Open Education Week

Social Justice Applications of Open Pedagogy
2024-03-28 16:30 - 17:45 (America/Vancouver) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
In this talk, Professor Jasmine Roberts-Crews will discuss previous and emerging social justice frameworks in open education and their relevance to open pedagogy. This talk will also address critical considerations of open pedagogy, while providing a few examples of its practical applications.

OER Literacy
2024-04-03 14:00 - 2024-05-03 16:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Dr B R Ambedkar Open University, Road No.46, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
During Open Education Week, the Centre for Online Education and Learning (COEL) of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University (Dr. BRAOU), Hyderabad, India, will organise weekly OER literacy (awareness) sessions for the faculty members and students within the university.
We encourage our faculty and students to visit COEL office, meet the team with queries and ideas relating to OER and learn about open licenses every Wednesday between 2 to 4 pm (IST) from 06 March to 05 April 2024.
The month-long weekly event will include:
• Awareness of open licences for OER beginners
• Exploring online OER.
• knowing the 5 Rs of OER
• Learning about Dr BRAOU OER policy.

Re-Imagining Assessments for Social and Epistemic Justice Through the Lens of Open Pedagogy
2024-04-03 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Vancouver) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Assessment practices are a powerful way for educators to signal to students what is important in their learning journey and allows students to demonstrate their learning and competency. At the same time assessments through their design and deployment can also create epistemic and social injustices for traditionally marginalised students. Drawing on principles of open pedagogy, this session will explore ways of reviewing and designing assessments that create enabling conditions for socially just assessment practices that contribute to students’ sense of inclusion and for them to be active participants in a community of learning.

Opening Art and Design Education for a Just and Sustainable World: A Panel Discussion on Open Educational Resources and Practices
2024-04-04 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Pratt Institute, 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States
In recognition of Open Education Week, the Pratt Institute Libraries and the Center for Teaching and Learning offer this panel discussion about open educational resources (OERs) and open educational practices (OEPs) in the art and design context. Our panelists include Justine De Young (Chair of History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology) and Yongyeon Cho (Assistant Professor of Interior Design, Iowa State University).
The panel will discuss how open educational resources and practices can enhance art and design education and how faculty can get involved with OERs and OEPs, as well as how OERs and OEPs contribute to creative practice, social justice, inclusive pedagogy, sustainability, and student success. During the event, we will also hear from members of the Pratt community about ongoing OER and OEP initiatives and projects.

全球移動學習的實踐 – TMU X Minerva
2025-02-11 12:00 - 13:00 (Asia/Taipei) | Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
您知道嗎？Minerva University 曾創下台灣元首以「線上接見」外賓的首例！
想了解這所沒有實體校園、錄取率不到 1%，比哈佛還難進的全球新創大學獨特魅力嗎？
我們特別邀請到多位學術界與業界重量級講師，共同探討 Minerva University 的創新教育模式，並分享全球移動學習實地合作的寶貴經驗。與專家對談，透過真實案例啟發您未來數位教學新思維，請您千萬別錯過，立即報名，探索未來教育模式，掌握數位教學新趨勢！
【Global view】
徐芳筠｜City Director｜Minerva University
鄒書玉｜Experiential Education Manager｜Minerva University
【Civic Project Mentors】
林良宗 教授｜微生物免疫學科｜臺北醫學大學
蔡芸琤 副教授｜科技應用與人力資源發展學系｜國立臺灣師範大學
陳子盈 數據工程師｜資訊部｜森邦股份有限公司
【活動資訊】
【活動主題】：全球移動學習的實踐 – TMU X Minerva
【活動日期】：2025/02/11（星期二）
【活動時間】：12:00-13:00
【活動地點】：Google Meet 線上會議室

Resilience and Open Education: Supporting Ukrainian Librarians During Wartime
2025-02-13 09:00 - 10:30 (America/New_York) | Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies, Virtual, Ukraine
Join us for a personal and thought-provoking session featuring Dr. Tetiana Kolesnykova, Director of the Scientific Library with the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies (Ukraine), with live translation by Mira Buist-Zhuk, Academic Information Specialist with the University of Groningen Library (Netherlands). Both are members of the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL). Discover how librarians in Ukraine are using open education as a tool to stay connected with the world and support their communities during the ongoing war. This session will focus on Tetiana’s experiences, the resilience of her colleagues, and how collaborative, practical solutions can make a difference.
Expect a conversation about the evolving challenges Ukrainian librarians face in their daily lives, with opportunities to share ideas and understand the cultural nuances of offering meaningful support.
*Please note that the dynamic realities of war may impact session logistics. Organizers will keep registrants informed of any changes to the date or time.
Registration is required. This meeting will be recorded and shared with all registrants. Questions? Email cccoer@oeglobal.org.
This webinar is a collaboration by the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER), a node of Open Education Global and the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL), a part of SPARC Europe.

🏆 2022 OE Award for Excellence: Open Resilience
🎙️ OEG Voices Podcast Episode 51

Data Reuse Days 2025 (WikiData)
2025-02-18 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-19 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-20 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-21 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-22 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-23 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-24 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-25 17:00 - 19:00 UTC and 2 more dates | Online from Multiple Locations
The Data Reuse Days 2025 is an online event focusing on how people and organizations use Wikidata’s data to build interesting applications and tools. It aims to bring together data reusers and editors to learn from each other and discover cool Wikidata-powered applications. We will also cover technical aspects of Wikidata and share research and ideas for the future of reusing Wikidata’s data.
The event is taking place online, we will have sessions taking place during periods of 2 hours through 8 days: from February 18 to 27, 2025. Find the schedule below on this page. The sessions take place in English, and are open to everyone interested in the topic of data reuse. You have 3 options to watch the sessions:

Attend live in the Jitsi room: you’ll be able to interact with the speakers and other participants. The unique Jitsi link will be added to the Event details shortly before the event, and visible to people who have registered. Note: if you join the Jitsi room, please be aware that we will be recording the call and broadcasting it live on Youtube.
Watch the livestream of the sessions on Youtube: great option if your connection or device doesn’t allow Jitsi, or if you don’t want to appear on the videos. The links will be added in the table below for each session shortly before the event.
Watch the replay videos later on Youtube or Wikimedia Commons: to catch up in case you missed the live transmission, The links will be added in the table below for each session

Beyond the Classroom: Student editors improve Wikipedia (Wiki Education Speaker Series)
2025-02-18 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Online from Multiple Locations
At the center of Wiki Education’s work are the thousands of postsecondary students across the United States and Canada we support each term. Tasked with improving Wikipedia as part of their coursework but often new to editing, the students work through Wiki Education’s series of trainings and exercises to successfully contribute to thousands of articles across disciplines, filling in some of Wikipedia’s knowledge equity gaps and improving historically underrepresented topic areas. In this panel, four students will share reflections from their Wikipedia assignments, including their perspectives on learning to edit WIkipedia, create public-facing scholarship, and contribute to the largest, most read encyclopedia in the world.
Panelists:

Ekaterina Schiavone Hennighausen, George Washington University
Joseph Sugalski, University of Notre Dame
Jianan Li, Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles
Johnny Shanahan, North Carolina Central University- School of Library and Information Science

This edition of the Wiki Education Speaker Series is hosted by Wiki Education’s Brianda Felix, who first edited Wikipedia as an assignment during her undergraduate studies at UCLA. Brianda now supports instructors and students with their own Wikipedia assignments as one of our Wikipedia Experts.
Join Wiki Education as we bring together experts in Wikimedia and open knowledge for lively discussions of topics relevant to our communities. Wiki Education hosts regular, Zoom-based conversations, and you’re encouraged to take part! Sign up for any topics that are of interest to you, and join as our panelists share their thoughts, moderated by a Wiki Education staff member.

Pedagogy without Borders: New Frontiers of Teaching and Technology
2025-02-19 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Since the 2023 KTT conference, new educational technologies and the advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) have radically transformed higher education. Both faculty and students are consistently adapting their teaching and learning to the challenges and opportunities created by these technologies. This conference invites faculty, staff, and others to share how they are re-imagining teaching and learning in ways that shift our pedagogical borders, and think creatively about the new frontiers we are facing together in teaching and technology. What technologies are you using in your teaching? What are the opportunities these technologies afford you as an instructor? How do they impact student learning? How are you currently navigating challenges in your teaching and learning?
Presenters were welcome to submit proposals for one of two conference tracks: one focused specifically on AI and another on other contemporary issues related to educational technologies.
Conference “Pre-Show”
Pedagogy without Borders: New Frontiers of Teaching and Technology

Format: The conference will be delivered virtually. All conference elements including the student panel, keynote talk, and conference presentations will be held over Zoom.
Schedule: https://pedagogywithoutborders.sched.com/list/simple

DWeb Meetup — Bluesky & Beyond
2025-02-19 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Vancouver) | Online from Multiple Locations
Join us for a virtual meetup where we will discuss Bluesky, AT Protocol, and the future of decentralized social media.
In 2019, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, posted a series of tweets announcing that the company was funding a small team of researchers to “develop an open and decentralized standard for social media”. Now fast forward 5 years later — that project is now known as AT Protocol, better known by Bluesky, the social network that is the first implementation of the protocol. Bluesky has now surpassed 30 million users worldwide, as users have quit Twitter in droves over the policies enforced by its billionaire owner.
One of the promises of Bluesky is that anyone can build a competing platform using the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol. So even if Bluesky were to be compromised in some way, the protocol promises to allow users to easily move their data and identity to other competing services.
So what would it take to create an alternative social network to Bluesky?
There’s at least one major effort to do just that. Free Our Feeds is a new multi-stakeholder foundation working to build an entire ecosystem of interconnected apps and services that would not be controlled by any one company or organization.
Join us at our next virtual meetup on February 19, 2025 11:30am PT to discuss Bluesky, AT Protocol, and efforts to build an open, interoperable ecosystem of social networks.
SPEAKERS

Mallory Knodel, Social Web Foundation
Bryan Newbold, Bluesky
Boris Mann, ATMosphere Conference

International Mother Language Day 2025
2025-02-20 08:00 - 2025-02-21 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
UNESCO will celebrate the 25th anniversary of International Mother Language Day, reaffirming the importance of linguistic diversity and multilingualism in fostering dignity, peace, and understanding.
UNESCO estimates that there are 8,324 languages, spoken or signed. Out of these, around 7,000 languages are still in use. However, linguistic diversity is under threat, with many languages disappearing at an accelerated pace in our rapidly changing world.
Learning in one’s mother tongue enhances comprehension, engagement, and critical thinking, particularly for marginalized communities, but 37% of learners in low- and middle-income countries lack this opportunity. Multilingual education addresses these gaps, boosting participation, retention, and socio-emotional development, while also supporting global goals like gender equality, climate action, and sustainable communities. UNESCO champions multilingualism as a powerful tool for inclusive education and meaningful global engagement.
In February, UNESCO will celebrate the 25th anniversary of International Mother Language Day, reaffirming the importance of linguistic diversity and multilingualism in fostering dignity, peace, and understanding. This milestone highlights decades of efforts to preserve mother tongues, safeguard cultural heritage, and improve education.
The “Languages matter: Silver Jubilee Celebration of International Mother Language Day” event will underscore the urgency of accelerating progress on linguistic diversity to build a more inclusive and sustainable world by 2030. It also supports the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, emphasizing the role of languages in achieving global development goals. The event will review progress, showcase successful multilingual education practices, and advocate for inclusive language policies that respect all communities.
The two-day event will feature technical dialogues (20 February), high-level sessions (21 February), cultural performances, and an exhibition celebrating global linguistic diversity, all accessible through live streaming and interpretation.
UNESCO estimates that there are 8,324 languages, spoken or signed. Out of these, around 7,000 languages are still in use. However, linguistic diversity is under threat, with many languages disappearing at an accelerated pace in our rapidly changing world.
Learning in one’s mother tongue enhances comprehension, engagement, and critical thinking, particularly for marginalized communities, but 37% of learners in low- and middle-income countries lack this opportunity. Multilingual education addresses these gaps, boosting participation, retention, and socio-emotional development, while also supporting global goals like gender equality, climate action, and sustainable communities. UNESCO champions multilingualism as a powerful tool for inclusive education and meaningful global engagement.
In February, UNESCO will celebrate the 25th anniversary of International Mother Language Day, reaffirming the importance of linguistic diversity and multilingualism in fostering dignity, peace, and understanding. This milestone highlights decades of efforts to preserve mother tongues, safeguard cultural heritage, and improve education.
The “Languages matter: Silver Jubilee Celebration of International Mother Language Day” event will underscore the urgency of accelerating progress on linguistic diversity to build a more inclusive and sustainable world by 2030. It also supports the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, emphasizing the role of languages in achieving global development goals. The event will review progress, showcase successful multilingual education practices, and advocate for inclusive language policies that respect all communities.
The two-day event will feature technical dialogues (20 February), high-level sessions (21 February), cultural performances, and an exhibition celebrating global linguistic diversity, all accessible through live streaming and interpretation.
Register to attend in person or watch the live stream.
Featured image credit File:”Mother tongue” in Syloti Language.jpg Wikimedia Commons Image shared under CC BY-SA

From Plagiarism to Postplagiarism: Shifting from Punitive to Pro-Active Approaches to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI
2025-02-25 17:00 - 18:00 (Africa/Cairo) | American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
This is the closing keynote for the American University in Cairo’s 2025 CLT Symposium.
This session is about shifting away from a punitive mindset, when it comes to academic integrity to set up students for success in and beyond the classroom. There is no question that teaching, learning and assessment have changed since generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and similar apps have become ubiquitous over the past few years. We can be ethical or unethical about how these tools are used in our classrooms and beyond. In this session, we will talk about students, faculty and leaders’ responsibilities for upholding and modeling academic integrity in ways that set up students for success today, tomorrow and beyond.
This session is not about how to use specific tools. Instead, we will delve into the broad ethical and practical implications of AI for education and business. A key takeaway from this talk is how academic integrity provides a foundation for ethical decision-making beyond the classroom, in the workplace and everyday life.
About the Speaker
Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD, a professor at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada is an award-winning educator, researcher and leader. She leads transdisciplinary research teams focused on the ethical implications of advanced technology use in educational contexts. Eaton also holds a concurrent appointment as an honorary associate professor at Deakin University, Australia.

About the Symposium
The CLT Symposium brings AUC faculty together to share their innovative pedagogical experiences and ideas, and to learn from international speakers on themes related to imagination in education, academic integrity in the age of AI and reimagining emerging technologies. Sub-themes this year will include human-centered teaching in the age of AI, academic integrity in the post-plagiarism era, and experiential learning.
This year the hybrid symposium will offer a variety of workshops, roundtables and virtual/hybrid keynotes on February 16- 19 and 25, 2025.
Register to watch online Sarah Eaton’s closing keynote.

OER World Map Live Demo (OEWeek Live!)
2025-02-25 09:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
In our first pre-Open Education Week Live session, Alan Levine is joined by Susanne Grimm of OERInfo to show how this year we are collaborating to increase the coverage on the OER World Map.
This early collaborative effort to map the world of open education peopler, organizations, projects, and services has been revitalized with the support of OERInfo. We are asking participants on Open Education Week to add themselves, their institutions, policies, and other relevant items to the map .
We will show you how to join the OER World Map, affiliate yourself with your organization and with OEGlobal / Open Education Week. Then we will see how to add new items to the map and the many ways in which the map can be used as a searchable / filterable dynamic database of open education globally.
This session is meant to have a how to reference available as we invite you to be part of the efforts to share assets for Open Education Week through the OER World Map.
Watch live and ask questions via chat or watch the recoding later.
For more, see:

OER World Map https://oerworldmap.org/
OERInfo https://open-educational-resources.de/
Adding Assets to the OER World Map for Open Education Week https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/assets/oer-worldmap/
Items added to the Map for OEWeek 2025 https://oerworldmap.org/resource/?language=en&filter.about.keywords=%5B%22oeweek25%22%5D

Watch to learn how you can both user the OER World Map and make it that much better by adding information to it

Open Ed Live
2025-02-25 11:45 - 15:00, 2025-02-26 11:45 - 15:00, 2025-02-27 11:45 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL, United States
Open Ed Live is a free online event aimed at bringing higher ed faculty, librarians, instructional designers, and others with related responsibilities or interests together to explore the boundless opportunities of open education. It consists of three half-day, virtual events with drop-in sessions for extended conversation on key topics.
Hosted by the Division of Digital Learning and UCF Libraries of the University of Central Florida, along with members of the UCF Bookstore, Office of the Provost of Academic Affairs, and teaching faculty.
Speakers representing all levels of colleges and universities will present informational sessions, participate in panel discussions, and lead interactive workshops for attendees.
You’ll receive actionable advice on how to best incorporate open educational resources and practices into courses.
This second annual event acts as a prelude to Open Education Week which takes place March 3-7, 2025. Open Education Week is an annual, global celebration where educators can actively share and learn about the latest achievements in open education.

Product Showcase: How Pressbooks Supports the Open Education Journey
2025-02-26 10:00 - 10:30 (America/Toronto) | Pressbooks, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
REGISTER HERE: https://pressbooks.com/pressbooks-product-showcase/#join_our_sessions
Are you exploring ways to enhance or expand your institution’s creation and use of open educational resources (OER)? Join this session to learn how Pressbooks supports institutions at each stage of the open education journey. We’ll provide a helpful overview of Pressbooks’ digital publishing platform and common use cases, including:

Creating, finding, and adapting OER content
Enabling open pedagogy and student publishing
Developing handbooks and training materials
Different Pressbooks deployment models

Whether you’re just getting started or leading a mature open education program, Pressbooks can help you build capability, manageability, and sustainability.
REGISTER HERE: https://pressbooks.com/pressbooks-product-showcase/#join_our_sessions

Demo and Inside Look at OER102 MOOC- Enhancing education through open opportunities (OEWeek Live!)
2025-02-26 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Regina) | Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
In this pre-Open Education Week episode of our live streamed sessions, we welcome into the studio Paola Corti and Luca Tantimonaco from Politecnico di Milano. We will see a tour of the new MOOC from Polimi Open Knowledge “Enhancing education through open opportunities” shared under a CC-BY license.
This open course is even more open as all of the content and assets are openly licensed but also the tools used to create the course, including video editing, were open source tools. You will learn not only how this is done, but how to make use of the source materials provided for the MOOC published openly to Zenodo.
Learn more:

Enhancing education through open opportunities (OER102) https://www.pok.polimi.it/course/view.php?id=158
Course Videos (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmKUwJ0KJQnWVwAZm2J4Q-Ieg9Wf4Ap5N
Announcement in OEG Connect https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/7248
MOOC Materials (Zenodo) https://zenodo.org/records/14198499
Libre Office (used for organzing documents and presentation graphics) https://www.libreoffice.org/
OpenShot Video Editor https://www.openshot.org/
Polimi Open Knowledge (140+ MOOCs) https://www.libreoffice.org/
OER 101: Using Open Educational Resources in Teaching (first MOOC)

Watch the demo live and ask questions via chat or watch the recording later

WikiAfrica Hour – De-colonising knowledge on Wikipedia
2025-02-26 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online from Multiple Locations
What do we mean by decolonising knowledge? Why is it essential to document this on Wikimedia projects? What established knowledge decolonisation initiatives are inside (and even outside) the Wikimedia movement that we should pay attention to? How can we improve existing initiatives and encourage others to do the same?
This month on Wiki Africa Hour, we’re doing a deep dive into decolonising knowledge with guest host Achal Prabhala, who will lead a panel experienced in disrupting the information landscape.
Guests include:

Iolanda Pensa: a wikipedian and researcher. She has been contributing to Wikipedia since 2006, she organized in 2016 “Wikimania Esino Lario”, she is chair of the Wikimania Steering Committee, former chair and now national coordinator for GLAMs of Wikimedia Italia, scientific director of WikiAfrica from 2007 until 2011 and co-founder of Wiki in Africa. co-founder of De-colonising knowledge on wikipedia in Switzerland.
Asuru Lutherking Petercan: a research assistant in architectural history and heritage preservation. Advocating for free knowledge in Nigeria, advocating for policy change and creating awareness in the built environment and beyond about heritage and historic architectural archives, contributing to open source platforms, training more professionals to contribute and also starting an architectural heritage community to join in the contribution of Heritage architecture and GLAM related knowledge in Nigeria.
Sandra Schmitt Soster: Sandra Soster is the GLAM and Culture Manager of Wiki Movimento Brasil since 2022. She holds a PhD degree of Architecture and Urbanism by University of São Paulo (USP).
Chantal Edie Ntube: an artist whose art representation extends beyond her visual practice as a photographer and writer. Chantal has a BSC in History, a Masters I in Political Sciences, and an HND in HSC from Reading in the UK.

WikiAfrica Hour:
Wiki In Africa’s WikiAfrica Hour is a monthly live discussion with open movement advocates from around the world. The conversations discuss the WikiAfrica movement’s and Wikimedia activities across Africa and shares insight for anyone (from Africa and beyond) into the global Wikimedia movement.

2025 OERizona Conference
2025-02-27 08:40 - 16:30 (America/Phoenix) | Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ, United States
Showcase. Build. Connect.
Open Educational Resources (OER) and the pedagogical practices permitted by their use continue to grow in potential to improve the educational experiences of our students, from drastically reducing the cost burden associated with course materials to directly involving students in the generation of knowledge. As educators and administrators across Arizona demonstrate increasing interest in the global open education community, the opportunity to forge meaningful cross-institutional connections related to open education has emerged.
Join us for the 7th annual OERizona Conference, where attendees are invited to discover innovative teaching and learning practices, connect with like-minded educators, and explore how Open Educational Resources (OER) and open pedagogy can enhance student success for all learners.
Register Now!
Event Summary

Who: Advocates, practitioners, and anyone interested in open education. The event is open to the public.
What: A virtual experience inviting participants to showcase projects or ideas, learn from the community, build effective resources, and connect to an ongoing community of practice through the OERizona Network.
When: February 27 and 28, 2025
Where: Virtual
Why: The Arizona Regional OER Conference seeks to support student success by promoting awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources and Pedagogies while encouraging collaboration through institutional partnerships across the state and beyond.
How: The 2025 OER Conference is hosted by Pima Community College and actively seeks institutional sponsorship for the event.

SDCCD Keynote - Small Steps with OER: Building Momentum, Promoting Success
2025-02-28 00:00 (America/New_York)
The prospect of updating your class with freely available materials can seem daunting, yet reducing textbook costs and enhancing course relevance is key to advancing equitable student learning. Join us to identify small steps we can take, practical strategies that aren’t overwhelming, to begin or progress your OER journey. Find fresh inspiration to teach engaging classes in which you and your students can thrive and succeed. Join the San Diego Community College District Open Ed Week via Zoom Events and attend this keynote session.
