Open Education Week

Women Visibility: How the Wikimedia Movement sheds light on women
2025-03-26 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online from Multiple Locations
The Wiki in Africa team is excited to invite you to the next episode of Wiki Africa Hour: Women’s Visibility – How the Wikimedia Movement Sheds Light on Women, on Wednesday, 26th March 2025, at 4 PM UTC.
March marks International Women’s History Month, and we’ll be bringing together inspiring women from across the Wikimedia Movement to explore how our communities support women—and where we can do more. In Episode 44, we’ll be discussing:

How does Wikimedia’s 2030 strategy support women?
What role do community initiatives play in empowering women?
What would 50/50 representation in all settings look like? Are there challenges to achieving it?
How do recent global policy shifts targeting DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) impact the Open Movement and Wikimedia?

Join us live on youtube or register via the events tool for an engaging discussion—and bring your own questions to the table!

OER Bootcamp 2025: Adopt, Adapt, Author (free afternoon webinar series)
2025-03-26 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-27 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-28 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC), 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!

OEWeek 2025 Kickoff Event at TRU and Open Education Talks
2025-03-26 11:00 - 13:30 (America/Vancouver) | Thompson Rivers University (TRU), Kamloops, BC, Canada
Join us in celebrating Open Education Week (March 3–7, 2025) with a special kickoff event on March 5th! 🎊
📍 Thompson Rivers University is hosting a catered lunch and streaming the first set of Open Education Talks, followed by an inspiring keynote by Dave Cormier, Director of Curriculum Services at TRU Open Learning. on “What Might Open Ed Look Like in the Future?” Everyone is welcome—virtual participation options are available!
📅 Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2025
🕚 Time: 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Event Schedule:
🔹 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Open Education Talks (Lightning Talks) 💡
👉 Register and join the live Zoom stream to explore innovative ideas shaping the future of Open Education.

🔹 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | What Might Open Ed Look Like in the Future? 🌍
🎤 Speaker: Dave Cormier, Director of Curriculum Services, TRU Open Learning
Dave is the author of ‘Learning in a time of Abundance: the community is the curriculum‘
🔗 Join this exciting talk in person at Brown’s House of Learning HL269 (Register for lunch!)
Or for those that can’t make it in person, join via this Microsoft Teams link.
💡 About the Open Education Talk:
The word open in education carries many meanings—spanning licensing, pedagogy, and social justice. But how do we communicate its importance effectively? This engaging session will introduce a simple, inclusive model for thinking about openness and how it can guide decision-making in education.
🚀 Let’s celebrate openness, innovation, and collaboration in education together!
This event is generously funded by BCcampus and organized by TRU Open Press, TRU Library, and TRU Learning Technology & Innovation.
📢 #OEWeek | #OpenEducation | #OER | #TRUOpenPress
Open Ed Talks 2025 Lunch & Learn Sessions
After our March 5th Kickoff event, three interactive sessions will be held on March 12, 19, and 26. Each session includes the streaming of lightning talks from University of Calgary, followed by 30 minutes of facilitated roundtable discussions to explore and apply the open education ideas and concepts discussed in the streamed lightning talks from that day. Each roundtable discussion will be facilitated and focused on the themes outlined in the Open Ed Talks 2025 schedule. Tea/ Coffee/ Water will be provided, and in-person participants are encouraged to bring their lunch.
Dates: March 12, 19, and 26, 2025
Time: 11:00 am–1:00 pm
Location: Brown’s House of Learning HL269, or via this Microsoft Teams link
11:00 am–12:30 pm: Streamed lightning talks

12:30–1:00 pm: Facilitated round table discussions

We hope to see you there!

Open Educational Resources (OER) Discovery Minute (In Person)
2025-03-27 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Toronto) | Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OER Discovery Minute is an opportunity to discover what your student peers at Concordia are doing to help you find and access free textbooks and learning materials.
Only have a minute, no problem. Drop by at any time during our event for a minute, two, or the whole session.
Activities include:

Button making
Trivia
Searching for OERs,
Nominate a course, and more
Free snacks and refreshments.

This event is led by student leaders in the OER movement and supported by Concordia University Library.

Part of Open Education Month at Concordia University Library

Traduc-thon REL-IAg : retour d’expérience
2025-03-27 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Description : Le 13 février 2025, à l’Université de Sherbrooke, s’est tenu un Traduc-thon. L’objectif était d’expérimenter la traduction de REL avec les outils d’IAg. Des équipes interprofessionnelles ont pu expérimenter le tout en utilisant différents outils d’IAg, le tout, appuyé par des outils d’observation et de réflexion et accompagné par des personnes professionnelles en traduction.
Lors de ce webinaire, les responsables du Traduc-thon souhaitent partager les réflexions et observations issues de cette expérimentation. Les ressources utilisées pour cette activité seront aussi mises à disposition.
Objectif : Partager des retours d’expérience et pistes d’utilisation/d’optimisation dans l’usage des outils d’IAg pour la traduction de REL.
Public cible principal : enseignants, conseillers pédagogiques, disciplines et horizons divers. Aucune connaissance préalable ou expertise en traduction ou en traitement des langages naturels n’est requise.
Type d’événement : webinaire

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!

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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

UTS Open Education Week 2025
2025-04-07 - 2025-04-11 | University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
University of Technology Sydney has another great Open Education Week program this year. We will focus on:
In our program we will focus on:

Fostering inclusive and global learning. Open education supports curriculum internationalisation and decolonisation, ensuring diverse perspectives and epistemologies are integrated into learning materials
Transforming assessment practices. Open pedagogy enables authentic assessment design, moving beyond traditional methods to foster student-driven, meaningful learning experiences.
Enhancing accessibility and affordability. Open textbooks and OER reduce accessibility and financial barriers for students while increasing the availability of high-quality, adaptable learning resources.
Advancing academic careers. Engagement with OER can contribute to academic recognition and career progression, demonstrating leadership in innovative teaching.
Improving learning design and impact. Open educational practices enhance collaborative learning, making education more engaging, adaptable, and impactful for both educators and students.

The program includes these sessions via Zoom, times are in Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). See each event for links to register

7 April at 11am – Liberating Curricula: Open Education for Decolonised and Internationalised Learning (Dr Surita Jhangiani, University of British Columbia, Canada)
8 April at 10am – Open Pedagogy: Paving the way for Assessment Reform (Dr Julie Lazzara, Maricopa Community Colleges, USA and Dr Virginia Clinton-Lisell, University of North Dakota, USA)
9 April at 2pm – Open Textbooks Show and Tell (Dr Cat Kutay, Charles Darwin University, NT; Dr Elyssebeth Leigh, UTS; Timothy Boye, UTS; Dr Lisa Cianci, RMIT, VIC; Michelle Bendall, Deakin University, VIC and Kate Strong, Edith Cowan University, WA)
10 April at 11am – Open Educational Resources and Academic Promotion (Dr Amanda White, UTS; Dr Julian Pakay, La Trobe Uni and Dr Susan Gasson, James Cook University)
11 April at 10am – Open Educational Resources and Practices for Impactful Learning Design

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.
Register via Humantix
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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Presenter images used with permission.

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) | University of Regina, 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
