustain your open education programs? Join us as we delve into these questions and any others you bring us.

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Open Educational Resources Adoption Event at UTA Libraries
2025-03-06 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at Arlington, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, TX, United States
Join the Open Educational Resources and Digital Scholarship Department, UTA Libraries for an interactive, come-and-go event designed to help faculty and students explore, evaluate, and adopt Open Educational Resources (OER). In just 30-45 minutes, participants will browse featured OER, assess their adaptability, and explore customization options through hands-on stations—all while enjoying light refreshments and snacks. Whether adopting, adapting, or creating, this event provides a hands-on way to engage with open education at UTA.
Stations Include:

Explore & Adopt: Browse 10 featured OER across disciplines.
Evaluate & Modify: Assess accessibility and make real-time edits.
Find a Perfect Match: Search OER repositories with guidance.
Creation Station: Conceptualize new OER projects.
Check-Out & Advocacy: Learn about the Open Education Student Advocacy Group and next steps.

Drop in, discover an OER, and take the next step in transforming course materials—all at your own pace!

Beyond the PDF: 5 Tools for Contemporary OER
2025-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Minnesota State, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Are you overwhelmed by number of technologies and tools available for creating and enhancing OER? This session introduces several tools, focusing on tool types that meet your pedagogical need rather than getting lost in the tech details.

Leveraging LibreTexts and OER to Design AI-Enhanced Assignments
2025-03-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join Ly-Huong Pham, Evergreen Valley College, as she discusses how LibreTexts’ remixing capabilities help faculty design assignments that integrate AI while fostering student engagement and critical thinking.
By seamlessly combining different OERs or chapters, educators can create flexible learning experiences that encourage deeper inquiry. She will share insights from her experience working with students, highlighting their challenges, responses, and lessons learned.

How to Build a Better Textbook
2025-03-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Centennial College, Toronto, ON, Canada
Frustrated with students not buying the textbook? Can’t find the right material for your course? Tired of publications with all filler and little substance? We have the session for you!
During this hour-long session, learn how you can create a free, high-quality textbook by utilizing open resources, publishing techniques, and your own valuable expertise. Michelle Johnson, OER Librarian at Centennial College, will introduce you to guiding principles and practical tools in open licensing, professional writing, and instructional design.
See also the Centennial College Open Textbook Template

Harold Washington College's OER Initiative
2025-03-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
In 2023, Harold Washington College received a grant to find and/or create OER for high-enrollment courses. This presentation discusses what we learned during the process and showcases some of the modules our professors created and curated using LibreTexts. Presenters are Todd Heldt, Carolyn Stevenson, Rosie Banks, and Jack Lindsay.

Copyright Mythbusters Workshop and © Microcourse
2025-03-06 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD), San Mateo, CA, United States
Copyright is tricky business! Join librarians Pia Walawalkar and Ame Maloney of Skyline College to discuss copyright myths and facts related to OER adoption.
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 Editing OER Textbooks in LibreTexts
2025-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join a member of the LibreTexts team as they show you how to edit OER textbooks with LibreTexts. With a powerful, easy to use WYSIWYG interface, and over a million pages of content from which to choose, editing OER with LibreTexts will help you take your OER to the next level.

. . . but is it Learning? Game-based Learning and Sharing OE Resources in a College Curriculum
2025-03-06 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Regina) | Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
At Sask Polytechnic, we’re learning how to use games in education. Last year, the Saskatoon library set up a gaming lab (the SPARK Lab — Simulated Play And Real Knowledge) and this year we are using an Open education tool called H5P (integrated into Pressbooks) to make interactive learning modules.
This session will explore using game-based learning and gamification, and how they can help engage students, with some success stories. Join Sask Polytechnic instructors and technology support specialists as we discuss gaming in education. Catch our event recordings, if you missed the registration.

Building Assignments in LibreTexts ADAPT Open Homework and Assessment Platform
2025-03-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, as he shows you how to build assignments in LibreTexts open homework and assessment platform, ADAPT.
Participants will learn how to build autograded questions based on four technologies – H5P, WebWork, IMathAS, and native (QTI) – that can be used interchangeably to allow for maximal impact.
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.

Interactive Asynchronous Discussions with Discuss-It in LibreTexts’ ADAPT
2025-03-06 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Ready to energize your asynchronous online discussions? In this session, our panel of instructors will introduce Discuss-It, a powerful extension of the LibreTexts’ ADAPT homework platform that fosters active learning, student engagement, and collaboration in online courses.
This tool, available for free in California, supports asynchronous student-to-student interaction and instructor-student communication through multimedia options, enhancing the learning experience for all students. Discuss-It also prioritizes accessibility and inclusivity, offering features like auto-captioning, and auto-transcription with editing capabilities in multiple languages, powered by OpenAI’s Whisper technology. With its seamless integration with Canvas and other learning management systems for automatic gradebook syncing, Discuss-It can be a powerful teaching tool and streamline course management for instructors.
Discuss-It allows students to engage in threaded discussions using text, audio, and video responses, creating a more interactive and engaging online learning environment. By promoting creativity and enabling students to express their thoughts in diverse ways, it encourages meaningful conversations with their peers. Peer review and feedback are also integral to Discuss-It, promoting reflection and increasing accountability among students.
Join us to discover how Discuss-It can transform online learning by creating an engaging, inclusive, and collaborative learning environment.

Integrating AI to Produce OER using OER Conversion Tool convOERter
2025-03-07 16:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Germany, Aachen, NRW, Germany
With the rapid advancement of generative AI technologies nowadays, it is beneficial to use these technologies effectively to create Open Educational Resources (OER). This talk introduces the essentialness of using generative AI technology in the OER context, particularly by applying a Text-to-Image model in the OER conversion tool “convOERter.”
“convOERter” is a web-based tool that has been developed to convert existing educational materials containing images into ones with a Creative Common (CC) license. The development of the conversion tool greatly eases the process of creating OER content, as it automatically captures the images in the original materials and allows educators to search for a replacement image that is CC-licensed in OER portals. However, despite the substantial collection of high-quality images provided by these portals, finding a replacement image that precisely aligns with the educator’s requirements remains challenging due to the static nature of any database.
Generative AI refers to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create new content, like text, images, music, audio, and videos based on human input. In the field of image generation, various models are now available which offer a valuable opportunity for generating high-quality OER content. When educators cannot find suitable replacement images in Creative Commons portals, employing a Text-to-Image AI model becomes essential for generating appropriate images. In this talk, we will introduce the OER conversion tool and present the first steps towards integrating AI models within the tool.

Open Microbiology: Building Global Learning Communities Through the OpenStax Microbiology Ancillaries Project
2025-03-07 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
The OpenStax Microbiology Ancillaries (OSMA) Project is an innovative open education initiative that brings together educators, researchers, and students to develop high-quality, openly licensed learning resources for microbiology. This project enhances accessibility, fosters inclusivity, and empowers both students and instructors with adaptable, freely available educational materials in the ADAPT homework system and H5P/LibreTexts Studio.
This presentation will highlight the international collaboration at the heart of OSMA, featuring insights from Ying Liu, biology professor at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and visiting scholar at the University of Dundee, and her team of students in San Francisco and Dundee, Scotland. Together, we will explore how cross-border teamwork enriches resource development, ensuring diverse perspectives and global relevance.
Students from both institutions will share their experiences as co-creators, reflecting on the impact of open education on their learning, professional growth, and sense of community. Their voices will illuminate how participation in OER projects enhances scientific literacy, collaboration skills, and engagement with real-world microbiology applications.
By showcasing OSMA’s student-driven, equity-focused approach, this session will inspire educators and institutions to embrace open education and foster meaningful learning experiences through international partnerships.

A LibreTexts ADAPT Success Story with Greg Allen
2025-03-07 10:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Mendocino College, Greg Allen, as he shares how he uses LibreTexts ADAPT open homework and assessment in his courses.
Greg received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Davis. His graduate research focused on atmospheric chemistry and he’s worked on several research projects investigating ways to improve student learning in chemistry courses. Greg has been teaching chemistry in some form for over 10 years, and started teaching courses at Mendocino College in 2018, where he generally teaches the introduction to chemistry, and general chemistry courses.

2025 Open Education Week Lightning Talks: Affordable Education, Accessible Resources
2025-03-07 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock, AR, United States
Hear the different ways faculty, staff, and students at University of Arkansas at Little Rock are utilizing Open Education resources in courses, events, and more! These fast-paced lightening talks allow multiple presenters to share their experiences in the span of an hour.
This live event will be streamed via zoom. Register for the link.

LibreTexts First Friday Features
2025-03-07 11:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Looking to get caught up on all of LibreTexts cool new updates and features? Join us for our new series, First Friday Features, on the first Friday of every month to chat with a member of our team about everything you need to know about what’s new in the LibreVerse.

NMOER Event: Finding and Evaluating Open Materials for Accessibility
2025-03-07 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | University of New Mexico, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Continuing the Proactive Accessibility OER Series 2025, this workshop helps faculty finalize their OER projects by focusing on sourcing and evaluating open materials for accessibility.
Participants will learn how to identify and assess openly licensed resources for critical accessibility features such as screen reader compatibility, proper tagging, and alt text. Faculty will also explore strategies for adapting and customizing materials to meet accessibility standards while adhering to licensing requirements. This session will equip attendees with a comprehensive understanding of how to integrate accessible practices into their projects and finalize materials that are inclusive, effective, and ready for publication or distribution.

Introducing LibreTexts LibreNet Consortium and Academy
2025-03-07 11:30 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Is your campus looking for new and innovative ways to advocate for, and create OER? We have you covered with LibreTexts LibreNet consortium. For the incredibly low price of $1500/year your campus can have it’s own branded commons on our platform, unlimited hosting of open textbooks, priority access to the LibreTexts team, and much, much more. Join a member of the LibreTexts as they go over all you need to know in order to take your open education programs to the next level with the LibreNet.
Check out more information on our website and bring your questions: https://libretexts.org/librenetconsortium.
We will also do a Q and A about our new Academy Center for Open Instructional Innovation and Professional Development. Be sure to check out the website and submit an interest form: https://libretexts.org/academy.
