Understanding Creative Commons Licenses
2026-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Blacksburg, United States, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Are you curious about Creative Commons licenses? We will discuss what they signify, why they are valuable, what you can do with them — and how. This session from the Virginia Tech Library is relevant to anyone who works with information (that’s you!) and wants to know more about digital citizenship and sharing for the public good. We’ll also discuss “CC Signals” which are designed to communicate author preferences to AI crawlers. Join us for a brief 30-minute presentation and stay until noon for discussion.

Open Education Free Book Fair
2026-03-03 11:00 - 2026-03-04 13:00 (America/Denver) | Albuquerque, United States, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Join UNM OER and the Friends of the Public Library for a free book giveaway! The Friends will bring a wide selection of books for UNM students to take home.
Along with free books, you’ll also learn about the power of Open Educational Resources (OER):

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that anyone can freely use, adapt, and share. OER lower costs for students, expand access to course materials, and give educators the flexibility to customize content.

Stop by to:

Pick up a free book to enjoy.

There will be books in many languages to choose form: Arabic, English, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili

Learn how OER is transforming access to knowledge.
Explore how open licensing makes it possible to reuse and remix educational and research materials.
Get details on other Open Education Week events happening across campus.

Student Perspectives on Open Educational Resources (OER): Survey Results & Reflections
2026-03-03 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Vancouver) | Burnaby, Canada, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Many instructors are exploring open educational resources (OER) as a way to make course materials more affordable, flexible, and up to date. But what do students think? And what are the implications of their experiences on course design?
In celebration of Open Education Week, join the Open Education Community of Practice for a conversation highlighting students’ perspectives on using open educational resources (OER) at Simon Fraser University (SFU).
This session will share key findings from two recent student surveys: one conducted by the Library and Learning Experiences Assessment & Planning (LEAP) focused on students’ experiences using open textbooks and other OER in the classroom, and a student satisfaction survey from the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) exploring questions around student affordability, course material costs and OER alternatives. These presentations will be followed by a discussion exploring community needs, questions, and opportunities to strengthen support for OER and open education here at SFU.
Speakers
Marcius Sim—Quantitative Analyst, Learning Experiences Assessment & Planning (LEAP)
Jessica Lamb—Vice President External & Community Affairs, Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS)
Facilitators
Hope Power—Teaching & Learning Librarian (Library)
Parm Gill—Instructional Designer (Centre for Educational Excellence)
Brian Lorraine—Instructional Designer (Centre for Educational Excellence)

Creating Open Content with Pressbooks and H5P
2026-03-03 11:30 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Hamilton, Canada, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Did you know McMaster has single-sign on to Pressbooks, an easy-to-use open content publishing platform for creating (or adapting) online resources such as textbooks, guidebooks, modules, lab manuals, student-generated assignments, and more? This session will provide an overview of Pressbooks and the dynamic features that are natively baked in – including H5P interactivity, Hypothes.is annotation and embedded multimedia. If you’re looking to self-publish content of any length, and want a simple tool that enables customization, flexibility and accessible, varied publishing formats with web-hosting options, Pressbooks may be right for you. We’ll look at examples of instructor-created and student-created content and get you started on using Pressbooks for your teaching and learning.

eCampusOntario offers free access to H5P, a powerful tool for creating interactive learning elements. H5P allows you to design engaging activities—such as quizzes, drag-and-drop exercises, interactive videos, and more—that can be seamlessly embedded into Avenue to Learn. This session will provide an overview of H5P and showcase a variety of interactive elements that instructors can use to enhance student engagement in online courses. Whether you’re looking to create dynamic learning experiences or explore innovative ways to present content, H5P offers an intuitive and flexible solution. Join us to see real-world examples, learn how to integrate H5P into your course, and get started with designing interactive activities for your teaching and learning.

Open Education Book Fair
2026-03-03 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Vancouver) | Nanaimo, Canada, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Think Scholastic Book Fair vibes — but everything is free.
The Open Education Book Fair invites you to browse openly licensed textbooks and course materials, learn how Open Educational Resources (OERs) make learning more affordable and accessible, and explore Vancouver Island University’s Zero Textbook Cost Pilot Program.
Chat with folks from VIUSU, BCcampus, VIU Librarians, and VIU CIEL Staff to discover tools and resources you can use right away, and enjoy free snacks as you browse. All materials are free, available from day one, and require no access codes or extra costs. Come for the nostalgia, stay for the savings.

1, 2, 3. Z, T, C. : Simple shifting to Zero Textbook Cost
2026-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | Saskatoon, Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
At Sask Polytechnic, some programs are excited about their adaptation of courses to ZTC.
Join course instructors and program heads as they discuss the advantages (are there any issues?) of going 1,2,3 . . . ZTC. Learn the fastest way to go ZTC and make your course more affordable (and effective). Pre-registration is required. A recording will be available with a link sent out to all registrants.

Customizing Open Educational Resources for your Class
2026-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Indianapolis, United States, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Interested in free customizable instructional materials? Join the University Library at the Indiana University Indianapolis to learn how the Pressbooks online ebook platform can help you find Open Educational Resources (OER), mix and match chapters from multiple books and resources, customize materials to reflect your class’s needs, or create your own content to share with students.
In this webinar we will demonstrate and discuss

accessing Pressbooks
finding OER using the Pressbooks Directory
importing OER content into your own Pressbook
tips on customizing and creating content to meet your course needs

Mediating Change: Community Networks for Open Education/ Catalyser le changement : réseaux communautaires pour l’éducation ouverte
2026-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Toronto, Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
This webinar explores how communities of practice and mediation—and the tools they use to stay informed and build capacity in their profession—can become the driving force behind open professional learning in FSL and French-language education in minority contexts. Building on the Communautés Camerise model, a Canadian project co-led by York, Ottawa, Laurier, 10 school boards and partner organizations, as an interinstitutional space for innovation and training, we will highlight how formal and informal exchanges, resource sharing, and cross-sector collaboration (school boards, postsecondary institutions, and associations) can reduce professional isolation and transform “good ideas and/or practices” into adaptable, transferable open educational resources (OER) for professional learning that can move across contexts.
Participants will examine how mediation across communities (bridging roles, shared protocols, and feedback loops) enables a shift from informal sharing to sustained co-creation of OER : educators exchanging practice-based knowledge, iterating on resources, and producing ready-to-use materials designed to be reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed—principles at the heart of open education. The session will showcase a concrete “ecosystem” that communities can build and maintain together: a hub to design, test, and share professional learning resources and practices; a collaboration incubator to strengthen supportive networks among institutions and individuals; and a living observatory to continuously document needs and support evidence-informed improvement.
During this webinar, participants will discover practical community tools that support the development of open-content prototypes: pedagogical scanning/curation, collaborative work and exchange spaces, shared templates, and lightweight documentation of pathways (from one classroom/ecosystem to another) that preserves context so others can responsibly reuse and modify resources. We will also discuss how a continuous experimentation mindset—including supportive tools such as AI-assisted planning aligned with competency-based assessment such as CEFR/DELF and curriculum—can accelerate iteration while keeping professional judgment, inclusion, and accessibility at the center of instructional design practices for developing teaching units.
By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with: (1) a community exchange map identifying key mediation points and the tools that enable collaboration, (2) an open prototype (resource, workflow, or professional learning content concept) to refine with peers, and (3) a practical plan to sustain OER creation through community governance, shared accountability, and ongoing peer-supported upskilling.

Lighten Your Load: Using AI Tools to Enhance OER
2026-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Mateo, United States, San Mateo, CA, United States
Are you hesitant to adopt Open Educational Resources (OER) because you miss the robust support materials provided by major publishers? Join San Mateo CCCD Textbook Affordability Solutions Workgroup for a practical workshop that bridges the gap between free content and engaging learning materials, with apps available within Canvas and the district. We will demonstrate powerful workflows: first, using Google Gemini to instantly “remix” open content into accessible summaries and ancillary materials; and second, deploying Nectir AI within Canvas to act as a coach or tutor.
Takeaways:

Learn to use current available tools, i.e. Gemini, NectirAI, to generate ancillary course materials, test banks, and more
Learn to use CCCCO provided tools, i.e., Gemini, to enhance audio visual materials

Colorado Student Panel
2026-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | Denver, United States, Denver, CO, United States
The Colorado OER Council celebrates Open Education Week with a panel of Colorado students who are passionate about OER! Five student panelists from will discuss their experience with open educational resources (OER) and how zero textbook cost materials have helped them pursue their higher education goals.
Speakers

Caterina Belle Azzarello, Doctoral Candidate in Educational Psychology at the University of Northern Colorado
Haylee Carrillo, Colorado State University Pueblo
Mallory Reiswig, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Kate Kaemmerling, Colorado Mountain College
Sebastian Barreda, Associate of Arts in Business Studies, Colorado Northwestern Community College; Resident Assistant & PTK Treasurer

Host: Brian Healy, M.S., Lecturer of Communication Studies, Metropolitan State University of Denver
The webinar will be recorded and captioned.

OER from Creation to Classroom
2026-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Curious about bringing more open, flexible, and affordable learning materials into your courses?
The Vancouver Community College Open Education Working Group invites you to OER from Creation to Classroom, a panel discussion designed to demystify adopting, adapting, and creating Open Educational Resources (OER).
You’ll hear firsthand experiences from our panelists Julie Crouse (NSCC), Shantel Ivits (VCC), Venecia Williams (VCC), and Cheryl Wright (VCC). This session will include lessons learned from our panelists who have created, adopted or interacted with OER in their classrooms.
This event is possible due to the financial support of BCcampus and is being held as a part of Open Education Week (OEWeek), an annual global celebration dedicated to sharing and promoting achievements in Open Education.

We look forward to having you attend the event!

Wie verändert Künstliche Intelligenz die Open Education?
2026-03-03 12:15 - 13:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Luzern, Switzerland, Luzern, Switzerland
In einer Mixed-Methods-Erhebung unter OER-Lead-User:innen, twillo-User:innen und Vizepräsident:innen für Studium und Lehre sowie Studiendekan:innen im Kontext des niedersächsischen OER-Verbunds twillo ging das HIS-Institut für Hochschulentwicklung (HIS-HE) der Frage nach, in welcher Weise generative KI-Anwendungen für die Open Education produktiv eingesetzt werden können. Rund 60 % der Befragten schrieben der KI-Nutzung ein hohes Potenzial im OER-Kontext zu. Gleichzeitig wurden rechtliche Unsicherheiten, inhaltliche Herausforderungen und pragmatische Schwierigkeiten als wesentliche Hindernisse für den effektiven Einsatz von KI in der OER-Produktion identifiziert. Welche Rückschlüsse lassen sich daraus für Lehrende, Zentrale Dienste und die Hochschulentwicklung ziehen?
Leitung: Dr. Klaus Wannemacher, Funda Seyfeli-Özhizalan, Dr. Mathias Stein (alle HIS-HE e.V.)

Opening the Book on Access: A Nursing Faculty’s First OER Experience
2026-03-03 13:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Purchase, United States, Purchase, NY, United States
I took a leap and implemented an OER textbook in my Population and Environmental Health Nursing course in Fall 2025. The results were positive in so many ways! My purpose is to encourage other faculty to improve textbook affordability and equity in nursing education. Here is my story:
This case study explores the implementation and impact of an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook in a prelicensure Population and Environmental Health Nursing course for senior nursing students. During the Fall 2025 semester, a group of 39 students used an OpenStax OER textbook in a sixteen-week, in-person course instead of a traditional, commercially published textbook.
The goal of this project was to evaluate student satisfaction and academic outcomes related to using OER materials. Data were collected through a post-course survey that assessed satisfaction, perceived learning, and accessibility, along with comparing Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI) proctored exam scores to those of a previous semester’s cohort who had to purchase a traditional textbook.
Results showed high student satisfaction, with participants citing ease of access on the first day of class, affordability, and similar or improved learning experiences. Analysis of ATI scores indicated that students in the OER group performed as well as their peers using traditional textbooks, suggesting that cost savings did not negatively impact academic performance. Switching to OER materials saved approximately $150 per student, totaling nearly $6,000 in savings for the entire cohort. This is especially important, as over half of the program’s nursing students are Pell Grant-eligible, highlighting the financial equity benefits of adopting OER resources in nursing education. Overall, this case study endorses OER integration as a sustainable, student-centered strategy to improve access, affordability, and achievement in undergraduate nursing education.

OpenEd: Intro for Faculty
2026-03-03 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego, United States, San Diego, CA, United States
Curious about Open Educational Resources but not sure where to start? Join San Diego Community College District for a friendly, hands-on intro to OER—what they are, why they’re a game-changer for students, and how you can easily find great open materials for your courses. We’ll tour popular OER repositories, share tips for spotting quality resources, and show how going “open” can make your teaching more flexible and your students’ lives a little easier. No experience needed!

Open Educational Resources (OER): cosa sono, dove trovarle, come riusarle
2026-03-03 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Rome) | Milano, Italy, Milano, Italy
Politecnico di Milano – METID Task Force Learning Innovation invites you to join this webinar to explore the basics of Open Educational Resources (OER): What are OER? Where can you find them? What does it mean to create an OER? What are CC licences?
We will explore the basics to involve more teachers, researchers, content experts and practitioners at large in the community and answer their questions. This webinar is the first of a two-part series. The second one is planned for 4 March 2026, 1-2:30 pm CET. To register for both webinars, please use the linked form. Both webinars will be in Italian.
Il Politecnico di Milano – METID Task Force Learning Innovation vi invita a partecipare a questo webinar per approfondire le nozioni di base sulle Risorse Educative Aperte (OER): Cosa sono le OER? Dove si possono trovare? Cosa significa creare una OER? Cosa sono le licenze CC?
Esploreremo le nozioni di base per coinvolgere un numero maggiore di insegnanti, ricercatori, esperti di contenuti e professionisti in generale nella comunità e rispondere alle loro domande. Questo webinar è il primo di una serie di due. Il secondo è previsto per il 4 marzo 2026, dalle 13:00 alle 14:30 CET. Per registrarsi a entrambi i webinar, si prega di utilizzare il link qui sotto. Entrambi i webinar saranno in italiano.

90-Minute Webinar: Water is Still Life – Visualizing Native and Indigenous Resistance to Generative AI
2026-03-03 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Albany, United States, Albany, OR, United States
Join Marco Seiferle-Valencia, Open Education Librarian, University of Idaho, for a talk on the AI environmental challenges presented by the mass adoption of generative AI.
A brief breathing practice with Marianne Tanner, Part-time Faculty Librarian, Portland Community College, will help us envision our own roles as information and truth protectors.

Pressbooks, Omeka and TIND, Oh My!
2026-03-03 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Providence, United States, Providence, RI, United States
This session will introduce you to tools and platforms offered by Rhode Island College and the Adams Library for digitally publishing faculty and student creative and scholarly works. Explore the college archives and institutional repository and discover opportunities to publish ebooks and online exhibits.

Finding, Using, and Creating Open Educational Resources
2026-03-03 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Whether adapting an existing OER, transitioning your course materials into the Open, or creating an OER from scratch, you will likely be using materials created by others. Because Open doesn’t just apply to the finished resource but all of the elements within the resource, it is important to ensure that everything you include in your OER respects licensing requirements. In this session we will walk you through some strategies for finding open content to adapt, or include within your learning resources, as well as best practices for attribution. We will also provide you with guidance for developing your own search plan and documentation, including a workflow and templates for curating resource details.
This session will cover:

Identifying open educational resource repositories and online spaces for finding content
Developing a search plan for finding resources across platforms
Developing a workflow for curating resource details for use in an open educational resource project
Identifying terms of use and licensing of resources and attribution practice

OER at Excelsior University
2026-03-03 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Albany, United States, Albany, OR, United States
Please join us in kicking off OER Week with a presentation highlighting the current landscape of OER use and creation at Excelsior! An overview of OER as adopted course materials will be provided as well as an explain on how OER adoption connects to ZTC course designation. We will then discuss Excelsior’s growth from OER adoption to creation and publication and hear from some of our very own OER authors!
Registration requires an Excelsior login.

No-Cost Textbooks and AI: How AI is Powering Free and Open Course Materials, a Lecture and Discussion by David Wiley
2026-03-03 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Winter Park, United States, Winter Park, FL, United States
As generative AI increasingly impacts higher education, long-standing assumptions about textbooks, course materials, and access to knowledge are being reexamined.
In this lecture and discussion, David Wiley, an internationally recognized leader in Open Educational Resources, explores how generative AI intersects with Open Educational Resources in the context of the college classroom. He examines both the opportunities and tensions of AI-powered course materials and what they mean for affordability, pedagogical innovation, and the future of learning.
Whether you’re new to OER, experimenting with AI in your teaching, or just interested in the idea of no-cost course materials, this session offers a timely and grounded perspective on where free and open learning materials may be headed next.
Students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors are welcome to attend. Food and refreshments will be provided.
Hosted by Rollins College Olin Library. Lecture funded by the Thomas P. Johnson Grant Fund.

Open Pedagogy: Reinvigorate Class with Renewable Assignments
2026-03-03 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Richmond, United States, Richmond, VA, United States
This is a workshop offered by the J. Sargeant Reynolds Library that will emphasize the instructional side of open pedagogy, exploring the difference between renewable and traditional assignments. We will go over examples of renewable assignments, with an emphasis on the opportunities afforded by online platforms such as Wikipedia and LinkedIn. We will also brush up on Open Education Resources and how to find free textbooks that will be an ideal fit for your class.

Learning Outcomes:

Clear understanding of Renewable Assignments

Ways in which online platforms can be used to leverage student confidence and multiple learning outcomes.

Familiarity with Reynolds Libraries Open Education Resources Faculty Guide.

IADT Open Educational Resources (OER) Workshop - in partnership with TUS
2026-03-03 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | Athlone, Ireland, Athlone, Ireland
To mark Open Education Week 2026, TUS is partnering with IADT to deliver an Open Educational Resources (OER) Workshop for IADT faculty.
This workshop will explore:

Defining characteristics of OER
OER examples across design, art, entrepreneurship, business and psychology
Copyright considerations for OER creators
Open Licenses, such as Creative Commons
Open Licensing supports
Mechanisms to share OER to maximise reach, impact and reuse

Open Education Week 2026: T&L Seminar for IADT Staff
2026-03-03 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Athlone, Ireland, Athlone, Ireland
Open Education Global (OEGlobal): Open Education Week runs from 2nd–6th March, 2026
Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dr. Selina Guinness & Jane Buggle, in partnership with Technological University of the Shannon, Athlone Campus, is pleased to host a 90-minute interactive workshop led by Maura Flynn, OER Librarian and lead for the Developing Open Educational Resources initiative at TUS Athlone Student Resource Centre.
This session will support our 2025 Teaching & Learning Fellows and staff participants in developing their Higher Education Authority NFETL SATLE-funded fellowship project submissions as Open Educational Resources for publication on the Illustro Institutional Repository. This will provide a permanent showcase within our dedicated SATLE teaching and learning collection.
The event will bring together educators, students, librarians, and open education advocates to share ideas, highlight effective practice, and strengthen collaboration across the open education community. This workshop reflects IADT’s ongoing commitment to supporting staff in the creation and use of Open Educational Resources. Ireland’s Campus for the Creative Industries.
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#LifelongLearning

Faculty Voices: Unlocking Affordable Education with OER at TAMU
2026-03-03 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | College Station, United States, College Station, TX, United States
Join us for an engaging moderated panel discussion featuring faculty members who are leading the charge in making education more accessible and affordable. In this session, instructors will share their experiences and insights on adopting Open Educational Resources (OER), utilizing course reserves, and leveraging library-licensed materials to eliminate or significantly reduce textbook costs for their students. Panelists include: Dr. Vanessa Coffelt, Dr. Ryan Fletcher, Dr. Jeremiah Green, Dr. Catharina Laporte, and Dr. Aurora Le.
(in person, Evans Library 202A)

Stronger Together: The Network of Open Organizations
2026-03-03 17:30 - 18:30 (Europe/Paris) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
The Network of Open Organizations is a global alliance of diverse institutions and leaders committed to expanding open education and access to knowledge worldwide. Launched in 2019 and coordinated by Open Education Global, the Network brings together educational institutions, NGOs, inter-governmental bodies, and other open advocates to collaborate on shared goals, including supporting the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER) and advancing broader open education initiatives worldwide. By fostering ongoing dialogue, mutual support, and coordinated action, the Network helps amplify collective efforts, share best practices, and align global, regional, and local strategies for openness in education and beyond.
At its core, the Network serves as a learning and collaboration hub—a space where members exchange insights, and also seek to co-develop initiatives, and engage with complex challenges that no single organisation could address alone.
The Network of Open Organizations meets online on the first Tuesday of each month. Join us for the session during Open Education Week on Tuesday, 3 March from 5:30 pm until 6:30 Paris time to engage with selected representatives of the Network of Open Organizations members, learn about the network activities and future intentions and information on how to join.

Be Popular Series (Part 2 of 3) – Using the Free ADAPT Homework System
2026-03-04 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego, United States, San Diego, CA, United States
Explore ADAPT, the OER homework system offered and supported by LibreTexts, which integrates with Canvas LMS. This workshop from San Diego Community College District will guide you through creating a course in ADAPT to host homework activities and linking them to Canvas for seamless integration of graded assignments in your online courses. You’ll learn how to create your own homework questions, upload QTI files with pre-made questions, or use interactive activities like H5P, MyOpenMath, and more!

Faculty OER Practitioner Thank You
2026-03-04 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | Scottsdale, United States, Scottsdale, AZ, United States
Scottsdale Community College’s OER Committee is sending an email to students enrolled in courses using OER and inviting them to fill out a brief form thanking their instructor for choosing to use OER in place of costly learning materials.
The students are asked to share what they do with the money they’d otherwise have spent on textbooks and also what they like most about having OER in their course. We then collect these responses and print up personalized thank-you placards that are placed on the faculty’s office door as a surprise for Open Education Week.

OE Week at ELAC
2026-03-04 08:00 - 2026-03-08 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Los Angeles, United States, Los Angeles, CA, United States
East Los Angeles College (ELAC) students will be welcomed to learn more about ZTC at our table on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday during OE week.
We will table from 11am – 2pm, and there will be information about ZTC courses, a visual representation of how much students pay for textbooks in the previous semesters, item giveaways, and interviews conducted by our media department to post on social media.

From Shared Curriculum to AI Co-Creation: A Hands-On Workshop with TAI
2026-03-04 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Chicago) | Elizabethtown, United States, Elizabethtown, KY, United States
At OEWeek 2025, ScholarRX explored strategies for developing open education resources (OER) in health professions education, grounded in the idea of a shared global curricular ecosystem. This year, we take the next step.
What happens when AI becomes a collaborative partner in building and localizing open curriculum?
This interactive workshop invites participants to move beyond discussion and into design. Using TAI (Teaching with Artificial Intelligence), ScholarRx’s AI teaching assistant, attendees will experiment with AI-supported curriculum creation in real time. While ScholarRx’s roots are in health professions education, this workshop is designed for educators and instructional designers across higher education.
Rather than positioning AI as a tool that does the writing for you, we frame it as a partner to help educators:

Clarify learning objectives
Structure modular learning experiences
Generate formative questions
Transform existing materials (e.g., PowerPoints, PDFs, lecture transcripts)into structured learning experiences
Localize and adapt materials for different learners
Translate and expand open resources responsibly

Participants will work individually or in small groups to develop a draft open learning module relevant to their own context, with TAI as a co-creator. Participants are encouraged to bring an existing slide deck, document, or transcript they’d like to reimagine.
Workshop Outcomes

By the end of this session, participants will:
Develop a draft open learning module using AI-supported instructional design
Identify where AI meaningfully supports
and where it should not replace — educator expertise
Understand practical considerations around licensing and attribution in AI-assisted OER development
Gain hands-on experience using TAI in a structured instructional workflow

Education that Brings Us Closer
2026-03-04 09:00 - 10:00 (Europe/Chisinau) | Balti, Moldova, Republic of, Balti, Moldova, Republic of
On March 4, 2026, the Scientific Library of Alecu Russo State University of Bălți (USARB) will host the academic panel “Education that Brings Us Closer: An Academic Portrait of Silvia Briceag – 10 Years Since the Publication of Her Course Materials.”
The event will highlight the teaching and research contributions of Silvia Briceag, University Professor, as well as the impact of her works on generations of students.The panel will also emphasize the role of the USARB Scientific Library in enhancing the visibility, dissemination, and digital accessibility of the author’s publications.
The program will further include the exhibition “Open Education: Landmarks, Methods and Experiences,” featuring Open Educational Practices (OEP) that underpin Open Education (OE), including the integration of Open Access (OA) and the use of Open Educational Resources (OER)
