Open Education Week

Open Applications: NorQuest UNSDG Open Pedagogy Fellows
2025-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | SCFL 1-096@NorQuest, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Hear from inaugural NorQuest UNSDG Fellows Arvind Bhogal and Fauziya Ali about their experiences with this global award-winning fellowship!
They will share experiences with international inter-institutional partnerships, creation of renewable assignments aligned with specific Sustainable Development Goals, and the impact on their pedagogy and student experience. The session will include time for discussions and allow session participants to explore opportunities for their own engagement in the fellowship and in open classroom practices!

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.

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

Open Mind and Open Education
2025-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | University of New Mexico, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Learn about OER, play a creative commons matching game, do crafts with old textbooks, and enjoy some snacks! We will talk about the basic of Open Educational Resources, benefits and examples of OER, open licenses and Creative Commons.
Join us at Zimmerman Library B30, University of New Mexico.

OER Under the Hood: A Student ePortfolio Experience
2025-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Pressbooks, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Join us for the inaugural OER Under the Hood session presented by OEGlobal and Pressbooks. In this series we’ll explore what goes into creating unique, engaging open learning materials by going “under the hood” of various projects.
In our first session we’ll hear from Terry Greene about his My Learning Journey: An Ebook of One’s Own student portfolio project at Trent University. We’ll learn about the vision behind the project and how it came to life using Pressbooks by taking a look at the project from the inside. We’ll also hear from Amber Hoye about her experience adapting this project at Boise State.
Recording Now Available

Portfolios Shared:

Mollie’s Learning Journey (Trent University)
Colter Sprague (Boise State University)
Maria Rom (Boise State University)

The K-State Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative, Open Textbook Platforms, & Accessibility
2025-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States
The cost of textbooks is a barrier to affordable higher education for many students. Open textbooks help reduce that cost while providing ways for instructors to adapt content to their course and improve accessibility for their students. Join us for an introduction to the K-State Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative, an overview on the two leading open textbook platforms – Pressbooks and LibreTexts, and a summary of methods to build accessibility into open textbooks to improve learning for all.

Math Brunch at OE Week
2025-03-05 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Within the framework of Open Education Week (OE Week 2025), the EPSEB library at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya organize the workshop Open educational resources: Gate2Math, by the teacher Carles Serrat.
Gate2Math is a tool that facilitates access to online mathematical resources in a open and freeThis workshop is aimed at students and teaching and research staff (PDI) of all levels, with the aim of raising awareness of the possibilities offered by this platform for learning and teaching mathematics.

Order date: March 5 from 12 p.m. to 14 p.m
place: EPSEB library
You must bring a laptop.

To conclude the session, a brunch will be offered for all attendees.

BarCamp Ressources Educatives Libres & Intelligence Artificielle – BarCamp OER & AI
2025-03-05 12:00 - 14:30 (Africa/Tunis) | l’Université de Sousse, Tunisie, Sousse, Tunisia
🎯 Public cible : Étudiants et enseignants
🔹 À propos du BarCamp
Un BarCamp est un atelier participatif et collaboratif où chacun peut partager ses idées, poser des questions et apprendre des autres. Cette édition est dédiée aux Ressources Éducatives Libres (REL) et à l’Intelligence Artificielle (IA) dans l’éducation.
🔹 Objectifs

Comprendre l’importance des REL et leur potentiel dans l’apprentissage.
Explorer les opportunités et les défis de l’IA dans l’enseignement.
Partager des expériences et des bonnes pratiques sur l’intégration de ces technologies.
Encourager la collaboration entre étudiants et enseignants pour une éducation plus ouverte et innovante.

🔹 Format et activités
✅ Discussions ouvertes et échanges d’expériences.
✅ Activités pratiques sur l’utilisation des REL et des outils d’IA en éducation.
✅ Débats interactifs sur les enjeux éthiques et pédagogiques de l’IA.
Pas de spectateurs, tout le monde participe ! 👉 Rejoignez-nous et construisons ensemble l’éducation de demain !
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🎯 Target Audience: Students and Teachers
🔹 About the BarCamp
A BarCamp is a participatory and collaborative workshop where everyone can share ideas, ask questions, and learn from others. This edition is dedicated to Open Educational Resources (OER) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education.
🔹 Objectives

Understand the importance of OER and their potential in learning.
Explore the opportunities and challenges of AI in teaching.
Share experiences and best practices for integrating these technologies.
Encourage collaboration between students and teachers for a more open and innovative education.

🔹 Format & Activities
✅ Open discussions and experience sharing.
✅ Hands-on activities on using OER and AI tools in education.
✅ Interactive debates on the ethical and pedagogical issues of AI.
No spectators—everyone participates! Join us and let’s shape the future of education together! 🚀

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Using AI in OER (SDCCD)
2025-03-05 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego Community College District, San Diego, CA, United States
In this presentation you’ll learn how AI tools like ChatGPT and NotebookLM are transforming OER development. Learn how AI can streamline content creation, lesson planning, assessments, quizzes, Study Guides, summary podcasts and more.
Join the San Diego Community College District Open Ed Week via Zoom Events and attend this presentation session with Alison Gurganus, Librarian at Mesa College.

University of Kentucky OER Author Panel
2025-03-05 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
Join us for a conversation with University of Kentucky faculty about their experiences writing open educational resources!
The panelists represent a range of departments and are all recipients of the OER Grant Program. They will describe their projects, discuss the realities of the work, and share advice for those considering authoring OER.

Demystifying Copyright and Creative Commons Licensing
2025-03-05 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | St. Clair College, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Navigating copyright laws and open licensing can feel overwhelming—but it doesn’t have to be!
This session will break down everything you need to know about Copyright, Fair Dealing, and Creative Commons (CC) licenses. How much copyrighted material can you legally use? What does Fair Dealing actually cover? Which CC license should you choose, and how open is each one? We’ll answer all these questions and more, giving you the clarity and confidence to use and share content legally and ethically. Bring your questions, and let’s unravel the complexities of copyright together!

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.

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.

OEWeek Live! Socially Just Distributed Care in the Open with Equity Unbound
2025-03-05 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
How MYFest and Intentionally Equitable Hospitality manifest to promote socially just care in the open
We are delighted to offer this open conversation with a fantastic team of representatives from Equity Unbound– the movement started in 2018 focused then on “equity-focused, open, connected, intercultural learning curriculum for teaching digital literacies to educators and co-learners in diverse educational contexts.”
We will learn how this has evolved and grown to now in 2025 for an open discussion on the How Mid-Year Festival (MYFest) and Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) manifest to promote socially just care in the open. As we are all witnessing, this current time is a call for much more acts of care.
How can you be part of Equity Unbound and their mission “Making Borders Meaningless”? Learn more about IEH and as well what is in store for the next round of MYFest starting in June 2025.
Joining in the conversation are:

Maha Bali (American University in Cairo, Equity Unbound Co-Founder)
Mia Zamora (Kean University, Equity Unbound Co-Founder)
Yasmine Abulfadl (American University in Cairo, Equity Unbound)
Nadine Aboulmagd (American University in Cairo, Program Manager Equity Unbound)

Watch live in YouTube and be part of the conversations are see it later:

Note the format of our OEWeek Live conversations are strongly inspired by the early efforts many here were involved with via Virtually Connecting – its spirit lives on here.
More information

Equity Unbound https://equityunbound.org/

Equity Unbound ONEHE Community Building Activities https://onehe.org/equity-unbound/

MYFest (Mid Year Festival) 2025 https://myfest.equityunbound.org/

Express Interest in MYFest25 https://forms.gle/CtXFsvSAGC5WwCXY6

Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) https://equityunbound.org/events/intentionally-equitable-hospitality-ieh/

Bali, M., & Zamora, M. (2023). Designing and Adapting for Community with Intentionally Equitable Hospitality. Learning Design Voices. University of Cape Town.
Bali, M., Station, G., Zamora, M. (2022, August 24). Online Does Not Mean Isolated. Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/08/24/building-community-online-conferences-events-opinion
Bali, M., & Zamora, M. (2022). The Equity-Care Matrix: Theory and practice. Italian Journal of Educational Technology. doi: 10.17471/2499-4324/1241
Bali, M., Caines, A., Hogue, R. J., DeWaard, H. J., & Friedrich, C. (2019). Intentionally equitable hospitality in hybrid video dialogue: The context of virtually connecting. eLearning Mag. Retrieved from https://elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?aid=3331173

Seeking âsokanihkew – a conversation about bridging 40 years of copyright and First Nation’s knowledge
2025-03-05 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Regina) | Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
In the late 1980s, Alexander Wolfe wanted to save his family and community oral tradition stories, so he wrote a book called “Earth Elder Stories.” Harvey Knight from Muskoday First Nation assisted in the writing of the book.
Harvey will talk about the book’s history (why oral tradition was committed to print) and discuss how oral tradition stories should be used in libraries and communities now and in the future. Andrea Jonasson, a Saskatchewan Polytechnic instructor, will talk about her experience using the stories in her classroom. You can still catch our event recordings, if you missed the registration.
Participants are invited to bring their experiences with using traditional knowledge in the classroom.

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.

OEWeek Live: March 5 More Open Conversations
2025-03-05 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
Here we are in the mid-point of Open Education Week 2025 and this is another in a series of our OEWeek Live webcasts, organized as an informal conversations. For each show we invite a group of open educators willing to have a discussion that lacks an agenda and slides with bullet points.
These conversational sessions start with sharing of their current projects, activities, and interests but flow into general discussions of what is happening in the world of open education.
Guests confirmed so far include:

Sally Chan (Leeds University) on Carbon literacy and University of Leed’s new open Climate Action Training course
Nate Angell (Nudigital) and Anna Mills (College of Marin) on their newly published paper “Are We Tripping? The Mirage of AI Hallucinations”
Dick Heller (University of Newcastle, Australia) on Contribution of open access to social justice and knowledge equity (see related event)
Girish Bhuteja (Conestoga College) on sharing and learning with OER

Watch live and send questions and comments through the chat or watch the recording later

Learn More:

Open Education Week https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/
OE Week Live Schedule https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/oeweek-live-webcasts/7383

Wikidata and Wikibase - Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities (Hybrid Seminar)
2025-03-05 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Join us for an afternoon of talks exploring Wikimedia in the curriculum, Scottish history and historical data (accused witches and religious change in early modern Scotland) and opening up the collections of the National Library of Wales!
Wikibase is the underlying platform that powers Wikipedia’s sister project, Wikidata, and as an open source platform, it allows users to create their own version of Wikidata with their own field names while still being able to connect to and leverage data from Wikidata. As such, it offers more quality control and bespoke opportunities for collections and research dataset holders.
Data skills for all!
As part of our ongoing mission to support our open knowledge and data skills commitments, this HYBRID seminar ( REMOTE participation available!) will build on prior learning and past seminars hosted by the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society (CDCS) in 2019.
We see this seminar as our next logical opportunity to support teaching and learning at the University at a time of curriculum transformation. The University has developed a framework for future skills in the curriculum to include data skills for all. This seminar will showcase a number of case studies of how Wikipedia and Wikidata have been included as curriculum elements in teaching and the impact that can have on students working on large and open data sets.
Jason Evans, Open Data Manager at the National Library of Wales, will expound on how the National Library has shared its collections as linked open data to Wikidata over the last eight years (including the opportunities and benefits of doing so) AND will also showcase their new SNARC Wikibase (Semantic Name Authority Repository Cymru) to ensure they can leverage the vast amount of complementary data in Wikidata through federated queries but also now have both a controlled vocabulary and access control for their authority records.
Dr. Chris Langley, The Open University, is a historian working with Wikibase to create a database of the General Assemblies of Scotland following his Wikidata work on the Mapping the Scottish Reformation project.
SCHEDULE:

3:00 pm – 3:10pm: Welcome from Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh.
3:10 pm – 3:25pm: ‘Wikidata in the Curriculum’ – Ewan McAndrew will preface our two guest speakers with a general introduction to student work with Wikidata assignments including the Map of Accused Witches in Scotland project and Tower Block Archive.
3:25 pm – 3:35pm: ‘Mapping Religious Change in Early Modern Scotland’ – Dr. Chris Langley (The Open University) will introduce the ways in which Wikibase Cloud can be used to structure historical data. In particular, the talk will explore how to use Wikibase and LeafletJS alongside textual sources relating to seventeenth-century Scotland.
3.35 pm – 4.00pm: ‘Wikibase for Name Authority at the National Library of Wales‘ – Jason Evans (National Library of Wales) on the modest goal of creating a knowledge graph of all Welsh cultural heritage data. Learn how NLW’s Wikibase is helping them take their first steps. The talk will highlight the benefits of using Wikibase alongside Wikidata to build a linked network of entities across multiple collections.
4:00pm – 4:10pm: ‘Wikimedia in Education: Booklet of Case Studies (v2.0)’ – Satu Kapiainen (Information Services, University of Edinburgh) will showcase the new edition of our booklet of 21 case studies of how Wikimedia is being used as a form of learning technology in UK education.
4:10 pm – 4:30pm: – Q&A with all the speakers.
4:30pm – 5pm:- Tea and coffee and general mingling/discussion.
5pm: Thanks and event close.

Zoom link for remote attendance
Wikibase for Name Authority at the National Library of Wales (Jason Evans)
With the modest goal of creating a knowledge graph of all Welsh cultural heritage data, learn how our Wikibase is helping us take our first steps. The talk will highlight the benefits of using Wikibase alongside Wikidata to build a linked network of entities across multiple collections.
Speaker bio
Jason Evans is the Open Data Manager and Wikimedian at the National Library of Wales. Working at the intersection of access policy, data science and digital engagement Evans aims to make cultural heritage collections more accessible and discoverable through new policy and practice.
Mapping Religious Change in Early Modern Scotland (Dr. Chris Langley)
This talk will introduce the ways in which Wikibase Cloud can be used to structure historical data. In particular, the talk will explore how to use Wikibase and LeafletJS alongside textual sources relating to seventeenth-century Scotland.
Speaker bio
Dr. Chris Langley is a historian of early modern religious culture, especially in Scotland: he wants “to understand how people in the past experienced religion and how it fit into their lives”. Chris uses digital techniques, including open linked data, to understand religious change. His current research project explores the Scottish General Assemblies between 1638 and 1653.
Map of Accused Witches of Scoland v2.0 – a student project 5 years in the making
Year on year, students on the Design Informatics MA/MFA programme derived meaningful learning experiences through engaging practically with data skills and Scottish accused witches to support course learning outcomes. Our open data Map of Accused Witches in Scotland project (2019) then helped surface data from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft, as linked open data and provided five student interns with rich learning opportunities to geolocate all the historic placenames mentioned and put the individual human stories behind the data on the map for the first time, allowing them to be explored as never before. For five years, this resource has helped raise awareness of, and discourse about, the Scottish witch trials (1563-1736) at a national and international level and been utilised by school pupils, teachers, researchers, authors, historians, journalists, and members of the public all around the world; demonstrating the interest in, and benefits of, such work.
Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh, will provide a brief overview of the project’s creation and highlight the contributions of everyone involved.
Who is this event for?
Humanities students, Informatics and Computer Science students, the CDCS past attendees, AI researchers, Data researchers, attendees from our 100 strong launch event for the Map of Accused Witches v2 launch, Library and University Collections staff, National Library of Scotland metadata staff, Informatics staff etc.
Anyone interested in the possibilities of staff and students sharing data to Wikidata and/or creating their own collection/research database in Wikibase.
An open data future?
If our Map of Accused Witches project could be considered Open Data ‘Project A’ then ‘Project B’ has been the Dr. Chris Langley’s work on Mapping the Scottish Reformation site which explores the Scottish clergy during the 16th and 18th century: where they were employed, how they moved around, where they were educated and more.
Both the Map of Accused Witches and Mapping the Scottish Reformation projects demonstrated the usefulness for students & researchers of taking the hitherto de facto print resources, The Sourcebook of Witchcraft by Christina Larner and the Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation, for the exploring of the Scottish Witch Trials and the Scottish Reformation respectively and updating, improving and augmenting these resources as digital tools using linked open data on a sustainable platform AND providing students with much needed opportunities for learning of digital and data skills – both through practical coursework and through internship opportunities.
Both of these projects showcased their initial ideas in CDCS seminars in 2019. And both have moved on in the last five years considerably, especially given discussions on data quality, maintaining the data, controlling access to the data and the usefulness of high quality of data for LLMs/artificial intelligence.
So a final outcome would be to see Open Data ‘Project C’, ‘Project D’, ‘Project E’ etc. etc. to build on the learning from the Map of Accused Witches project and Mapping the Scottish Reformation and provide more opportunities for students to learn data skills through practical engagement with research and collections datasets… and with Scottish history.

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

Open Education Week Celebration at Douglas College
2025-03-05 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Vancouver) | Douglas College, 700 Royal Avenue, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
This Open Education Week, the Douglas College Library, with the generous support of BCcampus, is hosting an Open Education Week Celebration on Wednesday, March 5, 2025! This event will be an opportunity to recognize achievements and to engage with, learn from and share experiences with those who are interested in reducing course material costs for Douglas students.
For more than 10 years, the faculty at Douglas College have contributed significantly to reducing commercial textbook costs for students. They have saved students over 7 million dollars ($7,201,134) by switching from a commercial textbook in their class to an open textbook.
This does not include the tremendous cost saving for students when our faculty chose zero and/or low-cost course materials such as print or digital coursepacks, freely available web content, licensed digital materials accessible through the Library collection, homework systems and more.
The Douglas College Library offers a range of services to support the work of faculty to move towards open or zero and/or low-cost materials, and are excited that this support continues to expand as we develop staff expertise and offer tools such as TalisAspire.
Douglas College Library is thankful to have received financial support from BCcampus to host this event.

Open Skilling: Accelerating Workforce Readiness Through Open Education
2025-03-05 22:00 - 23:30 (Asia/Riyadh) | National eLearning Center, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
This online panel discussion from the National eLearning Center of Saudi Arabia will examine how Open Education is revolutionizing skilling and workforce development. The session will focus on use cases, challenges, and opportunities in open skilling, emphasizing industry-driven training models, credentialing, and lifelong learning pathways. Experts will share insights on open credentials, microlearning, and policy frameworks that enable scalable, equitable access to skills development.

Educación basada en IA Generativa: la IAG como Recurso Educativo Abierto
2025-03-06 00:00 - 13:30 (Europe/Madrid) | Universidad de Alicante, Carretera San Vicente del Raspeig s/n, Alacant, Alacant, Spain
Los Recursos Educativos Abiertos (REA) surgieron como una práctica habitual en la comunidad educativa con el fin de democratizar la educación, asegurando que cualquier persona tenga acceso a contenidos de calidad sin importar su situación socioeconómica o ubicación geográfica. Este propósito se mantiene vigente gracias a la naturaleza colaborativa de los REA.
En este escenario, la Inteligencia Artificial Generativa (IAG) ha adquirido un papel clave al convertirse en aliada de los docentes para diseñar, optimizar y personalizar materiales de estudio, lo que a su vez reduce los costos de producción y potencia la eficacia de la enseñanza. Si consideramos que las configuraciones y desarrollos que realizan los docentes para que la IAG les asista funcionan de manera análoga al software educativo tradicional, es natural pensar que tales modelos y sistemas también pueden ponerse a disposición de la comunidad bajo licencias abiertas.
De esta forma, la IAG, puesta a disposición bajo las dinámicas de colaboración y apertura, profundiza los objetivos esenciales de los REA, al acercar todavía más la educación de calidad a cualquier persona que la necesite.

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.

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
2025-03-06 10:00 - 10:45 (Europe/Dublin) | Technological University of the Shannon, Westmeath, Westmeath, Ireland
The Learning Outcomes for this short session brought to you by the Technological University of the Shannon Libraries include:

Defining Open Educational Resources (OER)
Exploring OER examples and how to source relevant OER
Discussing the benefits of OER for students, staff and society
Discussing opportunities to adapt existing OER and create OER to meet your needs

Conestoga's Open Learning Team Supports SDG #4 Quality Education
2025-03-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Dr, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Brought to you by Collab4Open
In collaboration with the Conestoga Sustainability Initiative, The Open Learning team will share how the Conestoga Community is advancing SDG 4 Quality Education at Conestoga College by adopting Open Educational Practices.
