Making OER Count in Promotion and Tenure
2026-03-04 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Indianapolis, United States, Indianapolis, IN, United States
This lunch and learn organized by the University Library at the Indiana University Indianapolis is hybrid on Zoom and in UL1116 with lunch provided to in person attendees. Explore how OER creation and adoption can be positioned as meaningful scholarly, teaching, and service contributions in promotion and tenure reviews.
This event is done in collaboration with the Office of Faculty Affairs.

Open Education Talks- Strategies for Supporting Students in Open Education
2026-03-04 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Denver) | Calgary, Canada, Calgary, AB, Canada
Open Education Talks is a series of 15-minute lightning talks and digital posters about facets of open education. These talks aim to create an accessible, virtual space for conversations about open education. We welcome proposals from educators, students, administrators, librarians, instructional designers, and all other roles related to the design, delivery, and evaluation of open education in post-secondary institutions. We encourage student-led or partnered talks that showcase the critical role of student leadership and student-educator collaborations in open education. To register for these Zoom sessions, visit: https://ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpfuuhqjsiE9xwLFkoS4uK-KLd0bwXMbkC
Strategies for Supporting Students in Open Education

OE Talks History and Context – Brianna Calomino and Sarah Adams (University of Calgary, OE Talks Co-chairs)
Student OER for Inclusive Poster Design – Jamie Drozda & Melanie Latham (Thompson Rivers University – British Columbia, Canada)
Crafting Magic, Conjuring Open Practices – Neil Mulholland (University of Edinburgh – Scotland)
From Static to Dynamic: Collaborative Student/Faculty Approach to Interactive OER – Veronique Van Lierde & Yasser Lemghari (Al Akhaw ayn University in Ifrane – Morocco)
BC Institutional Capacity to Support Open Educational Practices – Josie Gray (BCcampus – British Columbia, Canada)

Kaïros and OER: education for all and economic balance
2026-03-04 12:15 - 13:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Luzern, Switzerland, Luzern, Switzerland
Educational resources are not free for everyone. UNESCO‘s definition of OER, while encouraging the free publication of OER and authorising their reuse, adaptation and redistribution by others, often deprives the authors of the original work of feedback from those who use them. One of the consequences of these OER being ‘released into the wild’ is the multiplication of efforts to update resources to prevent them from becoming obsolete. Our approach to Open Education is as follows: to enable the use of training resources developed as part of publicly funded projects in a learning environment, and to ensure the sustainability of training courses by simplifying user contributions on the one hand, and paid support services on the other.
This webinar will present the Kaïros platform (open source under AGPL licence), which provides free access to training (via Edu-ID for the academic community or by creating a local account for other audiences) and where the process of continuous improvement of the quality of educational resources takes place. Two training courses are already available for free access: Digital Skills and Critical AI Literacy for Learning (CAILL). To ensure the sustainability of content: In the Kaïros learning environment, all stakeholders can contribute to preventing obsolescence by reporting content that is unclear or has become obsolete. These reports are made directly by users and are processed weekly, ensuring that resources are always up to date. To ensure financial sustainability: We will discuss the economic model for these courses, which is based on an institutional strategy of sustainability rather than disposability: free access to courses for end users, with paid training certificates, and institutional services billed to the institutions that use them in their training programmes (e.g. interfaces for tracking cohorts of learners).
Speaker: Prof. Agrégé Jean-Michel Jullien, Responsable EDUDL+, UniDistance Suisse

Teaching on the CUNY Academic Commons
2026-03-04 12:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | New York, United States, New York, NY, United States
The CUNY Academic Commons is a WordPress/BuddyPress network designed for and by faculty, staff, and students at the City University of New York (CUNY). The Commons is designed to support faculty initiatives and build community through the use(s) of technology in teaching and learning. The free exchange of knowledge among colleagues across the university is central to better educating the student body and expanding professional development opportunities for faculty research and teaching.
Since its founding in 2009, CUNY faculty have taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses on the CUNY Academic Commons. Faculty use course sites to host OER course materials, foster student engagement with one another and wider publics, and develop assignments that move beyond a standard final paper or reading response. This workshop will provide an overview of teaching on the Commons, discuss the affordances and values of teaching on an open source, community-developed platform, and highlight several courses that serve as models of open pedagogy in action.
This workshop is open to the public as part of Open Education Week, hosted by OE Global.
Learn more about Spring 2026 events on the Commons here and read about our recent developments to improve our community WordPress/BuddyPress network.
Register for “Teaching on the CUNY Academic Commons” workshop here.

Faculty OER Mentors: Broadening Support at Portland Community College
2026-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Albany, United States, Albany, OR, United States
Join Jen Klaudinyi, Faculty Librarian, and Portland Community College OER Faculty Mentors Anna Erwert, Anne Nichol, and Rachelle Katter to learn about a new OER support initiative.

Burden-Free Materials: How Libraries Power Affordable Education
2026-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego, United States, San Diego, CA, United States
Discover resources available through your San Diego Community College District’s libraries to support burden-free materials by providing seamless access to electronic resources, streaming media, course reserves, and digital scanning services. Learn how these efforts remove financial barriers for students and support faculty in creating no cost courses.

Universal Design for Learning e Open Educational Resources
2026-03-04 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Rome) | Milano, Italy, Milano, Italy
Politecnico di Milano – METID Task Force Learning Innovation invites you to join this webinar to explore the relationship between Open Educational Resources (OER) and Universal Design for Learning through practical examples and tips to create and adapt resources to make them as inclusive as possible.
The aim is to involve more teachers, researchers, content experts and practitioners at large in the community and answer their questions. This webinar is the second of a two-part series. The first one is planned for 3 March 2026, 1-2:30 pm CET. To register for both webinars, please use the linked form. Both webinars will be in Italian.
Il Politecnico di Milano – METID Task Force Learning Innovation vi invita a partecipare a questo webinar per esplorare il rapporto tra risorse didattiche aperte (OER) e Universal Design for Learning attraverso esempi pratici relativi a diversi formati e qualche suggerimento per creare e adattare le risorse in modo da renderle il più inclusive possibile.
Esploreremo le nozioni di base per coinvolgere un numero maggiore di insegnanti, progettisti didattici e persone che lavorano nella comunità educativa, e cercheremo di rispondere alle loro domande.
Questo webinar è il secondo di una serie in due parti. Il primo è previsto per il 3 marzo 2026, dalle 13:00 alle 14:30 CET. Per registrarsi a entrambi i webinar, si prega di utilizzare il link qui sotto. Entrambi i webinar saranno in italiano.

OPEN FL Community Meeting featuring Math OER
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Tallahassee, United States, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Join Florida Virtual Campus and OPEN FL for a community meeting during Open Education Week! Free and virtual, OPEN FL focuses on OER for a “course of the month.”
March’s course is Topics in Finite Mathematics. We will have a speaker (math faculty OER creator and editor) join us for the first part of the hour, and then we will search for open ed finite math resources as a group, sharing and discussing the materials. Visit the event landing page to get the meeting link. Hope to see you there!

OpenEd25 Keynote Rewatch: Dr. Kim Hunter Reed
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Washington, D.C., United States, Washington, D.C., DC, United States
The Open Education Association invites you to a virtual rewatch of Louisiana Higher Education Commissioner Dr. Kim Hunter Reed’s keynote from the 2025 Open Education Conference. Entitled New Horizons: Opening Doors and Transforming Lives Through Higher Ed in Louisiana, this inspiring talk explores how to pave the way toward more affordable and accessible higher education through bold policy, open innovation, and strategic investments in resources, partnerships, and programs that prioritize student success.
All are welcome to attend this virtual “rewatch party,” which will feature a livestream of the keynote and live chat in Zoom. After the recording, attendees are welcome to stay for an optional discussion.

Advocating for OER, One Step at a Time
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | Albuquerque, United States, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Learn how higher education institutions across New Mexico are advancing open educational resources through advocacy. Panelists from Central New Mexico Community College, Eastern New Mexico University, Northern New Mexico College, Santa Fe Community College, and the University of New Mexico will discuss what OER advocacy looks like in different institutional settings, large and small.
The discussion will cover short- and long-term planning, plus, how to create smaller, focused activities that can yield tangible results. Attendees will leave with concrete ideas for sustaining OER awareness, working together with faculty, and increasing Open Educational Practices (OEP).
Panelists

Elisha Allen, Director, Online Strategies and Academic Technologies, UNM
Christine Goshorn, Executive Director, Innovation & Instructional Support, CNM
Jennifer Jordan, Principal Investigator, NMOER; OER Librarian and Assistant Professor, UNM
Valerie Nye, Library Director, SFCC
Martin Shupla, Library Director, NNMC
Laura Wight, Director of Golden Library, ENMU

OE Week Third Space OE: Creating Collaborative Learning Spaces
2026-03-04 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Regina) | Saskatoon, Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Turn students into co-creators and watch engagement soar. Get the blueprint for collaboration that works. Pre-registration is required. A recording will be available with a link sent out to all registrants.

Sowing the Seeds of a Global Movement: Stories from California Trailblazers of Open Education
2026-03-04 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Austin, United States, Austin, TX, United States
Join author Barbara Illowsky, Ph.D., editor Judith Sebesta, Ph.D., and contributor James Glapa-Grossklag for an exclusive webinar launching their new volume, Sowing the Seeds of a Global Movement: Stories from California Trailblazers of Open Education.
Published in Pressbooks under the auspices of College of the Canyons, which serves as the Technical Assistance Provider for the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Zero Textbook Cost Degree Grant Program, this powerful OER chronicles the California origins, evolution, and future impact of OER and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) programs through the words of visionary leaders who made it happen.
Attendees will gain invaluable insights into the strategic foundations, key partnerships, and transformative vision that propelled a grassroots effort into systemic transformation of the U.S.’s largest system of higher education and has inspired open educators across the globe.
The volume includes interviews with the following trailblazers, all based in California:

Cathy Casserly
Una Daly
James Glapa-Grossklag
Gerry Hanley
Barbara Illowsky
Martha Kanter
Gary K. Michelson
Lisa Petrides
Hal Plotkin

Whether you are an educator, policymaker, administrator, or philanthropist, discover the critical factors that led to California’s historic investment in ZTC pathways and the enduring power of collective action in making knowledge a public good.

Open Education as Anti-Fascism: Building Democratic Resilience
2026-03-04 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | CA
Across the globe, higher education is facing growing authoritarian, exclusionary, and anti-democratic tendencies, not only in politics, but also in digital infrastructures, platform economies, and dominant narratives about technology and innovation. At the same time, Open Education is often framed primarily as a technical or economic solution, i.e., more efficient content production, wider access, lower costs.
In this session, we will discuss how openness can function as a form of democratic resilience in times of polarization and techno-fascism.

OE Week at ELAC
2026-03-05 08:00 - 2026-03-09 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Los Angeles, United States, Los Angeles, CA, United States
East Los Angeles College (ELAC) students will be welcomed to learn more about ZTC at our table on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday during OE week.
We will table from 11am – 2pm, and there will be information about ZTC courses, a visual representation of how much students pay for textbooks in the previous semesters, item giveaways, and interviews conducted by our media department to post on social media.

Getting Started with OER
2026-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Denver) | Albuquerque, United States, Albuquerque, NM, United States
You’ve likely heard about OER and how it can save students money. But did you also know that OER can increase student engagement and retention? The 2022 Florida Student Survey found that 53% of the 13,000 students they surveyed did not purchase a required textbook for a course due to its cost. Because of textbook costs, forty-three percent of students in the survey took fewer courses, and twenty-four percent of students surveyed reported dropping out of a course (Florida Virtual Campus 2022).
The New Mexico Open Educational Resources Consortium, or the NMOER Consortium, is holding three workshops this fall to help NM educators find free, open, high-quality resources to use in their classes.
This workshop will also cover the different ways educators can integrate these resources into their courses. All New Mexico educators, students, staff, and administrators are invited to learn about how to get started with OER.
Presented by Jennifer Jordan, Principal Investigator, NMOER; OER Librarian and Assistant Professor, UNM

OEWeek Live! Open Conversation on Online Communities
2026-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Regina) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Join us for another OEWeek live streamed open conversation. We are talking today about the state on online communities for open educators. We have a fantastic panel with leaders/organizers of a few of them.
Can we even define them? What makes for a successful online community? Does the platform matter? How do we facilitate open places without over structuring them? What works? What are the challenges? Can we find ways to cross connect better?
Joining us in the studio are:

Jocelyn Miyara (Creative Commons)
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Knowledge Commons)
Apurva Ashok (Rebus Foundation)
Maren Deepwell (Reclaim Hosting and more)
Amy Hofer (Open Oregon Educational Resources)
Heather Blicher (CCCOER)
Beck Pitt (GO-GN)
Todd Conaway (University of Washington-Bothell)
Amanda Coolidge (Coolidge Collaborative, Inc)

Alan Levine (OEGlobal)

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 OEW OEWeek image by Mario Badilla licensed CC BY 4.0 and Unsplasb Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash Free to use under the Unsplash License

TUS Open Press Community of Practice H5P Workshop
2026-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Athlone, Ireland, Athlone, Ireland
To mark OE Week 2026, Technological University of the Shannon is hosting a H5P workshop for our TUS Open Press Community of Practice members.
The TUS Open Press Community of Practice meets a few times per semester to support each other in learning more about Open Education and how we can collectively contribute to the Commons.
Our theme for this workshop is H5P and we will focus on our recent publication: Your Essay Builder: Clear Steps to Plan and Structure Your Essay, which has successfully integrated a variety of H5P approaches.
Other Community members will also be invited to share their experiences of using H5P in their teaching and how they integrate interactive elements into their Openly Licensed works to scaffold learning and engage users.

Learning Online: Publishing OER with AU Press
2026-03-05 10:00 - 23:00 (America/Vancouver) | Athabasca, Canada, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
Athabasca Uiniversity Library is proud to present a panel discussion with the creators of the new OER, Learning Online: An Introduction to Online Education for the Health Disciplines.
This panel will feature conversation with Dr. Kristen Petrovic (Associate Professor, Faculty of Health), Dr. Emily Doyle (Program Director, Master of Counselling) and Dr. Lynn Corcoran (Associate Professor, Faculty of Health) as they discuss their experience adapting OER through the OER Publishing Support Program and the AU Press Remix imprint.

Keeping Learning Open in an Era of Censorship
2026-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | Edmonton, Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Open Education has evolved from a focus on textbook savings to a broader movement for advancing social justice. In today’s geopolitical climate, it can also serve as a form of resistance—challenging political narratives and restrictions.

In this session from Norquest College, we will explore censorship threats to Open Education. Conversely, we will also speculate on how Open Education can undermine information controls and help sustain access to knowledge.

De travaux jetables à des savoirs durables: cultiver l’ouverture en éducation
2026-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
À l’heure où les travaux étudiants finissent souvent dans l’oubli numérique, comment concevoir des apprentissages qui laissent une trace utile et partagée ? Ce webinaire propose de passer d’une logique de travaux jetables à celle de savoirs durables, grâce aux pratiques éducatives ouvertes (PEO). À partir de recherches menées à l’Université TÉLUQ, nous explorerons comment les PEO permettent de cultiver l’ouverture : en donnant du sens au travail intellectuel, en favorisant la collaboration et en contribuant à des biens communs de connaissance.
Des exemples concrets — dont celui de la plateforme MediaWiki — illustreront comment les technologies libres peuvent soutenir des pratiques pédagogiques plus participatives, pérennes et socialement pertinentes. Le webinaire s’adresse aux formateurs, enseignants et concepteurs pédagogiques souhaitant faire évoluer leurs pratiques vers plus d’ouverture — non seulement dans les ressources, mais dans la culture éducative elle-même.Cultiver l’ouverture, c’est faire pousser des savoirs vivants — au-delà du temps d’un cours.
Avec la participation et la collaboration de : Béatrice Pudelko, professeure, Université TÉLUQ

Invited Talk: “Designing AI-Supported OER: Creation, Scale, and Responsible Use” TAMU
2026-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | College Station, United States, College Station, TX, United States
Generative artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to support the creation, revision, and scaling of open educational resources (OER). As institutions adopt AI to accelerate open textbook development and reduce reliance on commercial publisher materials, there is a growing need for clear structures that ensure quality, accessibility, and institutional accountability. Without intentional guardrails, AI-assisted OER creation can introduce uncertainty around authorship, licensing, accuracy, and long-term sustainability.
Speaker: Joshua Hill, Hillsborough College, Tampa FL
Please register online

A Community Like No Other: LibreTexts Academy and LibreNet Consortium
2026-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
The LibreTexts Academy is the professional development hub of the LibreVerse, designed for faculty who are serious about open education but don’t have unlimited time to figure it all out alone. Whether you’re adopting an existing open textbook for the first time, or building a fully custom course from the ground up, the Academy meets you where you are and takes you where you want to go.
Monthly webinars, twice-weekly office hours, and self-paced training modules cover everything from getting started with ADAPT to remixing content to making your materials accessible. For those ready to go deeper, cohort programs, in-person workshops, and instructor certifications let you build real expertise and walk away with credentials to show for it.
The goal is simple: spend less time troubleshooting and more time teaching. Your students pay less. Your course feels like yours.
The LibreNet Consortium is a community of passionate educators dedicated to growing sustainable open education initiatives at their institutions. No matter where you are in your journey to bring down the cost of education, and create more equitable pathways for your students, the LibreNet Consortium provides the tools you need to ensure your efforts are sustainable for the road ahead.
Whether you connect with us through Academy or the LibreNet (or both!), you will join a community that’s been doing this work — together — for decades.

Techno-Pedagogical Design of Open Educational Resources
2026-03-05 12:15 - 13:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Luzern, Switzerland, Luzern, Switzerland
Digital solutions play a key role for enabling blended learning in higher education, where the acquisition and the appropriation of core competences and transversal skills require engaging learning experience and value-adding interactive resources. Hence, it is essential to help educators in the process of designing and implementing digital resources, considering both their pedagogical and their technological dimensions, as well as the generative AI trend. In this talk, we will discuss adaptation of learning scenarios and the design of rich and intelligent open educational resources to strengthen the transversal skills required by the current sustainability and digital literacy challenges
Speaker: Dr. Denis Gillet (EPFL), Head Interactions Systems Group

MTSU Student Perspectives on Textbook Costs
2026-03-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Murfreesboro, United States, Murfreesboro, TN, United States
How do textbook costs affect Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) students’ learning experiences, choices, and success?
Join us as we share findings from a recent campus-wide survey exploring the impact of course material costs on students. This session will highlight key data, student voices, and opportunities for faculty to make their courses more affordable and equitable through the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and other no-cost materials. This presentation is available remotely on Zoom.

Zines & Paper Crafts Crafternoon
2026-03-05 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | Albuquerque, United States, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Want an afternoon study or work break? Join us for a crafternoon celebrating Open Educational Resources and indie publishing.
Bring your own project or come try one of ours for free, including Zine making and paper crafts. No registration needed!
Hosted by UNM OER and LRE-U Engagement

Transforming Learning in an Age of Information Abundance
2026-03-05 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Regina) | Saskatoon, Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Dave Cormier shares strategies for teaching in the digital age. Help students thrive in an information-rich world.
Pre-registration is required. A recording will be available with a link sent out to all registrants.

K12 Sex Ed and Substance Use OER for Oregon Health Standards
2026-03-05 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Albany, United States, Albany, OR, United States
Join Sasha Grenier and Alanna Russell from the Oregon Department of Education for an engaging session discussing the Sexuality Education and Substance Use OER that support educators in meeting Oregon’s Health Education Standards.

OpenEd25 Keynote Rewatch: adrienne maree brown
2026-03-05 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Washington, D.C., United States, Washington, D.C., DC, United States
The Open Education Association invites you to a virtual rewatch of bestselling author adrienne maree brown’s keynote from the 2025 Open Education Conference. Drawing on decades of movement facilitation, science fiction scholarship, and community care, this keynote invites participants to reflect on transformation, imagination, and the practices that help communities grow and heal.
All are welcome to attend this virtual “rewatch party,” which will feature a livestream of the keynote and live chat in Zoom. After the recording, attendees are welcome to stay for an optional discussion.

OE Café #11 Pass the OE Expert Baton: Reward and recognition for professional development in Open Educational Resources (OER)
2026-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Rome) | Veenendaal, Netherlands, Veenendaal, Netherlands
The 11th Open Education Café brings together seven diverse perspectives from Europe, Africa, and the Americas on how reward and recognition systems can support and strengthen the creation, use, and sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER).
Expert guests include Lilia Cheniti (Université de Sousse, Tunisia), Claudia Hackl (University of Vienna, Austria), Sémonique Harry (St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College, St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Vincent Nyirigira (Rwanda Basic Education Board, Rwanda), Marijn Post (HAN University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands), and Zeynep Varoglu (UNESCO), and the session will be facilitated by Paola Corti (SPARC Europe).
The Open Education Café series has hosted discussions on key issues for open education, arranged around the UNESCO Recommendation on OER and the five areas of action, since 2022.
SPARC Europe and the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL) have organised this event in collaboration with UNESCO. Together with UNESCO, SPARC Europe warmly welcomes exchange and dialogue on one of the most important topics for the future of Open Education.

Camerise K-12 Studio Demo: An OER Repository for French K-12 Teachers
2026-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Toronto, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
In this demo, we will showcase our brand new OER platform for French as a second language teachers at K-12 levels (Camerise K-12 Studio) built by Learnful Labs Inc.
The overarching goal of Camerise K-12 Studio is to offer FSL teachers in Ontario and beyond a trusted, well-organized space where they can safely share, adapt, and create curriculum or general subjects-aligned resources, while benefiting from peer exchange, professional recognition, and pedagogical support. By streamlining collaboration, the initiative aims to reduce duplication of effort, lightens workload pressures, supports well-being, and strengthens teacher retention across Ontario.
Our platform features a novelty : an AI-assisted resource submission form. This will help teachers save time and still ensure discoverability of their resources.
This project is funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Ontario Ministry of Education.
