Integrating OER into Course Design
2025-03-04 13:00 - 13:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego Community College District, San Diego, CA, United States
Open Educational Resources (OER) offer more than just cost savings—they provide opportunities to rethink course design in ways that enhance student engagement and learning. This session will explore strategies for integrating OER thoughtfully into course structures, ensuring that materials align with learning objectives, support diverse learners, and promote active engagement. Participants will gain practical approaches to weaving OER into their courses, leveraging open pedagogy, and designing learning experiences that maximize the benefits of open resources. Whether you’re new to OER or looking to refine your approach, this session will provide concrete strategies to create more effective and student-centered courses.

Join the San Diego Community College District Open Ed Week via Zoom Events and attend this presentation session with Kelly Spoon, Mathematics faculty member at Mesa College.

Copyright and Licensing for Open Educational Resources
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Does your project include work created by others? Do you have questions about Creative Commons licenses and how to incorporate licensed works into your project? This session will introduce you to copyright basics for your OER project and take you through licensing considerations to insure that your work is reusable by others. Importantly it will also provide you with a simple workflow to help you identify and respect Creative Commons licensed works.
This session will cover:

Copyright basics including how copyright is assigned to a work
Rationale behind and purpose of open licenses
Identifying the 6 Creative Commons licenses and know how to assign them to OER
Applying Creative Commons licenses and ensure compatibility among the CC licensed works

The Triple A’s of Ancillaries: Advancing Academic Achievement
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
This interactive session will highlight best practices implementation strategies, and the positive impact of LibreTexts ancillaries on student comprehension, retention, and application of course content. It features the presenter’s firsthand experiences in leading a cohort of subject matter experts in communication to create ancillaries for a LibreTexts textbook.

Open Education Connections: K-12 and Higher Ed
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Open Oregon, Portland, OR, United States
Interested in collaborating with K–12 educators and leveraging Open Educational Resources (OER) in teaching and learning?
Barbara Soots, Assistant Director, Open Education & Instructional Materials in Washington’s Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, leads a session exploring the use of open resources and open education pedagogy in K–12 education. Discover how OER is being utilized and developed in K–12 settings to align with state learning standards, provide districts with the flexibility to adapt resources to meet diverse student needs, and promote equitable access to high-quality instructional materials for all students.
We will discuss strategies and lessons learned from both Washington’s and Oregon’s K-12 OER initiatives, and delve into the challenges and opportunities in this evolving landscape.
This webinar takes place from 1:00-2:00 pm Pacific time, March 4, 2025. The session will be recorded and captioned to share later. We will enable automatic captions in the session

Turning Data into Action: Responding to Illinois Students’ Need for Equity of Course Materials
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois, 1704 Insterstate Dr, Champaign, IL, United States
In this webinar, hear how a diverse group of institutions are responding to Illinois students’ course material experiences and preferences expressed in the 2023 Illinois Course Materials Survey: Student Perspective. Representatives from College of DuPage, Lincoln Land Community College, Millikin University, Oakton College, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale will describe their institutional support and methods for distributing the statewide survey, their methods for analyzing and sharing the survey data, and what impacts and benefits have resulted.
Presenters: Amber Burtis, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Scott Ebbing and Tammy Kuhn-Schnell, Lincoln Land Community College; Lauren Kosrow, College of DuPage; Michelle Oh, Oakton College; Amanda Pippitt; Millikin University.
Moderated by Nicole Swanson, Elizabeth Clarage, and Michele Leigh, CARLI

Curation as a Teaching Strategy
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
We typically associate the word “curation” with art galleries and museums, but with the burgeoning availability of open education resources, it can also be part of a content creation strategy.
Sifting through the vast amounts of relevant content online can be challenging, but also presents opportunities to selectively collect astonishing and high-quality pieces, carefully authored by others and potentially of great value to your learners. Curating existing online materials can also offset resource-intensive media productions, such as filming and creating videos that are normally included in content-focused designs. This presentation will focus on the process of finding, evaluating, selecting, arranging, annotating and contextualizing existing and quite often, freely-available, online learning materials in order to create a rich learning experience.
Whether you plan to curate all of the content, or also want to create some your own, we will explore what mix is right for you, and look at a few tools that can help make the process easier.

The Future of Pedagogy: Ethical and Inclusive AI in OER Development
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Toronto) | Ontario Tech U, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
This session explores the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in enhancing Open Educational Resources (OER) while ensuring ethical implementation. By proposing a framework to integrate ethical and inclusive AI practices, it emphasizes transparency, fairness, privacy, and accountability. The session demonstrates how AI can scale content creation, improve accessibility through translation and adaptive technologies, and personalize learning experiences, all while promoting equity and inclusivity in education. Drawing on Universal Design for Learning (UDL), we will discuss inclusive practices that support the future of OER, addressing ethical challenges such as algorithmic bias and offering strategies for responsible, open, and equitable AI adoption.

ENOEL WS#10 Embrace the Open: Advocating for Open Education through its own tools
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Rome) | Europe, Rome, Italy
We are delighted to invite you to the tenth event in our ENOEL Workshop series, organised by SPARC Europe and the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL): “WS#10 Embrace the Open: Advocating for Open Education through its own tools”.
Our workshop facilitators are:

Sylvia Moes (SURF, Netherlands)
Lambert Heller (TIB- Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany)

Our workshop guests, open to sharing their experience as OE teachers, are:

Katja Politt (Bielefeld University, Germany)
Paul Gobee (University of Leiden, Netherlands)

Paul Gobee will take us on his journey of creating an open content platform for anatomy education and its connection to the national platform edusources. Paul has been working for 10 years on the creation of OER, and was successful in finding funding for the development of this platform and, with this initiative, sharing insights specifically for librarians on how they can support open educational resources.
Katja Politt has been creating OER to teach German linguistics in higher education for eight years. She especially likes to develop games, from smaller crossword puzzles up to fully gamified courses on syntactic analysis, in order to make seemingly boring topics more fun. When developing the materials, she always involves both students and colleagues for feedback. Many of her students are aspiring teachers, and publishing her materials as OERs allows her students to bring the fun to their classrooms easily, too.
What to Expect:

An in-depth look at how an open content platform was conceived and built
The challenges educators face in adopting and utilising open content resources
The ongoing struggle against commercial publishers and their influence on educational materials
The challenges for educators when creating OER and receiving community feedback
OER as a stepstone to improving the quality of teaching
Strategies for librarians to ensure quality, accessibility, and sustainability in OER while curating and promoting OER.

The chat will be open for the audience to ask questions and engage in the discussion directly with our experts.
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

understand the importance of grouping OER, in different formats and for different potential reusers, into subject-specific collections, to support the work of experts and ease the retrieval process.
Identify strategies to effectively disseminate resources that can be key to advancing the work of content experts at your local level while giving them the opportunity to be known and recognised.
Better understand the role of individual educators and communities of practice in developing and distributing OER.
Generate ideas of small steps to take towards opening up your own teaching materials
Collaborate with content experts and librarians to find, reuse, adapt resources for a specific knowledge domain.
Discuss the role of librarians as reliable partners in making quality resources visible and reusable by partnering with content experts.

Please join us. Register using this link: https://tinyurl.com/ENOELWorkshop10
The previous webinar recordings are available in the ENOEL Workshops playlist on our @ENOELforOpen Youtube Channel. Slides, workshop plans and other resources are openly available in the SPARC Europe Collection on Zenodo.
We hope you can make it, and we encourage you to share this with your colleagues!

OER Information Table @ Columbus State Community College
2025-03-04 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Columbus State Community College, 550 E Spring St, Columbus, OH, United States
Table for students and faculty to learn more about Open Educational Resources and how they can be and are implemented on campus.

Learners as Creators: An Introduction to Open Pedagogy
2025-03-04 13:30 - 15:00 (America/Regina) | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
In this session, participants will learn how to use open pedagogy to increase learner engagement and reduce concerns related to students using GenAI outside of accepted guidelines and rules. Participants will have an opportunity to draft a new or revised assessment in alignment with the principles of open pedagogy.

UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship Information Session
2025-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Montgomery College, 900 Hungerford Drive, Rockville, MD, United States
During Open Education Week, Montgomery College will host an information session on the global award-winning (2020 OE Award for Excellence) United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship.
In its eighth year, this fellowship consists of more than 15 institutional partners throughout North America and Asia, involved hundreds of faculty, and impacted thousands of students through renewable assignments. Join the information session to learn how you can participate as a faculty fellow or as an institutional partner.

Introduction to Building Courses in LibreTexts ADAPT Open Homework and Assessment Platform
2025-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, as he gives you a firsthand look at how to build courses in LibreTexts open homework and assessment platform, ADAPT. 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.

Webinar: Affordable and Accessible Learning
2025-03-04 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Centre of Canada, Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada
Presented by the Canadian Coalition for Affordable Learning
With the recent decrease in international learners studying in Canada and with threats of trade wars and tariffs looming, the Canadian Coalition for Affordable Learning is presenting an exclusive workshop about accessible and affordable learning in postsecondary education.
On March 4 at 2pm EST, join Alexandra Marcaccio (Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries), Amanda Coolidge (BCcampus), Carley McDougall (Campus Manitoba), Clint Lalonde (BCcampus) and Robert Luke (eCampusOntario) to learn about the best practices in digital education, open education, and more. Together, we’ll discuss how we can provide learners with better access to postsecondary education during a time of economic uncertainty.
During times of economic recession people tend to go back to school, especially for programs oriented around skills. With the recent reduction in international education and with threats of trade wars and tariffs looming, a focus on accessible and affordable learning is even more important – to encourage more people to reskill and upskill, and to access learning when and how they need it. Accessible and affordable learning is about supporting digital by design education at scale by fostering inclusion in digital environments and offering options for learning that engage multiple modalities – face to face, hybrid, and online. Supporting open education and the use of Open Educational Resources is common among our organizations. These provide important low-cost learning resources for students, promoting access and engagement.
The workshop includes a panel discussion, a showcase of successful initiatives across Canada, and a facilitated group discussion. Discover how we can work together to create a more equitable and affordable educational landscape for students across Canada.

Creative Commons Licenses: What are they, and how can I use them?
2025-03-04 14:30 - 15:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Karlstad University, Universitetsgatan 2, 65188 Karlstad, Sweden
Creative Commons licenses are a possibility for you, as a creator of an original work, to define the copyright of your work, making it more shareable. In this workshop we explain the licensing elements and how it is possible to combine them.
We will also guide you through how you might be able to use Creative Commons licenses for your work.
This workshop is held in Karlstad University Library, in the Learning lab on floor 3. It is also possible to attend via Zoom, more details on event page.
Presenting: Sandra Nelson and Mas Karin Gustafsson, Creative Commons certified librarians at Karlstad University Library

Reduce Student Costs, Boost Success: Open Resources for the Win
2025-03-04 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, Parham Road Campus 1651 E. Parham Road, Richmond, VA, United States
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, Librarians Robin Pesko and Denise Woetzel from the Reynolds Community College Library will talk 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.

OEP Around the World
2025-03-04 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Das Startchancen-Programm, Berlin, Germany
OEP (Open Education Practices) and OER (Open Educational Resources) both are important pillars of the OE Movement. While OER is well defined and is widely used on a daily basis, OEP may have a broader understanding throughout different stakeholders within the educational sector.
Since its launch in 2022 the German OER Strategy has contributed to a rise in awareness for OEP within various German communities field of OER. But still there is a huge variety in understanding, interpreting and implementing OEP (at least in Germany).
Thus, there are several initiatives trying to establish a better understanding of OEP in Germany. As a major German project management Agency, we aim to support these initiatives. Therefore, we will offer a session in which we want to gather different understandings of OEP throughout the world of Open Education.
If you work with OEP in any way we invite you to share and discuss with us your definition and/or understanding of OEP.

Creative Commons Wants to Collaborate with You: presentation for Northeast OER Summit
2025-03-04 15:30 - 16:15 (America/New_York) | University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States
During the Northeast OER Summit, Jennryn Wetzler, Creative Commons Director of Learning and Training, will present “Creative Commons Wants to Collaborate with You.” Join the Summit online to participate.
Presentation Abstract:
Want to collaborate with Creative Commons? We are open!

Creative Commons (CC) is a global non-profit organization; we believe in a world where education, culture, and science are equitably shared to benefit humanity. Our work focuses on technical, legal, and policy solutions to enable that sharing.

Yet, we also foster collaboration and community building around open efforts, globally. CC facilitates free, open community groups around the world focused on Open Culture, Copyright and Education. This year, we are pleased to offer more openly licensed resources, small project funds, CC Certificate scholarships, and opportunities for collaboration than ever before.

Join this session, as we share opportunities for engagement, including small-scale funding options. Then let’s collectively explore possibilities for future collaboration!

TeachBooks Workshop: Implement your Ideas Now!
2025-03-04 15:45 - 17:45 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Are you interested in creating an online interactive textbook? Have you seen other online educational resources and are ready to dive deeper? This hands-on workshop will guide you through the process of creating and using online textbooks in your teaching. The TeachBooks Team has helped dozens of teachers create their own online books, even those without prior programming experience!

Event Details:
Date: 4th March
Time: 1545-1745 hrs.
Location: Blue Room, TU Delft library
What you will learn:

Practical tools and workflow for creating an online textbook.
Tips for integrating them effectively into your teaching.
Strategies for collaborating with colleagues and students to co-create resources.
How to publish your book with TU Delft Open
You will have your own online book by the end of the session—we guarantee it!

Whether you’re new to Open Education or an experienced practitioner, this workshop offers actionable takeaways to enhance your teaching practices.

If you would like to learn more, visit teachbooks.io. A laptop is recommended for this session, but you are also welcome to participate as an observer. Special software is not required (except a web browser); creating a GitHub account in advance will save you sometime during the workshop.
Sign-up and more information: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/events/2025/library/03-mar/open-education-week-2025

Opening Doors & Breaking Barriers: Advancing EDI through Open Education
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | St Claire College, Chattam-Kent, ON, Canada
Open education is more than just a teaching approach—it’s a powerful tool for social justice. In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore how openness can drive meaningful equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts. Join us to learn how to leverage your position to break down barriers, foster inclusive learning environments, and challenge the status quo.

WikiWednesday: Using Wikipedia in the Classroom
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Indiana Unviersity Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Uncover how Wikipedia can transform your classroom into a space for creating and sharing open knowledge.
A monthly Wikipedia skills and interests meetup for the IU Indianapolis community. Come and learn with us!
Topics include:

Wikipedia editing, policies, and tricks
Wikidata editing and tools
Wikimedia Commons editing and tools
Subject focussed editing groups and volunteers
Wikipedia in the classroom

Free food for in-person attendees!
If you plan to come in person to this event, please plan to bring your own computer.

Introducing LibreTexts Academy Center for Open Instructional Innovation and Professional Development
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
LibreTexts Academy is here! Join Director of Curriculum Innovation and Development, Justin Shorb, for an introduction to our Academy Center for Open Instructional Innovation and Professional Development. From year long cohorts to asynchronous webinars, Academy has something for all of the open education advocates and practitioners on your campus.
Be sure to fill out our interest form before attending available at https://libretexts.org/academy.

OE Week Live! March 5 Open Exchange on AI
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
Open Education Week 2025 is happening this week and we are hosting a few of our OEWeek Live webcasts 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.
There seems no end to the talk and sometimes yelling about Artificial Intelligence. So here’s more! This special show aims to bring some thoughtful exchanges from open educators who are willing to be part of a conversation that ideally avoids taking sides but share their experiences and perspectives, especially with regards for open education, bringing both critical and practical approaches.
Can we place ourselves on the Eh! Aye! Venn Diagram?
Eh? Aye! Venn diagram Cartoon by @visualthinkery is licensed under CC-by-sa. Remix by Bryan Mathers.
We cannot even come close to covering everything in an hour, but let’s see what happens. Guests for this conversation include:

Jonathan Poritz (Independent Consultant in Open Education) with a few AI criticisms, see web site
Amy Collier (Middlebury College) on the Demystifying AI Digital Detox
Tom Woodward (Middlebury College) on the Demystifying AI Digital Detox and website posts on AI
Bryan Alexander (Futurist, Writer, Consultant) on AI in Higher Education, see AI, Academia, and the Future newsletter and web site
Alegria Ribadeneira (Colorado State University – Pueblo) Open pedagogy and language instruction with AI, see web site
Lance Eaton (College Unbound, author, speaker) on AI policies and supporting faculty, See Ai + Education = Simplified substack
Liza Long (College of Western Idaho) on Teaching Writing with AI and researcher, author), see Artisanal Intelligence substack and Cyborgs and Centaurs: Academic Writing in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence open textbook
Vidminas Vizgirda (PhD student, Institute of Language Cognition and Computation, University of Edinburgh) on What “open” AI in education means (or could mean)

Watch live and send questions and comments through the chat or watch later:

Learn More:

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

WikiAfrica Hour's Offline Wikis – Kiwix Demonstration
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Online from Multiple Locations
How do we share free knowledge with people who have no stable internet? How do you identify the right offline solution, if you cannot see it in action online first?

Many steps must be taken before offline solutions can benefit the people they are designed for, some of which are quite tricky.
In this OEWeek25 special, following the January edition of WikiAfrica Hour: Offline Wikis, we invite Offline Wiki experts to demonstrate their offline solution. We hope this will make one of the many steps towards offline—the decision phase—easier by showing what you should expect from this platform before you spend hours setting up the hardware, sourcing to the right offline platform, downloading it, and then adding it to your hardware.
In the hot seat for this session is:
✔️ Stephane Coillet-Matillon, who will demonstrate Kiwix

Using Canvas Commons (SDCCD)
2025-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego Community College District, San Diego, CA, United States
This presentation will guide you through the process of effectively using Canvas Commons, from searching and importing content to sharing your own resources. By mastering these skills, you’ll be able to streamline your course development process, enhance your course design, and provide a more engaging learning experience for your students.
Join the San Diego Community College District Open Ed Week via Zoom Events and attend this presentation session with Instructional Design Coordinator, Madeline Button

Biblioteca Științifică a USARB în sprijinul educației deschise: orizonturi noi pentru învățare pe tot parcursul vieţii
2025-03-05 10:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | Biblioteca Științifică a Universității de Stat Alecu Russo din Bălți, Republica Moldova, 38 Puşkin Str., Bălţi, Moldova, Republic of
În cadrul Panelului de discuţii studenţii, cadrele didactice vor lua act de informaţii calitative privind Resursele educaționale deschise (OER) – elemente cheie în transformarea educațională, iar utilizarea acestora în cadrul Bibliotecii Științifice a Universității de Stat „Alecu Russo” din Bălți (USARB) are un impact semnificativ asupra îmbogățirii colecțiilor și accesibilității informațiilor.
Proiectele derulate de USARB în domeniul resurselor educaționale deschise contribuie la consolidarea unui sistem de învățământ accesibil și modernizat, facilitând integrarea resurselor educaționale de înaltă calitate în procesul de învățare. Impactul proiectelor USARB se reflectă în dezvoltarea unei culturi academice bazate pe accesibilitate, colaborare și incluziune digitală. Repozitoriul Instituțional ORA USARB reprezintă o platformă prin care studenții, cadrele didactice și cercetătorii pot accesa eficient resurse educaționale deschise relevante, promovând astfel schimbul de cunoștințe și promovarea valorilor educației, sprijinind procesul de învățare continuă și cercetare științifică în cadrul instituției.

Open Pedagogical Practices: How to be Open in your classroom
2025-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | SCFL 1-096@NorQuest, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
In this presentation, you will hear from Dr. Robert Lawson and Gayle St. Denis about the foundation of open pedagogy and the opportunities it presents. Open pedagogy empowers students to become involved in the development or co-development of educational resources. At some institutions, students are now co-creating multiple-choice questions, case studies, Wikipedia articles, and even textbooks.
In this session you will review how open education can promote social justice and provide students with the 21st-century skills they will need upon graduation. You will also explore ways to scaffold this approach for you and your students. Come join us to learn more about this exciting and rewarding learning approach!

Exploring the Dubai Declaration on OER: Advancing Global Access to Knowledge
2025-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Paris) | UNESCO Dynamic Coalition, Paris, France
This webinar will explore how emerging technologies and open-source tools are reshaping Open Educational Resources (OER). In light of the Dubai Declaration on OER and its complementary role to the UNESCO 2019 Recommendation on OER, the webinar will delve into open licensing frameworks, overcoming barriers and scaling innovations globally—especially within regions like the Pacific region.
The speakers will share concrete examples, policy insights, and regional perspectives to inspire stakeholders and guide future developments in open education.
Objectives:

Raise awareness of the Dubai Declaration and its role in advancing the UNESCO 2019 Recommendation on OER.
Examine the transformative potential of emerging technologies in creating, curating, and disseminating OER.
Showcase regional examples and case studies to illustrate how the Dubai Declaration can be operationalized locally and globally.

Speakers:

Dr Javiera Atenas, Senior Lecturer in Learning and Teaching Enhancement, University of Suffolk, United Kingdom
Dr Wayne Mackintosh, UNESCO Chair in OER, Director OER Foundation, New Zealand
Ms Anne-Marie Scott, Director Anne-Marie Scott Consulting Inc. and board member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI)

The Evolution of Open and Distributed Learning
2025-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Edmonton) | Athabasca University, 1 University Dr, Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
“The rise of online education has transformed teaching and learning paradigms. These changes are fueled by advancements in technology and the demand for flexible, inclusive access to education—even in times of war and epidemic. Online educational practices emphasize interactivity, learner autonomy and self-direction, and accessibility, while theoretical frameworks have expanded to address issues such as openness, digital equity, attrition, engagement in virtual environments, and the design of learning-centered curricula. This evolution has created opportunities and challenges as researchers explore digital tools and platforms to measure if they enhance learning effectiveness and address diverse learning needs.” (Anderson et al., 2025)
In this session, Dr. Connie Anderson and Professor Emeritus Terry Anderson will review the role and impact of open and distributed learning over the last twenty-five years and explore how it may continue to evolve into the future.
The Evolution of Open and Distributed Learning
Dr. Connie Blomgren and Professor Emeritus Terry Anderson
March 5, 2025, 11am MT
http://www.cideresearch.ca/session/blomgren-anderson-2025
This is the second session in the CIDER series celebrating Open Education Week 2025 and the 25th anniversary of the open access journal, The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning. These three free, online sessions exploring the critical role of openness in education will be held on Monday, March 3, Wednesday, March 5, and Friday, March 7, 2025.

Creative Commons Licenses
2025-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD), San Mateo, CA, United States
Join librarians Vincent Kang and Majdolene Dajani from Skyline College as they help faculty understand the power of Creative Commons licenses and how we can use them to share and protect our work.
Note: While this presentation’s audience is primarily those in the San Mateo County Community College District (California, USA), it is open for all who wish to join us.

By Students for Students In-person Information Booth (Conestoga College, Waterloo Campus)
2025-03-05 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Dr, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Visit our in-person information booth at our Waterloo Campus, run by the Open Learning co-op and work-study students. Get informed on the basics of OER and be entered to win prizes. This event is geared towards current students, but everyone is welcome!
