Open Education Week

OEW@Campus Luzern – The Legal Framework of OER Usage in the Context of Artificial Intelligence
2025-03-11 12:15 - 13:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Campus Luzern, Werftestrasse 4, Luzern, Switzerland
Suzanna Marazza, CCdigitallaw of the Università della Svizzera italiana
Join us for an engaging and informative webinar exploring the intersection of copyright, generative AI, and Open Educational Resources (OER). This session will delve into the legal implications of training AI models and using OER, along with important copyright considerations for AI-generated content, including the creation of OER through AI tools.
Designed to be both practical and interactive, the webinar will feature real-world examples to bring clarity to these complex issues. There will also be ample time for questions and open discussion, encouraging collaboration and a deeper understanding of the topic. We invite all individuals involved in OER and AI at higher education institutions
-regardless of role- to participate in this valuable opportunity. Please note that the session will be conducted in English. We look forward to your participation!
Zoom-Link:
https://hslu.zoom.us/j/63559424151?pwd=[REDACTED]

Profitez des bénéfices des ressources éducatives libres (REL) dans l’enseignement
2025-03-11 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
Objectif :
Cette session permettra aux personnes participantes de bien comprendre ce qu’est une REL, d’identifier ses caractéristiques inhérentes, ses avantages et de saisir ses enjeux.
Description : À l’aide d’exemples, d’explications et de témoignages, découvrez quels sont les avantages de réaliser et d’utiliser des REL dans son enseignement. Il sera aussi question des valeurs associées aux REL, des différentes méthodes pour en réaliser (dont l’utilisation de l’IA) et des licences qui y sont associées. Quelques REL créées par des personnes enseignantes seront aussi présentées. Une période d’échange sera réservée à la fin de la rencontre pour discuter et répondre aux questions.

Creating Accessible OER and Course Materials: What Makes Content Accessible?
2025-03-11 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Are you updating your course content or developing and incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your teaching and learning?
Join us for a workshop about how to design or adapt OER and other learning materials so they are more accessible for all learners. We’ll start with a demonstration of different content styles and formats, explore how layout/format choices affect different users, and discuss how simple choices made in the planning phase can make big improvements for the accessibility of those resources.

OEW@Campus Luzern – (Wie) Unterstützen Open Educational Resources Lehr- und Lernprozesse?
2025-03-12 12:15 - 13:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Campus Luzern, Werftestrasse 4, Luzern, Switzerland
(Wie) Unterstützen Open Educational Resources Lehr- und Lernprozesse?
Dr. Magdalena Spaude, Universität zu Köln
Die Qualität von Bildungsmaterialien – in welcher Form auch immer angeboten – zeigt sich insbesondere daran, wie sie den Lernprozess und die Lehrtätigkeit unterstützen. Dies gilt auch für Offene Bildungsressourcen. Lässt sich diese Qualität auch messen? Mit welchem Ergebnis? Und welches Lernen wird hier unterstützt?
Der Beitrag diskutiert entsprechende Hinweise aus (Meta-)Studien und fragt nach der Bedeutung dieser Ergebnisse für die Gestaltung und Lizenzierung von OER.
Zoom-Link:
https://hslu.zoom.us/j/66303149226?pwd=[REDACTED]

(English via Google Translate):
(How) do open educational resources support teaching and learning processes?
Dr. Magdalena Spaude, University of Cologne
The quality of educational materials – in whatever form they are offered – is particularly evident in how they support the learning process and teaching. This also applies to open educational resources. Can this quality also be measured? With what result? And what kind of learning is supported here?

The article discusses relevant information from (meta-)studies and asks about the significance of these results for the design and licensing of OER.

Optimiser la conception adaptative des Ressources Éducatives Libres (REL) avec l’IA
2025-03-12 08:30 - 10:00 (America/Toronto) | Université de York, Toronto, Canada
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can transform the creation and adaptation of OER to make them more accessible, interactive and tailored to learners’ needs. This interactive webinar will give you concrete tools to integrate AI into your practice.
This webinar will guide the particiapnts to:
1. Identify how AI can support teaching and learning in Open Education Environments
2. Explore effective instruction writing in AI tools to generate quality educational content
3. Design accessible and interactive educational resources with AI tools
Speakers: Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (Université York, Canada), Sushumna Rao Tadinada (Hyderabad, India)

Wiki Loves Africa 2025 Contest Launch
2025-03-12 17:00 - 18:30 (Africa/Lagos) | Online from Multiple Locations
Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) is an annual contest where anyone across Africa can contribute free media that is relevant to their experience to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia communities (Wikimedia movement), and also make this shared media freely available for the Humankind.
This year marks the 11th anniversary of the contest and the international organizers think its a good opportunity to reflect on the journey so far hence this event. The theme for 2025 is Farm to Plate and participants are encouraged to contribute media (photographs, video and audio) that illustrate the specific theme

Faculty Insights: Leveraging GenAI for Open Education at KPU
2025-03-12 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Vancouver) | Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Generative AI (GenAI) is a powerful new tool that can support many open educational practices. Come hear the personal journeys of Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) faculty members who are using AI tools to simplify the content development and editing processes, making it easier and more efficient for educators to create high-quality, accessible open educational resources (OER), and how AI tools are being used to foster open pedagogy, enhancing student engagement and collaboration.
This event offers a unique opportunity to learn from your colleagues, gain practical insights, and explore the transformative potential of GenAI in both OER creation and open pedagogy. Whether you’re a KPU faculty member or simply interested in the future of educational content development and teaching methods, this session promises to be both informative and motivating.

Publishing a Book with Pressbooks – An Introduction
2025-03-12 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Pressbooks is a powerful and popular tool for creating open educational resources such as textbooks. Whether you are looking for training for yourself or your research assistants, this training will cover the basics of how to use Pressbooks to create and enhance content.
By the end of this session participants will be familiar with:

Overview of Pressbooks functionality;
The layout of Pressbooks;
Creating book chapters and parts;
Embedding images, video, and slides

Liquid Margins 50: Transforming OER with AI and Social Annotation – A Guide for Educators
2025-03-12 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online from Multiple Locations
Creating and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) gives educators the freedom to design flexible, affordable learning experiences. But what if you could take it even further? AI-powered tools are making it easier than ever to develop high-quality OER materials, and social annotation is transforming how students interact with course content.
Join Diana Fordham, Missouri Southern State University, and the Hypothesis team for a dynamic conversation on how AI can streamline OER creation and how Hypothesis can make these resources more interactive, engaging, and effective for students.
Key Takeaways:

How AI can help you create adaptable, high-quality OER materials
Ways to integrate Hypothesis to spark discussion and deepen student engagement
Real-world examples of AI-generated OER in action
Strategies to make OER more interactive and collaborative
Best practices for keeping your OER content inclusive, effective, and impactful

Open Education & Science Practices 2025 The XII edition of the International Workshop Open Education Week
2025-03-13 11:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | Politehnica University of Timisoara, Bul Vasile Parvan No.2, Timisoara, Romania
Hosted by the Digital Education Department and the Multimedia Center of the Politehnica University of Timișoara, in collaboration with the Alliance of European Universities E³UDRES² and the Ent-r-e-novators project, with the support of IEEE Romania, The XII edition of the International Workshop Open Education Week, with theme ”Open Education & Science Practices 2025” will delve into how open science and open educational resources are integrated into everyday activities, particularly in universities, research projects, and education in general. Emphasis will be placed on the response of educational and research systems to the challenges of emerging technologies of artificial intelligence, virtual reality and blockchain.
The event will be held in a hybrid format, with presentations delivered both physically and virtually.
The workshop aims to bring together international speakers, preparing interactive sessions and discussions and is addressed to teachers, students, as well as actors in the field of education and training, IT trainers or human resources departments.
Participation is free, and attendees can choose between physical attendance at the UPT Conference Center or online participation. Participants will receive Open Education Workshop Participant Open Badges online and Certificates of Participation for physical attendance.

OEW@Campus Luzern – Auf dem Weg zu einer OER-Community: Einblicke, Stolpersteine und Chancen
2025-03-13 12:15 - 13:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Campus Luzern, Werftestrasse 4, Luzern, Switzerland
Nora Bertram, Regula Zwicky, Universität Zürich
Wie baut man eine OER-Community auf? Genau dieser Frage gehen wir in unserem Beitrag nach – mit ehrlichen Einblicken und konkreten Beispielen aus unserer Praxis. An der Universität Zürich haben wir erste Schritte unternommen: einen OER-Guide mit Empfehlungen und allgemeinen Informationen veröffentlicht, verschiedene Kommunikationskanäle genutzt und wertvolle Erfahrungen gesammelt – mit ersten Ergebnissen, aber auch mit Herausforderungen.
Wir berichten direkt aus unserer „Werkstatt“, teilen unsere Learnings und offenen Fragen und möchten mit euch ins Gespräch kommen. Welche Erfahrungen habt ihr gemacht? Welche Strategien haben sich bewährt? Was funktioniert, um Dozierende für OER zu gewinnen? Welche Kanäle und Zeitpunkte eignen sich am besten? Und wie lassen sich die Chancen von OER überzeugend vermitteln? Lasst uns gemeinsam überlegen, wie wir OER nachhaltig an unseren Hochschulen verankern können.
Zoom-Link:
https://hslu.zoom.us/j/63592301731?pwd=[REDACTED]

(English via Google Translate):
Towards an OER community: insights, stumbling blocks and opportunities
Nora Bertram, Regula Zwicky, University of Zurich
How do you build an OER community? This is precisely the question we address in our article – with honest insights and concrete examples from our practice. At the University of Zurich, we have taken the first steps: published an OER guide with recommendations and general information, used various communication channels and gained valuable experience – with initial results, but also with challenges.
We report directly from our “workshop”, share our learnings and open questions and would like to talk to you. What experiences have you had? Which strategies have proven successful? What works to win over lecturers to OER? Which channels and times are best? And how can the opportunities of OER be communicated convincingly? Let’s think together about how we can anchor OER sustainably at our universities.

Persistence & Progress: Confronting Wikipedia’s gender imbalance (Wiki Education)
2025-03-13 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online from Multiple Locations
As the world’s go-to encyclopedia, Wikipedia’s content should reflect the diversity of the real world, but in areas like gender representation, it can still fall short. The persisting gender gap on Wikipedia extends from its content across subjects and biographies to its content contributors themselves – a gap that individual editors, organized groups of contributors, and Wikimedia organizations like Wiki Education are tackling head on.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, join us on Thursday, March 13 on Zoom to explore the ongoing efforts to improve gender representation on Wikipedia!

Persistence & Progress: Confronting Wikipedia’s gender imbalance
Thursday, March 13 (10 am PST / 1 pm EST)
Register now

Panelists:

Caroline Smith, professor, The George Washington University
Kira Wisniewski, Executive Director, Art + Feminism
Siobahn Day Grady, professor, North Carolina Central University
Whitney James, professor, University of Notre Dame

This edition of the Wiki Education Speaker Series will be moderated by Colleen McCoy, Communications and Outreach Coordinator. The event will include a public Q&A – please feel free to bring questions for our panelists!

OEW@Campus Luzern – Offenheitskompetenzen als Grundlage für Open Education: Chancen und Umsetzung
2025-03-14 12:15 - 13:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Campus Luzern, Werftestrasse 4, Luzern, Switzerland
Dr. Ronny Röwert, Digital Learning Campus Schleswig-Holstein und Bündnis Freie Bildung
Eine offenere Bildungspraxis kann der zentrale Treiber für zeitgemäße Bildung in einer digital geprägten Gesellschaft sein – sie erfordert aber eine offene Haltung und Praxis bei Lehrenden und Lernenden. Das Bündnis Freie Bildung hat ein Modell von Offenheitskompetenzen für Lehrende und Lernende entwickelt, das diese Lücke in bestehenden Kompetenzrahmen schließt. In diesem Vortrag erfahren Sie, wie Offenheitskompetenzen dazu beitragen, Open Educational Practices (OEP) und Open Educational Resources (OER) effektiv in die Bildungspraxis zu integrieren und wie sie weiterentwickelt werden können.
Zoom-Link:
https://hslu.zoom.us/j/63036301423?pwd=[REDACTED]

(English via Google Translate):
Openness Competencies as a Basis for Open Education: Opportunities and Implementation
Dr. Ronny Röwert, Digital Learning Campus Schleswig-Holstein and Alliance for Free Education
A more open educational practice can be the central driver for contemporary education in a digitally influenced society – but it requires an open attitude and practice among teachers and learners. The Alliance for Free Education has developed a model of openness competencies for teachers and learners that closes this gap in existing competency frameworks. In this lecture, you will learn how openness competencies help to effectively integrate Open Educational Practices (OEP) and Open Educational Resources (OER) into educational practice and how they can be further developed.

Open Data Day Timisoara 2025
2025-03-15 10:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
Hei, pasionați de date și transparență! Avem vești grozave pentru voi!

Sărbătorim împreună Ziua Datelor Deschise la Timișoara!
Sâmbătă, 15 martie, vă așteptăm la un eveniment despre datele deschise. Acesta face parte din sărbătoarea internațională Open Data Day, dar va fi adaptat la contextul nostru, regional și național. Începem lejer, de la ora 10 – cafeaua este din partea casei – iar de la 10:30 dăm startul primelor prezentări.
Ce vă așteaptă?
𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮̆𝗿𝗶 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲 despre lumea datelor deschise 𝗔𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲, unde puteți afla mai multe despre datele deschise, într-un context mai relaxat 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗻𝗶 𝗱𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 – perfecte pentru a face conexiuni noi
Vom crea un spațiu unde toată lumea să poată interacționa: societatea civilă, reprezentanții administrației locale și centrale, oamenii din mediul academic și din business, dar și cei curioși și/sau în căutare de noi provocări!
Cine poate veni?
Absolut oricine! Nu contează dacă ești expert în date sau doar curios despre cum funcționează lucrurile. Dacă ești interesat de transparență și vrei să afli mai multe, ești binevenit!
Recomandăm să iei cu tine dispozitivul portabil preferat pentru a putea valorifica pe loc noile cunoștințe – un laptop, o tabletă, o agendă, etc. Nu este obligatoriu, dar cu siguranță nu strică!
Stay tuned! În următoarele zile vom dezvălui mai multe detalii despre invitații noștri speciali și despre activitățile pe care le vom desfășura împreună.
Haideți să deschidem împreună ușa către o lume mai transparentă, mai conectată și mai educată! Ne vedem la ICAM!
Participarea este gratuită, dar din motive logistice vă rugăm să vă înscrieți folosind formularul: https://bit.ly/oddtm2025
De asemenea, puteți intra pe site pentru mai multe informații: https://opendataday.ro

OE Week Reflection with Alan Levine & Equity Unbound Community
2025-03-17 21:00 - 22:00 (Africa/Cairo) | Online from Multiple Locations
We will host a post-OE Week reflection session, with Alan Levine. This will be an open conversation and reflection using the posts from the Padlet we will be collecting and curating reflections, thoughts, ideas throughout OE Week.
This session will take place on Monday 17 March at 9 pm Cairo | 7 pm UTC | 3 pm EDT. If you’d like to join us for that, please register using the registration link below.

Webinar Series: OER in Vocational Education and Training: Making education more accessible and affordable
2025-03-18 14:00 - 15:30 (Europe/Berlin) | UNESCO-UNEVOC, Bonn, Germany
In this edition of the webinar series held jointly by the European Training Foundation (ETF), the International Council of Distance Education (ICDE) and the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, we will focus on the role of OER in improving access by reducing costs for students.
After an introduction to OER, the session will particularly highlight an impressive initiative by the Milwaukee Area Technical College in the USA. During COVID, the college formed an Open Access Team that has been very successful in expanding low-cost and no-cost textbook options across the college. Furthermore, Susanne Grimm of OERinfo Germany will present the relaunched OER World Map. This interactive map can be used to expand knowledge, share information and experiences and it can help collect data on OER initiatives. Finally, Torunn Gjelsvik will provide an update on ICDE’s new OER strategy and its Open Education Network.

Casual Coffee Hour with MIT OpenCourseWare and CCCOER
2025-03-20 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Online from Multiple Locations
Did you know MIT OpenCourseWare and the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) have become friends? We’re having great conversations and swapping ideas about Open. And we’d like to bring you in on it! Join us as we spotlight recent teaching materials from MIT OpenCourseWare and their work with community colleges. Add your voice to the conversation and then take your impact out into the world. The first twenty new friends to join us in the webinar will receive coffee gift cards on us to fuel your open endeavors. We can’t wait to meet you!
Presenters:

Shira Segal, MIT OpenCourseWare Collaborations and Engagement Manager
Sarah Hansen, MIT OpenCourseWare Assistant Director, Open Education Innovation

Moderated by:

Heather Blicher, Community College Consortium for OER Director, Open Education Global

Please register here. To encourage an open conversation and relaxed atmosphere, this webinar will not be recorded.

Women WordPress Day Cartago
2025-03-22 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Costa_Rica) | Universidad Americana Cartago, Cartago, Cartago, Costa Rica
Celebra el Día Internacional de la Mujer en el Women WordPress Day. Únete a mujeres de la comunidad WordPress Cartago mientras comparten su sabiduría y experiencias en un entorno inclusivo para todos. Este evento es ideal para quienes buscan aprender, conectar y descubrir cómo las mujeres están transformando el mundo de la tecnología.
En esta oportunidad, ofreceremos dos charlas introductorias diseñadas para ser accesibles y enriquecedoras para todos:

UX para WordPress: más allá de la estética: Aprenderemos cómo el UX va más allá de hacer que un sitio web de WordPress se vea bonito. Aprenderemos a aplicar principios de diseño centrado en el usuario para crear experiencias intuitivas y memorables que impulsen la interacción y la conversación.
Expositora: Karen Mendez
Optimizando la accesibilidad de mi sitio WordPress: Aprende a mejorar la accesibilidad de tu sitio WordPress con prácticas y herramientas clave. Exploraremos su importancia, dónde encontrar más información y aplicaremos una verificación práctica en sitios reales.
Expositora: Lilliam Montoya

Fecha: 22 de Marzo de 2025
Hora: 09:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Lugar: UAM Paseo Metropoli, Cartago
No dejes pasar esta oportunidad de conectar con la comunidad. ¡Te esperamos!

Viquipèdia:Viquimarató Dones i Salut (Wikipedia : Women and Health Wikimarathon)
2025-03-24 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Aquesta viquimarató forma part de les activitats del Projecte Dones i Salut a la Viquipèdia i els seus objectius principals són analitzar el contingut actual relacionat amb la salut de les dones a la Viquipèdia, millorar els articles existents i crear-ne de nous per cobrir les llacunes identificades. L’equip de treball d’aquest projecte està coordinat per RedCAPS encarregat de revisar i aportar informació rellevant per validar el contingut de cadascuna de les entrades en què treballarem.

Objectius

Millorar la qualitat del contingut i les referències dels articles a la Viquipèdia.
Traduir entrades ja existents en altres llengües.
Incorporar la perspectiva de gènere en els articles
Aportar imatges a Wikimedia Commons.
Completar les entrades de Wikidata corresponent

Évaluer l’impact de vos REL interactives et accessibles dans votre pratique d’enseignement
2025-03-24 08:30 - 10:00 (America/Toronto) | Université de York, Toronto, Canada
This hands-on workshop guides OER developers to assess the impact of their OER in their learning environment using LMS platforms. During the workshop, OER creators or adopters will be guided and encouraged to:
1. Export and integrate their OER into an LMS.
2. Design data collection tools (surveys, focus groups, etc.) to gather feedback from students on their perceptions and uses of OER in their learning environment.
3. Explore strategies for analysing this feedback in order to improve OER and encourage colleagues to adopt them.
Speakers: Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (Université York, Canada), Sushumna Rao Tadinada (Hyderabad, Inde)

OER Collective Community Day
2025-03-25 10:30 - 15:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Australia, Australia
Kick off the year with inspiration, connection, and collaboration at the OER Collective Community Day on Tuesday, 25 March 2025, from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM ACDT on Zoom!
This annual event is your opportunity to engage with the OER Collective community, share insights, and gain new strategies to advance open education at your institution. Whether you’re a seasoned advocate or just beginning your OER journey, there’s something for everyone.
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Dave Ernst, Executive Director of the Open Education Network, as our keynote speaker. Throughout the day, interactive sessions will explore OER advocacy and critical conversations, a deep dive into some of the OER projects within the Collective, and practical strategies for supporting OER at your university — even without a dedicated OER team.
Don’t miss this chance to connect with peers, learn from experts, and energise your open education efforts for the year ahead!

Slido will be used to facilitate the Q&A section of the session. Participants are encouraged to submit questions in advance.

WikiAfrica Hour's Offline Demos – MoodleBox and Kiwix – Offline OER
2025-03-25 15:00 - 16:00 (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 first online?
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 ( https://bit.ly/WAH_Ep42_YT ), 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:
✔️ Dan McGuire and Shadrach Ankrah, members of Sopal, who are going to discuss the combination of offline solutions MoodleBox and Kiwix
Join this #OEWeek conversation on Offline!

Open Science: Climate Change & the Global Commons (Knowledge Equity Network)
2025-03-25 13:30 - 14:30 (Europe/London) | University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Join Knowledge Equity Network for an inspiring session on how commons-based approaches to Open Science can catalyse the impact of climate research, challenge misinformation and enable solutions focussed research for a sustainable future.
In this session, we’ll explore how Creative Commons licensing plays a vital role in making climate research freely accessible. By enabling researchers worldwide to access and build on this knowledge, we open the door to innovative solutions. For example, efforts are underway to ensure all research cited in the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Report is openly accessible – providing a powerful tool to challenge misinformation and foster new research into climate change and its mitigations.
We’ll also dive into the significant role of Wikipedia, with its 24 billion monthly page views, as a trusted source of climate-related information. Managed by a collaborative community of editors and contributors, Wikipedia ensures up-to-date research is available to both the public and AI systems that rely on its entries.
In this session, we’ll be joined by guest speakers, Monica Granados (Director of Open Science, Creative Commons) and Tatjana Baleta (Wikimedia Visiting Fellow for Climate, University of Exeter: Global Systems Institute), in conversation with Nick Sheppard (Open Research Advisor, University of Leeds).

IPPC Reports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change#List_of_all_reports
Creative Commons Open Climate Data Project: https://creativecommons.org/about/open-science/open-climate/
Creative Commons Licencing: https://creativecommons.org/
Wikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation: https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.509

S’initier à l’éducation ouverte avec un escape game
2025-03-25 18:30 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris) | Chaire Unesco RELIA – Nantes Université France, Halle 6 Ouest - Pole Universitaire interdisciplinaire des cultures numeriques 42 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne, Nantes, France
À l’occasion de la Semaine de l’Éducation Ouverte en décembre dernier à Nantes, nous avons conçu et animé un escape game inédit destiné aux étudiant·es : “L’Odyssée de l’Éducation Ouverte”. Cet événement propose un retour d’expérience sur cette initiative, en mettant en avant la méthodologie de conception, les apprentissages tirés de l’animation et les perspectives d’adaptation pour d’autres contextes pédagogiques.
Le format de la session sera court et dynamique :
_ 15 minutes de présentation sur la création et la mise en œuvre de l’escape game
_15 minutes d’échanges avec le public sur les défis et les opportunités liés à ce type d’outil pédagogique

How Far Have We Come? – The Canadian National Open Education Landscape
2025-03-25 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
This panel brings together experts across Canada engaged at a national level in open education. Canada’s open education landscape is diverse, dynamic, and uniquely influenced by provincial contexts. This webinar delves into the open education strategies, challenges, and achievements of provinces across the nation. This panel discussion brings together speakers to provide a provincial examination of how open education is shaping post-secondary education in Canada.
This webinar will exam:

Provincial Policy Frameworks – Learn about government initiatives supporting open education in each province.
Regional Innovations in OER – Explore success stories and impactful projects advancing open educational resources and open pedagogy.
Indigenous Engagement – Explore current discussions and thinking on the intersection OE and Indigenous Knowledges.
Barriers and Opportunities – Understand the unique challenges faced by different provinces and how they are being addressed.
Toward a National Framework – Discuss the potential for greater collaboration and integration of efforts across provinces to strengthen open education nationwide.

Panelists

Nicole Askin, University of Manitoba
Catherine Lachaîne, University of Ottawa
Kayla Lar-son, Xwi7Xwa Library, UBC
Alexandra Marcaccio, AtlanticOER Lead at the Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries

Defying Gravity or Flying Monkeys? A Librarian Panel About the Challenges and Opportunities of AI in OER
2025-03-25 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Online from Multiple Locations
AI is transforming Open Education, but is it leading us toward progress or chaos? This librarian-led panel will question the opportunities, challenges, and impact AI presents for the Open community, tackling the overarching question, where does AI fit into OER? Join us for a discussion on the evolving role of AI in Open Education and what it means for the future of teaching and learning.
For additional context, we recommend exploring these resources (and look forward to attendees sharing their own!):

AI in Academic Research and Writing (LibGuide by Cristina Colquhoun)
Academic Librarians, Information Literacy, and ChatGPT: Sounding the Alarm on a New Type of Misinformation by Matthew Pierce
The Other Side of AI: ChatGPT Explains Its Downsides (LibGuide by Matthew Pierce)
AI Pause by Amy Hofer and Veronica Vold

Moderator:

Kathy Essmiller, Ph.D., Coordinator of OKState and OER Librarian, Oklahoma State University, Edmond, OK

Panelists:

Frances Alvarado Albertorio, Ph.D., Graduate Initiatives and Engagement Librarian, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Cristina Colquhoun, MS, Instructional Design and Online Learning Librarian, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Melissa Mallon, MLIS, Associate University Librarian for Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Matthew Pierce, MLS, Lead Instruction Librarian, Germanna Community College, Fredericksburg, VA

Product Showcase: How Pressbooks Supports the Open Education Journey
2025-03-26 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Toronto) | Pressbooks, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
REGISTER HERE: https://pressbooks.com/pressbooks-product-showcase/#join_our_sessions
Are you exploring ways to enhance or expand your institution’s creation and use of open educational resources (OER)? Join this session to learn how Pressbooks supports institutions at each stage of the open education journey. We’ll provide a helpful overview of Pressbooks’ digital publishing platform and common use cases, including:

Creating, finding, and adapting OER content
Enabling open pedagogy and student publishing
Developing handbooks and training materials
Different Pressbooks deployment models

Whether you’re just getting started or leading a mature open education program, Pressbooks can help you build capability, manageability, and sustainability.

REGISTER HERE: https://pressbooks.com/pressbooks-product-showcase/#join_our_sessions

Women Visibility: How the Wikimedia Movement sheds light on women
2025-03-26 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online from Multiple Locations
The Wiki in Africa team is excited to invite you to the next episode of Wiki Africa Hour: Women’s Visibility – How the Wikimedia Movement Sheds Light on Women, on Wednesday, 26th March 2025, at 4 PM UTC.
March marks International Women’s History Month, and we’ll be bringing together inspiring women from across the Wikimedia Movement to explore how our communities support women—and where we can do more. In Episode 44, we’ll be discussing:

How does Wikimedia’s 2030 strategy support women?
What role do community initiatives play in empowering women?
What would 50/50 representation in all settings look like? Are there challenges to achieving it?
How do recent global policy shifts targeting DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) impact the Open Movement and Wikimedia?

Join us live on youtube or register via the events tool for an engaging discussion—and bring your own questions to the table!

OER Bootcamp 2025: Adopt, Adapt, Author (free afternoon webinar series)
2025-03-26 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC), Tallahassee, FL, United States
A free and virtual popular event, Florida Virtual Campus’ (FLVC) OER Spring Bootcamp returns. Spend three afternoons with us!
The theme for Bootcamp this year is Adopt, Adapt, Author. We offer a stepwise afternoon webinar format. Day 1 is beginner, Day 2 intermediate, and Day 3 is advanced. Here is the programming for March 26, 27, and 28, 2025 (2 to 4 p.m. ET/1 to 3 p.m. CT)

Day 1: Adopting Open Educational Resources—Danielle Campbell, Lea Cason, Shannon Dew, Lori Albrizio, Elisabeth Ball, and Rebel Cumming-Sauls showcase the new FLVC instructor training resource and give favorite pro tips for successful OER adoption.
Day 2: Adapting Open Educational Resources—Professor Courtney Boise from the University of North Florida discusses adapting OER in developmental psychology, with Q &A to follow.
Day 3: Authoring Open Educational Resources–Professor Kathy Andresen from the University of West Florida discusses authoring OER in the field of nursing/healthcare, with Q & A to follow.

In addition to these presentations, Bootcamp includes fun OER learning activities and demos every day!

Open Educational Resources (OER) Discovery Minute (In Person)
2025-03-27 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Toronto) | Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OER Discovery Minute is an opportunity to discover what your student peers at Concordia are doing to help you find and access free textbooks and learning materials.
Only have a minute, no problem. Drop by at any time during our event for a minute, two, or the whole session.
Activities include:

Button making
Trivia
Searching for OERs,
Nominate a course, and more
Free snacks and refreshments.

This event is led by student leaders in the OER movement and supported by Concordia University Library.

Part of Open Education Month at Concordia University Library
