Open Education Week

Café jasette : Retour du sommet REL autochtone : Quelques pas en avant sur le chemin de l'éducation ouverte
2024-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Cette activité de type café jasette se veut un moment convivial entre la conférencière invitée et les personnes participantes. Patricia-Anne Blanchet est conseillère en pédagogie autochtone à l’Université de Sherbrooke et elle coordonne les activités du comité M8wwa mamu au sein de la Faculté d’éducation.
Il s’agit d’une discussion de type retour d’expérience concernant sa participation au Sommet REL autochtone qui s’est déroulé en Colombie-Britannique en février dernier. Ce sommet se déroule dans le cadre de la Stratégie nationale en matière de REL (ABRC) et il est le dernier d’une série de 3 (un en anglais en novembre 2022, l’autre en français en mai 2023, puis celui-ci en février 2024). Ce café-jasette est une occasion d’entendre les perspectives, préoccupations et opportunités autochtones qui y auront été exprimées.

OER Rangers Panel Discussions: Indigenous Resources
2024-03-06 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 fourth of four panels, Rangers discuss the use of Indigenous knowledge in OER, reflecting on their learning journey and the impact of including Indigenous perspectives in education.

Finding and Remixing Great OER with Pressbooks Directory
2024-03-06 12:30 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Pressbooks, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
One of the key advantages of Open Education is the ability to reuse and adapt existing content. Luckily, this also addresses some of its biggest challenges: time to create, localization, and visibility. However, navigating through the vast sea of open educational resources can be overwhelming.
Join us for this quick 30 minute session about the Pressbooks Directory – a free, open-to-everyone repository of over 6,000 resources across 170+ institution covering a wide range of subjects. With many of these resources being openly licensed and all of them being entirely free to read, you can find your perfect resource to either share or adapt for your educational needs.
We’ll walk you through how to use the Pressbooks Directory to 1) find the content you want to reuse or take inspiration from, 2) reuse and adapt this content for specific classroom needs and 3) how you can add to this growing library.

Using Open Access Resources for Research
2024-03-06 12:00 - 12:45 (America/Chicago) | Madison Area Technical College, 1701 Wright St, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
More scholarly content is being published Open Access (unrestricted and free to access) every day. This allows timely access to current research for everyone, including key topics such as health, climate data, and more. Join this workshop to learn how to discover Open Access content, and use it in research projects.

Foundations of Open – Publishing OER
2024-03-06 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Vancouver) | Athabasca University, 1 University Dr, Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
Are you interested in going beyond using OER? How about creating your own? Join OER Librarian Dan Cockcroft on March 6th at 11am MT to learn about licence compatibility, copyright, publishing support and more as we explore how you too can release your own openly licensed material.

Indigenous Knowledge and Open Education
2024-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Two speakers from First Nations University will talk about their resources, which incorporate indigenous knowledge into practical applications (finance and math) and how to engage indigenous communities. Dr. Arzu Sardali has created the Cree Dictionary of Mathematical Terms. Dr. Bettina Schneider has adapted a resource titled Financial Empowerment for use by Canadian Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. Check out the event website for details.
Come listen to the stories of the development of these resources with respect for First Nations knowledge and the community connections.

Exploring the Intersections of Artificial Intelligence and Open Educational Resources
2024-03-06 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Cleveland State University, 2121 Euclid Ave, RT-110D, Cleveland, OH, United States
The rise of generative AI tools has created significant excitement and concern among educators over the past year. The intersections between AI and Open Educational Resources (OERs) raise many significant questions and opportunities. How can AI be used to support the development of OERs? What challenges does AI create for OERs?
This presentation will provide an overview of generative AI, provide considerations for teaching with AI, explore the intersections between AI and OERs, and share resources for participants interested in learning more about these topics.

Reflections of amiskwaciy: Indigenous protocols in open education, Followed by panel of UM OER users
2024-03-06 12:00 - 14:30 (America/Winnipeg) | University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
This Open Education Week, the University of Manitoba will be hosting a speaking event featuring keynote Kayla Lar-Son, who will join us by Zoom with a talk titled Reflections of amiskwaciy: Indigenous protocols in open education.
Next, an in-person panel of OER users from the University of Manitoba will discuss their experiences with OER.
Learn more and register to attend online by Zoom.

Reduce Student Costs, Boost Success: Open Resources for the Win
2024-03-06 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Parham Road Campus 1651 E. Parham Road, Richmond, VA, United States
Come join us and discover a wealth of open educational resources available through the VIVA Textbook Faculty Portal, the Open Textbook Library as well as other OER repositories. During this session, you will learn about navigating OER repositories and metafinders to find resources for your classes, previewing and requesting textbooks through the VIVA Textbook Faculty Portal, formats available through the Open Textbook Library, creative commons licenses, best practices for attributing resources, and VIVA Open Adoption and Course grants.

OER in Research and Practice: Supporting International Learners
2024-03-06 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | eCampusOntario, 372 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The use and adoption of OER presents an exciting opportunity to support international learners in their Ontario postsecondary education journey. This presentation will showcase research eCampusOntario conducted in 2023 on digital solutions to support international learners. An eCampusOntario OER Ranger will also talk about an OER they created as part of the Virtual Learning Strategy that is used to support international learners with developing professional communication skills. This presentation will combine OER research with OER practice.

Publishing a Book with Pressbooks - An Introduction
2024-03-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Pressbooks is a powerful and popular tool for creating open educational resources such as textbooks. Whether you are looking for training for yourself or your research assistants, this training will cover the basics of how to use Pressbooks to create and enhance content. By the end of this session participants will be familiar with:

Overview of Pressbooks functionality;
The layout of Pressbooks;
Creating book chapters and parts;
Embedding images, video, and slides

Open Education Talks 2024: Open Education in STEM
2024-03-06 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Edmonton) | University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Register for the 2024 Open Education Talks!
We’re excited to announce the third annual offering of The Open Education Talks, first offered in 2022 as The Open Pedagogy Talks, a series of lightning talks focusing on open education in postsecondary institutions. These 15-minute talks will be about facets of open education, including open pedagogy and learning, utilizing open educational resources, and integrating open strategies in higher education.
These talks aim to create an accessible, virtual space to engage in conversations about open education. For these talks, we share our understanding of open education from the UNESCO Cape Town Declaration:
…open education is not limited to just open educational resources. It also draws upon open technologies that facilitate collaborative, flexible learning and the open sharing of teaching practices that empower educators to benefit from the best ideas of their colleagues” (UNESCO Cape Town Declaration, 2018).
Sessions will focus on open education initiatives, projects, and programs related to:

Exploring Open Education: These talks focus on the facets of open education, why it has been impactful in higher education, and examples in higher education.
Open Learning Design: These talks focus on integrating open learning principles into current and future program and course designs.
Creating Open Educational Resources: These talks focus on creating, identifying, using, and sharing open educational resources in higher education.
Open Scholarship and Research Practices: These talks focus on how educators and learners integrate open research into their courses and scholarship of teaching and learning practices.

Talks Schedule: Every Wednesday in March 2024 at 12:00 PM MST. Please see the website for an updated schedule. Weekly topics will be:

March 06, 2024: Open Education in STEM
March 13, 2024: Course Design and Open Learning Design
March 20, 2024: Collaborative Open Education
March 27, 2024: The Future of Open Education

Registration: Please register any time!
Open Education Talks Working Group: This initiative has been developed in partnership with the University of Calgary, Thompson Rivers University, and the University of Alberta.
Please feel free to share this invitation with your network. Thank you!

Interview with the OER Rangers – Tranum Kaur and Hamed Amini Tehrani
2024-03-06 14:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Tranum Kaur and Dr. Hamed Amini Tehrani are the Open Rangers at the University of Windsor. This is an initiative sponsored by eCampusOntario to have people promote information about and the use of Open Educational Resources.
In this interview, we will learn about their experiences, including the use of H5P to promote student engagement and around OER adoption to support international learners. Information about how the program was run and experiences from their journeys will be discussed. Finally, there will be a chance for attendees to ask questions.

CESI’s Open Education Open Café
2024-03-06 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Computers in Education Society of Ireland, Castletown Geoghegan, Ireland
Join us for our special Open Education Week 2024 open café discussion featuring our special guests Dr Mags Amond (CESI), Dr Eamon Costello (Dublin City University), Dr Verena Roberts (Thompson Rivers University, Canada) and John Hegarty (Clongowes Wood College and CESI list moderator) Moderated by Kate Molloy (CESI Co-Chair)

Dr Mags Amond is a retired science teacher who has recently completed a PhD exploring TeachMeet. She is an advocate for openess in education in its many forms, with a keen interest in how it can serve a teacher’s personal professional practice. She volunteers on the National Executive of CESI, chairs the steering committee for Our Kids Code, and is a member of the global Turtlestitch community. #teachmeet #tmCESI #CESIcon #OurKidsCode #turtlestitch
Dr Eamon Costello is an Associate Professor of Digital Learning in the School of STEM Education Innovation and Global Studies at the Institute of Education, Dublin City University. He teaches a range of subjects related to digital learning, computer science and computational thinking in education. Previously Head of the Open Education Unit in Dublin City University provider of distance and online education to 1,000 students. He has presented and published widely on research in the area of education and educational technology and is a member of the management board of CASTeL the largest STEM Education research centre in Ireland.
John Hegarty has been a teacher for 30+ years. He was our CESI representative on the NCCA LC CS development group and a phase 1 LC CS teacher. John is also on the CESI exec and manages the CESI mailing list. He is a member of the Irish Linux Users Group and promotes the use of Open Source software. Interested in micro:bit, Pi Pico, Snap!, Microblocks.fun, python, TurtleStitch, CESI, Linux, foss, Scratch, making stuff, old tech bits and pieces,
Dr Verena Roberts is a passionate online and blended K-12 and Higher Education educator, open learning designer and consultant who completed her EdD in Learning Sciences with a focus on K-12 Open Educational Practices with the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. She is currently an Instructional Designer with Thompson Rovers University (Open Learning) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Uof Calgary. She is a 2018-2019 OER Research fellow and 2018 Global Open Graduate Network (#GO-GN) member. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and her current research interest is figuring out Authentic Assessment using AI tools and equity in children’s soccer programs (football everywhere else in the world).

Open Education Open Café
2024-03-06 19:30 - 20:30 (Europe/Dublin) | Computers in Education Society of Ireland, Castletown Geoghegan, Ireland
Join us for our special Open Education Week 2024 open café discussion featuring our special guests Dr Mags Amond (CESI), Dr Eamon Costello (Dublin City University), Dr Verena Roberts (Thompson Rivers University, Canada) and John Hegarty (Clongowes Wood College and CESI list moderator) Moderated by Kate Molloy (CESI Co-Chair)

Speaker bios:
Dr Mags Amond is a retired science teacher who has recently completed a PhD exploring TeachMeet. She is an advocate for openess in education in its many forms, with a keen interest in how it can serve a teacher’s personal professional practice. She volunteers on the National Executive of CESI, chairs the steering committee for Our Kids Code, and is a member of the global Turtlestitch community. #teachmeet #tmCESI #CESIcon #OurKidsCode #turtlestitch
Dr Eamon Costello is an Associate Professor of Digital Learning in the School of STEM Education Innovation and Global Studies at the Institute of Education, Dublin City University. He teaches a range of subjects related to digital learning, computer science and computational thinking in education. Previously Head of the Open Education Unit in Dublin City University provider of distance and online education to 1,000 students. He has presented and published widely on research in the area of education and educational technology and is a member of the management board of CASTeL the largest STEM Education research centre in Ireland.
John Hegarty has been a teacher for 30+ years. He was our CESI representative on the NCCA LC CS development group and a phase 1 LC CS teacher. John is also on the CESI exec and manages the CESI mailing list. He is a member of the Irish Linux Users Group and promotes the use of Open Source software. Interested in micro:bit, Pi Pico, Snap!, Microblocks.fun, python, TurtleStitch, CESI, Linux, foss, Scratch, making stuff, old tech bits and pieces,
Dr Verena Roberts is a passionate online and blended K-12 and Higher Education educator, open learning designer and consultant who completed her EdD in Learning Sciences with a focus on K-12 Open Educational Practices with the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. She is currently an Instructional Designer with Thompson Rovers University (Open Learning) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Uof Calgary. She is a 2018-2019 OER Research fellow and 2018 Global Open Graduate Network (#GO-GN) member. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and her current research interest is figuring out Authentic Assessment using AI tools and equity in children’s soccer programs (football everywhere else in the world).

Introduction to Remixing OER with LibreTexts
2024-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join a member of the LibreTexts team as they show you how to use our state of the art Remixer to remix existing OER. With an easy to use drag and drop functionality, and over 600,000 pages of content from which to choose, we think you’ll agree the LibreTexts Remixer can help you take your OER to the next level.
You can watch a recording of this presentation on the LibreTexts YouTube channel.

Updates on the U.S. Department of Education’s Negotiated Rulemaking for Automatic Billing (CCCOER)
2024-03-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
The U.S. Department of Education is considering the elimination of a provision that allows books and supplies to be charged as part of tuition and fees as a part of the negotiated rulemaking process. This would require higher education institutions to get student authorization for course material charges, which would effectively make “Inclusive Access” and automatic textbook billing programs “opt-in” for students. Presenters will discuss the implications of this proposal and shed light on its potential impact on students, institutions, and open educational resources. Please bring your thoughts and questions!
Presenters:

Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education, SPARC
Liliana Diaz, Senior Policy Analyst, WICHE

CLC Students’ Responses to the CARLI Survey: What is the Cost of Course Materials for Our Students?
2024-03-06 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL, United States
Nearly 300 of our students at the College of Lake County responded to the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI) survey last fall.
Come hear what they had to say about the real cost of their education.

Building Assignments in LibreTexts Open Homework and Assessment Platform, ADAPT
2024-03-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, as he shows you how to build assignments in LibreTexts open homework and assessment platform, ADAPT. Participants will learn how to build autograded questions based on four technologies – H5P, WebWork, IMathAS, and native (QTI) – that can be used interchangeably to allow for maximal impact. Currently sponsored by the California Education Learning Lab (CELL), ADAPT is free for all California instructors and students for the next three years. For educators outside of California, ADAPT is available at cost–with a price point far below what traditional publishers charge.
You can watch a recording of this presentation on the LibreTexts YouTube channel.

Developing Collaborative Open-Access Clinical Education with Bricks
2024-03-06 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville) | ScholarRX, Elizabethtown, KY, United States
Join expert clinician educators from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School as they demonstrate how a collaborative model of authorship allowed faculty and students to create a fresh, engaging approach to co-creation, resulting in free and open learning experiences.
Please join us for Developing Collaborative Open-Access Clinical Education: Strategies, Insights, and Authorship on March 6th at 5:00 pm Eastern.

Semana de la Educación Abierta: Desafiando mitos de aprendizaje y explorando la inteligencia artificial // OE Week: Challenging learning myths and exploring artificial intelligence
2024-03-06 17:00 - 2024-03-07 20:00 (America/Mexico_City) | Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
La Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León y Wikimedia México se encuentran colaborando para organizar el evento “Semana de la Educación Abierta: Desafiando mitos de aprendizaje y explorando la inteligencia artificial”. Tendremos varias actividades presenciales el 6 y 7 de marzo: una plática sobre el uso de inteligencia artificial (IA) en entornos abiertos, una presentación de herramientas de IA para editar documentos, un taller sobre cómo editar Wikipedia y un editatón con el tema de mitos de aprendizaje.
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The Faculty of Psychology of Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon and Wikimedia Mexico are collaborating to organise the event “Open Education Week: Challenging learning myths and exploring artificial intelligence”. We will have several face-to-face activities on March 6th and 7th: a talk about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in open environments, a presentation about AI tools to edit documents, a workshop on how to edit Wikipedia, and an editathon with the topic of learning myths.

OEW x Learning Design Meetup: Synergising sustainability with OERs in Higher Education
2024-03-07 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Join us during Open Education Week for the UTS Learning Design Meetup. We will explore how we can leverage Open Educational Resources (OERs) to integrate sustainability concepts into your learning and teaching. Discover a range of tools developed at UTS that will help you incorporate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and related concepts across various disciplines. Learn about the user-friendly platforms hosting these resources and gain insights into using the introductory materials with minimal effort in your teaching or on Canvas.
As a university committed to fostering positive change, UTS actively pursues embedding sustainability into curriculum to promote social justice and a thriving world. In this session, you’ll be introduced to the cross-departmental team of academics, sustainability experts, digital content creators and learning designers who are collaborating to achieve the university’s goals outlined in its Sustainability Strategy 2023-2027 with initiatives like the OERs.
Come and participate in this event to explore the tools and connect with fellow educators who share your passion for finding innovative ways to equip students with the necessary skills for our future.
Everyone from across the international education community is welcome. We look forward to seeing you there!
Presenter bio

Hello, I’m Christina (MEd, Grad Cert LD). My professional journey has been a continuous metamorphosis, spanning diverse industries and contexts. For the last 15 years, I’ve dedicated myself to the field of education and am currently working at UTS as a learning designer. My primary focus is discovering ways to create vibrant, transformative learning experiences guided by collaborative research-based practices. Motivated by my love for this planet, I advocate for making sustainability more mainstream and weaving it into tertiary education. I collaborate with various stakeholders at the university to contribute to this endeavour and create Open Educational Resources (OERs), aspiring towards a kinder, more just, and sustainable future.

Webinar on OER Literacy for LIS Professionals
2024-03-07 10:00 - 11:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Koneru Bhaskara Rao & Hemalata Human Development Foundation, Bhaskar Towers, Sitarampuram, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
On the eve of Open Education Week – March 4-8, 2024, KBR & HL Human Development Foundation and Department of Library and Information Science, Andhra University are jointly organizing a Webinar on “OER Literacy for LIS Professionals“. This webinar aims to raise awareness about OER among the Indian LIS professionals in line with the UNESCO’s Recommendation on OER, 2019.
Target audience: Librarians, LIS Faculty, students and scholars

Learning outcomes
This webinar will enable the participants to:

gain an understanding of Creative Commons Licenses and Open Educational Resources
differentiate between Copyright and Creative Commons License
demystify the myths about OER
find and evaluate OER (demo)

Launch of an Open Educational Resources Sharing Campaign via the Taziz Channel
2024-03-07 08:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Riyadh) | King Abdul Aziz University, F6VX+XJQ, King Abdulaziz University, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
The Deanship of E-Learning and Distance Education at King Abdulaziz University will launch a campaign through the Taziz channel during Open Education Week to provide over 550 open educational resources to facilitate access to educational content. The aim is to respond to the increasing demand for online education by effectively utilizing open educational resources through videos of courses in multiple fields, academic lectures and seminars, technical tutorials, and a series of awareness videos about the importance and benefits of e-learning, as well as methods of using learning management systems for faculty, students, and the community.

Rentgen Otwartych Zasobów
2024-03-07 08:00 - 2024-03-11 17:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | AGH University of Krakow, al. Mickiewicza, 30, Kraków, Poland
Information about your paths with open educational resources, during 5 days of training not only the basic theoretical foundations, but above all, experience of working with open resources.
Several tools are waiting for you, equipped with improved search, selection, resource utilization and sharing tools. The training is open to teachers and academic teachers as well as PhD students from all universities in Poland.
In conducting training: you will learn why educational products can be open, you will analyze the pros and cons of using OER in practice; you will learn Creative Commons licenses and practice systems for using renewable energy sources in accordance with the need for licenses; discover access to resources and learn about the systems they come from and the quality and credibility criteria; you will find out whether selected resources can be combined with each other to create a new quality; Instead, you created and published your own, open to other learning activities! Form: online training in the form of a daily challenge (every day for 5 days, participants of alternative competitions – any time of the day) Data: 4-8/03/2024

Gala Formatorilor BNRM 2023
2024-03-07 10:00 - 11:30 (Europe/Chisinau) | Biblioteca Științifică a Universității de Stat Alecu Russo din Bălți, Republica Moldova, 38 Puşkin Str., Bălţi, Moldova, Republic of
Gala Formatorilor BNRM 2023, ediția a 6-a, online.
Formatorii anului 2023 ai CFPC din cadrul BNRM: contribuții pentru învățarea bazată pe competențe
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 854 1877 3615

Webinar on Developing Interactive Open Textbooks for Indian School Education
2024-03-07 14:00 - 15:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Koneru Bhaskara Rao & Hemalata Human Development Foundation, Bhaskar Towers, Sitarampuram, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Open textbooks, a subset of open educational resources (OER) are digitally structured open textbooks, released in adaptable and shareable formats, with a Creative Commons (CC) license. Open textbooks enable teachers to develop and update textbooks in alignment with their curricular needs and to improve students access to quality learning content. Pressbooks, a WordPress-based open textbooks platform enables teachers to develop open textbooks by adapting OER / open textbooks content; embedding media, interactive content, simulations and self-assessment questions to ascertain student mastery over the concept.

On the eve of Open Education Week – March 4-8, 2024, KBR & HL Human Development Foundation and MIER College of Education, Jammu are jointly organizing a Webinar on Developing Interactive Open Textbooks (using Pressbooks) for Indian School Education. This webinar introduces OER and open textbooks and demonstrates how to develop OER-enabled interactive open textbooks.
Target audience: Indian Teacher Educators
Learning outcomes
This webinar will enable the participants to:

gain an understanding of Creative Commons Licenses and Open Educational Resources
find adaptable / remixable OER (demo)
develop OER-enabled interactive open textbooks for Indian School Education using Pressbooks (demo)

ERASMUS+ Project DI4ALL (Digital Inclusion for all)
2024-03-07 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Vilnius) | Lund, Lund, Sweden
The Digital Inclusion for all Learners (DI4All) project aims to promote digital inclusion and improve the key competencies, skills, and learning performance of young people in schools. The project seeks to tackle disinformation through education and training and enhance the competencies of teachers and educators.
Objectives:

To improve the key competencies, skills, and learning performance of young people in schools, through the promotion of quality improvements, innovation excellence, and digital inclusiveness.
To enhance the competencies of teachers and educators to promote digital inclusion and tackle disinformation through education and training.

Expected Outcomes:

A training of trainers program, developed from analyzed results and best practices from teachers and trainers in the field of digital inclusion.
A guide for educators, including materials from the Intellectual outputs of the project.
A study of best practices and case studies.
An online contest for schools to present their best practices in digital inclusion of all learners.
A final seminar.

Target Groups: The DI4All project targets students, school staff, schools, other education providers, public bodies, and national agencies.
Project Coordination: The project coordinator is Ossiannilsson Quality in Open Online Learning (QOOL) Consultancy, based in Lund, Sweden. The project partner is the Lithuanian College of Democracy in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Conclusion: The Digital Inclusion for all Learners (DI4All) project is a significant initiative aimed at promoting digital inclusion in education and enhancing the skills and competencies of young people and teachers. The project’s expected outcomes, such as the training of trainers program, a guide for educators, and the online contest, will help achieve its objectives and drive change in the education sector.

Training: Open online courses – professional knowledge for everyone
2024-03-07 11:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | Gdańsk University of Technology, Narutowicza st. 11/12, Gdańsk, Pomeranian, Poland
This year, Gdańsk Tech University librarians invite everyone, including students and academic teachers, to two short training sessions devoted to open educational resources.
The first training, on March 5, will be dedicated to free academic textbooks that can be found on the Internet, legally downloaded and used during classes at the university. The second one will take place on March 7 and present platforms with online courses designed by leading world universities, which will certainly help you acquire knowledge and consolidate acquired skills.
The training will be online via the MS Teams platform and on-site in the library’s multimedia room in the main building of Gdańsk Tech University. To participate in the meeting, simply click the link or come to the multimedia room. The training will be conducted in Polish at 10:30 and English at 11:30. It will take approximately 20 minutes.
Training: Open online courses – professional knowledge for everyone 07 Match 11:30 am

convOERter: Ein Tool zur Konvertierung von Bildungsmaterialien mit Bildern in OER
2024-03-07 12:15 - 13:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Campus Luzern, Werftestrasse 4, Luzern, Switzerland
Für die Open Education Week @ Campus Luzern berichtet Lubna Ali, Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Informatik 9 – Lerntechnologien/ RWTH Aachen, über der convOERter. OER können eine wichtige Rolle bei der Verbesserung der Bildung spielen. Allerdings gibt es noch viele Herausforderungen bei der Verwendung von OER in einem Bildungskontext. Eine der Herausforderungen ist die Umwandlung von bestehenden Bildungsmaterialien in OER. In diesem Beitrag wird ein Tool vorgestellt, das bestehende Lehr- und Lernmaterialien halbautomatisch in OER umwandelt. Während der Session werden die Teilnehmer die Möglichkeit haben, das Tool selbst zu entdecken und auszuprobieren.
