Open Education Week

Creating Engaging and Interactive Learning Experiences with Pressbooks + H5P
2025-03-03 14:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Pressbooks, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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In this session, we’ll share some high-level principles and examples of how to create engaging learning materials in Pressbooks that encourage active learning through the use of social annotation, inline quizzes and other formative assessments.
We’ll also demonstrate how instructors with access to an enterprise Pressbooks network can easily bring this content into courses taught within a learning management system and see grades updated in real time and get deeper insight into what students are learning as they complete individual activities
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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.

H5P Workshop at McMaster University
2025-03-05 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
eCampusOntario offers free access to H5P, a powerful tool for creating interactive learning elements? H5P allows you to design engaging activities—such as quizzes, drag-and-drop exercises, interactive videos, and more—that can be seamlessly embedded into Avenue to Learn.

This session will provide an overview of H5P and showcase a variety of interactive elements that instructors can use to enhance student engagement in online courses. Whether you’re looking to create dynamic learning experiences or explore innovative ways to present content, H5P offers an intuitive and flexible solution.

Join us to see real-world examples, learn how to integrate H5P into your course, and get started with designing interactive activities for your teaching and learning.

Introduction to Using Pressbooks
2025-03-05 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Regina) | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Pressbooks is an online platform for creating books (and other book-like learning materials), including open educational resources (OER). It enables authors and publishers to design, format, and share their books in several ways, including in web-based and digital/ebook formats, or as print-ready PDFs. Pressbooks is used by independent authors and educational institutions around the world. In this hands-on webinar, you will learn how to use Pressbooks to create, build, and adapt online books and OER. We will cover the basics of structuring your book, adding and formatting content, and briefly look at some ways you can enhance your book with embedded media (like images, video, and interactive H5P activities).
If you do not already have a USask Pressbooks account, one will be provided for you, along with a “sandbox” book that you can explore during the session and continue building with later.

Two-Day Workshop on “OER for All: Repurposing and Designing Inclusive Open Educational Resources” on March 6th – 7th , 2025
2025-03-06 10:30 - 2025-03-07 17:00 UTC | Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
The Centre for Online Education & Learning (COEL), Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University (Dr. BRAOU) is organizing a workshop titled “OER for All: Repurposing and Designing Inclusive Open Educational Resources on March 6th -7th. ” as part of the Open Education (OE) Week Celebrations 2025. This workshop aims to empower in-house faculty members with the knowledge and skills to create, adapt, and repurpose Open Educational Resources (OER) that are inclusive, accessible, and interactive. Participants will learn best practices in open licensing, digital accessibility, and universal design principles to ensure that their educational content reaches a diverse range of learners, including those with disabilities and linguistic diversity.
Mrs. Sushumna Rao Tadinada – OER advocate from India will act as a Workshop Facilitator. The workshop will include hands-on sessions, discussions, and practical demonstrations on using tools like H5P to design engaging, accessible and interactive OER.
Special Recognition: To encourage active participation and innovation, the Best Presentation (on implementation plan to integrate OER into the course) Award in the workshop will include INR ₹1000 cash prize and an Appreciation Certificate.
Objectives of the workshop:
• Build awareness of OER, open licenses
• Enable participants to find, evaluate, and repurpose OER for their disciplines.
• Provide hands-on experience in creating accessible and interactive OER using open-source tools.
• Guide participants in developing an implementation plan to integrate OER into their courses effectively.

. . . 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.

Check H5P accessibility and more - CARETAKER
2025-03-07 10:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Oslo) | Skien, SKIEN, Telemark, Norway
We are excited to introduce the H5P Caretaker, a valuable tool designed to help you assess your H5P files for accessibility, licensing, and usability issues. This initiative is the result of a collaborative effort between Oliver Tacke and NDLA.
Please note that the H5P Caretaker is still in development, and we welcome your feedback to help us improve the service. The initial version is fully operational and available for you to test during this web conference.
As adherence to accessibility standards becomes increasingly vital, it’s essential that we equip ourselves with the right tools and resources to streamline this process. The H5P Caretaker aims to make your experience as seamless and up-to-date as possible.
We invite you to explore the H5P Caretaker with us!
Read more about the technical implementation
Presenters:

Jan Frode Lindsø
Oliver Tacke
Knut Inge Skifjeld

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.

Pressbooks 101
2025-03-07 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Pressbooks is an easy-to-use open content publishing platform for creating (or adapting) online resources such as textbooks, guidebooks, modules, lab manuals, student-generated assignments, and more!
This session will provide an overview of Pressbooks and the dynamic features that are natively baked in – including H5P interactivity, Hypothes.is annotation and embedded multimedia. If you’re looking to self-publish content of any length, and want a simple tool that enables customization, flexibility and accessible, varied publishing formats with web-hosting options, Pressbooks may be right for you.
We’ll look at examples of instructor-created and student-created content and get you started on using Pressbooks for your teaching and learning.

Be popular Series (Part 1 of 3) – Surfing the H5P Wave: Ride the Future of Interactive Learning!
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego, United States, San Diego, CA, United States
Are you ready to revolutionize your teaching methods and engage your students like never before? Join San Diego Community College’s exclusive workshop on H5P and discover how to create dynamic, interactive content using your free LibreTexts account for Instructors.
By the end of this session, you’ll: Explore a wide range of interactive elements, from quizzes and timelines to interactive videos and presentations, learn how to effortlessly incorporate H5P content into your existing Canvas courses, and discover the flexibility of H5P as you create, share, and modify content to suit your specific teaching needs. Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your teaching methods and captivate your students. Join fellow educators in this hands-on workshop and start creating rich, interactive content that will make learning an unforgettable experience.

Creating Open Content with Pressbooks and H5P
2026-03-03 11:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Hamilton, Canada, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Did you know McMaster has single-sign on to Pressbooks, an easy-to-use open content publishing platform for creating (or adapting) online resources such as textbooks, guidebooks, modules, lab manuals, student-generated assignments, and more? This session will provide an overview of Pressbooks and the dynamic features that are natively baked in – including H5P interactivity, Hypothes.is annotation and embedded multimedia. If you’re looking to self-publish content of any length, and want a simple tool that enables customization, flexibility and accessible, varied publishing formats with web-hosting options, Pressbooks may be right for you. We’ll look at examples of instructor-created and student-created content and get you started on using Pressbooks for your teaching and learning.

eCampusOntario offers free access to H5P, a powerful tool for creating interactive learning elements. H5P allows you to design engaging activities—such as quizzes, drag-and-drop exercises, interactive videos, and more—that can be seamlessly embedded into Avenue to Learn. This session will provide an overview of H5P and showcase a variety of interactive elements that instructors can use to enhance student engagement in online courses. Whether you’re looking to create dynamic learning experiences or explore innovative ways to present content, H5P offers an intuitive and flexible solution. Join us to see real-world examples, learn how to integrate H5P into your course, and get started with designing interactive activities for your teaching and learning.

OEWeek Live! Beyond ChatGPT: GenAI in Action
2026-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Get ready for our live streamed demos aimed at showing you first hand what Generative AI can do for educators that goes beyond the typical perception of the popular ChatGPT interaction, and not just “prompt engineering”.
We have lined up three demos to perhaps make you say “Wow” but maybe also “Oh my ______”. Watch the demos live streamed on YouTube and send your comments and questions directly through chat to the guests in studio.
We do not flip slides and show screenshots on OEWeek Live, you will see screen shared live demos in action and than have an opportunity to contribute to a lively conversation. Our guests in the studio include:
Watch What an Agentic Browser Can Do on a Student’s behalf
Anna Mills English/Writing instructor and an early AI inquisitor, will demonstrate something that may make your jaw drop. Beyond the chat interface we are used to are “agentic browsers” that can be set loose online to perform tasks for us. Anna has published several videos showing tools like Perplexity Comet, ChatGPT Atlas, and Google Gemini completing quizzes and replying to discussions in a Learning Management System, all while logged in as a learner (without any direct involvement by the student). She argues for the platforms to provide better guardrails.
Anna Mills teaches writing at College of Marin and previously taught at City College of San Francisco for 17 years. Her collection “AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry” is featured in the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse; it includes a curated collection of articles, a set of sample AI essays, and a list of strategies for mitigating educational harms associated with large language models. She has also written an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook, How Arguments Work: A Guide to Writing and Analyzing Texts in College, which has been widely praised and used at over 45 colleges. As the English Discipline Lead for the Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges OER Initiative, she leads professional development workshops on OER and collaborative annotation. Anna earned a master’s degree from Bennington College in Writing and Literature with a focus on nonfiction writing, and her essays have appeared in journals such as The Writer’s Chronicle, The Sun, and Salmagundi.
Two Autonomous Agents Work Together to Generate OER
Yasin Dahi founder of Learnful will show us GenOER an experimental platform designed for educators to generate OER (including interactive H5P activities) that are fully designed and created by autonomous agents. The system deploys a powerful model of a pair two autonomous agents working together that simulate the principles of educational design — and Educator Agent and a Designer Agent. “GenOER is not just a tool — it’s a testbed for exploring one of the most pressing questions in open education today: what happens when the “author” of an open resource is an algorithm? I hope GenOER sparks discussion, critique, and collaboration across the OER community. This is an experiment, but one that asks real questions about scale, pedagogy, licensing, and the future of authorship.”
Yasin is the founder of Learnful, an EdTech software company based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He develops open-source solutions focused on open education and digital learning. His projects — including H5P Studio, GenOER, and Axiom — aim to democratize access to software tools for OER, H5P, and AI.
An OER Repository with an AI Assisted Form that Writes the Metadasta
Muriel Peguret and Mirela Cherciov from the Camerise Project at York University’s Glendon Campus will be showing a new tool for using AI to generate metadata for OER that is submitted for Camerise K-12 Studio (a project being demonstrated in another OEWeek Event)
Muriel Péguret received her PhD in FSL Applied Linguistics from Dalhousie University in 2009. She is an Associate Professor at York University in French Studies (Glendon College) and the Faculty of Education. She co-leads with Mirela Cherciov the Camerise K-12 Studio project (built by Learnful Labs Inc.), a repository of French as second language OER for K-12 teachers.
Mirela Cherciov is an Associate Researcher who is developing, in collaboration with Muriel Péguret, an OER platform for K-12 FSL teachers. She holds a PhD in French Studies from the University of Toronto. She conducted research on first-language attrition and bilingualism across the lifespan and has been teaching FSL and linguistics courses.
Watch live here or return later to see the recording.

Image Credits: Old TV – Time Tunnel – Cameron Highland flickr photo by liewcf shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA 2.0) license remixed with OEW OEWeek image by Mario Badilla licensed CC BY 4.0 and Bart Fish & Power Tools of AI / Behaviour Power / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0

Be Popular Series (Part 2 of 3) – Using the Free ADAPT Homework System
2026-03-04 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego, United States, San Diego, CA, United States
Explore ADAPT, the OER homework system offered and supported by LibreTexts, which integrates with Canvas LMS. This workshop from San Diego Community College District will guide you through creating a course in ADAPT to host homework activities and linking them to Canvas for seamless integration of graded assignments in your online courses. You’ll learn how to create your own homework questions, upload QTI files with pre-made questions, or use interactive activities like H5P, MyOpenMath, and more!

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.

From H5P to LMS: Boosting Active Learning and Assessment
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | St. Catharines, Canada, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Participants in this Brock University workshop will learn a step-by-step process to boost student engagement through “low-stakes” interactive assessments by learning how to embed, update, and manage H5P content using freely available tools like Lumi. Leave the “technical headache” behind and take full creative control of your digital classroom by integrating H5P activities into your LMS. Note: This workshop is specifically designed for educators whose LMS does not have a built-in H5P integration.
This workshop will be lead by Vanja Stojanovic, Learning Strategies Librarian at Brock Library.

TUS Open Press Community of Practice H5P Workshop
2026-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Athlone, Ireland, Athlone, Ireland
To mark OE Week 2026, Technological University of the Shannon is hosting a H5P workshop for our TUS Open Press Community of Practice members.
The TUS Open Press Community of Practice meets a few times per semester to support each other in learning more about Open Education and how we can collectively contribute to the Commons.
Our theme for this workshop is H5P and we will focus on our recent publication: Your Essay Builder: Clear Steps to Plan and Structure Your Essay, which has successfully integrated a variety of H5P approaches.
Other Community members will also be invited to share their experiences of using H5P in their teaching and how they integrate interactive elements into their Openly Licensed works to scaffold learning and engage users.

Be Popular Series (Part 3 of 3) - Gamification Using H5P
2026-03-12 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego, United States, San Diego, CA, United States
Explore how to enhance your course by incorporating gamified elements, such as interactive activities, points, stars, and challenges, to boost student engagement and motivation for self-assessment. This workshop from San Diego Community College District will guide you in finding or creating interactive H5P activities that align with your curriculum and integrating them into your online course. Together, we will transform traditional learning activities into rewarding experiences with immediate feedback, creating a more dynamic and interactive learning environment.

OER Under the Hood with LibreTexts: ADAPT
2026-04-14 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Open Education Global (OEGlobal) opens a new season of its OER Under the Hood series where we take a test drive to admire the exterior features of OER. Then, like we might do with a sports car, we open the hood (or bonnet) to take a look at how it works, share how it was designed and built, and what a “driver” can do with it. These are all done as live screen share demos of the real OER, not slide deck pictures of them.
For 2026, OEGlobal is building these sessions to showcase OERs from member organizations with this session featuring our member LibreTexts.
We are pleased that the first 2026 OER Under the Hood features LibreTexts’s ADAPT an open-source homework and assessment platform integrated into the “LibreVerse.” ADAPT is flexible and works with several Learning Management systems allowing educators to create, manage, and grade assignments using its native question types as well as a huge bank of interactive activities, including ones built in WebWork, IMathAS, and H5P. You will see its use of ADAPT’s “Discuss It” for rich media discussions and personalized “Learning Trees.”
LibreTexts founder Delmar Larsen will be at the wheel for a lively and interactive session. You can learn how to explore ADAPT on your own after the show.
When: Tuesday, April 14 at 11:00am – 12:00pm PDT (check for local time)
Where: Register to attend via Zoom
Recording: Will be posted after the event
Discuss: in OEG Connect
Learn More

Introduction to ADAPT
LibreTexts ADAPT web site
LibreTexts ADAPT: Homework Reimagined (Demo, YouTube)
LibreTexts recordings from 2026 Open Education Week events (YouTube playlist)

Look for more OER Under the Sessions to be added to the OEGlobal calendar. For OEGlobal members, looks soon for more details on how your OER can be featured in a future session.
