Open Education Week

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.

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!

Luces de educación abierta para la Declaración de Dubái: aportaciones desde la estancia UNESCO 2025
2025-03-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Monterrey) | Online from Multiple Locations
Panel interactivo donde se construirán ideas para movilizar la educación abierta desde las recomendaciones UNESCO 2019 y la Declaración de Dubái, compartiendo las construcciones de la estancia UNESCO 2025 en torno al desarrollo de capacidades, inclusión y diversidad, políticas, sustentabilidad e internacionalización. El fin es identificar juntos las luces de la educación abierta para todos.

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.

Open Education as a Transformative Tool for Classroom Success (webinar)
2025-03-06 10:00 - 11:15 (Europe/Amsterdam) | University of Groningen Library, Groningen, Netherlands
Organizer: University of Groningen Library (the Netherlands)
Intended audience: University teachers, PhD students with teaching responsibilities, education specialists, library specialists
Date & time: 6 March 2025, 10:00 – 11:15 CET
Format: Online webinar in Google Meet
Curious about engaging your students, increasing the impact of your teaching, and saving time on the design of your courses? Engaging with open education might be the answer.
Join this webinar on 6 March 2025 to get a glimpse of how open education can enrich and transform your teaching. During this short webinar, information specialists from the University of Groningen Library will teach you about the who, what, when, where, why, and how of open educational resources (OER) and open education.
During this webinar, we will give information to help you understand:

What the concepts of open education and open educational resources are
Why and when using open educational resources and practices can help transform education
Where you can find open educational resources
How you can effectively implement open educational resources and practices into your teaching
Who can help you on your open education journey

Learning Outcomes
After completing this webinar, you will be able to:

Understand how to use OER, basics of the copyright and open licenses
Search strategically for and evaluate OER most relevant to your subject area
Design appropriate teaching and learning activities using OER

Language: English
Additional information: For any other inquiries or questions regarding the webinar, please feel free to contact the OER support team at oer-library@rug.nl.

Répertoires de REL : un levier pour repenser l’accès et la collaboration en formation professionnelle
2025-03-06 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Toronto) | Université d’Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Cette discussion invite les responsables de programmes de formation à réfléchir aux impacts de programmes de développement professionnel s’appuyant sur l’éducation ouverte pour valoriser des pratiques pédagogiques et de gestion des répertoires de contenus ouverts qui visent à élargir l’accès à l’apprentissage, particulièrement dans une approche de création, de réutilisation et de partage de ressources et connaissances. Au cœur des réflexions : les stratégies de mobilisation de création de ressources éducatives libres à eCampusOntario et Camerise auprès des responsables de formation et développement professionnel dans le domaine de l’enseignement du français.
Cette discussion permettra d’explorer les avantages et défis liés à la formation en éducation ouverte et l’utilisation des REL pour le développement professionnel en général. Dans un deuxième temps, une réflexion consacrée aux impacts de collaborations interinstitutionnelles pour fédérer la culture de l’ouverture entre les responsables de programmes de formation dans les conseils scolaires et au post-secondaire.
Objectif : Les participant.e.s auront l’opportunité de:

Explorer les avantages/désavantages de l’utilisation de répertoires tel que la Bibliothèque libre d’eCampusOntario et Camerise pour la découvrabilité et l’accès aux (REL) co-conceptualisées par des auteur.e.s sur le continuum M-12-Postsecondaire.
Réfléchir à comment mesurer l’impact de l’utilisation des ressources éducatives libres (REL) dans les programmes de formation en FLS/FLA

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.

Unlock Knowledge: Open Access & Free Educational Resources
2025-03-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/St_Johns) | Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
The presenter for this session is Crystal Rose, Associate Professor, Associate Dean of Libraries Grenfell Library
Open Education is a movement that promotes accessible and freely available educational opportunities for all.
In this session, Ms. Rose will explore ways you can make your research more freely accessible, like library support available for Open Access publishing. Additionally, she discusses ways you can make course materials free for students through Open Educational Resources.
This session will be hosted in Webex. You can join the session 10 minutes before the start time. It is recommended that you attend this session using one of the following internet browsers: Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Firefox.
Registration is required for this event. More info and registration: https://blog.citl.mun.ca/technologyresources/workshop-consult/unlock-knowledge-open-access-free-educational-resources/

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.

Webinar: Izradio/la sam multimedijski sadržaj za nastavu i što sada?
2025-03-06 11:00 - 12:30 (Europe/Zagreb) | SRCE – University Computing Centre, University of Zagreb, Josipa Marohnića 5, Zagreb, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
Multimedija je dio većine e-kolegija, omogućava nastavniku i studentima da jasnije i jednostavnije predstave određenu tematiku ili problem, da se može više puta pogledati i proučiti i da vizualno prikaže ono što sami tekst često ne može dočarati.
No kada nastavnik izradi neki video zapis, animaciju, podcast ili sliku često ne zna kako ili ne zna dovoljno da na pravilan način postavi taj sadržaj u svoj e-kolegij.
U ovom webinaru pokazat ćemo kako postaviti izrađeni multimedijski sadržaj kao otvoreni obrazovni sadržaj kako bi se zaštitila autorska prava, kako ga postaviti u e-kolegij na Merlinu na pravilan način i zašto ga treba postaviti u repozitorij ustanove na sustavu Dabar.
Predavanje će održati djelatnici Srca, a svakako ostavljamo prostor i za pitanja sudionika.
Webinar je namijenjen nastavnicima, prvenstveno u sustavu visokog obrazovanja i svima zainteresiranima.
Pridružite nam se i provjerite kako pravilno postaviti izrađeni multimedijski sadržaj u e-kolegij.
Predavači: Domagoj Horvatović, Dominik Kenđel i Ljiljana Jertec Musap, Srce
Moderatorica: doc. dr. sc. Sandra Kučina Softić, Srce

Vrijeme i mjesto održavanja: 6. 3. 2025. od 11 do 12:30 sati, putem sustava za webinare

OE Week at East Los Angeles College (ELAC) Student Engagement
2025-03-06 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, CA, United States
East Los Angeles College (ELAC) students will be welcomed to learn more about ZTC at our table on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday during OE week.
We will table from 11am – 2pm on those days. There will be a “money board” for students to demonstrate how much they paid for textbooks in the previous semesters, item giveaways, and interviews conducted by our media department to post on social media.

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.

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!

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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Interview: OER in the Pacific – Shikha Raturi
2025-03-06 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
In this interview, Dr Shikha Raturi discusses the evolution of OER in the Pacific, emphasising the role of regional collaborations, institutional policies, and government support. She highlights key initiatives, such as Fiji’s early adoption of an OER policy and the University of the South Pacific’s engagement in localisation efforts to ensure cultural relevance. Challenges include the slow pace of localisation, the need for greater teacher training, and the importance of policy development and capacity building. She recommends systematic policy implementation, resource development, and continuous monitoring and research to enhance OER adoption in the region.

OER 101: An Introduction for Instructors
2025-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Brock University, 1812 Sir Issac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
This workshop will provide an introductory overview of Open Educational Resources (OER) and their many benefits to both students and instructors. Participants will have an opportunity to explore some OER and consider how to start incorporating open materials in a course in small (or big!) ways. This workshop is intended for those who are new to OER, but people of all experience levels are welcome to attend.
This workshop will be facilitated by Kymberly Ash and Jennifer Thiessen, from the Brock University Library

Finding and Evaluating Open Educational Resources (OER)
2025-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Are you thinking about minimizing costs for your students or your course? Do you want to find material you can customize for your specific needs? Open educational resources might be just what you are looking for. It can be overwhelming to begin looking for material that fits your needs, as there are many different places to search and ways to search for them.
In this session you will be introduced to OER repositories, as well as how to conduct an effective and efficient search to find OER material. You will also be introduced to evaluation methods related to OER that will make finding the right resources a breeze!

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

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

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.

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.

Open Mind and Open Education
2025-03-06 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 Frank Waters Room 105, University of New Mexico.
