OER Bootcamp 2025: Adopt, Adapt, Author (free afternoon webinar series)
2025-03-27 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Tallahassee, United States, Tallahassee, FL, United States
A free and virtual popular event, Florida Virtual Campus’ (FLVC) OER Spring Bootcamp returns. Spend three afternoons with us!
The theme for Bootcamp this year is Adopt, Adapt, Author. We offer a stepwise afternoon webinar format. Day 1 is beginner, Day 2 intermediate, and Day 3 is advanced. Here is the programming for March 26, 27, and 28, 2025 (2 to 4 p.m. ET/1 to 3 p.m. CT)

Day 1: Adopting Open Educational Resources—Danielle Campbell, Lea Cason, Shannon Dew, Lori Albrizio, Elisabeth Ball, and Rebel Cumming-Sauls showcase the new FLVC instructor training resource and give favorite pro tips for successful OER adoption.
Day 2: Adapting Open Educational Resources—Professor Courtney Boise from the University of North Florida discusses adapting OER in developmental psychology, with Q &A to follow.
Day 3: Authoring Open Educational Resources–Professor Kathy Andresen from the University of West Florida discusses authoring OER in the field of nursing/healthcare, with Q & A to follow.

In addition to these presentations, Bootcamp includes fun OER learning activities and demos every day!

OERcamp How-to Barcamp Workshop
2025-03-28 10:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Max-Brauer-Schule, Hamburg, Germany
Barcamps sind „Unkonferenzen“, deren Programm von den Teilnehmenden selbst gestaltet wird. Barcamps haben in den letzten Jahren enorme Verbreitung gefunden, weil sie so vielseitig, flexibel und radikal an den Interessen der Teilnehmenden orientiert sind. Barcamps existieren sowohl in öffentlichen und thematisch offenen Formen als auch innerhalb von Organisationen mit spezifischem Themenfokus.
In diesem 6-stündigen Workshop erhaltet ihr einen vertieften Einblick in die Bereiche Konzeption, Organisation und Durchführung eines eigenen Barcamps. Ihr bekommt Tipps und Tricks und lernt Materialien, Vorlagen und Checklisten kennen, die euch bei einer konkreten Umsetzung eines Barcamps unterstützen. Der Workshop ist praxisorientiert gestaltet und bietet Raum für Fragen und den Austausch untereinander.
Was erwartet euch konkret?

Grundprinzipien und Spielregeln von Barcamps kennenlernen.
Schritt-für-Schritt-Planung vom Konzept bis zur Nachbereitung.
Best Practices für die Session-Planung und Moderation.
Methoden zur Aktivierung und Motivation der Teilnehmenden.
Tipps zur Dokumentation und Ergebnissicherung.

Nach dem Workshop seid ihr beispielsweise in der Lage:

zu entscheiden, ob sich eure Veranstaltung / euer Thema als Barcamp eignet.
Die Barcamp-Planung für eure Veranstaltung anzugehen.
häufige Stolperfallen zu vermeiden.

Wer sollte an diesem Workshop teilnehmen?

Profis für Lernen und Fortbildung, also z.B. Trainer und Coaches, Berater*innen und Fortbildungsbeauftragte.
Menschen, die ihre Fortbildung in die eigene Hand nehmen wollen.
Akteure aus allen Bildungsbereichen: Schule und Hochschule, Weiterbildung und Berufsbildung, politische Bildung und Unternehmen, gemeinnützige und staatliche Organisationen.

Teilnehmendenzahl: ca. 10-15 Personen, Format: pre-Veranstaltung der Edunautika, Dauer: 6 Stunden inkl. Pausen. Bringt gerne eure konkreten Fragen und Projektideen mit – wir freuen uns auf einen inspirierenden Austausch!

Jetzt anmelden.

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OE Café #8 Who is behind the ENOEL Toolkit? Applicability and reusability of the Toolkit in practice
2025-03-28 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Rome) | Europe, Rome, Italy
We are pleased to invite you to our eighth Open Education Café, organised by SPARC Europe and the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL).

We will bring together creators, localisers and reusers of the ENOEL Toolkit (CC BY) to discuss their experience. We will also focus on how others can benefit from the Toolkit when advocating for Open Education through its own benefits for different stakeholders: students, teachers, institutions, citizens at large, and librarians. We will discuss challenges and examine librarians’ perspectives on integrating these tools into their open education advocacy work.

The floor will be open for the audience to ask questions and engage in the discussion directly with our experts.

Please join us. Register now: https://tinyurl.com/OECafeS8

OER Bootcamp 2025: Adopt, Adapt, Author (free afternoon webinar series)
2025-03-28 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC), Tallahassee, FL, United States

Liberating Curricula: Open Education for Decolonised and Internationalised Learning
2025-04-07 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
In an increasingly interconnected world educational practices and materials should evolve to be more inclusive and representative of diverse voices, perspectives, narratives and epistemologies. Through leveraging open educational resources, open pedagogy, and collaborative approaches to knowledge co-construction we can challenge hegemonic narratives and biases, and create a more socially just and inclusive curriculum. This talk explores open educational practices as a transformative approach for curriculum internationalisation and decolonisation.
Register via Humantix
Presenter: Dr Surita Jhangiani, University of British Columbia

As Interim Associate Dean, Equity, Dr. Surita Jhangiani provides strategic leadership to advance the Faculty’s equity priorities, fostering transformative teaching, innovative learning and leading-edge research guided by the highest scholarship, collaboration, equity and inclusion standards.
Dr. Jhangiani is the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education, providing support to increase interest, programming and engagement in multicultural and anti-racist education, and to assist schools to foster critical multiculturalism. She has received two Open Educational Resource Champion awards from the University of British Columbia and was recognized as the Faculty of Education’s 2023 Universal Design for Learning Fellow. She is currently involved in projects related to open pedagogy, alternative grading, and belonging in learning and teaching.

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Open Pedagogy: Paving the Way for Assessment Reform
2025-04-08 10:00 - 11:00 (Australia/Sydney) | University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Assessment reform has been a prominent topic in higher education for a long time, gaining even more traction with the emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) in learning and teaching. GenAI has pushed assessment from emphasising output to prioritising processes. This shift has prompted the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), Australia’s independent national quality assurance and regulatory agency for higher education, to require higher education institutions to demonstrate how they are securing assessments to mitigate the new challenges. However, despite the growing discussions around assessment security, there has been little attention given to open pedagogy, let alone renewable assessment.
Given the significant value of student-generated OER and renewable assessment observed in both literature and practice, this session aims to provide the audience with practical strategies for developing and implementing authentic assessments.
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Presenters
Dr Julie Lazzara, Maricopa Community Colleges, USA

Dr Julie Lazzara has served as a dedicated psychology educator at Maricopa Community Colleges in the Phoenix area since 2006. Since becoming a strong advocate for Open Educational Resources (OER) in 2015, she has utilized OER in her courses and actively contributed to the development of several OER textbooks and resources. Passionate about student engagement, Dr. Lazzara incorporates active learning, service-learning, and collaborative projects into her teaching. Her research focuses on the impact of open pedagogy, renewable assignments, social annotation, and OER’s impact on teaching approaches. Dr. Lazzara has also actively participated in numerous OER initiatives and projects, including the UNSDG Open Pedagogy Faculty Fellowship and the Open Education Group OER Research Fellowship.
Dr Virginia Clinton-Lisell, Associate Professor, Education, Health & Behavior, University of North Dakota

Dr. Virginia Clinton-Lisell began her career in education as an ESL teacher in New York City. She then obtained her PhD in Educational Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science at the University of Minnesota where she was trained in educational research. She has published over 60 articles in education research and teaches courses in education research, program evaluation, and psychological foundations of education. Her current research focuses on the psychology of reading comprehension and open education. She is a Rose Isabella Kelly Fischer Endowed Professor.

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Open Science e OER per gli studi umanistici
2025-04-08 16:30 - 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Seminario interno di approfondimento per gli studenti del Laboratorio di Informatica Umanistica del corso di laurea in Lettere Moderne (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro). Sarà presentato il panorama OER – Open Educational Resources (Creative Commons Search – Open Education Consortium – OERCommons) e verrà introdotto il concetto di Digital Object Identifier (DOI) attraverso la piattaforma Zenodo.org.

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.

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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) | ON
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)

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RIOS Institute Brew & Banter with Dr. Allison Lester
2026-02-27 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Albuquerque, United States, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Brew and Banter is RIOS’ monthly virtual series where community members come together for informal conversations about current topics in STEM education. Each session offers a chance for attendees to share updates, spark new ideas, and learn from one another in a relaxed, welcoming space.
Today’s guest is Dr. Allison Lester, AI Literacy Professor at Arizona State University, on “Co-Creating with AI to Enhance Critical Thinking”
As generative AI reshapes higher education, many instructors are responding with tighter rules and greater surveillance. This session offers a different entry point. Drawing on classroom-based inquiry and open pedagogical practices, it explores how co-creating with AI can strengthen critical thinking when learning environments are built on trust, shared norms, and student authorship. Rather than focusing on rules or detection, the session highlights co-creating AI policy with students as a meaningful learning activity. Participants will see how shared agreements about AI use can open space for ethical reflection, student voice, and deeper engagement.
Through classroom examples, the session illustrates how students use AI to build tools and projects, encounter ethical challenges, and return to collective norms around verification, responsibility, and judgment. Designed for higher education faculty across disciplines, this session offers practical strategies and a clear framework for integrating AI in ways that align with existing teaching values and support thoughtful, student-centered learning.

OER 101: An Introduction for Instructors
2026-03-01 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | St. Catharines, Canada, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
This Brock University workshop will provide an introductory overview of Open Educational Resources (OER) and their many benefits to both students and instructors. Participants will have an opportunity to explore some OER and consider how to start incorporating open materials in a course in small (or big!) ways. This workshop is intended for those who are new to OER, but people of all experience levels are welcome to attend.
This workshop will be facilitated by Kymberly Ash, Librarian at Brock University.

Créer, innover, partager : un processus de travail autour de l’IA pour produire des Ressources Éducatives Libres accessibles à tous
2026-03-02 08:00 - 09:00 (Europe/Paris) | Paris, France, Paris, France
Pour l’Open Education Week, Aunège Association Universitaire en Economie Gestion, propose son 10ème Café IA sur la création et le partage de vos cours. Les inscriptions à la session 10 sont ouvertes : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemraWDk90OESfLkaVYwOa7DD_0bbpfKQVP921Sjrdu_kAZPg/viewform?pli=1
Série de Petits déjeuners : “L’IA au service de la pédagogie” organisée par AUNEGE en collaboration avec la FNEGE et IAE FRANCE – Ecoles Universitaires de Management.
📌 Venez nous retrouver pour la session 10 :
💬 “Créer, partager : un processus de travail autour de l’IA pour produire des Ressources Éducatives Libres accessibles à tous*”
*à partir d’un article éponyme à paraitre en avril dans la revue “Médiations & Médiatisations”
Petit déjeuner proposé et animé par :
Mona Laroussi, Professeure des universités, Directrice de l’Institut de la Francophonie pour l’Éducation et la Formation
Christophe FOURNIER, Professeur des universités, Président d’AUNEGe
📅 le mardi 03 mars 2026
🕣 8h30 à 9h00 (heure de Paris)
Pour nous rejoindre merci de vous inscrire :
🔗 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemraWDk90OESfLkaVYwOa7DD_0bbpfKQVP921Sjrdu_kAZPg/viewform?pli=1
⚠️ Fermeture des inscriptions le lundi 02 mars à 17h (heure de Paris)
L’invitation Zoom vous sera envoyée quelques heures avant le webinaire.
N’hésitez pas à vous inscrire et à faire suivre cette invitation !
Au plaisir de vous retrouver le 03 mars prochain !

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!

OER und ihre Rolle beim Weg zur digitalen Souveränität von Hochschulen
2026-03-02 12:15 - 13:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Luzern, Switzerland, Luzern, Switzerland
Offene Bildungsressourcen (OER) sind weithin dafür bekannt, dass sie den Zugang zu Bildung verbessern und den Wissensaustausch ermöglichen.
In diesem Vortrag werden drei wichtige Aspekte von OER untersucht, die für interuniversitäre Zusammenarbeit von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Erstens ermöglichen OER die rechtssichere Nutzung von Bildungsressourcen über nationale Grenzen hinweg und beseitigen Unsicherheiten hinsichtlich des Urheberrechts, insbesondere bei Übersetzungen und Adaptionen. Dies gewährleistet die Einhaltung unterschiedlicher rechtlicher Rahmenbedingungen und fördert gleichzeitig die Zusammenarbeit. Zweitens unterstützen OER die Nachhaltigkeit, indem sie sicherstellen, dass Investitionen in Bildungsmaterialien nicht durch restriktive Nutzungsrechte eingeschränkt werden. Dies ist besonders wichtig bei Kooperationen, in denen gemeinsame Ressourcen von zentraler Bedeutung für die Förderung einer langfristigen Zusammenarbeit und die Ausrichtung auf Nachhaltigkeitsziele sind.
Schliesslich tragen OER zur digitalen Souveränität bei, indem sie Institutionen und Pädagog:innen in die Lage versetzen, Ressourcen zu erstellen, anzupassen und zu teilen, ohne auf proprietäre Plattformen oder Lizenzen angewiesen zu sein. Dies deckt sich mit dem übergeordneten strategischen Ziel europäischer Hochschulen, die Autonomie und Widerstandsfähigkeit ihrer digitalen Ökosysteme zu fördern. Der Vortrag zielt also darauf ab die strategische Bedeutung von OER für die Förderung von Zusammenarbeit, Nachhaltigkeit und Souveränität innerhalb europäischer Hochschulen zu verdeutlichen und auch zu erweitern.
Leitung: Martin Ebner, Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn., TU Graz

L’éducation ouverte et libre en action
2026-03-02 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Vaud, Switzerland, Vaud, Switzerland
Objectifs : Partir d’un exemple de cours conçu dans une approche d’EOL pour identifier ce que l’adoption de ce type d’approche permet de mettre en place et de créer. Donner des éléments théoriques et des outils pratiques pour pouvoir s’y essayer.

Résumé : Enseigner un cours de méthodologie de recherche de niveau Master à l’aide d’un vrai projet de recherche en attribuant un rôle de chercheurs et chercheuses novices aux étudiant-es, comment ça marche ? En quoi est-on dans une approche d’EOL ? Quelles ressources éducatives libres (REL) utilise-t-on en amont et lesquelles produit-on en aval ? Pourquoi parle-t-on de pratiques éducatives ouvertes (PEO) dans ce cas précis ?

En partant de cet exemple concret de la pratique, le webinaire illustrera une approche d’EOL en action ainsi que ses composantes (REL et PEO). Pour les enseignant-es désireux de s’essayer à ces pratiques pédagogiques, des cadres et outils seront présentés (voir les ressources pour un avant-goût).
