Open Education Week

Higher Education for Good Chapter Conversation with Paola Corti and Chrissi Nerantzi
2024-03-05 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
With the open release into the world of the monumental project Higher Education for Good (HE4Good) co-edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, we are pleased to bring you for Open Education Week, a series OE Week Live conversations focusing on deeper discussions of individual chapters.
In this session we spend time exploring Chapter 11, Calm in the storm, with authors Paola Corti and Chrissi Nerantzi plus co-editor Catherine Cronin.
As an example of the innovative format of HE4Good, this chapter is a combination of an audio podcast with a reflective activity aimed at using metaphors from natural places to situate ourselves in these times.
We propose that our contribution could be used as an alternative conversation trigger, in whole or in part. The use we make of both audio and written visual language offers alternative ways to uncover and discover novel connections. The format we have chosen is an open invitation to immerse the listener and/or reader with us and our thinking and to encourage conversation. Readers/listeners can use a range of metaphors from nature and the world around you to explore, discuss and debate challenging issues and opportunities with other educators and students. The metaphors can be linked to higher education experiences and practices to better understand what is important, to see the higher education landscape with fresh eyes, and to identify and embrace positive ways forward.
The chapter is a guided discussion about the ideas of the education landscape using metaphors of Paola Corti’s photo of Valtellina valley.
Valtellina valley, Italy. Photo by Paola Corti. https://pxhere.com/it/photo/1667214, CC0
We hope to have an open discussion to explore and inquire about the metaphor shared in the chapter, share our own visual metaphors, and contemplate how this activity might help more of us find the calmness in the storms that keep coming. How are metaphors useful for understanding building the better futures presented in HE4Good?
This session will be streamed live to YouTube and you are invited to watch there and to send messages to our guests in the OE Week Live studio. Join us at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIUKjQ2UaOA (this link is also where you can find the recording afterward). And if are interested in contributing to the conversation with our guests, indicate this session on the OE Week Live sign up form.
Participants are asked to listen/review the chapter in advance of this session https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0363.1 and to consider adding comments to the chapter using Hypothes.is web annotation
We also will, continue conversations with the authors in OEG Connect
If you would like to share an open licensed photo of a place that you think could work as a conversation starter, please post ahead of time to our We Like Sharing @ OEGlobal collection and we might use it during the session.

We look forward to having you be part of this HE4Good Chapter Conversation

Community Conversations: Managing Knowledge In Communities
2024-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online from Multiple Locations
We Are Open Co-op and Participate have been running conversational workshops to help people unlock the potential of Communities of Practice and explore Open Recognition. This new workshop, Managing Knowledge in Communities will help participants:

Recognise and think about personal knowledge management versus community knowledge management
Apply knowledge management tools to community practices
Encourage designated time for community knowledge management work

The Open Recognition is for Everybody (ORE) community is a place to explore the intersection between Open Recognition and Communities of Practice. Thanks to Participate, we’ve been maintaining Badge Wiki for a number of years. Now, we’re excited to use it as an example as we pull back the curtain on community knowledge management.

Information About OERs Table at CSCC
2024-03-05 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Columbus State Community College, 550 E Spring St, Columbus, OH, United States
An opportunity to raise awareness of OERs amongst the community at Columbus State Community College (CSCC).

Vitrine REL 2024 - Partie 1
2024-03-05 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Université d’Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
La Vitrine REL est une série de présentations éclair permettant aux créatrices et créateurs de ressources éducatives libres de partager le fruit de leurs travaux. Conçu pour mettre en évidence les REL en français ou dans les deux langues officielles, cet événement est possible grâce à une collaboration entre la Bibliothèque de l’Université d’Ottawa et la fabriqueREL.

OER and Open Access in Sweden - national guidelines are here
2024-03-05 16:00 - 16:45 (Europe/Stockholm) | Sveriges Universitets & Högskoleförbund (SUHF), Stockholm, Sweden
On behalf of the Swedish government, the National Library of Sweden (Kungliga biblioteket, KB) has recently developed national guidelines for open science, including a section on Open Educational Resources (OER). In conjunction with this work and guidelines, the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (SUHF) has updated their roadmap for Open Science and includes now also a section on OER. The roadmap is directed towards the executive management roles at Swedish Higher Education Institutions and includes detailed guidance as well as clear goals to achieve until 2026.
In this event, we will present the recommendations and goals of both the national guidelines as well as SUHFs roadmap. It is a follow up of the presentation of SUHFs working group at OEglobal 2023 in Edmonton, Canada.

Trent University OER Development Sprint: Drop-In Sessions
2024-03-05 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
2024 OER Development Sprint
with your eCampusOntario Open Rangers: Kim English, Brent Ryan Bellamy & Friends!
• Understanding OER (Open Educational Resources)
• Adopting, adapting, remixing & revising existing OER
• Creating & sharing new OER
• Building open community
Open Education Week 2024
Kick off event: March 4th, 11am-1pm
Drop-in: March 5-8, 11am-1pm

OERHub Launch! Come and learn about the newest OER platform
2024-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Learnful, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Announcing OERHub!
OERHub is a free and open community for educators to create, share, and collaborate on OER initiatives.

Create and share H5P
Create curated collections of OER
Create a Hub for your organization, project, or community
Easily search, discover, and remix OER shared by the community

Join our introductory session to learn more about OERHub, what you will be able to do with it, and how you can get early access.
Join Video Call (11am EST)
or visit oerhub.app and signup with registration code: OEWeek2024

RELathon : contribuons à l’éducation ouverte!
2024-03-05 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Chaire Unesco RELIA – Nantes Université France, Halle 6 Ouest - Pole Universitaire interdisciplinaire des cultures numeriques 42 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne, Nantes, France
Contribuons à un projet à impact : un challenge collectif en ligne sur les ressources éducatives libres et l’IA.
Présentation du thème
Le projet Florilège, porté par la Chaire UNESCO RELIA, vise à créer une grande collection de ressources éducatives libres francophones, pour en faciliter l’accès à toutes et tous.
L’objectif est d’enrichir cette collection, autant quantitativement que qualitativement.
C’est dans ce contexte que nous organisons un atelier participatif permettant à toute personne intéressée de contribuer à ce projet.
Nous parlerons REL, licences Creative Commons, mais aussi intelligence artificielle !
Nous explorerons en effet comment l’IA peut aider à faciliter l’accès aux ressources éducatives. Si vous le souhaitez, il vous sera également possible de participer à l’atelier sans l’utiliser.
Dans tous les cas, la majeure partie de l’atelier sera consacrée à une mise en pratique collective et des temps d’échanges sont également prévus !
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Pour participer au RELathon, vous devez avoir installé en amont l’extension Florilège 1.5
C’est en 5 étapes et cela prend 5 minutes top chrono !
Voici les étapes :

Si ce n’est pas déjà fait, téléchargez gratuitement le navigateur Firefox.
Téléchargez l’extension Florilège v1.5 en cliquant sur le lien suivant : récupérer l’extension v1.5.
Dans Firefox, en haut à droite, 2 options au choix :
soit vous cliquez sur l’icône en forme de pièce de puzzle, puis sur “Extensions” (à gauche) ;
soit vous cliquez sur les 3 lignes horizontales, puis sur “Extensions et thèmes”.
Cliquez sur la roue crantée à droite de “Gestion de vos extensions”, puis cliquez sur “Installer un module depuis un fichier”.

Sélectionnez le fichier de l’extension téléchargé (florilege-X.X.xpi).
Et voilà, vous êtes prêt·e pour le RELathon !
Important : Si vous n’avez pas téléchargé l’extension Florilège V 1.5 en amont, il vous sera impossible de contribuer au challenge.
Si vous avez téléchargé une version précédente de l’extension Florilège, vous devez la supprimer et la remplacer par la V1.5.
Pour plus d’infos : https://florilege.ls2n.fr/instructions/

Higher Education for Good Chapter Conversation with Jim Luke
2024-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
As 2024 highlight project and exemplar of open collaboration, Higher Education for Good (HE4Good) has been out in the world a few months. With the support of co-editors Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, we are pleased to bring you for Open Education Week, a series OE Week Live conversations focusing on deeper discussions of individual chapters.
In this session we invite you to discusser and explore the concept and meaning of the “open knowledge commons” described by author Jim Luke in Chapter 6, Closing the factory: Reimagining higher education as commons.
“The chapter encompasses the evolution of three imaginaries of higher education, two of which have repeated historically across the globe. In the early 21st century, an opportunity for a third imaginary has emerged, one that holds great promise and I propose needs the attention and efforts of both academics and the larger society.” Jim describes the characteristics of the two historic imaginaries as the “elite knowledge commons” and the “knowledge factory” and then challenges us to imagine what he calls the “knowledge commons.”
Join the conversation with Jim and co-editor Laura Czerniewicz to probe his construct of social imaginaries for higher education, and the evolution he describes for the first two, the “elite knowledge commons” and the “knowledge factory.” How does these align or not with the desire to create that better future of higher education? Do we know we are “in the water”? How can academia and society shift the mode forward to the open knowledge commons?
This session will be streamed live to YouTube and you are invited to watch there and to send messages to our guests in the OE Week Live studio. Join us at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFj8MpH3VGg (this link is also where you can find the recording afterward). And if are interested in contributing to the conversation with our guests in the studio, indicate this session on the OE Week Live sign up form.
Participants are asked to review chapter 6 in advance of this session and to consider adding comments or questions to the chapter using Hypothes.is web annotation.
We look forward to having you be part of this HE4Good Chapter Conversation.

Future Skills for a World Shaped by AI
2024-03-05 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Madrid) | EDEN Digital Learning Europe, Kuklase tn 16-12, 13423, Tallinn, Tallinn, Estonia
“AIComp – Future Skills for a Life World Shaped by AI” marks a pioneering endeavor in the realm of educational and professional development. It is developed through the NextEducation Research Group and presents the most comprehensive study to date on the subject. It sheds light on the evolving requirements that professionals face in both their careers and personal lives in an era increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence.
This groundbreaking study stands out as the first to adopt a fully action-competence-oriented approach, reconstructing an empirical competency model directly from the data gathered from over 1,600 professionals. The European skill model AIComp (Artificial Intelligence Competences) was meticulously developed through the collaborative efforts of the AI-Campus and AI-Campus Hub projects, alongside with 13 partners from education, research and industry.
By delving into the competency needs that emerge as AI becomes more integral to our professional and personal spheres, AIComp offers invaluable insights into preparing for a future where artificial intelligence shapes significant aspects of our existence. This study not only maps out the terrain of future skills but also pioneers a methodological approach that promises to influence how we understand and respond to the demands of a world transformed by AI

Key Findings and Student Reflections from the “Illinois Course Materials Survey: Student Perspective”
2024-03-05 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Chicago) | Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, 1704 Insterstate Dr, Champaign, IL, United States
The Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) conducted the 2023 “Illinois Course Materials Survey: Student Perspective” in order to identify Illinois students’ needs regarding affordable course materials and interest in Open Educational Resources or other affordable course material options. CARLI staff are pleased to report key findings from the survey and a student panel will reflect on these results.

LibreTexts Open Office Hours
2024-03-05 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Have a burning question about the LibreTexts project you’ve been dying to ask? Drop in to one of LibreTexts open office hours during Open Education Week and ask away!

OER Rangers Panel Discussions: Accessibility
2024-03-05 12:00 - 12:30 (America/Toronto) | eCampusOntario, 372 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Join us for a two-day showcase of the OER Rangers program. As part of a train-the-trainer approach to Open Education, the Open Library has convened four panels where our 2023 cohort of Open Education Rangers will share their insights on a multitude of topics. Having spent the year working to raise awareness, build capacity and advocate for Open education at their institutions, the showcase will be an opportunity to learn from the experts. Attendees will have a chance to ask questions and learn about varying facets of open education.
For our first of four panels, join us as Rangers share their journey through the program, focusing on their insights into accessibility within OER. They will discuss key takeaways and future directions for Open Educational Resources.

Advancing Planetary Health Through Open Education
2024-03-05 20:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Baghdad) | ScholarRX, Elizabethtown, KY, United States
Join ScholarRx’s transformative session, “Advancing Planetary Health Through Open Education” during Open Education Week. This event shines a spotlight on the urgent need to integrate planetary health into the education of current and future health professionals. As we face the critical challenges of climate change and environmental degradation, this session will explore how open education can facilitate access to essential knowledge on planetary health, fostering a global network of informed, empowered health practitioners ready to lead in sustainability and planetary health advocacy.
Whether you’re a health professional, educator, student, or advocate for environmental sustainability, this event will equip you with the understanding and resources needed to play an active role in promoting planetary health.

The power, potential, and problems of open education for sustainable development- presented by Nick Baker and Mark Lubrick
2024-03-05 12:00 - 12:20 (America/Toronto) | University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Open education can be a powerful contributor to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), but it requires a carefully considered approach to avoid compounding existing inequalities or contributing further to sustainability challenges with the rapid implementation of digital tools with questionable sustainability. Open Educational Practices (OEP) and Open Educational Resources (OERs) can contribute to expanded learning about each of the SDGs, making knowledge available to a wide audience. OERs can also directly contribute to SDG 4 (Quality Education), removing barriers to access. The 2019 UNESCO Recommendation on OER challenges educational institutions to support the transformation of education for sustainability by leveraging digital OER ecosystems and committing to a new social contract with high quality, inclusive, and sustainable education available to all the world’s citizens. While some universities have started to actively engage with this concept, there needs to be a rapid acceleration and universality to this work that considers both local and global impact.
This session will explore how open educational practices can support sustainable development, surface some of the challenges to this goal, and discuss possible ways forward.

Leading Conversations on Academic Integrity: OER for Teaching and Learning
2024-03-05 09:00 - 22:30 (America/Vancouver) | UBC Okanagan, 3333 University Way, Kelowona, British Columbia, Canada
This virtual panel and roundtable discussion identifies ways to incorporate discipline-based knowledge-building exercises on academic integrity in post-secondary classrooms.
The panelists deliberate on the concept of learning culture and how to create teachable moments for student engagement.
The event highlights the impact of developing OERs and uses the case of a UBC Aspire (ALT-2040) Learning Transformations project, Discipline-based Approaches to Academic Integrity, to contextualize the discussion. The scholar-practitioners will contextualize ways to:

Address questions about accessibility and equity and how these considerations contribute to building cultures of academic integrity;
Focus on intellectual integrity in the context of creative writing;
Discuss ownership, voice and identity in academic writing as important conversation starters on academic integrity; and
Utilize an OER to support classroom discussion on academic integrity

The panel discussion will be followed by a roundtable Q&A with student representatives about the usefulness of discussing academic integrity using the OER.
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PANELISTS

Dr. Robin Attas
Dr. Anita Chaudhuri
Dr. Lisa Grekul
Dr. Saeed Sabzian
Hafizat Sanni-Anibire
Dr. Brenda M. Stoesz

Promouvoir l’éducation durable : L’Expérience Open2Sustain et son impact sur l’intégration des ODD dans l’Enseignement Supérieur Euro-Méditerranéen _ Lilia Cheniti & Ghada El Khayat
2024-03-05 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris) | l’Université de Sousse, Tunisie, Sousse, Tunisia
Le projet Open2Sustain, s’inspire fortement de l’ODD4 des Nations unies pour le développement durable, dont les fondements consistent à “assurer l’accès de tous à une éducation de qualité, sur un pied d’égalité, et promouvoir les possibilités d’apprentissage tout au long de la vie”. Le projet est de type recherche-action qui met en synergie des partenaires universitaires de pays euro-méditerranéens autour d’une problématique liée aux ODD.
L’idée centrale a été de concevoir un processus d’appropriation des ODD par un public universitaire en développant des procédés inhérents à l’éducation ouverte et des scénarios pédagogiques ouverts et innovants.
Plus précisément, ce projet a permis de créer une synergie de coopération Nord-Sud qui permettra de mutualiser des expériences pédagogiques innovantes, d’appuyer la co-construction des connaissances de développement durable, en vue de mettre en place un plan d‘action d’intégration des ODD dans les parcours académiques.
Nous avons focalisé sur des scénarios ouverts relatifs à l’intégration de l’ODD5 « Egalité entre des sexes » dans les parcours universitaires. Il s’agit de créer un réseau de facilitateurs autour du ODD 5 dans la région euro-méditerranéenne, à travers l’élaboration d’un syllabus d’un SPOC sur le ODD 5 et le partage de scénarios innovants ouverts se basant sur des ressources éducatives libres.
Dr. Lilia Cheniti Belcadhi
Dr. Lilia Cheniti Belcadhi, Maître de conférences Habilitée à diriger la recherche en Informatique à l’Université de Sousse, Tunisie. Elle est ingénieur en Informatique, diplômée de l’Université de Braunschweig en Allemagne, couronné par un prix présidentiel. Sa thèse de doctorat, portant sur l’évaluation personnalisée des apprentissages en ligne, a été préparée en codirection avec l’Université de Hannovre en Allemagne.
Elle est chercheure en Technologies éducatives, et auteur de plusieurs publications scientifiques. Elle a été coordinatrice et membre de plusieurs projets nationaux et internationaux en E-learning. Elle est co-auteur du premier MOOC en informatique en Tunisie déployé sur FUN (France Université Numérique) et Co-auteur de plusieurs cours en ligne. Elle a été directrice du département d’enseignement numérique au sein de son université. Elle est actuellement coordinatrice de la Cellule d’Innovation Pédagogique et du Numérique. Elle est membre du Conseil Scientifique de l’AUF et Présidente de la Commission Régionale des Experts Economiques et Scientifiques de la région Afrique du Nord auprès de l’AUF, et ambassadrice des REL (Ressources Educatives Libres) auprès de l’International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE).
Dr. Ghada El Khayat
Dr. Ghada El Khayat est professeure titulaire et directrice du Département des systèmes d’information et d’informatique de la Faculté de Commerce de l’Université d’Alexandrie. Dr. El Khayat a travaillé à temps plein dans différents grands projets internationaux où elle avait à la fois des tâches techniques impliquant la mise en place et les tests de nouveaux systèmes et des tâches de gestion de projets impliquant la planification, l’estimation et le contrôle des coûts.
Dr. El Khayat a supervisé plus de 50 projets de fin d’études dans les facultés de commerce et d’ingénierie. Elle a également encadré la recherche de plus de 20 doctorants et étudiants de master. Dr. El Khayat a publié plus de 40 articles dans des conférences et des revues à comité de lecture, en plus de quelques chapitres de livres publiés à l’échelle internationale. Elle est la chercheure principale (PI) d’un certain nombre de projets de recherche de l’Université d’Alexandrie. Elle est présidente du conseil scientifique de l’AUF. Elle est la directrice du centre « Innovation Pédagogique et Apprentissage à Distance-ADIP », Université d’Alexandrie.
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OER Rangers Panel Discussions: Collaboration
2024-03-05 12:30 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | eCampusOntario, 372 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Join us for a two-day showcase of the OER Rangers program. As part of a train-the-trainer approach to Open Education, the Open Library has convened four panels where our 2023 cohort of Open Education Rangers will share their insights on a multitude of topics. Having spent the year working to raise awareness, build capacity and advocate for Open education at their institutions, the showcase will be an opportunity to learn from the experts. Attendees will have a chance to ask questions and learn about varying facets of open education.
For the second of four panels, this session highlights eCampusOntario OER Rangers’ collaborative experiences in the program and their insight on community engagement for OER.

Open Ed Week 2024: Homegrown Pathways to Open Publishing
2024-03-05 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Rollins College, 1000 Holt Ave, Winter Park, United States
Hosted by Rollins College Olin Library & IDT. The information presented in this session will highlight the opportunity for faculty to partner with Olin Library to publish openly. Specifically, this session will include an outline of the processes for submitting an OER grant application. Then, attendees will be introduced to using a transformative publishing agreement that the library has with a vendor (what those are and what the future of them looks like) for article publishing. Finally, attendees will learn about publishing things like articles, books, and textbooks openly with Olin Library support, and via facilitation through Olin Library.

Facilitator: Derek Malone, Dean, Olin Library.
Please contact the sponsor to RSVP.

Unlocking the Potential: Open Educational Practices and the Digital Transformation of Work-Integrated Learning Experiences
2024-03-05 13:00 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | eCampusOntario, 372 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This presentation delves into the transformative potential of open education in dismantling barriers for experiential learning within language minority contexts and in fostering an inclusive educational landscape.
We will first explore the concepts of experiential learning, work-integrated learning (WIL), and open educational resources (OER), as well as provide context surrounding the creation of our OERs, namely that this work has been spearheaded under the Consortium d’apprentissage expérientiel francophone de l’Ontario (CAPFO) program of eCampusOntario.
We will then dive into two OERs created within the context of CAPFO. The first OER will showcase our survey results from the WIL CAPFO Report in 2023 that canvas trends and challenges in the franco-ontarian sector. These insights will be complemented by an exploration of the WIL Framework, a strategic tool developed within the CAPFO context to bolster educator engagement.
By sharing our experiences, outcomes, and collaborative frameworks, we aim to inspire educators and institutions to embrace the power of open education in cultivating enriching experiential learning environments, especially within language minority settings.
We are looking to share valuable insights and contribute to the ongoing discourse on the intersection of open education, experiential learning, and linguistic minorities to pave the way for a more accessible and inclusive educational future.
This presentation will help the audience explore the power of open education in breaking down barriers for experiential education in a language minority context.

Open Bioinformatics Education for Professional Development A modular, open education approach in Biochemistry- presented by Zareen Amtul
2024-03-05 13:00 - 13:20 (America/Toronto) | University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Amid the increased demand for flexible learning experiences, especially hybrid course offerings, as well as an exponential growth in life science research data, bioinformatics has become an exciting, and popular skill set both in industry and academia. To increase students’ competencies and to get them familiarized with data science professions as well as to fulfil a substantial demand for technology use in post-secondary education, we developed an open education resource containing a set of bioinformatic exercises into a capstone course of a graduate program.
Bioinformatic exercises were designed to teach students to navigate bioinformatic databases such as UniProt, GenBank™, BRENDA, and SWISS-Model use built-in tools, and software like MEGA, and CHIMERA, algorithms, analyze data, and perform programming in R and Python. The skillsets imparted by this hybrid bioinformatic pedagogical approach are meant to empower students to be able to leverage this knowledge for their future endeavours in the bioinformatics field. The student performance in the hybrid course and survey responses overwhelmingly suggested that greater, and meaningful technology integration in teaching and learning going forward is direly needed.

Open Pedagogy at Douglas College
2024-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Vancouver) | Douglas College, 700 Royal Avenue, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Our Douglas College event is on March 5th at 10 am in Zoom, when we will hear from Communications faculty members. Janice Sestan will talk about the UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship and creating renewable assignments with students. Sam Schechter will talk about working with students to publish their best work in Open Educational Resources e-books.

Campus Talks: Access, Affordability, and Open Education
2024-03-05 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock, AR, United States
As part of Open Education Week, members of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus community will present on the topics of affordability, access, and open education. The presentations will be a series of 5-minute talks, presenting different perspectives of Open Education.

Growing Institutional OER Programs: Is Pressbooks right for you?
2024-03-05 13:30 - 14:15 (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.

Open Education 101 at UBC
2024-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Would you like to learn more about open education and open educational resources but don’t know where to start? This introductory workshop is for you.
This session will provide an overview of the open education movement including what it is and why it matters. This session will cover:

Definition and examples of open educational resources
Benefits of OER to both students and faculty
First steps toward adopting, adapting, or creating OER
How to find additional support with OE at UBC Library

Generative AI, Open Education, and Climate Catastrophe - Professor Marco Seiferle-Valencia
2024-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UC Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, United States
The UC Davis Library’s AggieOpen program is thrilled to host Open Education Librarian & Assistant Professor Marco Seiferle-Valencia as our invited speaker for 2024. Professor Marco Seiferle-Valencia will present “Generative AI, Open Education, and Climate Catastrophe” on Tuesday, March 5th, at 11:00 am PST via Zoom.
While AI promises to revolutionize many fields, including education, this technology’s unsustainable carbon footprint and other devastating ecological impacts mean that revolutionary progress is far from guaranteed. In fact, the rapid, widespread adoption of energy and resource-hungry AI invites revolutionary regression. This year’s talk discusses the environmental impacts of generative AI by examining the often hidden ecological costs of these new tools and asks how we, as open practitioners, can ensure the burgeoning collaboration between AI tools and open education serves learners, teachers, and the environment.

Using LibreTexts to Remix
2024-03-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Southwest Tennessee Community College, 5983 Macon Cove, Memphis, TN, United States
The LibreTexts OER textbook platform makes it easy to customize an existing OER textbook to make it your own. This can include adjusting its content to be more consistent with your presentation, adding new content of your own, and mixing in content from other OER sources. Bill Turner, the Southwest Tennessee Community College OER Facilitator, will explain the benefits and demonstrate the basics of how to use “The World’s Most Popular Online Textbook Platform.”

Webinar: The Intersection of Wikipedia and Open Education Resources
2024-03-05 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Open Oregon, Portland, OR, United States
This hands-on, 90-minute workshop will be led by Laurie Bridges, an Oregon State University librarian and co-founder of the Wikimedia Campaign #EveryBookItsReader.

Introduction to LibreTexts Commons & Conductor Platforms
2024-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join a member of the LibreTexts team as they introduce you to our Commons & Conductor platform. A multi-functional platform that provides enhanced searching capabilities across all of LibreTexts over 600,000 page of openly licensed content via the Commons, as well as a project management platform that provides a gathering point for all of your authors to share, search, and remix OER developed and curated by your community in the Conductor. And speaking of community, you can use the Conductor to plan, collaborate, and manage OER efforts across your campus.

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Open Education Week- This Is My OER
2024-03-05 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at Arlington, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, TX, United States
Many students are not aware that OER exist, and this has caused students to miss out on potential opportunities and benefits they could obtain and use in their academic journey. Therefore, this event is established and designed to attract students to learn and grow in the knowledge of OER that will hopefully enhance their college experience.
