Open Education Week

From the Field: Inside Fanshawe’s OER Design Studio (CCCOER Webinar)
2026-03-18 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Join CCCOER’s From the Field series – a conversational approach to webinars. Each session begins with a 15-20 minute presentation from a CCCOER member or partner, highlighting a project, practice, or experience from the field. We then open the floor for discussion. Come to listen, stay to connect. Whether you’re curious or simply looking for new ideas, these sessions are designed to spark meaningful dialogue and showcase the great work happening across our community.
Join Shauna Roch, Project Lead, and student designers from Fanshawe College in Ontario, Canada, for a look inside the OER Design Studio – a collaborative space where faculty, librarians, designers, and students work together to bring Open Educational Resources to life. The team representatives will share how their studio model supports accessible, high-quality OER creation, drawing on the Fanshawe OER Development Guide, open-source tools developed, and project examples.
Bring your questions and curiosity for an open, practical conversation about how students and faculty can collaborate to create high-quality, accessible OER – and get ideas for starting or strengthening an OER Design Studio at your own institution.
Presenters:

Shauna Roch, CPA, MBA, M.E.T., Accounting Faculty & Project Lead, OER Design Studio
Koen Liddiard, Graphic Design Student and OER Design Studio Employee

Please use the link to register for the webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join us on March 18. This meeting will be recorded and the recording will be sent out to all registrants as well as posted on this page.
This webinar presented in collaboration with Pressbooks.

AIRS OER Book Launch
2026-03-19 12:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Brisbane) | Brisbane, Australia, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Be part of the celebration as we introduce a new resource aimed at enabling all learners to build strong library research skills.
Advanced Information Research Skills (AIRS) is an open educational resource (OER) designed to empower learners and researchers with the confidence and capability to navigate today’s complex information landscape. Whether you are a research student, supervisor, librarian, or research support professional, AIRS offers practical strategies and tools to help you, and those you support, develop advanced information skills that make a real difference in research success.
https://qut.pressbooks.pub/airs/
In this session we will showcase the AIRS OER and highlight practical ways it can support both students and educators.

Pressbooks Around the World: Open Publishing in Practice Across Europe
2026-03-26 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Join us for a global conversation on open publishing in higher education, featuring Pressbooks partners from across Europe. In this panel, leaders from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), the Technological University of the Shannon (Ireland), and HfH Digital (Switzerland) will share how they are building and scaling open publishing networks to support various publishing initiatives.
Each panelist will showcase their Pressbooks network and highlight key projects, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how open publishing is being implemented in different national and institutional contexts. We’ll explore why each institution chose to launch a Pressbooks network, the types of publishing they support, and how these platforms are advancing institutional goals around openness, access, and teaching innovation.
Attendees will hear what each team is most proud of, lessons learned along the way, and what’s next for open publishing at their institutions.
