Open Education Week

Luces de educación abierta para la Declaración de Dubái: aportaciones desde la estancia UNESCO 2025
2025-03-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Monterrey) | Online from Multiple Locations
Panel interactivo donde se construirán ideas para movilizar la educación abierta desde las recomendaciones UNESCO 2019 y la Declaración de Dubái, compartiendo las construcciones de la estancia UNESCO 2025 en torno al desarrollo de capacidades, inclusión y diversidad, políticas, sustentabilidad e internacionalización. El fin es identificar juntos las luces de la educación abierta para todos.

OER 101: An Introduction for Instructors
2025-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Brock University, 1812 Sir Issac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
This 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 and Jennifer Thiessen, from the Brock University Library

Faculty-Student Showcase: UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship
2025-03-06 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Montgomery College, 900 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, MD, United States
Attend the annual UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship Faculty-Student Showcase! This 2-day virtual colloquium will be held on Thursday, March 6 and Friday, March 7 during Open Education Week.
This global award-winning fellowship was founded by Montgomery College and has over 15 institutional partners throughout North America and Asia. Join the colloquium to hear some of our faculty fellows and their students present on the fellowship work.

LibreTexts Office Hours
2025-03-06 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.

eCampusOntario Open Library Forum on Affordability
2025-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | eCampusOntario, 372 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Join the eCampusOntario Open Library team in an open discussion on Affordability, Open Education, and Low-cost designations in higher education. We’ll be presenting some findings on affordability initiatives across Ontario’s post-secondary sector and spotlighting efforts at various institutions across the province. Participants will be able to help co-design the future of affordability and sustainability, with an eye towards finding common definitions and shared languages to ensure OER and other resources can support keeping post secondary education affordable for all learners.

Joignez-vous à l’équipe de la bibliothèque ouverte eCampusOntario dans une discussion ouverte sur l’abordabilité, l’éducation ouverte et les désignations à faible coût dans le domaine de l’enseignement supérieur. Nous présenterons certaines conclusions sur les initiatives en matière d’abordabilité dans le secteur postsecondaire de l’Ontario et mettrons en lumière les efforts déployés dans divers établissements de la province. Les participants pourront prendre part à la conception participative de l’avenir de l’abordabilité et de la durabilité. L’objectif : trouver des définitions et des langages communs afin que les REL et d’autres ressources puissent contribuer à maintenir l’enseignement postsecondaire à un niveau abordable pour tous les apprenants.

Growing Institutional OER Programs: Is Pressbooks Right for You?
2025-03-06 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Toronto) | Pressbooks, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Many colleges, universities, and higher education systems rely on Pressbooks’ open publishing platform as an essential part of their technology infrastructure to support OER and other institutional publishing programs.
This session provides a guided show-and-tell about Pressbooks networks and what to consider as you make choices around open publishing tools for your campus community. What goals can Pressbooks help you achieve? How do Pressbooks networks work, and what’s required to make them successful? How can this toolset help you manage, scale and sustain your open education programs? Join us as we delve into these questions and any others you bring us.

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Technocolonialité et diffusion des savoirs : bâtir des alternatives ouvertes
2025-03-06 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Paris) | Université de Lille, 42 rue Paul Duez, Lille, France
Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à un webinaire exceptionnel dans le cadre de l’Open Education Week 2025, semaine de l’éducation ouverte en bon français.
En effet, alors que nous passons progressivement à l’enregistrement de podcasts diffusés sur la chaîne YouTube d’OEG francophone, cet événement est une occasion unique de nous retrouver dans un format “webinaire” et d’échanger sur les actualités de l’éducation ouverte et les défis qui l’attendent.
Nous aurons également l’honneur de recevoir Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, nouveau membre du conseil d’administration d’Open Education Global et spécialiste des technologies et des questions de l’ouverture de l’éducation, de la science et de l’innovation sur le continent africain.
Détails du Webinaire :

Date : 6 mars 2025
Heure : de 18h00 à 20 heures (Heure Européenne Continentale)
Intervenant : Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou
Thème : Technocolonialité dans la production de connaissances, matériel ouvert pour la recherche scientifique et diffusion des connaissances par la communauté

Description :
Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou nous fera l’honneur de partager ses réflexions sur la technocolonialité et son impact sur la production et la diffusion des connaissances. Il abordera également l’importance du matériel ouvert pour la recherche scientifique et comment la communauté peut jouer un rôle clé dans la diffusion des connaissances.
Ce webinaire sera l’occasion d’explorer des questions essentielles telles que :

Actualités d’Open Education Global Francophone
Comment la technocolonialité influence la production de connaissances
Défis et opportunités liés à l’utilisation de matériel ouvert dans la recherche scientifique
Comment la communauté peut contribuer à une diffusion plus équitable et inclusive des connaissances

CC Licensing training for the Technical College System of Georgia
2025-03-06 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Technical College System of Georgiq, Atlanta, GA, United States
In this Q&A webinar, Creative Commons will provide an overview of (1) global copyright law, and copyright considerations in the US; (2) Creative Commons and CC licenses; as well as (3) basic recommendations on how to apply and use CC licenses. While this training will be private, we will CC license the recording link and make it available.
CC is happy to provide any group a 1-hour training free of charge. Contact info@creativecommons.org for more information.

Open Educational Resources Adoption Event at UTA Libraries
2025-03-06 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at Arlington, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, TX, United States
Join the Open Educational Resources and Digital Scholarship Department, UTA Libraries for an interactive, come-and-go event designed to help faculty and students explore, evaluate, and adopt Open Educational Resources (OER). In just 30-45 minutes, participants will browse featured OER, assess their adaptability, and explore customization options through hands-on stations—all while enjoying light refreshments and snacks. Whether adopting, adapting, or creating, this event provides a hands-on way to engage with open education at UTA.
Stations Include:

Explore & Adopt: Browse 10 featured OER across disciplines.
Evaluate & Modify: Assess accessibility and make real-time edits.
Find a Perfect Match: Search OER repositories with guidance.
Creation Station: Conceptualize new OER projects.
Check-Out & Advocacy: Learn about the Open Education Student Advocacy Group and next steps.

Drop in, discover an OER, and take the next step in transforming course materials—all at your own pace!

Finding and Using OER
2025-03-06 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
One of the biggest barriers to OER adoption and use is finding the right resource. In this session, we will look at some McMaster-specific resources that will help you in your search (including McMaster’s OER by Discipline Guide version 2.0 and the OER Finding Service), explore some OER repositories, and consider some strategies to fine tune your results. We will also look at how you can evaluate the OER you’ve found for possible use in your teaching.

Practicing Democratic Education with a Course-Based Custom GPT and Dialogic Prompts
2025-03-06 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
This hands-on interactive workshop presented by Dr Olga Shugurova explores the innovative use of AI such as custom GPT models and dialogical prompts (Matusov, ChatGPT4, Smith & Shugurova,2023) to create democratic open educational resources (OERs).
The use of conversational AI in education has shown promising results in enhancing learning outcomes (Chiu et al., 2023). A systematic review by Henry et al. (2021) highlighted the need for an interdisciplinary and critical approach to AI literacy. Labadze et al. (2023) reported that chatbot technology significantly improves learning achievement, explicit reasoning, and knowledge retention.
Dr Shugurova will demonstrate how educators can build their own course-based GPT that caters to diverse student goals, interests, needs and creates a psychologically safe learning environment.

Participants will learn how to:
Design and fine-tune custom GPT models for specific educational contexts
Craft effective dialogical prompts that engage students and promote critical thinking without any technical skills
Integrate course content to create comprehensive, interactive learning experiences that inspire learning
Address ethical considerations and potential biases in this GPT-powered educational pathway

The workshop will showcase the practical examples of custom GPT applications in various disciplines, highlighting their potential to democratize education. It will also discuss strategies for ensuring accessibility and inclusivity when implementing these technologies.
Through hands-on activities and live demonstrations, attendees will gain practical experience in developing their own course-based GPT. The session will conclude with a collaborative discussion on the future of AI in open education and its implications for democratic education.
This workshop is suitable for educational leaders, educators, instructional designers, and educational technologists interested in exploring the intersection of AI and open education. Participants will leave with actionable insights and resources to begin implementing custom GPT in their own educational contexts.

Finding and Evaluating Open Educational Resources (OER)
2025-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Are you thinking about minimizing costs for your students or your course? Do you want to find material you can customize for your specific needs? Open educational resources might be just what you are looking for. It can be overwhelming to begin looking for material that fits your needs, as there are many different places to search and ways to search for them.
In this session you will be introduced to OER repositories, as well as how to conduct an effective and efficient search to find OER material. You will also be introduced to evaluation methods related to OER that will make finding the right resources a breeze!

Beyond the PDF: 5 Tools for Contemporary OER
2025-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Minnesota State, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Are you overwhelmed by number of technologies and tools available for creating and enhancing OER? This session introduces several tools, focusing on tool types that meet your pedagogical need rather than getting lost in the tech details.

Leveraging LibreTexts and OER to Design AI-Enhanced Assignments
2025-03-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join Ly-Huong Pham, Evergreen Valley College, as she discusses how LibreTexts’ remixing capabilities help faculty design assignments that integrate AI while fostering student engagement and critical thinking.
By seamlessly combining different OERs or chapters, educators can create flexible learning experiences that encourage deeper inquiry. She will share insights from her experience working with students, highlighting their challenges, responses, and lessons learned.

How to Build a Better Textbook
2025-03-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | Centennial College, Toronto, ON, Canada
Brought to you by Collab4Open
Are you frustrated with students not buying the textbook? Can’t find the right material for your course? Tired of publications with all filler and little substance? We have the session for you!
During this hour-long session, learn how to create a free, high-quality textbook by utilizing open resources, publishing techniques, and your valuable expertise. Michelle Johnson, OER Librarian, will introduce you to guiding principles and practical tools in open licensing, professional writing, and instructional design.

How to Build a Better Textbook
2025-03-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Centennial College, Toronto, ON, Canada
Frustrated with students not buying the textbook? Can’t find the right material for your course? Tired of publications with all filler and little substance? We have the session for you!
During this hour-long session, learn how you can create a free, high-quality textbook by utilizing open resources, publishing techniques, and your own valuable expertise. Michelle Johnson, OER Librarian at Centennial College, will introduce you to guiding principles and practical tools in open licensing, professional writing, and instructional design.
See also the Centennial College Open Textbook Template

Open Mind and Open Education
2025-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | University of New Mexico, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Learn about OER, play a creative commons matching game, do crafts with old textbooks, and enjoy some snacks! We will talk about the basic of Open Educational Resources, benefits and examples of OER, open licenses and Creative Commons.
Join us at Zimmerman Library Frank Waters Room 105, University of New Mexico.

OE Week at East Los Angeles College (ELAC) Student Engagement
2025-03-06 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.

Harold Washington College's OER Initiative
2025-03-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
In 2023, Harold Washington College received a grant to find and/or create OER for high-enrollment courses. This presentation discusses what we learned during the process and showcases some of the modules our professors created and curated using LibreTexts. Presenters are Todd Heldt, Carolyn Stevenson, Rosie Banks, and Jack Lindsay.

Copyright Mythbusters Workshop and © Microcourse
2025-03-06 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD), San Mateo, CA, United States
Copyright is tricky business! Join librarians Pia Walawalkar and Ame Maloney of Skyline College to discuss copyright myths and facts related to OER adoption.
Note: While this presentation’s audience is primarily those in the San Mateo County Community College District (California, USA), it is open for all who wish to join us.

Introduction to Editing OER Textbooks in LibreTexts
2025-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join a member of the LibreTexts team as they show you how to edit OER textbooks with LibreTexts. With a powerful, easy to use WYSIWYG interface, and over a million pages of content from which to choose, editing OER with LibreTexts will help you take your OER to the next level.

EDI Community Pulse Check: How are you doing?
2025-03-06 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Online from Multiple Locations
As we navigate through the rapidly changing landscape of higher education in the United States, the CCCOER EDI Committee offers a safe space for the Open Education Community to come together to listen and share our hopes and fears in this uncertain time. Listen or participate- whatever is comfortable for you.
Participants may remain anonymous; however, registration is required, and we may follow up with information about future EDI committee events. The session will not be recorded. Community Guidelines will be in place to promote a respectful conversation.

CESI Open Café: Developing CESI's Digital Archive
2025-03-06 20:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Dublin) | Computers in Education Society of Ireland, Castletown Geoghegan, Ireland
In our special Open Education Week 2025 Open Café, Mags Amond and Kate Molloy from the CESI Executive will reflect on CESI’s recent Digital Repository of Ireland Community Archive Scheme Award, and share their plans to digitise and ingest CESI’s newsletters from the 1980s to early 2010s that document professional development activities, advancements, events, and research in technology in education in Ireland.
This session will outline the application process, vision for the future, and progress so far. We invite CESI members from all eras to contribute to this conversation, and to share ephemera for the archive. It is open to all, and we would welcome the opportunity to hear from other organisations or groups creating and/or maintaining open digital archives.

Interview: OER in the Pacific – Shikha Raturi
2025-03-06 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
In this interview, Dr Shikha Raturi discusses the evolution of OER in the Pacific, emphasising the role of regional collaborations, institutional policies, and government support. She highlights key initiatives, such as Fiji’s early adoption of an OER policy and the University of the South Pacific’s engagement in localisation efforts to ensure cultural relevance. Challenges include the slow pace of localisation, the need for greater teacher training, and the importance of policy development and capacity building. She recommends systematic policy implementation, resource development, and continuous monitoring and research to enhance OER adoption in the region.

. . . but is it Learning? Game-based Learning and Sharing OE Resources in a College Curriculum
2025-03-06 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Regina) | Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
At Sask Polytechnic, we’re learning how to use games in education. Last year, the Saskatoon library set up a gaming lab (the SPARK Lab — Simulated Play And Real Knowledge) and this year we are using an Open education tool called H5P (integrated into Pressbooks) to make interactive learning modules.
This session will explore using game-based learning and gamification, and how they can help engage students, with some success stories. Join Sask Polytechnic instructors and technology support specialists as we discuss gaming in education. Catch our event recordings, if you missed the registration.

Share your work with HARVEST
2025-03-06 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Regina) | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
HARVEST is USask’s Institutional Repository, supporting USask staff, students, and facility in sharing research outputs, open educational resources, and more. Learn how HARVEST can support you in sharing your work and making it easier to discover and re-use, including our new HARVEST Upload Service.

Growing OERs Across Institutions: A Collaborative Cycle
2025-03-06 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Vancouver) | British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Join BCIT instructor Julia Alards-Tomalin and University of Alberta’s Valerie Miller to explore the exciting evolution of a cross-institutional OER project.
Learn how Valerie’s educational game, “Become an Earth Doctor,” sparked a collaboration that led to BCIT students creating expansion decks focused on local BC ecosystems. This collaborative approach fosters a “growing” OER that benefits both institutions and beyond. This inspiring story highlights the power of OERs to bridge distances and create collaborative learning opportunities.

OEWeek Live: March 6 Open Conversations
2025-03-06 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
We are flying through Open Education Week 2025 this week and here is another instance of our OEWeek Live 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:

Robert Lawson (Norquest College, OEGlobal Board Member) on immigration oral storytelling OER project
Karen Cangialosi (RIOS Institute) on intersections of Open Science & Open Pedagogy

Watch live and share your questions and comments through the chat or watch the recording later

Learn More:

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

Open Your Teaching: Enhancing Student Learning through Open Education Resources, Pedagogies, and Practices
2025-03-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Open Education is a teaching and learning approach that utilizes unrestricted access to learning materials, collaborative knowledge creation and inclusive pedagogical practices in order to increase access to knowledge.
In this workshop, we’ll explore the strategies that instructors at UBC are using to open their classrooms, incorporate new resources and perspectives in their learning environments, and contribute to their students’ learning beyond the classroom. We’ll define what makes an educational resource or practice open, identify ways of finding and reusing open materials for your courses, and explore approaches to developing open assignments that empowers students to contribute to public knowledge.
Facilitators:

Erin Fields, Open Education and Scholarly Communications Librarian, UBC Library
Will Engle, Strategist – Open Education Initiatives, CTLT

Building Assignments in LibreTexts ADAPT Open Homework and Assessment Platform
2025-03-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, as he shows you how to build assignments in LibreTexts open homework and assessment platform, ADAPT.
Participants will learn how to build autograded questions based on four technologies – H5P, WebWork, IMathAS, and native (QTI) – that can be used interchangeably to allow for maximal impact.
Currently sponsored by the California Education Learning Lab (CELL), ADAPT is free for all California instructors and students. For educators outside of California, ADAPT is available at cost–with a price point far below what traditional publishers charge.
