Open Education Week

Open Textbooks Show and Tell
2025-04-09 14:00 - 15:30 (Australia/Sydney) | University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Join us for an engaging session during UTS Open Education Week, where we showcase innovative open textbooks created by Australian academics and professionals. This event will feature presentations from authors who will share their experiences and insights on developing and using open educational resources. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore a variety of open textbooks, ask questions, and discuss the benefits and challenges of adopting open educational practices.
There are also a couple of opportunities about open textbooks for those interested:

Grants – Open Educational Resources Collective
Opportunity to play with a Pressbooks sandpit

The HAN Change Approach
2025-04-09 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | HAN University of Applied Sciences, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
In this webinar for OEGlobal members, we’ll explain the HAN change approach to digital education. Our 12-year program includes 5 subprojects:

Support
Change Management
Technical Infrastructure
Professionalize, Recognize & Appreciate
Startups

Enjoy our webinar and engage with us about our approach.

Background info

Who is HAN University of Applied Sciences?
We are HAN University of Applied Sciences, an inclusive knowledge institution with 13 schools, 36,000 students and over 80 degree programs, located on the campuses in Arnhem and Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. We offer students a springboard to a future as professional and global citizen in a society that is constantly changing. The region is our campus; our students learn at HAN and beyond. And we conduct practice-based research with, for and at companies and organizations. Together with our partners, students and staff, we are making a difference and broadening our horizons. Together we are working towards a smart, clean and social world of tomorrow!
What are our goals on digital education?
HAN is committed to providing educators and students with easy access to high-quality digital educational resources at realistic costs. We also develop digital learning materials ourselves and share them openly to contribute to the (inter)national supply. With this approach, HAN stimulates, facilitates, and evaluates the realization of this vision. This will be done in 4 phases. Phase 2 started in January 2025.
Learn more about the HAN Change Approach: Recognizing, rewarding and incentivizing working with digital and open educational resources

Open Educational Resources for reward, recognition and academic promotion
2025-04-10 11:00 - 12:15 (Australia/Sydney) | University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Hear directly from the people who have sought and received reward, recognition, and promotion for their work in Open Education. During this panel discussion, find out how they have incorporated open education into their careers and career progression. Learn what works and what doesn’t when it comes to seeking reward and recognition for producing OERs.
Our panel features:

Dr Amanda White OAM, Associate Professor, Accounting Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney. Amanda is well-known and highly decorated for work in producing free and open accounting education materials and communities. She is the co-author of the open textbook Accounting and Accountability.

Dr Julian Pakay, Senior Lecturer, Biochemistry, La Trobe University. Julian is co-author of open textbook Threshold Concepts in Biochemistry and author of open textbook Foundations of Biomedical Science. Julian has documented and openly published his academic promotion application as an Exemplar: OER-powered academic promotion application.

Dr Susan Gasson, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, James Cook University. Susan and her team were awarded the 2024 Significant Impact OER Award for their work producing the open textbook Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers.

Steven Chang, Coordinator, Open Education & Scholarship, La Trobe University. Steven is the co-convenor of the Open Educational Practices ASCILITE special interest group and has co-authored a chapter called Aligning Open Education Programs with Academic Reward and Recognition in the Open Education Down UndOER: Australasian Case Studies.

Register via Humanitix

Open Educational Resources and Practices for Impactful Learning Design
2025-04-11 10:00 - 11:00 (Australia/Sydney) | University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
In this session hosted by University of Technology Sydney, we will explore how learning designers can integrate Open Educational Resources and Practices (OER/OEP) in ways that enhance engagement, foster authentic learning and drive meaningful impact. Through lightning talks by learning design professionals in higher education, we’ll examine some real-world strategies for embedding OER and OEP and empower participants with practical tools for implementing them.
Register via Humantix
Our guests
Tannis Morgan, Vancouver Community College
Tannis Morgan, PhD, is Associate Vice President, Academic Innovation, at Vancouver Community College (VCC) in Vancouver, Canada. At VCC, Tannis plans and advances teaching, learning, and research innovation, and leads initiatives on online learning, alternate delivery, universal design, and open educational resources.
Over her career, Tannis has been responsible for developing and implementing e-learning strategy, and leading open education, educational technology and research projects. She is one of the founding members of the OpenETC, a community of educators, technologists, and designers sharing their expertise to foster and support open ed tech infrastructure for the British Columbia post-secondary sector. She also consults with organisations around online learning strategy and educational technology selection.
Verena Roberts, Thompson Rivers University and University of Calgary
Dr Verena Roberts is a passionate online and blended K-12 and Higher Education educator, open learning designer and consultant who completed her EdD in Learning Sciences with a focus on K-12 Open Educational Practices with the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. She is currently an Instructional Designer with Thompson Rivers University (Open Learning) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the University of Calgary. She is a 2018-2019 OER Research fellow and 2018 Global Open Graduate Network (hashtag#GO-GN) member who lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Danielle Dubien, Instructional Designer
Danielle Dubien is a Canadian instructional designer whose experience includes designing online science courses for Franco-Ontarian secondary students, coordinating the development of training materials for professors across Africa aiming to offer open and distance learning, and designing corporate training materials. She is a member of GO-GN and has delivered professional development on Open Education and Trauma-Informed Pedagogy. She obtained her PhD in Education from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Mais Fatayer, University of Technology Sydney
Mais is the Learner Experience Design Manager at the University of Technology Sydney. She has been working in higher education since 2008 in a variety of settings as a lecturer, subject coordinator, researcher, and learning designer. She utilises her experience in enhancing the adoption of educational technology in teaching practices. She led many initiatives for educational professional development, participated in multidisciplinary research and designed technology-enhanced learning and teaching solutions. Her research interests focus on the use of technologies in learning and teaching, including Open Educational Practices (OEP), learning design, and design-based research.

Image attribution
Postcard by @visualthinkery is licensed under CC BY-SA. Remixed with OEWeek Flyer by OEGlobal, licensed under CC BY. Remixed by Jenny Wallace.

Keynote: Open and the Oligarchs: Planting Seeds in a World on Fire (Dr. Robin DeRosa)
2025-05-13 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | Regina, Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Dr. Robin DeRosa has been working on open initiatives, including projects around OER, open pedagogy, and open access to research, for more than a decade. She has been interested not only in the practices that animate open, but also in the values that power an open vision for the future of education and knowledge-sharing. But recently, Robin has come to question the efficacy of the work in which she has been engaged. How can such well-conceived, thoughtful praxis around “open” be gathering steam at the same time as our public educational institutions, our libraries, and our publishing models creep closer toward privatization or economic ruin? How can our community’s investments in equity and access be thriving even as global political contexts bend toward neoliberalism, plutocracy, and fascism? This presentation will reimagine the “tragedy of the commons,” not as Garrett Hardin (mis)understood it in his seminal 1968 essay of that name, but in its current state. As LA burns and Trump ascends, we will pause and ask tough questions about where open education has gotten us.
Speaker bio: Dr. Robin DeRosa is the Director of Learning & Libraries at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire (USA). She has previously been an English professor, the chair of a customized major program for undergraduates, and the director of a faculty development center. Robin is an advocate for public higher education and has been working on OER and open pedagogy initiatives at institutions around the world for more than a decade. You can read more about Robin at her website, robinderosa.net
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Time:11:00am – 12:00pm
Time Zone:Saskatchewan Time

Keynote: Racing Towards a Wasted Future: Generative AI and the Resurgence of Nuclear Energy (Dr. Marco Seiferle-Valencia)
2025-05-14 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
As the potentials and promises of generative AI sweep into the field of Open Education, educators and advocates have a holistic responsibility to think deeply and expansively about the known and still emerging environmental impacts of these technologies. Demand for energy by the hungry server farms that create so-called artificial intelligence is bringing damaging and dangerous energy practices back from the grave, including the resurrection of previously shuttered coal and nuclear power plants. How can we as Open practitioners reconcile the long standing historical and contemporary violence of coal and nuclear power production with the desire to widely embrace and experiment with generative AI? This talk will review the most recent research on AI energy demands and the environmental impacts, as well as provide a brief history and contextualization of the current issues with nuclear waste, pollution, and accidents in North America, primarily in the United States and Canada. Attendees will be invited to reflect deeply on what we stand to lose and gain with the widespread adoption of generative AI in society, and hopefully leave inspired to mindfully use generative AI, with its current promise and future perils in mind.

Speaker bio:
Dr. Marco Seiferle-Valencia serves as Associate Professor and Open Education Librarian at the University of Idaho. His research interests span a wide range of topics, notably community archives, the history and current practices of BIPOC feminisms especially in libraries and information environments, and environmental justice. Marco is also a co-creator of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, which collects imperiled histories of Chicana civil rights activism.

Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Time Zone: Saskatchewan Time (CST)

Keynote: Then. Now. The Future: Directions for Open Education in the Changing World of Higher Education (Dr. Glenda Cox)
2025-05-15 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
In this presentation, Dr. Glenda Cox will be looking back at the Cape Town open education declaration (2007) and the 10 directions suggested at the 10 year anniversary in 2017. Dr. Cox will include discussions of student protests calling for the decolonisation of the curriculum, first held in 2015 and now 10 years later where are we in higher education (HE) in South Africa. 2027 will be another 10 years – a 20 year anniversary – what have we achieved and what needs to be added? What will HE look like to 2035? Many of us will be happily retired but the students in the room will the academics of the future. How do we take steps towards the transformation of our current neoliberal, competitive HE? What steps do we take to include students in decolonising our curricula and where does Open fit in?

Speaker bio: Associate Professor Dr. Glenda Cox works in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT: http://www.cilt.uct.ac.za/) at the University of Cape Town. She holds the UNESCO chair in Open Education and Social Justice and is a member of the UNITWIN network on Open Education. She is a Board member of the Open Education Global organization. She is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Students as Partners and she currently leads the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative.

Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Time Zone: Saskatchewan Time (CST)
via Zoom

Keynote: Designing for Justice with Open Educational Practices
2025-05-16 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Whereas the adoption of open educational resources can widen equitable access by helping alleviate the financial burden experienced by students, the embrace of broader open educational practices carries the potential to advance additional dimensions of social and epistemic justice. This presentation will focus on practical ways in which educators may approach learning resources, activities, assessments, and policies in service of more inclusive, supportive, and just learning environments.

Speaker bio: Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani is the Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning at Brock University, where he holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Educational Studies and Psychology, directs the Inclusive Education Research Lab, and is affiliated with the Social Justice Research Institute. The architect of Canada’s first zero textbook cost degree programs and a global leader in open education, his scholarship is supported by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada and focuses on open educational practices, student-centered pedagogies, and ethical approaches to educational technology.

Date: Friday, May 16, 2025
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Time Zone: Saskatchewan Time (CST)
via Zoom

Le Jour de la Carte
2026-02-04 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | Paris, France, Paris, France
La République des cartes, c’est un projet collectif, citoyen et culturel qui veut faire de la carte un outil de
démocratie, de transmission et de création.
Le 4 février 2026 prochain, rejoignez le mouvement en participant depuis vos contrées au “Jour de la carte”.
Partout en France et on l’espère même, au-delà, on vous invite à faire vivre la ou les expériences de votre
choix pour révéler le pouvoir démocratique des cartes et inviter curieux, novices comme passionnés à
découvrir les cartes et leurs territoires sous des angles surprenants, originaux et inédits ! Plusieurs
d’entre-vous avez déjà partagé de superbes intiatives :

Une journée d’animations complète dans un tiers lieu avec Course d’orientation, Géocatching, Quiz,
Apprentissage de la carte…
Organisation d’un atelier “Remonter le temps” par une Micro-Folie
Création d’une carte éducative au Sénégal
Fabrication de cartes – tapis collaboratives

Inside the Wikipedia Assignment: Student Perspectives (WikiEdu Speaker Series)
2026-02-11 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Madrid
What’s it like to work on a Wikipedia assignment? Hear directly from the students themselves!
In Wiki Education’s next Speaker Series webinar, student editors from across the country will join Wikipedia Expert Brianda Felix for a live conversation about their experiences improving Wikipedia as part of their coursework. Together they’ll explore the challenges and surprises they encountered, the skills they built, and how the process reshaped their thinking about research, collaboration, and the role of public information.
The event will include a public Q&A. We encourage you to bring questions for the panelists!

Uses and Abuses of AI Agents in Education (OneHE webinar)
2026-02-11 21:10 - 21:40 (Europe/London) | York, United Kingdom, York, United Kingdom
In this webinar, Anna Mills will explore how student and teacher uses of agentic AI browsers affect higher education. She will describe possible applications of agentic browsers for teaching assistance and ways to reduce these browsers’ privacy and security risks.
These days, “AI agent” sometimes refers to a custom chatbot and sometimes to an agentic AI browser that will take actions on the user’s behalf, like clicking and filling out forms autonomously. In this webinar, Anna Mills, English Instructor, College of Marin, USA, will clarify how students might be using agentic AI browsers to automate homework completion and what can be done about that, and will look at ways educators might consider using them to assist their teaching without jeopardizing student data.
This webinar is open to all interested educators.

Designing for Accessibility: Publishing Compliant Content in Pressbooks
2026-02-18 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
In this webinar, the Pressbooks team will walk through how to create and maintain accessible publications using Pressbooks, combining platform tools with practical, real-world best practices.
You’ll get a guided tour of Pressbooks Accessibility Assist, including a demonstration of the Authoring Tool (available now) and the upcoming Scanner Tool and Network Book Scanner designed to help institutions assess accessibility at scale. Along the way, we’ll show how these tools fit into everyday publishing workflows for instructors, librarians, and institutions.
The session will include a show-and-tell walkthrough followed by an open, interactive conversation where attendees can ask questions, share strategies, and learn from peers across the Pressbooks community.
Whether you’re preparing for new accessibility requirements or looking to strengthen existing practices, this session will help you move forward with confidence.
By the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:

Understand the core principles of accessibility compliance as they apply to Pressbooks-published content
Use Pressbooks Accessibility Assist to identify and address accessibility issues during the authoring process
Learn how the Network Book Scanner will support network-wide accessibility reviews and compliance efforts
Apply practical best practices for creating accessible OER and digital learning materials
Engage with peers to exchange tips, challenges, and workflows for accessibility at scale

Shifting Power: University Openness and Collaboration
2026-02-18 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Regina) | Regina, Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Please join the University of Regina for an Open Education Speaker Series online presentation with Dr. George Siemens, University of South Australia/ University of Texas (Arlington)
Session Description: Universities have become end-consumers of AI. Unlike previous technology innovations, where higher education played an active role in technology developments and adoption, learner and institutional use of AI has advanced with only minimal voice from the university system itself. While frontier labs, such as Anthropic and OpenAI, have focused on offering services for learners, they’ve largely sidestepped the system, leaving universities as spectators. This talk will highlight the urgent need for universities to collaborate around shared data, technology, and services to ensure that the mission of serving learners remains central in the adoption of AI in courses and classrooms. When universities collaborate and pursue open standards, they have a sufficiently powerful voice to shape the products and services offered by big tech companies, shifting power from closed systems to the network of education institutions.

Presenter bio: George Siemens researches how human and artificial cognition intersect in knowledge processes. He co-founded Matter and Space – a human development platform that responds to the systemic impact of AI on learning, human development, and wellness. He now serves as Chief AI Officer at SNHU. He is the founding Director and Professor of the Center for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L) at University of South Australia and developed the Masters of Science in Learning Analytics at University of Texas at Arlington. He has delivered keynote addresses in more than 40 countries on the influence of technology and media on education, organizations, and society. His work has been profiled in provincial, national, and international newspapers (including NY Times), radio, and television. He has served as PI or Co-PI on grants funded by NSF, SSHRC (Canada), OLT (Australia), Intel, Boeing, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Soros Foundation. He has received numerous awards, including honorary doctorates from Universidad de San Martín de Porres and Fraser Valley University for his pioneering work in learning, technology, and networks. He holds an honorary professorship with University of Edinburgh. Dr. Siemens is a founding President of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (http://www.solaresearch.org/). In 2008, he pioneered massive open online courses (sometimes referred to as MOOCs). George is President of the Global Research Alliance for AI in Learning and Education (GRAILE – www.graile.ai).

Barcamp Basics: How Unconferences Work
2026-02-21 09:30 - 12:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg, Germany
How do Barcamps work – and why are they such a powerful format for open education and peer learning?
In this compact, practice-oriented workshop, participants will learn the core principles of the Barcamp format: an open, participant-driven learning approach where the agenda is created by the community itself.
The workshop is especially designed for people who

are new to Barcamps or unconferences,
want to understand how Barcamps support Open Educational Practices (OEP),
plan to participate in, facilitate, or organize Barcamps in educational contexts.

Together we will explore:

What defines a Barcamp and how it differs from traditional conferences
The “golden rules” of Barcamps and participant-driven sessions
Typical phases of a Barcamp (arrival, session planning, sessions, documentation)
How Barcamps foster openness, participation, and peer-to-peer learning
Practical tips for participating in or hosting your first Barcamp

The workshop combines short inputs with discussion and exchange. No prior experience with Barcamps is required.
The format and content are based on many years of experience from the OERcamp community and openly licensed materials.

Customizing OER for your Students, Classroom, and Community
2026-02-25 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Boise) | Boise, United States, Boise, ID, United States
This Boise State University workshop supports faculty and staff to adapt openly licensed materials to align with specific requirements of their courses, students, and community. By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
– Explore strategies for adapting and customizing openly licensed resources to suit the specific needs of your course and students.
– Analyze the potential impact of using or developing openly licensed resources for courses and students.
– Develop an openly licensed resource that addresses a gap in your current course and curriculum materials.
After registering for a remote workshop, you will receive a confirmation email of your registration that includes the workshop link. Please save this message. Also, you will have the option to add the event, which includes the Zoom link for the workshop, to your Google calendar.
Registration requires a Boise State University login.

Copim Conference 2026! Exploring the future of community-led open access books
2026-02-26 10:00 - 2026-02-27 16:15, 2026-02-27 10:00 - 16:15 (Europe/London) | London, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom
This free, two-day hybrid conference will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven open access book publishing. Timed to coincide with the conclusion of the Copim Open Book Futures project in April 2026, this gathering will look forward and debate: what’s next for community-led open access books?
‘Community-led’ publishing can be difficult to define, and even more difficult to implement. How to identify our communities (which are usually overlapping), make meaningful and practical connections with them, and develop open book publishing infrastructures that are used, governed, and sustained by our communities has been an ongoing challenge that the two Copim projects have grappled with both theoretically and practically over the last six and a half years. During this time, we have also engaged with established and brand-new networks that are trying to achieve similar things in different countries around the world.
At this conference we will be asking essential questions and forging collaborative strategies about what comes next for open access book publishing. Our panels and workshops will tackle topics ranging from the likely outlook for collective funding mechanisms in a higher education landscape characterised by austerity and political vandalism; the role of librarians in advancing Diamond OA book publishing; how to make open access books accessible to everyone who might want to read them; the fragmentations and gaps in metadata that inhibit the discoverability of OA books and how to overcome these; the preservation of PhD research in systems that are targets for hackers; how experimental book publishing will change in the coming years (and if it will change how we publish); and where the new scholar-led OA presses are coming from. We will also reflect on broader overarching questions throughout the event, including how to sustain community activity amid political, economic, and institutional crises; how to identify shared goals and forge effective collaborations between groups, networks, and institutions that have different priorities and ways of working; and how to guard against the co-option and hollowing-out of community-based models, language, and organising strategies by commercial actors whose main priority is revenue generation.
Through lively panels and discussions, we will tackle the most pressing themes for community-led open access books today, with a focus on collective action. It’s an opportunity for people across the community-led open access ecosystem to chart the next phase of open access publishing, together.

We would love you to join us, either in person (at Loughborough University | London) or online (via Zoom). Programme details are gradually being released so keep an eye on your inbox!

Thursday 26 February 2026 (10:00 – 17:15 GMT)
Friday 27 February 2026 (09:00 – 16:15 GMT)

Register now!

OEWeek26 Launches
2026-03-02 00:00 - 00:30 UTC | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Here is our marker just to say Open Education Week 2026 is now ON! Of course OEWeek is truly on whenever you arrange for any activity related to Open Education and add it to our calendar. We are listing events that occur any time in February, March, or April.
We at Open Education Global are dedicating this one week of March 2-6 to honor, celebrate, and most importantly make visible through our calendar all that is happening aroiund the world, not just in this time frame.
Please participate in as many activities as you can, share what you discover, bring others along with you, and do all you can to help the world understand why we believe so much in openness around the world.

An Introduction to Finding and Adapting Open Educational Resources
2026-03-02 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Chicago) | St. Louis, United States, St. Louis, MO, United States
Washington University Olin Library, Room 142
In this interactive, 90-minute workshop, learn what Open Educational Resources are, interpret Creative Commons licenses, and locate OER that is relevant to your courses. Through short activities and guided searches, you will identify at least one OER that can be adopted or adapted, explore practical strategies for customizing OER materials to meet your courses’ learning objectives, and connect with experts and peers who can help you implement OER in courses. Bring your device, and we will provide the refreshments.

The JOERney@UIBK: Experience Talks with Reingard Spannring
2026-03-02 10:00 - 10:30 (Europe/Vienna) | Innsbruck, Austria, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
OER creators from the University of Innsbruck will share their personal experiences of developing and publishing Open Educational Resources.
They’ll talk about:

What it was like to work with OER
What they created and why
What they would do differently if they started again
And what advice they would give to anyone new to OER

Today’s talk will be led by Reingard Spannring from the Department of Education who will talk about her experiences with the Aqua MOOC.
Join us for a relaxed coffee break session: Take half an hour, grab a cup of coffee, and get to know the people behind OER at the University of Innsbruck!

OEWeek Live! Start Time for Open Education Week 2026
2026-03-02 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Regina) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Host Alan Levine is joined by OEGlobal Co-Executive Directors Marcela Morales and Igor Lesko plus OEGlobal Board Members TBA to officially start Open Education Week 2026.
They will share reflections on how this event has evolved since 2012 with highlights of what to expect for this year’s Open Education Week. Guests will share events they plan to participate in, ones they wish they could. Hear details on some new features for this year’s event. And maybe there will be some surprises.
Watch live here or return later to see the recording.

OEWeek Live is hosted in our Streamyard studio and you can watch with others on YouTube. Make use of the chat to ask questions and send comments to the guests in the studio.
Image Credits: Old TV – Time Tunnel – Cameron Highland flickr photo by liewcf shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA 2.0) license remixed with OEWeek image by Mario Badilla licensed CC BY 4.0 and Pexels Photo by BOOM 💥 Photography used under Pexels License.

Keynote – Open Hearts: Empowering Educators with Open Resources and Practices
2026-03-02 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego, United States, San Diego, CA, United States
For Open Education Week San Diego Community College District brings you this keynote talk by Brenna Clarke Gray, Assistant Professor, Learning Design and Innovation and Coordinator, Educational Technologies at Thompson Rivers University.
Session Description
I don’t know about you, but in this particular moment — politically, economically, culturally — I’ve never felt more sharply the distinction between my values as an educator and the realities of the world outside my classroom. To celebrate Open Education Week, then, let’s all take a moment to find hope in the possibilities and promises of open education. In this session, through a little bit of theoretical framing and a lot of practical examples, we’ll discuss how open resources and open practices can empower us as educators to build a more equitable, accessible, and engaging learning experience for our students and for those far beyond our classroom walls. Join me as we open our hearts and share the possibilities of open education in a moment when we all really need to remember how far our good work can spread.
Speaker Details
Brenna Clarke Gray is an open educator and critical technologist powered by righteous indignation and lattes and based at Thompson Rivers University in Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, where she co-founded the TRU Open Press. Her work explores the possibilities of a care-centred approach to the ethical and equitable use of educational technologies. Her most recent work includes the peer-reviewed scholarly teaching and learning podcast Community of Praxis and the forthcoming Routledge Introduction to Canadian Comics. She holds a PhD from the University of New Brunswick, where she was a Canada Graduate Scholar. Outside of the university’s walls, she is an avid reader, compulsive baker, and tired mum. If she was a creature in the Jim Henson cinematic universe, she would be Cotterpin Doozer.

Intro to the LibreTexts LibreVerse
2026-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
If you’ve heard of LibreTexts but aren’t quite sure where to start, this one’s for you. Join a member of our team for a guided tour of the “LibreVerse,” our full ecosystem of free, open tools we’ve built to support educators and students at every stage of their learning journey.
We’ll walk you through our repository of over a million pages of OER content; our Remixer that lets you take any of it and make it your own; Conductor and Workbench for keeping your projects and teams on track; and ADAPT, our open homework and assessment platform; and more.

Beyond Cost Savings: How Open Educational Resources Support Student Mental Health
2026-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Oshawa, Canada, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Description
Textbooks can be expensive, stressful, and sometimes out of reach, and that pressure often shows up in students’ well-being and learning.
In this session, we’ll talk about how Open Educational Resources (OER) can ease some of that stress by giving students free, day-one access to course materials and more flexible, inclusive ways to learn.
Together, faculty and students will explore research, real examples, and small design choices that can make learning feel more supportive, human, and equitable. You’ll leave with practical ideas you can use right away.
Learning Outcomes

Describe how Open Educational Resources (OER) can reduce student stress and support mental well-being by giving examples from research and practice.
Identify strategies for using OER to create more equitable, flexible, and inclusive learning experiences in their own courses or studies.
Reflect on the impact of course materials on mental health and propose at least one actionable change they could make to support student well-being through OER.

Who should participate?
Faculty, students, instructional designers, librarians, and educational developers who are interested in how open educational resources can reduce student stress and create more inclusive learning experiences.
Google Meet Information
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/ddu-wnki-ucm
Or dial: (CA) +1 587-797-8162‬ PIN: ‪854 299 637‬#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/ddu-wnki-ucm?pin=9011646883513

OER Development Incentive Programs for Faculty
2026-03-02 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Chicago) | College Station, United States, College Station, TX, United States
Grant funding? Course release time? SGA Awards? What incentives exist for TAMU Faculty to develop, adapt, or adopt the use of Open Educational Resources as alternatives to costly textbooks?

Attend this session and learn what’s in it for you from the Libraries OpenEd team.

USask Lunch and Learn Panel: Stories From Those Engaged In the Creation of OER
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | Madrid
Join us at the University of Saskatchewan for lunch and to hear from a panel of instructors and staff who are currently working or have created an open textbook.
Panellists representing the Department of Chemistry, Department of Curriculum Studies, the USask Library, and the new School of Rehabilitation Science will share their stories of why they started these projects and what their experiences have been like.

OE at Saskatchewan Polytechnic
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | Saskatoon, Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
We have some exciting projects we are working on, or have just been completed. Join our instructors and OE developers in a series of lightning talks and take away ideas you can apply tomorrow. Pre-registration is required. A recording will be available with a link sent out to all registrants.

Science Education for a Just and Sustainable World
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
March 2-6, 2026 marks Open Education Week and UN SDG Action and Awareness Week. Join BCcampus, the BC Open Education Librarians, University Canada West, and Langara College for a celebration of both of these events with keynote speaker Dr. Karen Cangialosi.

As global social and environmental problems grow ever more intractable, we need transformative pedagogies that support our students to become critical, creative social agents capable of building a more sustainable and just world.
Open Pedagogy has the potential to shift our traditional modes of teaching and learning towards practices that nurture students to be creators of knowledge focused on the global good. These hopes could be realized if we are responsive to the dual upheavals caused by AI and the attacks on higher education. We can educate our STEM students to become scientists, and all of our students, to become citizens that are cognizant of an uncertain and challenging future, and work from non-traditional frameworks–those that resist competitive, hierarchical, exploitative models of science.
Key to achieving this vision is teaching undergraduates how to center Open Science as the default for how science is practiced by deeply integrating Open Pedagogical practices that support students to address inherent inequities, problems with data-sharing, and other barriers to the adoption of Open Science. To that end, the OCTOPUS project was developed to support higher education faculty and staff to create openly licensed materials that may eventually constitute a comprehensive undergraduate Open Science-Open Pedagogy program.

Speaker bio
Dr. Karen Cangialosi is a passionate change agent, dedicated educator, and student advocate with national recognition in open education, STEM ed, and digital pedagogy. As a Professor of Biology at Keene State College (now emeritus), she brought open education into the biology curriculum and led campus-wide initiatives to make science education more affordable and inclusive. She now serves as Director of Open Education & Open Science at the RIOS Institute which promotes racial justice and openness in STEM education. Her work centers on transforming higher ed systems to better serve students, especially marginalized students. Her Educause article, An AI-Driven Optimism for Transforming Higher Education (It’s Not What You Think) considers the juxtaposition of AI in education. She continues to advocate for integrating Open Science and Open Education to reimagine how we teach, learn, and collaborate in STEM, always with a focus on transparency, justice, and meaningful change. To that end, she is project director for the OCTOPUS project (Open Collaboration for Transformative Open Pedagogy to support Undergraduate Open Science Education) a collaborative effort between the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium and the RIOS Institute.

Office Hour: Openly License Something!
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Albany, United States, Albany, OR, United States
Office Hour: Openly License Something, hosted by Open Oregon Educational Resources
Peter Musser, Head of Library Services for ISKME/OER Commons, will help you openly license and share your work publicly. No experience necessary!

Be popular Series (Part 1 of 3) – Surfing the H5P Wave: Ride the Future of Interactive Learning!
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego, United States, San Diego, CA, United States
Are you ready to revolutionize your teaching methods and engage your students like never before? Join San Diego Community College’s exclusive workshop on H5P and discover how to create dynamic, interactive content using your free LibreTexts account for Instructors.
By the end of this session, you’ll: Explore a wide range of interactive elements, from quizzes and timelines to interactive videos and presentations, learn how to effortlessly incorporate H5P content into your existing Canvas courses, and discover the flexibility of H5P as you create, share, and modify content to suit your specific teaching needs. Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your teaching methods and captivate your students. Join fellow educators in this hands-on workshop and start creating rich, interactive content that will make learning an unforgettable experience.
