Open Education Week

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2025-03-03 14:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Chisinau) | Chisinau, Chisinau, stat, Moldova, Republic of
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Teaching with Wikipedia
2025-03-03 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Regina) | Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
In this 50-minute webinar, you’ll learn how to use a Wikipedia assignment and how to access Wiki Education’s free support and resources. You can still catch our event recordings, if you missed the registration.
With the rise of AI, assessing student work is challenging. This session, presented by Andrés Vera from Wiki Education will show how a Wikipedia assignment can take students beyond the classroom.
By using faculty expertise and Wikipedia’s rules, students can fill content gaps, improve representation, and enhance citations. Wiki Education supports many faculty in the U.S. and Canada with custom syllabi, resources, training, and staff support. Students gain research, writing, and digital literacy skills while improving knowledge equity.

OER Panel: Faculty Showcase
2025-03-03 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego Community College District, San Diego, CA, United States
In this panel, faculty members will share their experiences integrating OER (Open Educational Resources) into their online courses. This presentation will highlight innovative approaches to using OER to enhance student learning, improve accessibility, and reduce textbook costs. We will showcase a variety of courses that have successfully adopted OER, providing insights, best practices, and lessons learned. Whether you’re new to OER or looking for inspiration to refine your course materials, this session will offer valuable takeaways and real-world applications.
Join the San Diego Community College District Open Ed Week via Zoom Events and attend this faculty showcase hosted by Madeline Button, OER Analyst and Kelly Spoon, Math Faculty at Mesa College.

OE Week Live! March 3 Open Conversations
2025-03-03 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
Open Education Week 2025 is happening this week and we are hosting a few of our OEWeek Live webcasts as open conversations. For each show we invite a group of open educators willing to have a discussion that lacks an agenda and slides with bullet points.
These conversational sessions start with sharing of their 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.
Guests so far confirmed for this show include:

Todd Conaway (University of Washington-Bothell) on Community
Verena Roberts (Thompson Rivers University) on Open practices in asynchronous learning environments / Open Learning Design Online
Gardner Campbell (Virginia Commonwealth University) on Idealism and unintended consequences
Ken Bauer (Tec de Monterey) on #educoffee events during OE Week

Watch live and ask questions send comments to the guests in the studio via chat or watch later

Learn More:

Open Education Week https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/
OE Week Live Schedule https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/oeweek-live-webcasts/7383

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.

Hunting for Open Educational Resources Suited to Your Discipline (In Person)
2025-03-03 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Toronto) | Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Open Educational Resources (OER) are free learning materials for students, which can easily be adapted or tailored for accessible, course-specific learning. This workshop introduces OER basics such as renewable assignments and open textbooks and their place in the open ecosystem. You will learn to search for and discover OER relevant to your courses and disciplines.
In an open document, we will collaboratively search OER repositories for materials that can be added to Concordia’s OER By Discipline Resource Guide, which you might find useful to your studies. Through collaborative small group discussions and guided practice, you can benefit yourself and your fellow students, and leave equipped to advocate more effectively for OER in your classrooms.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the basic differences between OER, paywalled textbooks, and pirated resources
Search OER repositories for OER suited to your courses
Co-adapt Concordia’s OER By Discipline Resource Guide – 2nd edition

Part of Open Education Month at Concordia University Library

Colorado's K-12 OERColorado Hub and Microsite Platforms
2025-03-03 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | OERColorado, Denver, Colorado, United States
In celebration of OE Week 2025, the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) is hosting a webinar showcasing Colorado’s K-12 OERColorado Hub and Microsite Platforms.
CDE invites anyone interested in learning more about Colorado’s work with OER in K-12 education to join us on Monday, March 3 between 4:00PM – 5:00PM MST in Zoom.
Email our OERColorado Team at OERColorado@gmail.com with any questions!

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.

Connecting the Opens: A Panel Discussion for the Future Professoriate
2025-03-03 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Join the Virginia Tech University Libraries and invited guests for a discussion for future professors regarding open access, open educational resources, and open data. University Libraries’ faculty will provide brief overviews of open publishing, open educational resources, and open data to provide some general information on the topics.
Guest presenter, Dr. Laura Neser, Department of Geosciences will discuss her work adapting openly-licensed content into the first and second editions of Introduction to Earth Science. Presenters will discuss how aspects of open have impacted their career development as well as how they have incorporated open practices into their research and scholarship, and the audience will be invited to participate in the robust conversation. All are welcome!

Open Innovation: AI and Impact on Open Education
2025-03-03 22:00 - 23:30 (Asia/Riyadh) | National eLearning Center, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
This event from the National eLearning Center (Saudi Arabia) explores the intersection of Open Innovation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Open Education. Experts will discuss how AI-driven innovation is transforming learning ecosystems, content creation, and accessibility in open education. The session will also examine potential challenges, ethical considerations, and strategies for harnessing AI to enhance equity and inclusion in education.

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-

Distributing open education to reduce inequity and transform higher education
2025-03-04 07:00 - 08:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Online from Multiple Locations
This online session puts open education and open publishing in the broader context of knowledge equity and transformation of higher education. It will feature discussion of a new open online course Distributing education and knowledge creation designed to help build capacity for distributing knowledge to reduce inequity. During the session we will hope to identify a cohort of interested people to enrol in the course afterwards to work through it together to improve and adapt it to use in their setting and to advocate for university reform.
The session will be led by E/Professor Dick Heller, Australia and A/Professor Upasana Gitanjali Singh, South Africa and will start with a short presentation followed by an open discussion.
Timing is planned to take place directly after the presentation by Cable Green https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/activity/shifting-to-community-owned-and-operated-open-knowledge/ which also identifies a broad societal context for open knowledge.

Shaping future generations with AI and OER in Early Development
2025-03-04 08:00 - 12:00 (Africa/Dar_es_Salaam) | TUSOME, Dar Es Salaam, Kinondoni, Tanzania, United Republic of
The event on March 4th during Open Education Week at TUSOME offices will focus on “Shaping Future Generations with AI and OER in Early Development.”
The session will provide an introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and explore its transformative potential in creating Open Educational Resources (OER) tailored for Early Childhood Development (ECD). Participants will gain insights into how AI technologies can enhance the creation of accessible, engaging, and effective educational materials for young learners, fostering more inclusive learning experiences.
Location: Makunduchi Street, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 14108

Open for Antiracism: Leveraging Open Education to Support Antiracism in the Classroom, 4 years in review
2025-03-04 09:00 - 09:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA, United States
In this 45-minute panel discussion, we address the question: “How can the open education field engage effectively with antiracist pedagogy?” The Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR) provides an example from its four years of programming that supports. California community college faculty to transform their classrooms to be antiracist through the affordances of OER and open pedagogy. Now in its fifth year, OFAR has supported almost 200 instructors from over 40 institutions to learn to adapt and author OER, integrating antiracist activities and perspectives and co-creating materials with their students.
Two propositions inform the design of OFAR:

Academics wish to change their classroom practices to be antiracist and need guidance on promising practices and a safe place to explore with peers;
OER and open pedagogy can be effective tools to transform classrooms to be antiracist.

Program participants learn about antiracist pedagogy, OER, and open pedagogy. Participants then implement a change to their teaching by integrating OER or open pedagogy to make their class antiracist. Participants receive ongoing support through webinars, coaching, and OER support.
In this session, attendees will learn about program design and research on faculty perceptions and student outcomes. In addition, attendees will hear from one of the program’s course facilitators about the successes and challenges of leading faculty in a discovery of the intersections between open education and antiracist pedagogy.The audience will be invited to share how they can apply this work in their own context to improve student success for marginalized and underserved students.
Panelists:

Laura Dunn, Program Director, Open for Antiracism, Director of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, Santa Clara University
James Glapa-Grossklag, Co-Director, Open for Antiracism, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons
Joy Shoemate, Course Developer and Facilitator, Open for Antiracism, Director of Online Education, College of the Canyons

Registration is required

LibreTexts Office Hours
2025-03-04 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Did you know LibreTexts holds twice weekly office hours, every week? Whether you have a quick question or something that needs more in-depth answers, drop in anytime between 9-10 am PST every Tuesday and Thursday and chat with a member of our team.

Affordable Learning KY's Virtual Symposium - Community Connections: A Place for Everyone
2025-03-04 09:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Affordable Learning Kentucky, 100 Airport Rd, Frankfort, KY, United States
Join ALKY for a day-long symposium celebrating OE community connections in Kentucky and beyond.
Sessions will include a keynote with Dr. Natalie Allen from OpenStax, an exploration of the possibilities afforded by the Manifold digital publishing platform with Robin Miller of CUNY, student and faculty panels on the impacts of OER and OEP, and an OER treasure hunt.

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
2025-03-04 10:00 - 10:45 (Europe/Dublin) | Technological University of the Shannon, Westmeath, Westmeath, Ireland
Join Maura Flynn, OER Librarian at Technological University of the Shannon Libraries during Open Education Week 2025, to discuss how OER can support your teaching and learning.
The Learning Outcomes for this short session include:

Defining Open Educational Resources (OER)
Exploring OER examples and how to source relevant OER
Discussing the benefits of OER for students, staff and society
Discussing opportunities to adapt existing OER and create OER to meet your needs

Ready, Set, Open!
2025-03-04 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, Canada
Brought to you by Collab4Open.
Are you curious about OER and want to learn more about the creation process? Join this informative session led by experienced OER creators, who will walk you through the steps of developing an OER. The presenters will cover how to assess readiness for an OER project, as well as share key highlights and challenges along the way.

Open Education Italia presents the Dubai Declaration on OER to the Italian Community
2025-03-04 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Rome) | Open Education Italia, Bologna, Italy
On the occasion of Open Education Week 2025, taking place from March 3 to 7, the Open Education Italia network is organizing a meeting dedicated to presenting the Dubai Declaration on Open Educational Resources (OER) “Digital public goods and emerging technologies for equitable and inclusive access to knowledge”. The event aims to explore the implications and opportunities offered by the recently adopted international document, fostering discussion among experts, educators, and librarians.
The meeting, scheduled for March 4, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM CET, will feature Javiera Atenas, Senior Lecturer in Learning and Teaching at the University of Suffolk, UK, who, in collaboration with Dr. Tel Amiel, UNESCO Chair in Open Education and Technologies for the Common Good in Brazil, contributed to drafting the 2024 Declaration. Other participants include Paola Corti from Politecnico di Milano and OE Community Manager of the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL), Fabio Nascimbeni, from the European Training Foundation, and Damiano Orrù, representing the Italian Library Association (AIB), along with researchers, teachers, and professionals in the education and library sectors.
The meeting will provide an opportunity to learn about the recent UNESCO declaration on OER and discuss its role in the Italian context. It will particularly focus on open access policies and strategies for integrating open educational resources into teaching practices and library management.
Event Program:

OEWeek25 and introduction to the UNESCO Recommendation – Paola Corti
The Dubai Declaration and the concept of Common Digital Goods– Javiera Atenas
The role of libraries in open education – Damiano Orrù
Discussion: experiences and perspectives on OER adoption in Italy – Fabio Nascimbeni
Q&A and Conclusions

This initiative is aimed at researchers, librarians, teachers, and anyone interested in open education. Participation is open to all and free of charge, but registration on the Open Education Italia website is appreciated.
For more information and to register for the event, visit www.openeducationitalia.it or contact info@openeducationitalia.it.

OEWeek Live: March 4 Open Conversations
2025-03-04 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
Open Education Week 2025 is happening this week and we are hosting a few of our OEWeek Live conversational webcasts as an informal conversations. For each show we invite a group of open educators willing to have a discussion that lacks an agenda and slides with bullet points.
These conversational sessions start with sharing of their current projects, activities, and interests but flow into general discussions of what is happening in the world of open education.
Guests confirmed so far include:

Connie Blomgren (Athabasca University / OEGlobal Board Vice President) on OER and open pedagogy as part of understanding GenAI
Werner Westermann (Head of Civic Education Program, Library of Congress, Chile) on Future impact of AI in OpenEd (resources and practices, competencies) and other Open fields (data, science, software), Open Source AI for OpenEd, Offline OER for disadvantaged low-tech communities, OER curricular alignment, OpenEd local government initiatives, Open Education peer mentoring, OpenEd (public) policies.
Derek Moore (Weblearning) on Wikipedia, Wikidata, renewable assignments, early reading resources
Bryan Mathers (Visual Thinkery) on Remix Possibilities – What templates should we add next to the Remixer Machine?

We invite questions and comments from the audience through the chat. Watch live or see recording later:

Learn More:

Open Education Week https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/
OE Week Live Schedule https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/oeweek-live-webcasts/7383

Beyond the Price Tag: Students on Textbooks & OER
2025-03-04 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at Arlington, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, TX, United States
Textbooks draining your wallet? Let’s talk about it—over free coffee and donuts!
Join us for Beyond the Price Tag, a peer- to-peer interactive student event where we’re diving into the real cost of textbooks and how Open Educational Resources (OER) can make a difference. Share your thoughts on textbook affordability by answering a quick, thought-provoking question—because your voice matters!
Event Co-hosted by the Open Education Student Advocacy Group (OESAG).

Getting Started with Open Pedagogy
2025-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Brock University, 1812 Sir Issac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
This resource-rich virtual workshop will introduce Open Pedagogy, a student-centered and collaborative approach to teaching and learning that foregrounds access, justice, and learner agency. Drawing on inspiring examples from a wide variety of disciplines, participants will learn how to infuse principles of open pedagogy into their learning activities, policies, and assessments.
This OEweek workshop is suited for educators who are new to open educational practices as well as more experienced open pedagogues.

The Agreements that Allow Us to Care for Each Other – Aggie Open Invited Speaker, Jessie Loyer
2025-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UC Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, United States
The UC Davis Library’s AggieOpen Invited Speaker Series addresses important issues in Open Education and allows speakers to share their research with a broader audience. Our 2025 Invited Speaker, Indigenous Engagement Librarian Jessie Loyer, will explore the history of Open Access and draw upon histories of caretaking in her talk, “The Agreements that Allow Us to Care for Each Other.”
“In this time of rising fascism, white supremacy, and dehumanization, practitioners of open pedagogies can ask ourselves: what agreements have shaped the caring impulse behind our work? How do agreements such as treaty-making between Indigenous nations and nation-states inscribe intergenerational caretaking? How can we learn from our predecessors’ choices to build connections that allow us to survive and thrive?”
Join us during this year’s Open Education Week as Jessie considers these questions alongside participants through her scholarship on Indigenous relationality in digital spaces, Open Education, and digital kinship.
About the Speaker: Jessie is Cree-Métis and a member of Michel First Nation. She is the Indigenous Engagement Librarian at the University of Alberta in Calgary and a guest on Treaty 7 and Blackfoot territory. Her research examines Indigenous perspectives on information literacy, supports language revitalization, and creates ongoing research relationships using the nêhiyaw minâ otipêmisiw concept of kinship.

By Students for Students In-person Information Booth (Conestoga College, Doon Campus)
2025-03-04 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Dr, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Visit our in-person information booth at our Doon 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!

OE Week at East Los Angeles College (ELAC) Student Engagement
2025-03-04 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, 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 on those days. There will be a “money board” for students to demonstrate how much they paid for textbooks in the previous semesters, item giveaways, and interviews conducted by our media department to post on social media.

San Diego Community College District OER Grants
2025-03-04 11:00 - 23:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego Community College District, San Diego, CA, United States
Across the state of California, funding is becoming more readily available for efforts in OER. Join this presentation to become familiar with grants available to faculty who are interested in adopting or developing OER and explore application process.
Join the San Diego Community College District Open Ed Week via Zoom Events and attend this presentation session with Dr. Melanie Nakaji, American Sign Language Instructor at City College.

Open Education Week 2025 at Gdańsk University of Technology
2025-03-04 11:30 - 2025-03-05 23:50 (Europe/Warsaw) | Gdańsk University of Technology, Narutowicza st. 11/12, Gdańsk, Pomeranian, Poland
Gdańsk Tech University librarians are inviting everyone, including students and academic teachers, to two short training sessions devoted to Open Educational Resources.
The first training, on March 4, will be dedicated to free academic textbooks that can be found on the Internet, legally downloaded and used during classes at the university. The second one will take place on March 5 and will present platforms with online courses designed by leading world universities, which will certainly help you acquire knowledge and consolidate acquired skills.
The training will be online via the MS Teams platform, to take part in the meeting, simply click on the link. The training will be conducted in Polish at 10:30 am and in English at 11:30 am it takes approximately 20 minutes.

Training: Open academic textbooks at your fingertips 04 March 11:30 am
Training: Open online courses – professional knowledge for everyone 05 March 11:30 am

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Interview: Open Educational Practices – Dr Rajiv Jhangiani
2025-03-04 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
In this interview, Dr Rajiv Jhangiani highlights the importance of open educational practices (OEP) in democratising learning. He advocates for student-centred pedagogies, including co-creation of course policies and assessments, to enhance engagement and agency. Additionally, he stresses the growing focus on social justice within OEP, particularly in redistributive, recognitive, and representational justice, while also addressing critical concerns like accessibility and student intellectual property rights.

Hands-On OER: Crafting Engaging Content with H5P and Pressbooks
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | St Claire College, Chattam-Kent, ON, Canada
Brought to you by Collab4Open.
Dive into the world of Open Educational Resources with this hands-on workshop designed to get you creating and experimenting! Learn the basics of H5P and Pressbooks to develop dynamic, interactive content that will captivate your students. Join us for an exciting session and empower yourself with the tools to innovate and inspire in the digital classroom.
Create an H5P and/or Pressbooks account prior to joining for the full benefits of participation.

How To Use Creative Commons Licenses
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
“Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization that maintains a set of user- and creator-friendly copyright licenses that you can attach to your work to communicate how it can be used and distributed by others.” (quote from this quick start guide).
In this session Kate Langrell, USask Copyright Coordinator, will review the Creative Commons licenses and share how to attach one to your work. She will also touch on the relationship between Generative AI materials and Creative Commons licenses, and what to do if you want to use part of someone else’s work within your own Creative Commons work.
