Open Education Week

Be the change you want to see: Applications of Seamless learning. Research projects from the International Research Network for Innovative Sustainable and Seamless Education (IRN-ISSE)
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Lund, Sweden, Lund, Sweden
The International Research Network for Innovative Sustainable and Seamless Education (IRN-ISSE) is a global research partnership that began at mLearn 2018 at Concordia University in Chicago. The vision of IRN-ISSE is to build an international community of practice, inviting researchers and specialists to collaborate for the greater good, with a specific focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4): “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.” The mission of IRN-ISSE is to study, support, inform, share, and implement research globally to improve access to and quality of education worldwide. The goal is to stand together and learn with and from each other, striving to remain at the forefront of innovative, sustainable, and seamless educational practice
The community has a global reach, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and India. The partnership is working on several initiatives, such as:

The Seamless Learning Experience Design Model, which identifies five themes relevant to designing a seamless learning experience: 1) seamless learning concepts, 2) positive concepts, 3) practical concepts, 4) human concepts, and 5) design concepts. Based on these five concepts, a Seamless Learning Experience Design (SLED) framework was developed.
Research and ongoing work include the “Be the change to see the change” (this was the theme for interviews and larger podcasts) initiative, and on-demand, driven learning.

What you can expect:
During this webinar, you will meet some of the partners in IRN-ISSE. You will hear about their research and ongoing initiatives. You will have the opportunity to discuss with the team and the audience the interesting changes in education, including those brought about by the AI era. You will also learn how you can become involved in the IRN-ISSE partnership.

Speakers:

Helga Hambrock. Dr. S Africa, Co-ordinator
Ebba Ossiannilsson, Prof. Dr. Sweden
Ioana Andrea Stefan, Dr. Romania
Karen Ferreira Meyers, Prof. Dr. Eswatini

… even more members from IRN ISSE

Contact: Ebba Ossiannilsson, Prof. Dr. Sweden
Ebba.Ossiannilsson@gmail.com
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/32914498970710?p=EBrRzeuucxkYlwaZtL
Meeting ID: 329 144 989 707 10
Passcode: [REDACTED]

How to find and use Creative Commons licensed Open Educational Resources
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
How to find and use Creative Commons licensed Open Educational Resources is a one hour information session, for University of Edinburgh staff and postgraduate research students, where you’ll learn how to find Creative Commons licensed materials covering different subject areas and topics from a range of online archives, repositories, and websites. We’ll then look at how to re-use and adapt these materials as open educational resource for your own use.
Open to University of Edinburgh staff and students.

Open for Student Success Symposium 2026
2026-03-04 09:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Atlanta, United States, Atlanta, GA, United States
Join Georgia State University for our 4th annual Open Education Week Celebration,
where professionals and students unite with the common purpose to learn and share insights about open and affordable education.
The Open for Student Success Symposium is free, online, and open to all
and will take place on March 4, 2026 from 9:30am to 4:30pm ET.
Register now!

Our distinguished keynote speaker this year will be Josh Bolick, Head of the David Shulenburger Office Of Scholarly Communication & Copyright at the University of Kansas (KU). With Maria Bonn and Will Cross, Josh co-edited Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge (ACRL, 2023) and co-founded the Scholarly Communication Notebook (SCN). A former presenter for the Open Education Network and OER Research Fellow, he advocates for open access, authors’ rights, open education, and issues related and is interested in OER as a vehicle for expanding scholarly communication knowledge and expertise.

From 2016-2022, he led open education programs at KU and remains engaged in open education advocacy in a variety of ways. He is published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, the Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, PeerJ, and PLOS Biology, as well as other venues. Josh holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and a master’s in library and information studies from Florida State University. In his free time he enjoys cycling, horror, and culinary adventures, especially tacos and barbecue.
In his keynote speech, “Open but Not Finished: What We’ve Won and the Work Ahead,” Bolick will summarize the shift to open, examine emerging and lingering challenges, and consider how the Open Movement can continue progress toward a more open research and teaching culture:
While advocating for openness can feel like a struggle (and it often is), we’ve also achieved a lot over the last 20+ years. Open access scholarship and open educational resources and practices are normalized to a large degree, and that’s worth celebrating. Still, there are significant challenges to further growth, including in hiring, annual review, promotion and tenure, and other evaluation practices and the reward structures that shape and inform them. In this talk, I will summarize the shift to open and what we’ve won, examine emergent and lingering challenges, and consider what we can do to continue pushing for more open research and teaching cultures, with a focus on collaboration and support.
In addition to the keynote speech, the symposium will feature presentations by 22 professionals from nine U.S. states, as well as from Canada and Mexico. A full list of sessions can be found at https://research.library.gsu.edu/open.
Register now for free at https://forms.office.com/r/aZFktr12z3.

Open Education as Anti-Fascism: Building Democratic Resilience
2026-03-04 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | CA
Across the globe, higher education is facing growing authoritarian, exclusionary, and anti-democratic tendencies, not only in politics, but also in digital infrastructures, platform economies, and dominant narratives about technology and innovation. At the same time, Open Education is often framed primarily as a technical or economic solution, i.e., more efficient content production, wider access, lower costs.
In this session, we will discuss how openness can function as a form of democratic resilience in times of polarization and techno-fascism.

La recherche en éducation ouverte: regards croisés francophones
2026-03-04 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alors que l’éducation ouverte (ÉO) et les ressources éducatives libres (REL) font l’objet de communautés de recherche bien établies dans le monde anglophone depuis plus d’une décennie, le paysage francophone reste difficile à lire et peu structuré. Ce premier webinaire propose une table ronde réunissant trois intervenantes et intervenants aux perspectives complémentaires (Suisse, Canada, France), afin d’ouvrir la discussion sur les fondements, les cadres théoriques, les enjeux linguistiques, culturels et politiques de la recherche en ÉO.

Cette table ronde marque le lancement d’une série de webinaires de recherche portés par la Chaire UNESCO RELIA, visant à rendre visibles les travaux existants, à favoriser les rencontres entre chercheurs et chercheuses et à amorcer une cartographie de la recherche francophone sur l’éducation ouverte.
Équipe d’animation : Colin de la Higuera, titulaire de la Chaire UNESCO RELIA, Nantes Université
et Lucie Grasset, Chaire UNESCO RELIA, Nantes Université
Équipe intervenante : Barbara Class – Enseignante-Chercheure à l’Université de Genève – Suisse, Catherine Lachaîne – Bibliothécaire à l’Université d’Ottawa (Canada) et doctorante ainsi que Luc Massou – Chercheur en sciences de l’information et de la communication, et Conseiller à la DGESIP – France.

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.

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

Open Metadata Exchange: Enabling OER Access Across Libraries
2026-03-04 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Half Moon Bay, United States, Half Moon Bay, CA, United States
The Open Metadata Exchange (OME) is a decentralized network that enables open education libraries to share and discover openly licensed resources and metadata across institutions while maintaining local control.
By connecting platforms through a shared, flexible infrastructure, OME helps reduce duplicated curatorial effort, bridge metadata gaps, and make high-quality Open Educational Resources more discoverable.
In this session, we will introduce

The OME model
Demonstrate how participating libraries connect and exchange metadata
Discuss how a community-governed, decentralized approach can strengthen collaboration across the open education ecosystem.

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!

OEWeek Live! Together in Story: A Conversation Among Open Storymakers
2026-03-04 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Regina) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Join the creators of the award‑winning open picture book Together, funded by GO‑GN, alongside a colleague from Curious Learning, for a friendly conversation among storymakers. We will share the latest developments in an exciting collaboration that is enabling Together to travel to young readers worldwide as an interactive digital book in multiple languages.
The Imaginative Curriculum Research and Scholarship Centre in the School of Education at the University of Leeds embraced Together as its first collaboration with Curious Learning, reflecting a shared commitment to co‑creating open educational resources that cross boundaries and nurture global learning.
In this session, we will tell the story of how we came together, how relationships were formed, and how open storymaking can connect people across languages, cultures, and contexts. Participants are warmly invited to reflect with us on collaborative open storytelling as a way of learning with and from one another and make a positive contribution to the world.
Guests in the Studio

UK: Chrissi Nerantzi, Professor in Creative and Open Education, School of Education, University of Leeds
USA: Stephanie Gottwald, Vice-President of Content & Co-Founder Curious Learning
South Africa: Gino Fransman, Nelson Mandela University
Canada: Dr Verena Roberts, Thompson Rivers University
Italy: Paola Corti, Politecnico di Milano
UK: Odysseas Frank, 3D artist

Watch Live or see Recording Later

Together was recognized in 2021 with an Open Education Award For Excellence for Open Innovation.
Links Mentioned

Picture book about picture books (Zenodo, Chrissi Nerantzi)
GO-GN Picturebook (GO-GN)
DoodleFan (Remix tool)
The #GO-GN Open Picture Book Project (Verena Roberts blog)
Digital literacies with and for Young People (Cristina Costa)
Stories in action – EDUC 420- Werklund School of Education, UofCalgary (presentation)
Curious Learning

Curious Reader (mobile app)
CR Container (GitHub)

OE Week at ELAC
2026-03-04 08:00 - 17:00 (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.

Making OER Count in Promotion and Tenure
2026-03-04 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Indianapolis, United States, Indianapolis, IN, United States
This lunch and learn organized by the University Library at the Indiana University Indianapolis is hybrid on Zoom and in UL1116 with lunch provided to in person attendees. Explore how OER creation and adoption can be positioned as meaningful scholarly, teaching, and service contributions in promotion and tenure reviews.
This event is done in collaboration with the Office of Faculty Affairs.

Sharing Research Differently: Mobilizing Knowledge with Open Educational Resources (OER) / Partager la recherche autrement : mobiliser les connaissances à l’aide des ressources éducatives libres (REL)
2026-03-04 11:30 - 12:45 (America/Toronto) | Ottawa, Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Open educational resources (OER) are transforming the way we teach, learn, and share knowledge. But what exactly are OER and why are they important for advancing knowledge mobilization?
In this bilingual session, we’ll explore the fundamentals of OER and their role in making knowledge creation more collaborative. You’ll hear from OER creators about their experiences, and we’ll highlight strategies to showcase OER contributions in your dossier for tenure, promotion, or funding applications.

Les ressources éducatives libres (REL) transforment la façon dont nous enseignons, apprenons et partageons le savoir. Mais que sont exactement les REL et pourquoi jouent-elles un rôle clé dans la mobilisation des connaissances?
Cette séance bilingue vous permettra d’explorer les principes fondamentaux des REL et comment elles favorisent une approche collaborative de création des connaissances. Vous entendrez directement de créatrices de REL qui partageront leur expérience et nous aborderons des stratégies pour mettre en valeur vos contributions REL dans votre dossier pour une demande de permanence, de promotion ou de financement.

What Can I Share—and Where? Digital Literacy, Open Licenses, and Faculty Publishing Pathways
2026-03-04 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Greencastle, United States, Greencastle, IN, United States
Faculty create a wide range of digital materials—articles, syllabi, datasets, lecture media, public scholarship, and creative work—but questions about copyright, licensing, and “where this work belongs” often create barriers to sharing.
This Open Education Week workshop at DePauw University introduces digital literacy concepts through the lens of open licenses and publishing pathways. Participants will explore how Creative Commons licenses work, how to decide what level of openness is appropriate for different kinds of work, and where faculty can publish or share materials—from journals and institutional repositories to open platforms and community-aligned publishing models. Designed for a liberal arts context, the session emphasizes faculty agency, ethical knowledge sharing, and practical decision-making that supports teaching, scholarship, and public impact.

University of Regina Open Education Week Presentations
2026-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | Regina, Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Presenter: Mr. Orandi Harris, University of Regina Business Administration Student
Title: Supercharging the Creation of Open Textbook Resources as a Student
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (CST/Saskatchewan time)
Abstract: Pressbooks offers editors the possibility to edit and create textbooks using a visual editor and publish it live for usage in university courses. Students can then access these resources at no cost to them. There is opportunity for professors to collaborate with students for further supporting the publication of material and if they have the ability, they can learn how to use web development techniques for successfully publishing on Pressbooks.
In this talk, Orandi will explain how he assisted Associate Professor Jacqui Gagnon with developing her open textbook.

Presenter: Dr. Arzu Sardarli, Professor, First Nations University of Canada (Prince Albert Campus)
Title: OER Quality: Bridging the Gap Between Openness and Expertise
Time: 11:35 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (CST/Saskatchewan time)
Abstract: As a big advocate of OER, Dr. Sardarli recognizes there is a problem with the quality of OER. He will present on how to bridge the gap between openness and expertise.
This presentation will be online, but in-person attendees are welcome to view in the CTL Seminar Room.

Webinaire franco-américain | Regards croisés d’étudiant·es autour de l’Éducation ouverte et des REL
2026-03-04 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris) | Nantes, France, Nantes, France
Deux groupes d’étudiants, l’un français, de Nantes Université, l’autre américain, de l’Eastern Connecticut State University, confrontent leur vision de l’Éducation ouverte et échangent sur leurs expériences de création de REL : quelles sont leurs motivations ? Que retirent-ils de leur expérience ? Que changent ces pratiques sur leurs apprentissages et sur la relation prof-étudiant ?

Teaching on the CUNY Academic Commons
2026-03-04 12:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | New York, United States, New York, NY, United States
The CUNY Academic Commons is a WordPress/BuddyPress network designed for and by faculty, staff, and students at the City University of New York (CUNY). The Commons is designed to support faculty initiatives and build community through the use(s) of technology in teaching and learning. The free exchange of knowledge among colleagues across the university is central to better educating the student body and expanding professional development opportunities for faculty research and teaching.
Since its founding in 2009, CUNY faculty have taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses on the CUNY Academic Commons. Faculty use course sites to host OER course materials, foster student engagement with one another and wider publics, and develop assignments that move beyond a standard final paper or reading response. This workshop will provide an overview of teaching on the Commons, discuss the affordances and values of teaching on an open source, community-developed platform, and highlight several courses that serve as models of open pedagogy in action.
This workshop is open to the public as part of Open Education Week, hosted by OE Global.
Learn more about Spring 2026 events on the Commons here and read about our recent developments to improve our community WordPress/BuddyPress network.
Register for “Teaching on the CUNY Academic Commons” workshop here.

How to Adopt/Adapt an OER for Faculty at TAMU
2026-03-04 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Chicago) | College Station, United States, College Station, TX, United States
Join Johannah White, TAMU OER Librarian, and learn more about the process of adopting an open educational resource. We will cover finding an OER, mapping to your syllabus, licensing concerns, and demonstrate ways to make OER the best fit for your teaching approach.
(in person, Evans Library Annex 405 C & D)

Open for Antiracism: Trauma informed approaches to open education
2026-03-04 10:00 - 10:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | CA
Open for Antiracism is a special project of OE Global that has been providing professional development programming across California Community colleges on OER and Open Pedagogy for over 6 years.
In this 2-part session, you’ll first hear from our program directors, Laura Dunn and James Glapa-Grossklag, on how the antiracism and equity landscape has changed since the program’s beginnings in 2020, the impact that OFAR has had on students and faculty, and how OFAR is applied in the classroom.
In the second half of our session, OFAR coach, past participant, and professor of child development at Cerro Coso Community College, Tyrone Ledford shares how he has adapted OFAR’s program in his trauma informed approach to teaching child development. Tyrone will be presenting how to blend anti-racist curriculum and trauma informed teaching strategies to create classroom environments that are empathetic and inclusive to students of diverse backgrounds who have experienced trauma.

Tyrone Ledford is an educator and equity advocate committed to student success and community empowerment. An award-winning Umoja Counselor and two-time Faculty of the Year at Cerro Coso Community College, he created the Trauma-Informed Care specialization program to better support students impacted by trauma. Beyond the classroom, Tyrone advances equity through his family-owned community garden, where he provides students with access to fresh food, education, and hands-on experience growing their own food while promoting food security, sustainability, and self-sufficiency.
Laura Dunn is the director of Open for Antiracism and faculty of religion at the University of Hawaii. Laura’s current research examines how indigenous knowledge systems intersect with cross cultural contemplative practices as a means to reclaim identity in post- and neo-colonial contexts. She is an award-winning writer and scholar, Newhall Fellow, Interreligious Collaborative Research Fellow, and recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Association for Asian Studies Publication Grant.
James Glapa-Grossklag is Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning at College of the Canyons (USA). He serves as Technical Assistance Provider for the California Community Colleges’ Zero Textbook Cost Degree Program, the largest-ever public investment in OER. He co-directs the Open for Antiracism Program, is an OER Fellow for the Michelson 20MM Foundation, and co-leads, with Carnegie Mellon University, a national training program to help faculty from broad-access institutions learn to teach with generative AI. James is past President of Open Education Global, the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, and Directors of Educational Technology in California Higher Education. James served as a trainer on OER for the US Department of State in the Middle East and North Africa and was Innovation Scholar in Residence at RMIT University in Australia. He held the appointment of Global OER Ambassador for ICDE 2017-21. In 2019, he received the President’s Award from Open Education Global for “advancing open education around the world through his exceptional dedication, outstanding contribution, and exemplary service.”

You can watch our OE Week session here.
Session Recording Available

UNBC OER Development Grant Showcase
2026-03-04 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Vancouver) | Prince George, Canada, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
Join us for an exciting showcase celebrating the recipients of the UNBC Open Educational Resources (OER) Development Grant https://www.unbc.ca/centre-teaching-and-learning/oer-development-grant.
This event will highlight the innovative projects undertaken by students, faculty, and staff, demonstrating their commitment to creating and adopting open educational resources.
Attendees will gain valuable insights into the process of developing OER, discover the impact these resources have on student learning and affordability, and explore opportunities for collaboration and future OER initiatives.

From Open Content to Personalized Pathways: OER and AI for Lifelong Learning
2026-03-04 21:00 - 22:00 (Asia/Riyadh) | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The webinar from the National eLearning Center aims to explore how open education and OER, enhanced by AI and digital learning ecosystems, can move beyond static content access toward scalable, personalized, and responsible lifelong learning—while ensuring quality, trust, transparency, and openness in an AI-driven era. To achieve this aim, the session will focus on the following objectives:

Explain the role of open education and OER in expanding access, equity, and lifelong learning.
Differentiate between open access to content and AI-enabled personalized learning pathways.
Understand how to preserve openness in an AI-enhanced environment, ensuring resources remain shareable, adaptable, and reusable.

Speakers:

Prof. Ahmad Alkateeb, Professor of Language Learning with Emerging Technologies at King Faisal University
Prof. Martin Ebner, Head of Educational Technology at TU Graz
Dr. Giovanni Zimotti, Associate Professor of Instruction and Director of Spanish Language Instruction at the University of Iowa

OPEN FL Community Meeting featuring Math OER
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Tallahassee, United States, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Join Florida Virtual Campus and OPEN FL for a community meeting during Open Education Week! Free and virtual, OPEN FL focuses on OER for a “course of the month.”
March’s course is Topics in Finite Mathematics. We will have a speaker (math faculty OER creator and editor) join us for the first part of the hour, and then we will search for open ed finite math resources as a group, sharing and discussing the materials. Visit the event landing page to get the meeting link. Hope to see you there!

OpenEd25 Keynote Rewatch: Dr. Kim Hunter Reed
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Washington, D.C., United States, Washington, D.C., DC, United States
The Open Education Association invites you to a virtual rewatch of Louisiana Higher Education Commissioner Dr. Kim Hunter Reed’s keynote from the 2025 Open Education Conference. Entitled New Horizons: Opening Doors and Transforming Lives Through Higher Ed in Louisiana, this inspiring talk explores how to pave the way toward more affordable and accessible higher education through bold policy, open innovation, and strategic investments in resources, partnerships, and programs that prioritize student success.
All are welcome to attend this virtual “rewatch party,” which will feature a livestream of the keynote and live chat in Zoom. After the recording, attendees are welcome to stay for an optional discussion.

Open Education Talks- Strategies for Supporting Students in Open Education
2026-03-04 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Denver) | Calgary, Canada, Calgary, AB, Canada
Open Education Talks is a series of 15-minute lightning talks and digital posters about facets of open education. These talks aim to create an accessible, virtual space for conversations about open education. We welcome proposals from educators, students, administrators, librarians, instructional designers, and all other roles related to the design, delivery, and evaluation of open education in post-secondary institutions. We encourage student-led or partnered talks that showcase the critical role of student leadership and student-educator collaborations in open education. To register for these Zoom sessions, visit: https://ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpfuuhqjsiE9xwLFkoS4uK-KLd0bwXMbkC
Strategies for Supporting Students in Open Education

OE Talks History and Context – Brianna Calomino and Sarah Adams (University of Calgary, OE Talks Co-chairs)
Student OER for Inclusive Poster Design – Jamie Drozda & Melanie Latham (Thompson Rivers University – British Columbia, Canada)
Crafting Magic, Conjuring Open Practices – Neil Mulholland (University of Edinburgh – Scotland)
From Static to Dynamic: Collaborative Student/Faculty Approach to Interactive OER – Veronique Van Lierde & Yasser Lemghari (Al Akhaw ayn University in Ifrane – Morocco)
BC Institutional Capacity to Support Open Educational Practices – Josie Gray (BCcampus – British Columbia, Canada)

LibreTexts ADAPT: Homework Reimagined
2026-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
ADAPT, LibreTexts’ open homework and assessment platform, is designed to do exactly that. Join our Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, for a guided tour of everything ADAPT has to offer:
– 240,000+ openly licensed questions
– Adaptive Learning Trees and personalized learning models
– Built-in analytics and an Early Warning System powered by predictive analytics
– Seamless LMS integration with Canvas and Blackboard
– Mobile clicker functionality right in your classroom
– Support for WebWork, IMathAS, H5P, and Native QTI
ADAPT is built to be more powerful than traditional publisher platforms and more affordable. Because the cost of a homework platform should never be a barrier to student success.
This is open education in action. Come see what it looks like.

Participatory Publishing - Zine Assignments as Open Pedagogy
2026-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Zines are a self-published medium created by collaging existing materials (e.g. images, text, etc.) with self-created content. Zines are published in simple photocopied and digital formats for open sharing. The practice of remixing, revising, and redistribution has been a part of zine culture since its creation. Zines provide a space where information authority can be questioned by building knowledge within communities regardless of the level of perceived expertise. This session will address how zine culture aligns with open pedagogical practices and how you can integrate zine-making into your course.
Participants at this session will be introduced to:

A brief history of zine-making and open culture
An overview of how zines align with open pedagogical practices
Methodologies to engage students in zine creation and culture
Resources to integrate zine-making into course assignments

Hinds Community College Wikipedia Editathon
2026-03-04 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Raymond, United States, Raymond, MS, United States
Hinds Community College’s Wikipedia Editathon is taking place Wednesday, March 4th from 1-3pm, McLendon Library in the Bucci Room.

An Open Introduction to Film: Lessons from a NotebookLM Case Study
2026-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Mateo, United States, San Mateo, CA, United States
Join us for an exploration of how NotebookLM can support the development of Open Educational Resources (OER). We’ll share insights and examples from an Introduction to Film course and discuss potential applications across disciplines. All experience and curiosity levels are welcome.

From H5P to LMS: Boosting Active Learning and Assessment
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | St. Catharines, Canada, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Participants in this Brock University workshop will learn a step-by-step process to boost student engagement through “low-stakes” interactive assessments by learning how to embed, update, and manage H5P content using freely available tools like Lumi. Leave the “technical headache” behind and take full creative control of your digital classroom by integrating H5P activities into your LMS. Note: This workshop is specifically designed for educators whose LMS does not have a built-in H5P integration.
This workshop will be lead by Vanja Stojanovic, Learning Strategies Librarian at Brock Library.

Doing Dangerous Work: The ASCCC IDEA Framework
2026-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Mateo, United States, San Mateo, CA, United States
Join us for a focused conversation on the IDEA Framework with featured guest Tiffany Lanoix of the ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI), a statewide effort of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges.
In this session, Tiffany will briefly unpack what IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-racism) means in the context of educational resources and why the framework was created to support faculty-led review and revision of course materials. She’ll highlight why Open Educational Resources (OER) are especially powerful for this work, since open licenses allow faculty to revise materials to better reflect their community contexts. We’ll touch on how this work can scale from individual course revisions to broader cultural change and what to expect from the upcoming IDEA assessment process launching in summer 2026. Whether you’re deeply involved in OER or simply curious about aligning your materials with your values and your students’ needs, this session offers practical insight and an accessible entry point into IDEA-informed teaching and learning.
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