Open Education Week

Săptămâna Educației Deschise 2025 în cadrul- Bibliotecii Naționale a Republicii Moldova
2025-03-03 - 2025-03-07 | Biblioteca Națională a Republicii Moldova, Chișinău, Republica Moldova, Moldova, Republic of
Biblioteca Naţională a Republicii Moldova / National Library of Moldova se alătură inițiativei globale Săptămâna Educației Deschise 2025, un eveniment internațional dedicat promovării și conștientizării beneficiilor educației deschise.
Biblioteca Națională a Republicii Moldova și-a propus organizarea multiplelor activități, fiind orientate spre creșterea gradului de conștientizare a importanței mișcării și impactului educației deschise asupra dezvoltării personalului de specialitate din biblioteci, dar și utilizatorilor acestora.
Implicarea BNRM la acest evenimentul global s-a axat pe principiul de adaptare a formării continue a personalului din biblioteci la cerințele mediilor informaționale și promovarea noilor modalități de a lărgi accesul la educație pentru toți.
Programul activităților a inclus organizarea unei expoziţii de publicaţii din colecția de specialitate a BNRM „Biblioteca și Educația Deschisă: resurse, platforme, practici”, de asemenea s-a reușit organizarea unor Traininguri profesionale cu tematica:
„Mediul online – mediu sigur pentru bibliotecari”;
„Resurse digitale de învățare disponibile prin intermediul platformei MLearn”;
„Platforma Zoom pentru bibliotecarii formatori”.
În cadrul acestui eveniment a fost organizată și o conferință cu tema : „Biblioteca Națională a Republicii Moldova – promotor fidel al Educației Deschise”.
În acest context, BNRM a reușit să crească gradul de conștientizare asupra importanței educației deschise pentru bibliotecari și utilizatori.

教師增能研習- 你的 AI 線上論文小書僮
2025-03-03 08:00 - 2025-03-05 17:00 (Asia/Taipei) | National Taipei University, New Taipei, New Taipei, Taiwan
報名連結：https://forms.gle/DatFQDRiRHvVbRXy5
一、主題: 113-2教師增能研習-你的 AI 線上 論文小書僮

二、活動介紹：AI工具百百款，該怎麼使用在論文研究上呢？就讓查特普拉斯的共同創辦人李承翰來告訴你吧！各位老師，快快一起來把AI工具運用自如，成為教學研究的利器吧！
【內容大綱】

解構學術研究流程
人機協作原則
AI 輔助學術研究實作：
– 研究主題發想
– 研究目的＆研究方法
– 文獻探討
– 論文撰寫
新時代的學術研究

三、講者： 查特普拉斯 共同創辦人 李承翰
四、參加對象：北聯大系統、國際導向開放線上教育者聯盟的教職員
五、活動日期： 114/3/3(一) 12:00-13:30
六、參與方式：線上GOOGLEMEET

國立臺北大學教務處 教學發展中心 張韻婷 02-8674-1111 #66236 yunting@gm.ntpu.edu.tw

113-2 教師增能研習 – 你的 AI 線上 論文小書僮
2025-03-03 12:00 - 13:30 (Asia/Taipei) | National Taipei University, New Taipei, New Taipei, Taiwan
AI工具百百款，在论文研究上怎么用呢？
就让查特普拉斯的共同短片人李承翰来告诉你吧！
各位老师，快快一起来把AI工具运用自如，成为教学研究的利器吧！
【内容概要】：
架构研究流程
人力协作原则
AI辅助学术研究实作：
– 研究主題發展
– 研究目的与研究方法
– 文摘探索
– 論文撰寫
新时期学术研究

【活动主题】： 113-2教师增能研习 – 你的AI 线上论文小书童
【活动讲师】： 查特普拉斯 共同专辑人 李承翰
【活动日期】： 114/03/03（周一）
【活动时间】：12:00-13:30
【活动地点】：GOOGLE MEET线上会议室
【主办单位】： 国立台北大学
【协办单位】： 台北医学大学、慈济大学、国立台湾海洋大学、国立台北科技大学

Open Education Week 2025 Exhibit: Sharing Memories of Your Favorite Children's Book(s)
2025-03-03 - 2025-03-31 | WashU, St. Louis, MO, United States
This pop-up interactive exhibit features about 50 award winning titles recently added to the WashU Libraries’ Collection. The exhibit invites viewers to share their favorite children’s books and authors with others. These books support the methods courses for the Teacher Education Program in the Department of Education and covers a range of fiction and non-fiction topics on identity, race, gender, culture, customs, religion, and traditions.
The exhibit runs from March 3-March 31, 2025 and is on display in the Olin Library lobby.

Carteles Educativos por Wikimedia México
2025-03-03 08:00 - 2025-03-07 17:00 (Europe/London) | México, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
Desde el Programa de Educación de Wikimedia México organizamos una serie de #CartelesEducativos con la comunidad de WikiEducación en el país, a manera de memoria de proyectos y editatones educativos, talleres, cursos, charlas y otras actividades en torno al fenómeno educativo que ha generado el uso e implementación de Wikipedia y los proyectos Wikimedia dentro y fuera del aula en México.
Estos carteles se presentan en el marco de la Semana de la Educación Abierta 2025 (#OEWeek) con el objetivo de incentivar a más personas e instituciones a participar en este movimiento de conocimiento libre, descononización de los saberes y de las diversas comunidades de aprendizajes.
Desde México decimos #WikipediaEsParteDeLaEducación en nuestras Redes Sociales donde podrán encontrar cada uno de las WikiPropuestas pedagógicas.

Open Education Week 2025 - TU Delft Kick-off
2025-03-03 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Panel Discussion: “Building Support for Open Education: Present and Future”
Insights from key stakeholders about current open education initiatives and future strategies.
Panelists:
Willem van Valkenburg (Executive Director, Extension School)
Ingrid Klok (Manager, Library Education Services)
Frank van der Hoeven (Programme Manager, Open Science Programme)
Moderator:
Freek Pols (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Applied Sciences
Poster Session:
• Explore the grassroots projects shaping open education at TU Delft, funded by the Open Education Stimulation Fund (OESF’24)
• Interact with Project leaders who are driving open education forward.

Open Education Awards:
OE Ambassador Awards: Each year, we celebrate 9 TU Delft lecturers (one per faculty and including QuTech) for their advocacy of open education and commitment to openly sharing knowledge and educational resources with the world.
They receive the award from Willem van Valkenburg, Executive Director, TU Delft Extension School for Continuing Education. (See previous winners).
Open Interactive Textbooks (OIT) & Open Textbooks (OTB) awards: In 2024, faculties and the Library celebrated Open Interactive Textbook publications. This year, we again honor our OIT authors while also recognizing OTB authors. These authors play a vital role in maintaining control over educational materials, enhance quality, reduce student costs, and share knowledge globally—well worth the recognition!

From UNESCO recommendations to local action - the Swedish case
2025-03-03 13:00 - 13:30 (Europe/Stockholm) | Karlstad University, Universitetsgatan 2, 65188 Karlstad, Sweden
What strategies do Karlstad University and Sweden have for Open Educational Resources and Open Education and how do they match the recommendations made by UNESCO?
Library director Jörg Pareigis talks about the progress being made at Karlstad University and in Sweden to contribute to the national guideslines for Open Science, determined by the National Library of Sweden.
This workshop is held in Karlstad University Library, in the Learning lab on floor 3. It is also possible to attend via Zoom, more details on event page.

Resurse digitale de învățare disponibile prin intermediul platformei MLearn
2025-03-03 14:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Chisinau) | Chisinau, Chisinau, stat, Moldova, Republic of
Axe de conținut ale trainingului: aspecte de utilizare a platformei MLearn; profilul personal; participare la cursurile de instruire disponibile; testare și certificare

Free Books: Open Publishing at Concordia
2025-03-03 08:00 - 2025-04-30 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
To celebrate Open Education Month, Concordia Library is pleased to present a new display highlighting open publishing at the Library and Concordia University Press (CUP). Together, the Library and CUP collaborate to make scholarship and education free and accessible within and beyond the university.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are digital resources for teaching, learning, and research that are made available for use and re-purposing. They increase the variety of instructional resources in students’ learning experiences while lowering the financial barriers. OER in the form of open textbooks are a hallmark of Concordia’s OER program. Although open-access publications from university presses often do not permit repurposing in the same way that open textbooks do, they are nonetheless free for students and can be adopted in courses. In parallel with open publishing, Course Reserves also offer a free option for students.
This collaborative display illustrates how open education and open scholarship can nurture each other. As higher education becomes increasingly costly, students stand to gain from the cost-saving benefits of viable alternatives to commercial textbooks. Meanwhile, professors can choose to deepen their research and pedagogical impact by developing open-access and knowledge-mobilization plans to benefit students and the wider public.
Organized in six sections, this display introduces students and faculty to the parallels between CUP and the Library’s OER program. In the vitrine and the digital counter, you will find awareness efforts alongside physical and digital books from CUP and Concordia’s OER program. QR codes make these titles easily accessible, while OER and CUP buttons and slogans promote the importance of open publishing.
Finally, the horizons of free course material options can be expanded through student advocacy and faculty pedagogy. We encourage students to nominate a course for open education and show their support for open publishing by wearing one of our buttons found at the Ask-Us Desk. We encourage faculty to consider open textbook grants, course reserves, and open-access university presses.
Let’s reduce barriers to higher education together!
Curated by the Library’s OER Team and Concordia University Press, the exhibition will be on display from March 3 until April 30, 2025. Special thanks to Zo Kopyna, Chhayhee Sok, Saelan Twerdy, Meredith Carruthers and Rachel Harris.
Concordia University Library supports open scholarship, education, and science. As part of this commitment, the Library leads the University’s OER Program and continues to develop open scholarship initiatives and services, such as our open guides and institutional repository.
Concordia University Press is a non-profit publisher of peer-reviewed books. Concordia University Press is committed to barrier-free scholarship and our titles are available as free, open-access e-books, as well as for sale in thoughtfully designed print editions.

L'exploitation de REL par les enseignants de français en Inde et au Canada-Perspectives, pratiques et possibilités
2025-03-03 08:30 - 09:30 (America/Toronto) | Université de York, Toronto, Canada
As part of International Open Education Week 2025, this interactive conversation will bring together specialists and educators from Canada and India to explore the opportunities for teaching and learning French in minority context at post secondary level using Open Educational Resources (OER).
Objectives for the chat:
1. To raise awareness of the practices and challenges of teaching French using OER in Canada and India.
2. To share innovative initiatives to enrich language learning with OER and to encourage the adoption and adaptation of OER developed in different educational contexts and tools to respond to local needs and global access.
3. To reflect on strategies that bring together the adaptation and creation of OER adapted to learning communities.

Speakers: Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (Université York, Canada), Natasha Gomez (Goa University), India

Being a Teacher is Difficult- Open Educational Resources Can Help Us
2025-03-03 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | Facultatea de Științe Politice – SNSPA, Bd. Expoziţiei, Nr. 30 A, Sector 1, Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Nowadays, being a teacher is a challenge. The curriculum evolves, the social context changes, the graduate’s profile is (or should be) entirely different.
For undergraduate students aiming to become teachers, preparation is now more intense, more varied and more demanding than ever. They will be working with generations of students whose basic and specialized competencies, namely declarative knowledge (knowing how to communicate), procedural knowledge (abilities – knowing how to do something), as well as attitudes and values (the way in which we relate to what we know and do), will be built in the context of a flexible and customized academic journey.
How are such teachers trained? How will they work with their students? Open educational resources could contribute to a better correlation between teaching-learning-assessment practices and the competencies that need to be fostered in students. How do we select these resources? Can we build them ourselves? How?
Questions such as these will be discussed during a workshop organized by the Laboratory for Didactical Innovation, intended mainly for students enrolled in the psycho-pedagogy module.

Northeast OER Summit
2025-03-03 09:00 - 2025-03-04 17:00 (America/New_York) | University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States
The Northeast Open Educational Resources (OER) Summit is a virtual event for new and experienced OER advocates offering the opportunity to learn and share effective practices in awareness building, implementation, collaboration, strategy, and research.
The theme of our 2025 Summit is All Hands on Deck: Exploring Open Education Through Collaboration and Innovation.

Ready for Take-off? How Emerging Technologies are Fuelling New Approaches Around OER in the UK & the US
2025-03-03 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States
Today we are faced with emerging technologies such as (Gen)AI, which have incredible potential – yet also significant risks and challenges. During this panel session at the Northeast OER Summit, we will hear from two forward-looking universities in the UK and the US about their views and experiences with (Gen)AI and OER. While both are unique in terms of their local context, challenges and levels of experience with OER, they are unified by their ambition to locally grow OER success and by their high expectations for its future.
From this session, expect to learn more about practical and real-world examples of (Gen)AI use at these two universities and their library today: how it is used to identify OER gaps, how to understand local OER potential as well as convincing senior leadership to get behind this. Moreover, expect to walk away with concrete ideas for how we can fuel a scaleable OER future at any institution and why now is the time really for this to take off.
During this panel session, we will hear from two different institutions in the UK and the US about their views and experiences with (Gen)AI and OER. While both are unique in terms of their local context, challenges and levels of experience with OER, they are unified by their ambition to locally grow OER success and by their high expectations for its future. You’ll hear practical and real-world examples of (Gen)AI use, such as how it is used to identify OER gaps and to understand the potential of OER.
We’ll hear from each of the panelists about where they are with OER today and why they feel now is the time for OER to take off.

Dal Badesha, Head of Learning Resources and Student Engagement, Coventry University. Dal oversees the learning resources and student engagement team at Coventry University. She plays a crucial role in making sure students can find and use learning resources, including OER.
William Walters, Executive Library Director, Manhattan University. William Walters is the executive library director at Manhattan University. His current research focuses on scholarly communication, academic librarianship, AI in higher education, nonprofit management, and assessment. In one of his latest publications he took a deep dive into the online discoverability of open textbooks.
Tom Mosterd, Co-Founder & Director, Higher Education, Sylla. Tom is one of the cofounders of Sylla, a new technology solution that helps libraries and faculty to easily find, assess and adopt OER tailored to their teaching. At Sylla he works on ensuring new technologies are used for the benefit of libraries.

Announcement of Creative Commons Open Education Platform Activity Winners!
2025-03-03 09:30 - 2025-03-07 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online from Multiple Locations
Between March 3 and 7, in honor of Open Education Week, Creative Commons will announce the winners of a community-run competition for open education activities. Run through the Creative Commons Open Education Platform, a global community group of approximately 1000 members, the competition invited community members to propose open education projects, eligible for up to US$ 5K in funding. The community then reviewed proposals and voted on their top choices.
Creative Commons will grant the community winners funding for their work in 2025, announcing the winners during Open Education Week on Medium.
See Creative Commons: We Like to Share for updates, and please join us in congratulating the winners!

Sustaining OER Adoption by Simplifying Processes and Sharing Resources
2025-03-03 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Dr, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Brought to you by Collab4Open:
Discover how faculty, library support, and students (from three institutions: Conestoga, Georgian and Sheridan) collaborated to share resources and develop supplementary materials.

Open Education Week Special Program: Student Staff Talks! Behind-the-scenes of Nagoya University OpenCourseWare (NUOCW)
2025-03-04 - 2025-03-08 | Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
As part of Open Education Week, Nagoya University OpenCourseWare (NUOCW) has organized an informative program featuring interviews with student staff members. This initiative offers valuable insights into their experiences and contributions. To view the interview, please click the link provided. Please note that the interview is conducted in Japanese.

Open Education Weekにあたり、名大の授業（NUOCW）がお届けする特別企画です。NUOCW学生スタッフへのインタビューを行いました！ こちらからご視聴ください↓
Open Education Week 特別企画：学生スタッフが語る！「名大の授業」舞台裏-Behind-the-scenes of NUOCW-

By Students for Students In-person Information Booth (Conestoga College, Kitchener Campus)
2025-03-03 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Dr, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Visit our in-person information booth at our downtown Kitchener campus, run by the Open Learning co-op and work-study students. Get informed on the basics of OER and be entered to win prizes. This event is geared towards current students but everyone is welcome!

OEWeek Live: It's the 2025 Open Education Week Launch!
2025-03-03 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
Open Education Week 2025 kicks off today and we launch our live streamed series of conversations with welcomes and perspectives of OE Global co-Executive Directors Igor Lesko and Marcela Morales.
These conversational sessions start with sharing of current projects, activities, and interests but flow into general discussions of what is happening in the world of open education. We invite questions and comments from the audience through the chat.
Other Guests in the studio include

Glenda Cox (University of Cape Town / OE Global Board Vice President) on UNESCO’s UNITWIN Network on Open Education
Colin de La Higuera (Nantes University, UNESCO Chair) on another launch- the UNOE, the Unitwin Network on Open Education’s 23 Good Reasons to adopt Open Education blog series for which Glenda Cox is also an author. Glenda’s post on Translation and Localisaton published today is the first of the series.
Curt Newton (MIT) on bringing open education more effectively into building “K to gray” climate change literacy and engagement.
Perrine de Coëtlogon (University of Lille, OE Global Board President) on Updates on OEG francophone & OEG Wallets

See the latest 23 Good Reasons https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/23-reasons/
Watch live and ask questions send comments via 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

Online University of Windsor Open Education Week Conference
2025-03-03 12:00 - 2025-03-06 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Online from Multiple Locations
The Office of Open Learning at the University of Windsor is hosting a conference throughout the Open Education Week and everyone is invited to join us for a week of free events. Events will be added over time, so check the site regularly.
This year will feature presentations about open educational practices, as well as some presentations about educational technologies.

Student Perspectives on Working in Open
2025-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Dr, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
This panel discussion will include student OER Assistants from Fanshawe’s Design Studio, Centennial’s OER Hub, and Conestoga’s Open Learning team. OER Assistants will share perspectives on Open, the types of projects they work on and what a day in the life of an OER assistant entails. There will be time for Q&A.

McMaster University OER Grant & Lightning Talks
2025-03-03 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
This event features McMaster faculty and instructors who are incorporating open education into their teaching. Hear from some of the 2024-2025 OER Grantees as they update us on their awarded projects. Learn about the open resources being created for McMaster courses and hear about experiences in creating open and accessible content.
Gather ideas for possible OER projects of your own. Find out more about the McMaster OER Grant which will be offered again in Spring 2025.

Open Education 101
2025-03-03 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Would you like to learn more about open education and open educational resources but don’t know where to start? This introductory workshop is for you.
This session will provide an overview of the open education movement including what it is and why it matters. This session will cover:

Definition and examples of open educational resources
Benefits of OER to both students and faculty
First steps toward adopting, adapting, or creating OER
How to find additional support with OE at UBC Library

OER Project Management: A Strategic Framework
2025-03-03 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Effective OER program management in higher education goes beyond good intentions—it requires strategy, structure, communication, and project management (PM) tools.
Join Rachel Fleming, OER Librarian at Irvine Valley College, as she explores OER PM methodologies, including Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Critical Paths, risk assessment, and stakeholder engagement/information behaviors, while providing practical strategies for sustainability and scalability.
This presentation will cover project scope, scope creep, implement tracking systems, basic communication management, and leverage free PM software like LibreTexts Conductor pages to streamline collaboration at the individual project level.

Open Homework Systems: Cost-Effective and Customizable Alternatives to the Big Publishers
2025-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
In this session, we will explore innovative alternatives to traditional textbook publisher homework systems, focusing on solutions that save students money and offer the instructor greater customization options.
We will explore the potential of Canvas New Quizzes and Item Banks as the path forward. Additionally, we will examine the benefits and functionalities of OpenStax Assignable and LibreTexts ADAPT, two powerful platforms that provide free, high-quality educational resources. Join us to discover how these alternatives open new opportunities and alleviate your reliance on the high-cost systems.

Open Pedagogical Practices: Using Wikipedia in the Classroom with guest presenter Sarah Severson
2025-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | SCFL 3-071@NorQuest, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Wikipedia in the classroom is often seen as something to avoid or “consumed at your peril.” In this presentation, Sarah will discuss how we can reshape this perspective to demonstrate that Wikipedia is an open educational resource that can be utilized alongside open pedagogical practices. Instead of viewing Wikipedia as something we passively consume as readers, she will emphasize how it can serve as a valuable resource for teaching media literacy, critical thinking, writing, and research skills. This hybrid presentation will include examples of Wikipedia-based assignments, case studies, and available resources.
Sarah Severson (she/her) is a librarian at the University of Alberta Library, residing in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton) on Treaty 6 and Métis territory. She has been a casual Wikipedia editor for over ten years and has participated in many edit-a-thons and training sessions. In 2020, she supervised the Wikipedian-in-Residence at the University of Alberta and has served on the board of directors of Wikimedia Canada since 2019. This year, she joined the Art + Feminism campaign as a Regional Ambassador. Sarah views Wikipedia as an important alternative publishing model within our media landscape and believes it’s vital to engage with it critically as a librarian.

Keeping Courses Affordable with Open Educational Resources
2025-03-03 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) now requires faculty to include an itemized cost breakdown of all textbooks and learning materials, both required and optional, in their course outlines. Seeing high course fees can be discouraging to students.
One potential solution to keep costs down is through the use of Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are learning, teaching, and research materials that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open licence permitting no-cost access (UNESCO). By using OER textbooks available through eCampus Ontario, faculty have saved students in Ontario over $26 million dollars.
Join the Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries, the Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching, and the Chang School to learn how the MCU directive will impact your teaching, and how you can leverage Open Educational Resources to reduce costs and make your courses more appealing to students. We will review how to find, adapt, and create OERs, and hear from a panel of faculty and students about their experience with OERs.

OER In Action: Faculty Stories of Success
2025-03-03 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Indiana Unviersity Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Discover how faculty at IU Indianapolis are transforming their classrooms with Open Educational Resources. Hear from nominees and winners of the IU Indianapolis Open Education Award as they share their OER beginnings, challenges, and successes in using OER to impact student success.

OER at Minnesota State
2025-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Minnesota State, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Minnesota State has fostered the development and use of open educational resources since the early 2010s. This presentation will provide an overview of the work that has been supported, including OER Learning Circles, faculty development workshops, Z-degrees, library resources, grant initiatives, as well as the plans for future support.

Retrospective on Open Access Publishing
2025-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Edmonton) | Athabasca University, 1 University Dr, Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
“Open access (OA) ensures that scholarly research is freely accessible to all, breaking down barriers to information due to subscription costs or institutional access limitations. This democratization of knowledge fosters equity, enabling researchers, educators, policymakers, and the public worldwide to engage with research findings without financial hindrance. Open access distribution facilitates collaboration, innovation, and the adaptation of research for and from diverse contexts—empowering institutions and individuals to improve practices and outcomes. By removing paywalls, OA promotes transparency and accelerates the global exchange of ideas, vital for addressing challenges including sustainability, health crises, and education and research disparities.” (Anderson et al., 2025)
In this session, Professor Rory McGreal will provide a retrospective on OA publishing and the experience of IRRODL over the past twenty-five years as a Diamond open access journal.
Retrospective on Open Access Publishing
Dr. Rory McGreal
March 3, 2025, 11am MT
http://www.cideresearch.ca/session/mcgreal-2025
This is the first of three CIDER sessions celebrating Open Education Week 2025 and the 25th anniversary of the open access journal, The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning. These three free, online sessions exploring the critical role of openness in education will be held on Monday, March 3, Wednesday, March 5, and Friday, March 7, 2025.

Shifting to Community Owned and Operated Open Knowledge
2025-03-03 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Regina) | University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
To celebrate Open Education Week (March 3 – 7, 2025), the University of Regina’s Centre for Teaching and Learning OEP Program invites you to a special online presentation by Dr. Cable Green, Director of Open Knowledge at Creative Commons.
Abstract
If we are going to solve the world’s most pressing challenges (e.g., climate change), the knowledge about those challenges must be open.
This talk will explore what open knowledge structures society might need to ensure the knowledge components necessary for education and science – both critical elements in solving global challenges – are open by default. Open Education and Open Science both require significant, stable public funding. Both education and science are public goods and the production, reuse and revisions of education and science resources should be publicly funded and openly licensed to ensure educational opportunities for all.
What might “Community Owned and Operated Open Education” look like? What are the barriers and the opportunities? What if funding currently spent on expensive commercial educational resources were redirected to support the creation, stewardship and sharing of effective OER in every discipline, in every grade level in multiple languages? What if we redirected existing public funding to create a sustained shared open learning infrastructure for the public good?
