Latest Past Events

Open Educational Resources and Practices for Impactful Learning Design

University of Technology Sydney Sydney

In this session hosted by University of Technology Sydney, we will explore how learning designers can integrate Open Educational Resources and Practices (OER/OEP) in ways that enhance engagement, foster authentic learning and drive meaningful impact. Through lightning talks by learning design professionals in higher education, we’ll examine some real-world strategies for embedding OER and OEP […]

Keynote: Open and the Oligarchs: Planting Seeds in a World on Fire (Dr. Robin DeRosa)

University of Regina Regina

Dr. Robin DeRosa has been working on open initiatives, including projects around OER, open pedagogy, and open access to research, for more than a decade. She has been interested not only in the practices that animate open, but also in the values that power an open vision for the future of education and knowledge-sharing. But […]

Keynote: Racing Towards a Wasted Future: Generative AI and the Resurgence of Nuclear Energy (Dr. Marco Seiferle-Valencia)

University of Regina Regina

As the potentials and promises of generative AI sweep into the field of Open Education, educators and advocates have a holistic responsibility to think deeply and expansively about the known and still emerging environmental impacts of these technologies. Demand for energy by the hungry server farms that create so-called artificial intelligence is bringing damaging and […]