• OEWeek Live: Open Education Week Wrap Up (and What’s Next?)

    OEWeek Live!
    Online from Multiple Locations

    This is the last of the OEWeek Live! sessions for Open Education Week 2025. These webcasts are set up as 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 […]

  • Why Zero-Textbook-Cost Degrees Are Vital to Your Distance Education Strategy

    Ellucian Reston, VA, United States

    As colleges and universities expand and refine their online offerings, affordability remains a critical factor in student enrollment and retention. Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) degrees not only reduce financial barriers but also enhance accessibility, equity, and student success in distance education. This session explores how implementing ZTC degrees can strengthen your institution’s online strategy, improve course completion […]

  • A LibreTexts ADAPT Success Story with Greg Allen

    LibreTexts Davis, CA, United States

    Join Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Mendocino College, Greg Allen, as he shares how he uses LibreTexts ADAPT open homework and assessment in his courses. Greg received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Davis. His graduate research focused on atmospheric chemistry and he's worked on several research projects investigating ways to improve […]

  • Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon at SDCCD

    San Diego Community College District San Diego, CA, United States

    Join us for an online “edit-a-thon” where faculty can collaborate on OER in their discipline by editing and improving a specific page or get started with the basics of Wikipedia. Join the San Diego Community College District Open Ed Week via Zoom Events and attend this drop-in workshop session with Angela Boyd, Librarian at Miramar […]

  • Pressbooks 101

    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 […]

  • Uploading Files to Wikimedia Commons – French

    Wiki in Africa , South Africa

    Wiki Loves Africa is organizing a training for its participants to guide them on how to upload files for the photography contest. This training will focus on the basics of uploading on Wikimedia Commons and will consist of a demo upload. Participants are advised to have a computing device handy to aid participation. This training […]

  • DOERS3: Advancing OER for All through Practical Tools

    CCCOER 2025
    Online from Multiple Locations

    Join us for a brief 30-minute session to learn the work DOERS3 is doing to update the rubric formerly known as the Equity Through OER Rubric, which is currently under revision for its 2.0 update. In the session, you will hear how the group is moving forward with updates based on feedback and lessons learned […]

  • Uploading Files to Wikimedia Commons – English

    Wiki in Africa , South Africa

    Wiki Loves Africa is organizing a training for its participants to guide them on how to upload files for the photography contest. This training will focus on the basics of uploading on Wikimedia Commons and will consist of a demo upload. Participants are advised to have a computing device handy to aid participation. This training […]

  • Curiosity Unleashed: Experimenting with Open Pet-agogy (with Cats!)

    Online from Multiple Locations

    Note: This is merely a playful demo and test of the OE Week Calendar! Are you ready to let your curiosity lead the way, just like a cat chasing a laser pointer? Join us for a paws-on workshop where we explore the playful, experimental world of Open Education through Open Source tools. This interactive session […]

  • Integrating AI to Produce OER using OER Conversion Tool convOERter

    Germany Aachen, NRW, Germany

    With the rapid advancement of generative AI technologies nowadays, it is beneficial to use these technologies effectively to create Open Educational Resources (OER). This talk introduces the essentialness of using generative AI technology in the OER context, particularly by applying a Text-to-Image model in the OER conversion tool “convOERter.” "convOERter" is a web-based tool that […]

  • Retour d’expérience : appréciation étudiante d’un manuel libre

    Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

    Description : À la fin de la session d’automne 2024, un chargé de cours au Département de mathématiques à l’Université de Sherbrooke s’est interrogé sur l’appréciation et l’utilisation faite du manuel libre utilisé dans le cadre de son activité pédagogique. Accompagné d’une conseillère pédagogique, ce projet de sondage d’appréciation étudiante a été mis à l’essai pour […]