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

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)

AfLIA Open Education Week Virtual Summit
2026-03-04 09:00 - 13:00 UTC | Accra, Ghana, Accra, Ghana
The African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA) will host a two-day virtual summit on Open Education, themed “Open Education, Open Possibilities.” This event is designed for library and information science (LIS) practitioners across all library types, as well as African LIS educators, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders involved in the Open Education field, including organizations and professionals collaborating with African libraries.
Participants are expected to enhance their understanding of Open Education and discover how libraries can lead the development, training, and advocacy of Open Educational Resources (OER) in a contextualised manner. The summit aims to improve knowledge regarding multi-stakeholder collaborations and policy frameworks that support the institutional adoption of OERs.

Simpel zoeken, slim delen met de OER Wizard & de OER Discovery Tool
2026-03-04 09:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Rotterdam, Netherlands, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Uitnodiging themasessie in de Open Onderwijs Week
Graag nodigen we uit voor een online informatiesessie over twee nieuwe tools die het vinden, verrijken en delen van open leermaterialen eenvoudiger maken.
OER-wizard, een tool om materialen laagdrempelig te vinden en te delen in collecties.
Demonstratie OER wizard door Sylvia Moes.
De OER-wizard is een tool waarmee je content uit andere repositories kunt doorzoeken, en op laagdrempelige wijze via SURFsharekit kunt verrijken met onderwijskundige metadata. Op dit moment kun je via de OER-wizard inhoud zoeken naar DOAB-boeken, Open Textbooks, Medpix en Europeana.
Zie ook het artikel Steeds meer open tekstboeken op de communitypagina Open Tekstboeken

Sneller open leermaterialen vinden met de OER Discovery Tool
Demonstratie OER Discovery Tool door Michel Saive
De bibliotheek van Universiteit Maastricht ontwikkeling een nieuwe tool die het zoeken naar open onderwijsmaterialen veel eenvoudiger maakt. Tijdens de demonstratie laat Michel zien hoe deze met behulp van AI automatisch relevante zoekwoorden op basis van cursusomschrijvingen. De tool doorzoekt vervolgens vijf grote repositories, waardoor de docent binnen twee minuten open leermaterialen de verbinding vindt bij de thema’s die in de gekozen cursus aan bod komen.
Zie ook het interview Zo geeft Universiteit Maastricht open leermaterialen een vaste plek in het onderwijs
We laten tijdens de bijeenkomst zien hoe beide tools werken, zodat je weet wat voor mogelijkheden er zijn om open leermaterialen te vinden en hoe je de OER-wizard zelf kunt inzetten in contact met het onderwijs.
Na afloop van de demo’s is er een gelegenheid om vragen te stellen.
Hartelijke groet, namens experts Npuls en de werkgroep Bibliotheken en Open en Online Onderwijs,
Irma van Houts en Brenda Lems

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 Consultation Hour – edusources Community
2026-03-04 09:30 - 22:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Utrecht, Netherlands, Utrecht, Netherlands
During Open Education Week (2–6 March), we’re launching something new: the open consultation hour of the edusources community! The edusources community will go live on Wednesday 4 March at 9:30 AM! And we will definitely repeat this.
Do you have questions about open educational resources, edusources, metadata, findability, or do you just want to catch up?
💬 Then join us! Everyone is welcome.
📅 First edition: during Open Education Week
⏰ Time: Wednesday 4 March 2026, 9:30–10:00
Together, we can make open education even stronger. Will you join us?
Brenda Lems and Irma van Houts, edusources community
Join the session: https://edu.nl/jrbat

The JOERney@UIBK: Experience Talks with Elisabeth Militz
2026-03-04 10:00 - 10:30 (Europe/Vienna) | Innsbruck, Austria, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
OER creators from the University of Innsbruck will share their personal experiences of developing and publishing Open Educational Resources.
They’ll talk about:

What it was like to work with OER
What they created and why
What they would do differently if they started again
And what advice they would give to anyone new to OER

Today’s talk will be led by Elisabeth Militz from the Department of Geography who will talk about her experiences with the podcast series FemGeo.
Join us for a relaxed coffee break session: Take half an hour, grab a cup of coffee, and get to know the people behind OER at the University of Innsbruck!

Open for Antiracism: Trauma informed approaches to open education
2026-03-04 10:00 - 10:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | Gelderland
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.”
