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.

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

A LibreTexts ADAPT Success Story with Greg Allen
2025-03-07 10:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Mendocino College, Greg Allen, as he shares how he uses LibreTexts ADAPT open homework and assessment in his courses.
Greg received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Davis. His graduate research focused on atmospheric chemistry and he’s worked on several research projects investigating ways to improve student learning in chemistry courses. Greg has been teaching chemistry in some form for over 10 years, and started teaching courses at Mendocino College in 2018, where he generally teaches the introduction to chemistry, and general chemistry courses.

LibreTexts First Friday Features
2025-03-07 11:00 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Looking to get caught up on all of LibreTexts cool new updates and features? Join us for our new series, First Friday Features, on the first Friday of every month to chat with a member of our team about everything you need to know about what’s new in the LibreVerse.

Introducing LibreTexts LibreNet Consortium and Academy
2025-03-07 11:30 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Is your campus looking for new and innovative ways to advocate for, and create OER? We have you covered with LibreTexts LibreNet consortium. For the incredibly low price of $1500/year your campus can have it’s own branded commons on our platform, unlimited hosting of open textbooks, priority access to the LibreTexts team, and much, much more. Join a member of the LibreTexts as they go over all you need to know in order to take your open education programs to the next level with the LibreNet.
Check out more information on our website and bring your questions: https://libretexts.org/librenetconsortium.
We will also do a Q and A about our new Academy Center for Open Instructional Innovation and Professional Development. Be sure to check out the website and submit an interest form: https://libretexts.org/academy.

Populating Learning Trees in LibreTexts ADAPT Open Homework and Assessment Platform
2025-03-07 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 populate learning trees 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.

Intro to the LibreTexts LibreVerse
2026-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
If you’ve heard of LibreTexts but aren’t quite sure where to start, this one’s for you. Join a member of our team for a guided tour of the “LibreVerse,” our full ecosystem of free, open tools we’ve built to support educators and students at every stage of their learning journey.
We’ll walk you through our repository of over a million pages of OER content; our Remixer that lets you take any of it and make it your own; Conductor and Workbench for keeping your projects and teams on track; and ADAPT, our open homework and assessment platform; and more.

Be popular Series (Part 1 of 3) – Surfing the H5P Wave: Ride the Future of Interactive Learning!
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego, United States, San Diego, CA, United States
Are you ready to revolutionize your teaching methods and engage your students like never before? Join San Diego Community College’s exclusive workshop on H5P and discover how to create dynamic, interactive content using your free LibreTexts account for Instructors.
By the end of this session, you’ll: Explore a wide range of interactive elements, from quizzes and timelines to interactive videos and presentations, learn how to effortlessly incorporate H5P content into your existing Canvas courses, and discover the flexibility of H5P as you create, share, and modify content to suit your specific teaching needs. Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your teaching methods and captivate your students. Join fellow educators in this hands-on workshop and start creating rich, interactive content that will make learning an unforgettable experience.

Open to All: Accessibility in the LibreVerse
2026-03-03 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
Open education only works if everyone can access it. That’s why LibreTexts is currently conducting a comprehensive accessibility audit of our platform and features, with the results shaping both our updated conformance documentation and a clear roadmap to remove barriers for students and content authors alike.
Our goal is to meet or exceed the Revised 508 Standards and WCAG 2.1 AA because accessibility isn’t a checkbox, it’s a core part of what it means to build education that truly belongs to everyone. Accessibility conformance documentation is already available, and we encourage anyone who encounters an accessibility concern to report it directly to us. We also provide a full suite of authoring tools to help content creators build with accessibility in mind from the start.

Be Popular Series (Part 2 of 3) – Using the Free ADAPT Homework System
2026-03-04 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego, United States, San Diego, CA, United States
Explore ADAPT, the OER homework system offered and supported by LibreTexts, which integrates with Canvas LMS. This workshop from San Diego Community College District will guide you through creating a course in ADAPT to host homework activities and linking them to Canvas for seamless integration of graded assignments in your online courses. You’ll learn how to create your own homework questions, upload QTI files with pre-made questions, or use interactive activities like H5P, MyOpenMath, and more!

LibreTexts ADAPT: Homework Reimagined
2026-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
ADAPT, LibreTexts’ open homework and assessment platform, is designed to do exactly that. Join our Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, for a guided tour of everything ADAPT has to offer:
– 240,000+ openly licensed questions
– Adaptive Learning Trees and personalized learning models
– Built-in analytics and an Early Warning System powered by predictive analytics
– Seamless LMS integration with Canvas and Blackboard
– Mobile clicker functionality right in your classroom
– Support for WebWork, IMathAS, H5P, and Native QTI
ADAPT is built to be more powerful than traditional publisher platforms and more affordable. Because the cost of a homework platform should never be a barrier to student success.
This is open education in action. Come see what it looks like.

ADAPT and AI: An Instructor's Success Story
2026-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
This session demonstrates practical ways to build and deploy homework in LibreTexts ADAPT using WeBWorK algorithmic problems.
WeBWorK uses a complex Perl-based language called PG, and writing questions in PG can be challenging. Most PG examples online focus on math, physics, and engineering. As a life science professor, I want to bridge that gap by bringing algorithmic biology problems, which are often more descriptive than numerical, into LibreTexts ADAPT using WeBWorK.
In this session, I will show new instructors how to use AI to turn a conceptual homework idea into a fully functional WeBWorK problem, without needing to know how to code. The talk will demonstrate how large language model agents such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex can produce working WeBWorK problems when given solid documentation and required to check output using a local renderer.
A brief course case study will show how a problem concept can become a working WeBWorK assignment through an iterative workflow.

A Community Like No Other: LibreTexts Academy and LibreNet Consortium
2026-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
The LibreTexts Academy is the professional development hub of the LibreVerse, designed for faculty who are serious about open education but don’t have unlimited time to figure it all out alone. Whether you’re adopting an existing open textbook for the first time, or building a fully custom course from the ground up, the Academy meets you where you are and takes you where you want to go.
Monthly webinars, twice-weekly office hours, and self-paced training modules cover everything from getting started with ADAPT to remixing content to making your materials accessible. For those ready to go deeper, cohort programs, in-person workshops, and instructor certifications let you build real expertise and walk away with credentials to show for it.
The goal is simple: spend less time troubleshooting and more time teaching. Your students pay less. Your course feels like yours.
The LibreNet Consortium is a community of passionate educators dedicated to growing sustainable open education initiatives at their institutions. No matter where you are in your journey to bring down the cost of education, and create more equitable pathways for your students, the LibreNet Consortium provides the tools you need to ensure your efforts are sustainable for the road ahead.
Whether you connect with us through Academy or the LibreNet (or both!), you will join a community that’s been doing this work — together — for decades.

The Future of OER in the AI Age
2026-03-06 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Chicago) | Chicago, United States, Chicago, IL, United States
For many years, Open Educational Resources have offered instructors the ability to create, share, curate, and customize teaching materials to better meet their needs and those of their students. Now, with the widespread availability, increasing ease of use, and improving outputs of AI tools, instructors also have the ability to remix those high-quality resources and even create new materials derived from them.
This session from the University of Chicago brings together two experts in OER and AI in education to discuss the functional, ethical, and pedagogical considerations that relate to this work:

Lawrence Davis, Professor of History at North Shore Community College, creator of open educational resources and facilitator of OER and AI training at NSCC and EDUCAUSE.
Delmar Larsen, Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis, and founder of LibreTexts.

Finding the Human Connection in a Digital World: Using Discuss-It to Build Community, Promote Critical Thinking, and Shift the Focus of Assessment
2026-03-06 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sacramento, United States, Sacramento, CA, United States
In an age of automation, how do you ensure that student work remains a reflection of genuine learning?
Join us to learn about Discuss-It, an openly-licensed tool within the LibreTexts platform. Discuss-It transforms discussions into interactive, multimedia exchanges through audio, video, and text. Learn how integrating voice and video responses can boost engagement, build community, and bring human presence back to your courses regardless of your discipline.
Register for Finding the Human Connection in a Digital World

The Future is Now: LibreTexts and AI
2026-03-06 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
The intersection of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still emerging, but momentum is growing rapidly. An important step forward came last year with the launch of the AI Co-Author tool, designed to support OER development and improve accessibility remediation. Building on this progress, the LibreTexts development team has introduced a comprehensive AI Initiative to expand and deepen AI integration across the LibreVerse ecosystem.
This presentation reviews the current state of AI development within LibreVerse, highlighting tools already underway and early implementation efforts. It outlines short-term goals focused on pilot programs, platform integration, and faculty support, as well as a long-term vision for a scalable, interoperable, and equity-centered AI infrastructure that advances teaching and learning nationwide.
Planned innovations include context-aware AI tutors embedded in digital textbooks; automated generation and evaluation of formative homework; AI-supported writing and research tools; and AI-guided coding and data science assistance within Jupyter environments. By embedding adaptive tutoring and personalized learning support throughout LibreVerse, the initiative aims to reduce equity gaps and broaden access to high-quality resources. Instructors will gain AI-assisted tools for content creation, grading, analytics, and pedagogical insight, supported by professional development. Grounded in LibreTexts’ OER framework, the initiative emphasizes transparency, interoperability, and evidence-based evaluation to ensure responsible and effective AI integration in open education.

Open Education Talks- Enhancing OER Publishing and Connections with Open Scholarship
2026-03-18 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Denver) | Calgary, Canada, Calgary, AB, Canada
Open Education Talks is a series of 15-minute lightning talks and digital posters about facets of open education. These talks aim to create an accessible, virtual space for conversations about open education. We welcome proposals from educators, students, administrators, librarians, instructional designers, and all other roles related to the design, delivery, and evaluation of open education in post-secondary institutions. We encourage student-led or partnered talks that showcase the critical role of student leadership and student-educator collaborations in open education. To register for these Zoom sessions, visit: https://ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpfuuhqjsiE9xwLFkoS4uK-KLd0bwXMbkC
Enhancing OER Publishing and Connections with Open Scholarship

From Research to Reach: Open Education and OER for Knowledge Mobilization – Mélanie Brunet (University of Ottawa – Ontario, Canada)
OER and the Future of Open Science – Melissa Chim (Excelsior University – New York, USA)
Trusting OERs: Peer Review for Open Textbooks – Irena Knezevic (Carleton University – Ontario, Canada)
Empowering Open Education through Wikimedia: The EduWiki Hub Experience – Barakat Adegboye and Bukola James (EduWiki Hub – Nigeria)
The Forge: A Next-Generation Platform for Open Pedagogy and Resource Co-Creation – Delmar Larsen (LibreTexts, University of California, Davis – California, USA)

OER Under the Hood with LibreTexts: ADAPT
2026-04-14 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Open Education Global (OEGlobal) opens a new season of its OER Under the Hood series where we take a test drive to admire the exterior features of OER. Then, like we might do with a sports car, we open the hood (or bonnet) to take a look at how it works, share how it was designed and built, and what a “driver” can do with it. These are all done as live screen share demos of the real OER, not slide deck pictures of them.
For 2026, OEGlobal is building these sessions to showcase OERs from member organizations with this session featuring our member LibreTexts.
We are pleased that the first 2026 OER Under the Hood features LibreTexts’s ADAPT an open-source homework and assessment platform integrated into the “LibreVerse.” ADAPT is flexible and works with several Learning Management systems allowing educators to create, manage, and grade assignments using its native question types as well as a huge bank of interactive activities, including ones built in WebWork, IMathAS, and H5P. You will see its use of ADAPT’s “Discuss It” for rich media discussions and personalized “Learning Trees.”
LibreTexts founder Delmar Larsen will be at the wheel for a lively and interactive session. You can learn how to explore ADAPT on your own after the show.
When: Tuesday, April 14 at 11:00am – 12:00pm PDT (check for local time)
Where: Register to attend via Zoom
Recording: Will be posted after the event
Discuss: in OEG Connect
Learn More

Introduction to ADAPT
LibreTexts ADAPT web site
LibreTexts ADAPT: Homework Reimagined (Demo, YouTube)
LibreTexts recordings from 2026 Open Education Week events (YouTube playlist)

Look for more OER Under the Sessions to be added to the OEGlobal calendar. For OEGlobal members, looks soon for more details on how your OER can be featured in a future session.
