Open Education Week

Open Your Teaching: Enhancing Student Learning through Open Education Resources, Pedagogies, and Practices
2025-03-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Open Education is a teaching and learning approach that utilizes unrestricted access to learning materials, collaborative knowledge creation and inclusive pedagogical practices in order to increase access to knowledge.
In this workshop, we’ll explore the strategies that instructors at UBC are using to open their classrooms, incorporate new resources and perspectives in their learning environments, and contribute to their students’ learning beyond the classroom. We’ll define what makes an educational resource or practice open, identify ways of finding and reusing open materials for your courses, and explore approaches to developing open assignments that empowers students to contribute to public knowledge.
Facilitators:

Erin Fields, Open Education and Scholarly Communications Librarian, UBC Library
Will Engle, Strategist – Open Education Initiatives, CTLT

Building Assignments in LibreTexts ADAPT Open Homework and Assessment Platform
2025-03-06 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 educators outside of California, ADAPT is available at cost–with a price point far below what traditional publishers charge.

Vectors of Trust: Practicing Reciprocal Values in Challenging Times
2025-03-06 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Vancouver) | British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
In eduspaces we talk about values in nebulous terms. We believe in open, we believe in barrier-free, we believe in social justice, we believe in student-focused pedagogies. But what are these values as praxis for those of us who support student-focused spaces?
In this keynote, Dr. Ann Gagné will discuss how we are currently living through a crisis of trust in higher education, institutionally, governmentally, societally, and within our own communities. She will support reflection on how trust is a vector, with both magnitude and direction that impacts the work we do and the work we want to do. By highlighting broken reciprocal values and support systems, this talk defines the moral injury seen in our eduspaces and gives participants the opportunity to leave with tangible next steps to promote trust as reciprocal and etymologically radical.

Speaker Bio
Dr. Ann Gagné (she/her) is Senior Educational Developer, Accessibility & Inclusion at Brock University and a sessional instructor at George Brown College. She has worked in higher education in Ontario at colleges and universities for 21 years. Her work focuses on the need for accessible pedagogies through holistic awareness of disabled learners, faculty, and staff lived experience to decrease barriers to inclusion in higher education. She has facilitated workshops and keynotes on accessible pedagogy, accessible event design, accessible social media practices, and trauma-aware UDL. In March 2023 she started her own podcast Accessagogy, which talks about accessibility and pedagogy in short (under 15 minute) episodes.
BC Open Education Librarians (BCOEL) is grateful for the support of BCcampus who has co-funded this event.

Búsqueda y utilización de Recursos Educativos Abiertos en la era de la Inteligencia Artificial
2025-03-07 00:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Exploraremos qué son los Recursos Educativos Abiertos (REA), cómo encontrarlos y utilizarlos, sus sinergias con la Inteligencia Artificial Generativa (IAG) y los aspectos éticos y legales de su uso. La actividad es gratuita y abierta a cualquier persona interesada en el impacto de los REA en la docencia. ¡Te esperamos!

STEMfest 2025
2025-03-06 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Parham Road Campus 1651 E. Parham Road, Richmond, VA, United States
In case you don’t know STEMfest, it is a free interactive event held on the Parham Road campus of Reynolds Community College for students, faculty, staff, families, science enthusiasts… basically everyone… and this video explains it all.
That evening there will be sessions spanning across topics in physics, molecular biology, microbiology, engineering, information technology, healthcare, computer science, and math to name a few. This year we are expanding to include careers associated with these disciplines, a goldfish petting zoo, and open education (free!!!) textbooks.

Interactive Asynchronous Discussions with Discuss-It in LibreTexts’ ADAPT
2025-03-06 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Ready to energize your asynchronous online discussions? In this session, our panel of instructors will introduce Discuss-It, a powerful extension of the LibreTexts’ ADAPT homework platform that fosters active learning, student engagement, and collaboration in online courses.
This tool, available for free in California, supports asynchronous student-to-student interaction and instructor-student communication through multimedia options, enhancing the learning experience for all students. Discuss-It also prioritizes accessibility and inclusivity, offering features like auto-captioning, and auto-transcription with editing capabilities in multiple languages, powered by OpenAI’s Whisper technology. With its seamless integration with Canvas and other learning management systems for automatic gradebook syncing, Discuss-It can be a powerful teaching tool and streamline course management for instructors.
Discuss-It allows students to engage in threaded discussions using text, audio, and video responses, creating a more interactive and engaging online learning environment. By promoting creativity and enabling students to express their thoughts in diverse ways, it encourages meaningful conversations with their peers. Peer review and feedback are also integral to Discuss-It, promoting reflection and increasing accountability among students.
Join us to discover how Discuss-It can transform online learning by creating an engaging, inclusive, and collaborative learning environment.

Introduction to Open Education (EDEV0006)
2025-03-07 - 2025-03-23 | Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Dr, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Registration is now open for EDEV0006, Introduction to Open Education.
This course is intended to provide educators with foundational knowledge on the importance of open educational practices, including open educational resources (OER).
This course is part of the micro-credential Open Education in a Post-Secondary Context offered through Conestoga’s Continuing Education department. It can also be used towards Conestoga’s Post-Secondary Teaching Certificate.

Predavanje: Otvorenost umjetne inteligencije
2025-03-07 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Zagreb) | SRCE – University Computing Centre, University of Zagreb, Josipa Marohnića 5, Zagreb, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
Predavanje istražuje kompleksnost i kontroverze oko pojma otvorene umjetne inteligencije s naglaskom na velike jezične modele (Large Language Models – LLMs) te ima namjeru potaknuti raspravu o etičkim, tehničkim i pravnim aspektima ove teme.
Nakon definicije pojma otvorene umjetne inteligencije kroz smjernice OSI-ja (Open Source Initiative) i njihovog dokumenta The Open Source AI Definition – 1.0, predavanje će obuhvatiti aspekte otvorenosti i dostupnosti izvornog koda, autorskih prava i licenciranja podataka, pojmova koji se susreću u opisima modela te transparentnosti procesa njihovog učenja.
Kroz usporedbu različitih popularnih LLM-ova uključujući i kineski DeepSeek, predavanje će dati analizu razina njihove otvorenosti, uz referencu na istraživanje Stanfordovog CRFM-a (Center for Research on Foundation Models) i njihovog indeksa transparentnosti.
Poseban naglasak stavit će se i na The Model Openness Framework (MOF), koji pruža strukturirani način vrednovanja otvorenosti modela.
Radi kompleksnosti samih LLM-ova, pokušaj definicije otvorenosti i preporuka za korištenje LLM-ova izaziva nesuglasice unutar zajednice otvorenog koda i potrebe za teškim kompromisima, gdje se filozofija potpune otvorenosti „čistunaca“ sukobljava sa stvarnošću pragmatičara i potrebama za tim alatima u primjerice medicini, pri čemu osobni i klinički podaci u takvim bolničkim informacijskim sustavima iz mnogih razloga ne mogu biti ni otvoreni ni javni.
Kroz ovo predavanje sudionici će dobiti temelje za razumijevanje složenosti ovog područja te perspektivu o tome kako se otvorenost i u kojem obliku može integrirati u svakodnevnu primjenu umjetne inteligencije.
Predavač: Kristijan Zimmer, IT stručnjak, Sektor za umjetnu inteligenciju, CARNET
Vrijeme i mjesto održavanja: 7. 3. 2025. u 10 sati, u Srcu, Dvorana E

Check H5P accessibility and more - CARETAKER
2025-03-07 10:00 - 22:30 (Europe/Oslo) | Skien, SKIEN, Telemark, Norway
We are excited to introduce the H5P Caretaker, a valuable tool designed to help you assess your H5P files for accessibility, licensing, and usability issues. This initiative is the result of a collaborative effort between Oliver Tacke and NDLA.
Please note that the H5P Caretaker is still in development, and we welcome your feedback to help us improve the service. The initial version is fully operational and available for you to test during this web conference.
As adherence to accessibility standards becomes increasingly vital, it’s essential that we equip ourselves with the right tools and resources to streamline this process. The H5P Caretaker aims to make your experience as seamless and up-to-date as possible.
We invite you to explore the H5P Caretaker with us!
Read more about the technical implementation
Presenters:

Jan Frode Lindsø
Oliver Tacke
Knut Inge Skifjeld

Interaktivna rasprava: Otvoreno o otvorenom obrazovanju
2025-03-07 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Zagreb) | SRCE – University Computing Centre, University of Zagreb, Josipa Marohnića 5, Zagreb, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
Pridružite nam se u raspravi kako i zašto postaviti nastavne sadržaje, posebice multimediju kao otvorene obrazovne sadržaje, te što se smije iili ne s obrazovnim sadržajima drugih autora.
Voditelji su zaposlenici CARNET-a i Srca, a aktivnost se odvija u okviru projekta e-Sveučilišta u okviru akcijskog istraživanja Primjena multimedije u visokom obrazovanju.
Vrijeme i mjesto održavanja: 7. 3. 2025. u 11 sati, u Srcu, Dvorana E

Imagine a gender equal world – help write women onto Wikipedia for IWD!
2025-03-07 13:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | University of Edinburgh, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
“Women in Red” – a Wikipedia editathon celebrating the lives and contributions of all the inspiring women of Scotland (and around the world) missing from the world’s go-to site for information.
Wikipedia is the 8th most visited website in the world but lacks diversity in its editors and its articles. Only 20.02% of biographies on English Wikipedia, the world’s go-to source of information, are about women. Women are not a minority and we can #ChooseToChallenge the paucity of stories currently shared on the open web and #InspireInclusion. This event will focus on improving the representation of inspiring women online.
Participants will learn how to edit Wikipedia pages during a hybrid event (online webinar AND in person meetup in the University of Edinburgh Main Library on the 6th floor in the Digital Scholarship Centre) and will be supported over the afternoon to help create new pages for notable individuals who are not currently on Wikipedia (perhaps from BBC’s 100 Women 2025) and/or help improve already existing Wikipedia pages.
No prior knowledge required as training will be provided for those with no Wikipedia editing experience.
You’ll learn a new digital skill in a social & supportive setting and meet like-minded event participants all passionate about improving representation online to help close the gender gap for the benefit of millions of readers all around the world.

1:00 pm – 1:15pm: Welcome and Tea/Coffee
1:15pm – 2:15pm: Wikipedia training from Ewan McAndrew.
2:15pm – 2:30pm: Tea and Coffee break
2:30 pm – 4:30pm: Research and Editing with aim to publish by 4:30pm.
4:30pm – 5:00pm: Publishing your edits, recap and event close.

Join us as we help make Wikipedia better!
Then you can check how long it takes for it to appear in Google’s top ten results!
Have a look at the event page to see if there are pages you would like to help edit/create and if you fancy learning more about Wikipedia ahead of time then you can view the Wiki Basics site.

Uploading Files to Wikimedia Commons – Arabic
2025-03-07 15:00 - 16:00 (Africa/Lagos) | Wiki in Africa, South Africa
Wiki Loves Africa is organizing a training for its participants to guide them on how to upload files for the photography contest.
This training will focus on the basics of uploading on Wikimedia Commons and will consist of a demo upload. Participants are advised to have a computing device handy to aid participation.
The training will be delivered in Arabic language.

শিক্ষা ও গবেষণায় ওপেন ইডুকেশনাল রিসোর্স এর ভুমিকা: সম্ভাবনা ও চ্যালেঞ্জ" (The Role of Open Educational Resources in Education and Research: Opportunities and Challenges)
2025-03-07 20:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Dhaka) | Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Open Access Bangladesh and Librarian Voice are jointly organizing a special expert discussion as part of Open Education Week 2025, titled “The Role of Open Educational Resources in Education and Research: Opportunities and Challenges.”
This event will explore the significance of Open Educational Resources (OER), their impact on education and research, and the future potential of open-access learning materials. Experts will share insights on how OER facilitates knowledge sharing, expands learning opportunities for students, and ensures better access to resources for researchers. Additionally, discussions will highlight the challenges in implementing OER and strategies to overcome them. Students, researchers, educators, librarians, and anyone interested in open education are welcome to participate. Join us as we explore new possibilities in education through Open Educational Resources.

Retour d’expérience : appréciation étudiante d’un manuel libre
2025-03-07 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Toronto) | Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Description : À la fin de la session d’automne 2024, un chargé de cours au Département de mathématiques à l’Université de Sherbrooke s’est interrogé sur l’appréciation et l’utilisation faite du manuel libre utilisé dans le cadre de son activité pédagogique. Accompagné d’une conseillère pédagogique, ce projet de sondage d’appréciation étudiante a été mis à l’essai pour une première fois.
Ce webinaire met en lumière la démarche et la méthodologie utilisées dans le cadre de ce projet d’innovation pédagogique dans l’usage des REL. Le matériel utilisé dans le cadre de ce projet sera mis à disposition.
Objectif : Partager une démarche et une méthode utilisées afin de sonder l’appréciation étudiante de l’utilisation d’une REL.
Public cible principal : personnes enseignantes et conseillères pédagogiques
Type d’événement: webinaire
Documentation en lien avec ce projet : https://zenodo.org/records/14962008

Open for Student Success Symposium
2025-03-07 09:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Online with Georgia State University Library, Atlanta, GA, United States
Join Georgia State University Library for Our
3rd 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
March 7, 2025
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM ET
Free, Online, and Open to All
Register Here
The symposium’s theme this year is
Open Education: Fueling Equity in Learning
And we will have the honor of welcoming two keynote speakers:

Paola Corti, Open Education Community Manager at SPARC Europe and Project Manager for METID at Politecnico di Milano, will share how her work is breaking barriers in the Open Education Movement by harnessing an international network of librarians. Paola will present her keynote, titled “Opening Knowledge: A Natural Approach,” exploring the practice of lifelong learning and its impact on both students and teachers. She will also share tools to discuss the concept of openness, including the ENOEL Playing Cards and related gameplays.

Virginia Clinton-Lisell is Associate Professor of Education, Health, and Behavior with the College of Education & Human Development at the University of North Dakota and Primary Researcher for the Open Education Research Fellowship. She holds a master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from New York University and a doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Virginia will present her keynote, titled “The Inaccessibility of Access Codes: Student Experiences with Online Homework Systems,” sharing findings from a survey of almost a thousand college students about the costs of homework access codes and their impact on student finances, grades, and stress levels.
See the full event schedule at:
research.library.gsu.edu/open

Curiosity Unleashed: Experimenting with Open Pet-agogy (with Cats!)
2025-03-07 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
Note: This is merely a playful demo and test of the OE Week Calendar!
Are you ready to let your curiosity lead the way, just like a cat chasing a laser pointer? Join us for a paws-on workshop where we explore the playful, experimental world of Open Education through Open Source tools. This interactive session encourages participants to embrace their inner feline — inquisitive, daring, and playful — as we scratch the surface of what’s possible when Open Education meets Open Source software.
Through collaborative activities and a whisker of whimsy, we’ll navigate the fundamentals of open education, experiment with open-source tools, and discover how to integrate them into our own teaching and learning contexts. Every step of the way, we’ll lean into the metaphor of cats: curiosity, adaptability, and the knack for landing on our feet when trying new things.
Whether you’re a seasoned open education advocate or just dipping a paw into the waters, this workshop is for anyone eager to pounce on new ideas, play with innovative tools, and create impactful learning experiences.
Workshop Goals:

Discover the Playground: Introduce participants to the foundational concepts of Open Education and Open Source software, purring over their value and potential in learning environments.
Experiment Like Cats: Encourage playful experimentation with open-source tools and platforms that support Open Education. Participants will gain hands-on experience and insights into how these tools can be used to create engaging and equitable learning experiences.
Collaborative Catnip: Foster a sense of community among participants by engaging in collaborative, interactive activities that emphasize the power of shared knowledge and resources.
Curiosity Empowered: Equip participants with the confidence to approach Open Education and Open Source tools as a sandbox for innovation and creativity.

Activities Overview:

“Chase the Laser Pointer”: An icebreaker activity to explore common challenges in education and how open resources and tools might solve them.
“Tinker with the Toybox”: A hands-on session where participants play with Open Source tools, from learning management systems to collaborative content creation software.
“Catnip Collaborations”: Small group activities to brainstorm open education projects, fostering a playful but purposeful approach to creating new educational resources or initiatives.
“Purrspectives”: A wrap-up reflection where participants share what they’ve learned and discuss next steps for implementing Open Education in their contexts.

What to Bring:
Your sense of curiosity, an open mind, and a readiness to play! Optional: a favorite cat photo or story to share during our “feline inspiration” moments.
Join us to unleash your creative instincts, pounce on new tools, and leave with a renewed commitment to making education accessible and engaging for all! 🐾
Create your own event or version of an OER that includes cats by asking GenAI to create an image and descriptive text, then share it in our thread in OEG Connect.

Disclosure:This is a farcical entry created solely for testing, generated with ChatGPT (link) as it is best for creating fabricated content. The prompt was “You are organizing an online workshop about the value of experimenting with Open Education using Open Source software, the activities have an element of play, and makes the use of the metaphor of cats. Write a description of a workshop with goals, and make many feline references.”

AI Literacies for Open Educators: An Exploration
2025-03-07 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Online from Multiple Locations
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming education, bringing both opportunities and challenges for open educators. This interactive workshop, hosted by Dr Doug Belshaw and Dr Angela Gunder, explores a plurality of “AI Literacies” for understanding and applying AI within open education.
Drawing from the recently-published paper– part of MIT’s AI and Open Education Initiative– AI Literacies and the Advancement of Opened Culture: Global Perspectives and Practices, the session will provide a structured introduction to AI literacies. The hosts will then guide participants through a discussion around the ethical, technical, and pedagogical implications for open educators using generative AI.
Finally, participants will be encouraged to add any relevant openly-licensed resources to an open access repository.
Key takeaways for participants:

A practical understanding of AI literacies as they apply to open education.
An approach to help co-create definitions and frameworks relating to AI literacies in specific contexts.
Access to an open repository of AI and open education resources.

OEWeek Live! Panel on Learning with AI, an open student led project
2025-03-07 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Regina) | University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
The University of Leeds is proud to announce its first-ever student-led open book, “Learning with AI.” As AI becomes a dominant topic in higher education, this book features contributions from students worldwide, exploring how AI supports their studies. The pressbook will exist as a living book, continuing to grow and evolve beyond the initial submission period, creating a legacy that charts the evolution of AI in student studies.
Entirely student-led, the book will be edited by student ambassadors Amani Assan and Olivia Davies, with support from staff in the School of Education, Digital Education Services, the Library, ODPL, Curriculum Redefined, and the Knowledge Equity Network. It is proudly sponsored by Deputy Vice Chancellor Student Education Jeff Grabill and Dean of Online and Digital Education Margaret Korosec.
I think the project is going to be incredibly beneficial in illustrating the way students use AI to support their studies, and this work is paving the way for new educational technologies collaborating with AI
-Student Editor, Amani Assan

Join the Learning with AI team including our student editors Amani Ahsan and Olivia Davies at the Open Education Week student panel, where they will discuss the project and any questions you might have.
Call for Submissions
To be shared first here on the live stream, the call for students to submit their interest to contribute to this project:

This project aims to explore the current landscape of how students in Higher Education use Generative AI (GenAI) to support learning. We are looking for contributions from students around the world of up to 750 words in total, and which answer the following questions:
What did you do with GenAI? (150-250 Words)
How did you do it with GenAI? (150-250 Words)
In what ways did GenAI support or help you to achieve your aims and objectives? (150-250 Words)
The data collected will become an Open Educational Resource (OER) used to inform and inspire the connected world.
Interested? Complete out the survey form.
Watch live on YouTube and send your questions/comments via chat, or watch the recording later

Integrating AI to Produce OER using OER Conversion Tool convOERter
2025-03-07 16:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Germany, Aachen, NRW, Germany
With the rapid advancement of generative AI technologies nowadays, it is beneficial to use these technologies effectively to create Open Educational Resources (OER). This talk introduces the essentialness of using generative AI technology in the OER context, particularly by applying a Text-to-Image model in the OER conversion tool “convOERter.”
“convOERter” is a web-based tool that has been developed to convert existing educational materials containing images into ones with a Creative Common (CC) license. The development of the conversion tool greatly eases the process of creating OER content, as it automatically captures the images in the original materials and allows educators to search for a replacement image that is CC-licensed in OER portals. However, despite the substantial collection of high-quality images provided by these portals, finding a replacement image that precisely aligns with the educator’s requirements remains challenging due to the static nature of any database.
Generative AI refers to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create new content, like text, images, music, audio, and videos based on human input. In the field of image generation, various models are now available which offer a valuable opportunity for generating high-quality OER content. When educators cannot find suitable replacement images in Creative Commons portals, employing a Text-to-Image AI model becomes essential for generating appropriate images. In this talk, we will introduce the OER conversion tool and present the first steps towards integrating AI models within the tool.

In the Living Room with the Open Education Network and MIT OpenCourseWare – Two Highlighted Resources
2025-03-07 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Online from Multiple Locations
Join us as we talk about two open educational resources: 1) Data Analysis for Social Scientists offered by MIT OpenCourseWare and 2) Accessible Appalachia by Lisa Day and Jacob Johnson, which can be found in the Open Education Network’s Open Textbook Library.
While we will focus on just one resource each, we will highlight how these publications are a reflection of the diversity of our collections. In order to share the work of our organizations and what that looks like, we will take a brief tour of each resource, including author profiles and/or instructor priorities. We will also meet people involved in their production, and talk about how the materials evolved through the publication process. Our goals for the conversation are to celebrate and highlight two openly available resources and the people involved in creating and sharing them. Attendees will gain an introduction to the Open Education Network’s Open Textbook Library and to MIT OpenCourseWare’s course materials, and have the opportunity to discuss open educational publications with others.
Speakers:

Karen Lauritsen, Open Education Network – Senior Director, Publishing
Bailey Lake, Eastern Kentucky University – Assistant University Librarian
Shira Segal, MIT OpenCourseWare – Collaborations and Engagement Manager
Cheryl Siegel, MIT OpenCourseWare – Publication Manager and Social Media Coordinator

Uploading Files to Wikimedia Commons - English
2025-03-07 17:00 - 18:00 (Africa/Lagos) | Wiki in Africa, South Africa
Wiki Loves Africa is organizing a training for its participants to guide them on how to upload files for the photography contest.
This training will focus on the basics of uploading on Wikimedia Commons and will consist of a demo upload. Participants are advised to have a computing device handy to aid participation.
This training will be presented in English.

Faculty-Student Showcase: UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship
2025-03-07 12:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Montgomery College, 900 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, MD, United States
Attend the annual UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship Faculty-Student Showcase! This 2-day virtual colloquium will be held on Thursday, March 6 and Friday, March 7 during Open Education Week.
This global award-winning fellowship was founded by Montgomery College and has over 15 institutional partners throughout North America and Asia. Join the colloquium to hear some of our faculty fellows and their students present on the fellowship work.

DOERS3: Advancing OER for All through Practical Tools
2025-03-07 12:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online from Multiple Locations
Join us for a brief 30-minute session to learn the work DOERS3 is doing to update the rubric formerly known as the Equity Through OER Rubric, which is currently under revision for its 2.0 update. In the session, you will hear how the group is moving forward with updates based on feedback and lessons learned from its 2022-23 pilot program. You’ll also hear about their plans for running a second cohort to pilot their updated 2.0 rubric, which will be more expansive and comprehensive.
Presenter: Liliana Diaz Solodukhin, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Student Success and P20 Alignment at the Colorado Department of Higher Education and Lead of the Advancing OER for All Working Group for DOERS3

Open Microbiology: Building Global Learning Communities Through the OpenStax Microbiology Ancillaries Project
2025-03-07 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
The OpenStax Microbiology Ancillaries (OSMA) Project is an innovative open education initiative that brings together educators, researchers, and students to develop high-quality, openly licensed learning resources for microbiology. This project enhances accessibility, fosters inclusivity, and empowers both students and instructors with adaptable, freely available educational materials in the ADAPT homework system and H5P/LibreTexts Studio.
This presentation will highlight the international collaboration at the heart of OSMA, featuring insights from Ying Liu, biology professor at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and visiting scholar at the University of Dundee, and her team of students in San Francisco and Dundee, Scotland. Together, we will explore how cross-border teamwork enriches resource development, ensuring diverse perspectives and global relevance.
Students from both institutions will share their experiences as co-creators, reflecting on the impact of open education on their learning, professional growth, and sense of community. Their voices will illuminate how participation in OER projects enhances scientific literacy, collaboration skills, and engagement with real-world microbiology applications.
By showcasing OSMA’s student-driven, equity-focused approach, this session will inspire educators and institutions to embrace open education and foster meaningful learning experiences through international partnerships.

Uploading Files to Wikimedia Commons - French
2025-03-07 18:00 - 19:00 (Africa/Lagos) | Wiki in Africa, South Africa
Wiki Loves Africa is organizing a training for its participants to guide them on how to upload files for the photography contest.
This training will focus on the basics of uploading on Wikimedia Commons and will consist of a demo upload. Participants are advised to have a computing device handy to aid participation.
This training will be presented in French.

Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon at SDCCD
2025-03-07 09:30 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego Community College District, San Diego, CA, United States
Join us for an online “edit-a-thon” where faculty can collaborate on OER in their discipline by editing and improving a specific page or get started with the basics of Wikipedia.
Join the San Diego Community College District Open Ed Week via Zoom Events and attend this drop-in workshop session with Angela Boyd, Librarian at Miramar College.

Pressbooks 101
2025-03-07 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Pressbooks is an easy-to-use open content publishing platform for creating (or adapting) online resources such as textbooks, guidebooks, modules, lab manuals, student-generated assignments, and more!
This session will provide an overview of Pressbooks and the dynamic features that are natively baked in – including H5P interactivity, Hypothes.is annotation and embedded multimedia. If you’re looking to self-publish content of any length, and want a simple tool that enables customization, flexibility and accessible, varied publishing formats with web-hosting options, Pressbooks may be right for you.
We’ll look at examples of instructor-created and student-created content and get you started on using Pressbooks for your teaching and learning.

The Provocations of Indigenous Cultures within a Conference: Using Métissage to Explore the In/Compatibility of Indigenous Ways of Knowing with Open Education
2025-03-07 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | SCFL 1-096@NorQuest, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
At OE Global 2023 Indigenous ways of knowing and being were a fundamental component of the conference design and organization. Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizers established a collaborative governance approach to foster partnership and mutual guidance throughout the planning and execution stages.
In this session, Dawn Witherspoon, Darrion Letendre, and Robert Lawson will perform métissage to recount the design and implementation of, and personal experiences with, a conference program that reflected the concept of two-eyed seeing, navigating Indigenous and non-Indigenous worldviews. We will explore the incompatibility and compatibility of Indigenous ways of knowing with the ontological and epistemological assumptions embedded into open education. A fundamental question we examine is how the braiding of conference stories can unearth the interplay of Indigenous (nêhiyawîhcikêwin Plains Cree) ways of knowing with the values and practices of open education.

5 Disciplines in 50 Minutes
2025-03-07 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Minnesota State, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Learn about how five faculty are using OER within their discipline.

English, Inver Hills Community College
Nursing, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Special Education, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Biology, Anoka-Ramsey Community College
History, Minnesota State College Southeast

OEWeek Live: Open Education Week Wrap Up (and What's Next?)
2025-03-07 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
This is the last of the OEWeek Live! sessions for Open Education Week 2025. These webcasts are set up as informal conversations. For each show we invite a group of open educators willing to have a discussion that lacks an agenda and slides with bullet points.
These conversational sessions start with sharing of their current projects, activities, and interests but flow into general discussions of what is happening in the world of open education. We also will share some perspectives on what we saw this week- there’s too much for any one person to know – and talk about maybe we can happen in the upcoming year.

Guests confirmed so far include:

Peter Musser (ISKME/OER Commons) on what we curated through the OEWeek open assets collection efforts in OER Commons
Susanne Grimm (OERinfo, OER World Map) on what we added to the OER World Map during Open Education Week
Heather Ross (University of Saskatchewan) on openness in general and specifically on open educational practices at USask
Brian Lamb (Thompson Rivers University) on the OpenETC (Open EdTech Coop) and sharing open tech, open pedagogy, the role of open in a fallen and corrupt corporatized world
Anne-Marie Scott (Independent Consultant) on the OpenETC, Open Source, all the opens
Jennifer Rogers (LibreTexts) on All things LibreTexts

Watch live to send your questions and comments through the chat or watch the recording later

Learn More:

Open Education Week https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/
OE Week Live Schedule https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/oeweek-live-webcasts/7383
