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

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.

Affordable Learning KY's Virtual Symposium - Community Connections: A Place for Everyone
2025-03-04 09:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Affordable Learning Kentucky, 100 Airport Rd, Frankfort, KY, United States
Join ALKY for a day-long symposium celebrating OE community connections in Kentucky and beyond.
Sessions will include a keynote with Dr. Natalie Allen from OpenStax, an exploration of the possibilities afforded by the Manifold digital publishing platform with Robin Miller of CUNY, student and faculty panels on the impacts of OER and OEP, and an OER treasure hunt.

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

Ready, Set, Open!
2025-03-04 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Fanshawe College, London, Ontario, Canada
Brought to you by Collab4Open.
Are you curious about OER and want to learn more about the creation process? Join this informative session led by experienced OER creators, who will walk you through the steps of developing an OER. The presenters will cover how to assess readiness for an OER project, as well as share key highlights and challenges along the way.

Getting Started with Open Pedagogy
2025-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Brock University, 1812 Sir Issac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
This resource-rich virtual workshop will introduce Open Pedagogy, a student-centered and collaborative approach to teaching and learning that foregrounds access, justice, and learner agency. Drawing on inspiring examples from a wide variety of disciplines, participants will learn how to infuse principles of open pedagogy into their learning activities, policies, and assessments.
This OEweek workshop is suited for educators who are new to open educational practices as well as more experienced open pedagogues.

By Students for Students In-person Information Booth (Conestoga College, Doon Campus)
2025-03-04 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Dr, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Visit our in-person information booth at our Doon 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!

OEWeek Live: March 4 Open Conversations
2025-03-04 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 conversational webcasts as an 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.
Guests confirmed so far include:

Connie Blomgren (Athabasca University / OEGlobal Board Vice President) on OER and open pedagogy as part of understanding GenAI
Werner Westermann (Head of Civic Education Program, Library of Congress, Chile) on Future impact of AI in OpenEd (resources and practices, competencies) and other Open fields (data, science, software), Open Source AI for OpenEd, Offline OER for disadvantaged low-tech communities, OER curricular alignment, OpenEd local government initiatives, Open Education peer mentoring, OpenEd (public) policies.
Derek Moore (Weblearning) on Wikipedia, Wikidata, renewable assignments, early reading resources
Bryan Mathers (Visual Thinkery) on Remix Possibilities – What templates should we add next to the Remixer Machine?

We invite questions and comments from the audience through the chat. Watch live or see recording later:

Learn More:

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

Beyond the Price Tag: Students on Textbooks & OER
2025-03-04 10:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at Arlington, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, TX, United States
Textbooks draining your wallet? Let’s talk about it—over free coffee and donuts!
Join us for Beyond the Price Tag, a peer- to-peer interactive student event where we’re diving into the real cost of textbooks and how Open Educational Resources (OER) can make a difference. Share your thoughts on textbook affordability by answering a quick, thought-provoking question—because your voice matters!
Event Co-hosted by the Open Education Student Advocacy Group (OESAG).

LibreTexts Office Hours
2025-03-04 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Did you know LibreTexts holds twice weekly office hours, every week? Whether you have a quick question or something that needs more in-depth answers, drop in anytime between 9-10 am PST every Tuesday and Thursday and chat with a member of our team.

Hands-On OER: Crafting Engaging Content with H5P and Pressbooks
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | St Claire College, Chattam-Kent, ON, Canada
Brought to you by Collab4Open.
Dive into the world of Open Educational Resources with this hands-on workshop designed to get you creating and experimenting! Learn the basics of H5P and Pressbooks to develop dynamic, interactive content that will captivate your students. Join us for an exciting session and empower yourself with the tools to innovate and inspire in the digital classroom.
Create an H5P and/or Pressbooks account prior to joining for the full benefits of participation.

Open for Antiracism: Leveraging Open Education to Support Antiracism in the Classroom, 4 years in review
2025-03-04 09:00 - 09:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, CA, United States
In this 45-minute panel discussion, we address the question: “How can the open education field engage effectively with antiracist pedagogy?” The Open for Antiracism Program (OFAR) provides an example from its four years of programming that supports. California community college faculty to transform their classrooms to be antiracist through the affordances of OER and open pedagogy. Now in its fifth year, OFAR has supported almost 200 instructors from over 40 institutions to learn to adapt and author OER, integrating antiracist activities and perspectives and co-creating materials with their students.
Two propositions inform the design of OFAR:

Academics wish to change their classroom practices to be antiracist and need guidance on promising practices and a safe place to explore with peers;
OER and open pedagogy can be effective tools to transform classrooms to be antiracist.

Program participants learn about antiracist pedagogy, OER, and open pedagogy. Participants then implement a change to their teaching by integrating OER or open pedagogy to make their class antiracist. Participants receive ongoing support through webinars, coaching, and OER support.
In this session, attendees will learn about program design and research on faculty perceptions and student outcomes. In addition, attendees will hear from one of the program’s course facilitators about the successes and challenges of leading faculty in a discovery of the intersections between open education and antiracist pedagogy.The audience will be invited to share how they can apply this work in their own context to improve student success for marginalized and underserved students.
Panelists:

Laura Dunn, Program Director, Open for Antiracism, Director of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, Santa Clara University
James Glapa-Grossklag, Co-Director, Open for Antiracism, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons
Joy Shoemate, Course Developer and Facilitator, Open for Antiracism, Director of Online Education, College of the Canyons

Registration is required

Unbottling the GenAI: a workshop exploring Gen AI and Open Educational Resources
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Regina) | Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
This workshop will focus on practical magic where you will co-create a textbook chapter and explore how AI can be used in OER.
Join Lucas Wright and Will Engel, experts from the Learning and Teaching division of the University of British Columbia for an interactive online workshop about generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) and Open Educational Resources (OER). We will also explore legal and ethical issues, such as copyright and privacy. You can still catch our event recordings, if you missed the registration.

How To Use Creative Commons Licenses
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
“Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization that maintains a set of user- and creator-friendly copyright licenses that you can attach to your work to communicate how it can be used and distributed by others.” (quote from this quick start guide).
In this session Kate Langrell, USask Copyright Coordinator, will review the Creative Commons licenses and share how to attach one to your work. She will also touch on the relationship between Generative AI materials and Creative Commons licenses, and what to do if you want to use part of someone else’s work within your own Creative Commons work.

Using Pressbooks to customize Open Educational Resources
2025-03-04 13:00 - 13:45 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Indiana Unviersity Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Interested in free customizable instructional materials? Join us to learn how the Pressbooks online ebook platform can help you find Open Educational Resources (OER), mix and match chapters from multiple books and resources, customize materials to reflect your class’s needs, or create your own content to share with students.
In this webinar we will demonstrate and discuss

accessing Pressbooks
finding OER using the Pressbooks Directory
importing OER content into your own Pressbook
tips on customizing and creating content to meet your course needs

In the OEG Voices Podcast Studio with Amanda Coolidge, Marcela Morales, and Maren Deepwell
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
Along with our OE Week Live webcasts, during Open Education Week we also run “live” recording sessions for new episodes of the OE Global Voices podcast. You can sign up to be there in the “studio” as we record, almost like hearing it first before it hits the web site as a published podcast.
Our podcast studio is open for special conversation Tuesday March 4, 2025 when Alan Levine hosts an open conversation with Amanda Coolidge, Executive Director of BCcampus, Marcela Morales, Executive Director OEGlobal, and Maren Deepwell, Leadership Coach/Hybrid Working Consultant and former Executive Director of ALT-C.
All three bring their experience in leading open education organizations and working online, and will reflect on how now in 2025 more than even before, the important of finding small things of joy in our practice. This topic emerged in an exchange following Alan’s visit to Maren’s podcast. Amanda had listened and sent appreciation for the episode in a message also saying something profound:

It truly feels like this “rediscovering the joy in small things in our practice” is more important than ever in our contexts (globally and nationally)

The podcast will be recorded in Zoom (cameras never required) and we have seats in the studio is available for those interested who register to secure a seat. Hear the voices, ideas and perspectives of these three leaders. We aim for a lively and open conversation. You can be part of the action, or just to listen in by signing up to be in the studio. You can also wait until the podcast is published later at https://voices.oeglobal.org/.

Featured Image: Remix of OEGlobal Voices podcast images with From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come) flickr photo by evil nickname shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license

5 Practitioners in 50 minutes
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Minnesota State, Saint Paul, MN, United States
We all know of the impact OER has in the classroom, but there is important work going on outside of it as well. This session will have five different individuals within the Minnesota State system who are working with OER in different ways.

Jodi Ondich from Lake Superior College works in their Center for Teaching and Learning
Kim Johnson from Minnesota State University, Mankato will speak to the work she is doing with students in Sierra Leone
Jennie Simning and Brenda Besser will be highlighting the work they do in the Inver Hills Community College Library
Gabriella Bosompem is a student at Century College shares her experience with OER textbooks
Fran Kennedy is an Instructional Designer at Minnesota State

Accessibility Workshop – Building Accessible Word Documents
2025-03-04 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at Arlington, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, TX, United States
This workshop is Presented by University of Texas at Arlington’s Electronic and Information Resources Accessibility Coordinator, Laura Hopkins, MS ITM, CAPM, CPACC, CTCD/CTCM .
Join a hands-on workshop led by Laura Hopkins focused on making your Word documents accessible and adaptable across platforms. Developing accessible Word documents is essential for streamlining projects in Pressbooks, improving electronic theses and dissertation (ETD) submissions for graduate students, and sharing your work in a format that’s usable and inclusive for all.
This two-hour session includes an hour of expert training followed by an hour of application time to practice techniques, from color contrast and alt text for images and formulas to accessible table creation, styles, and heading structures.
Attend “Accessibility Workshop – Building Accessible Word Documents” via Teams

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.

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.

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.

The Agreements that Allow Us to Care for Each Other – Aggie Open Invited Speaker, Jessie Loyer
2025-03-04 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UC Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, United States
The UC Davis Library’s AggieOpen Invited Speaker Series addresses important issues in Open Education and allows speakers to share their research with a broader audience. Our 2025 Invited Speaker, Indigenous Engagement Librarian Jessie Loyer, will explore the history of Open Access and draw upon histories of caretaking in her talk, “The Agreements that Allow Us to Care for Each Other.”
“In this time of rising fascism, white supremacy, and dehumanization, practitioners of open pedagogies can ask ourselves: what agreements have shaped the caring impulse behind our work? How do agreements such as treaty-making between Indigenous nations and nation-states inscribe intergenerational caretaking? How can we learn from our predecessors’ choices to build connections that allow us to survive and thrive?”
Join us during this year’s Open Education Week as Jessie considers these questions alongside participants through her scholarship on Indigenous relationality in digital spaces, Open Education, and digital kinship.
About the Speaker: Jessie is Cree-Métis and a member of Michel First Nation. She is the Indigenous Engagement Librarian at the University of Alberta in Calgary and a guest on Treaty 7 and Blackfoot territory. Her research examines Indigenous perspectives on information literacy, supports language revitalization, and creates ongoing research relationships using the nêhiyaw minâ otipêmisiw concept of kinship.

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.

Open Textbook Review Workshop
2025-03-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | University of New Mexico, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Explore open textbook solutions for your pedagogical needs by attending a free workshop facilitated by the Open Education Network. Higher education faculty in New Mexico are invited to a workshop where you will learn about open textbooks, where to find them, and the criteria that the OEN uses to evaluate the textbooks in their Open Textbook Library.
Participants who attend the workshop will be eligible to review an open textbook and receive a $200 stipend. These OEN workshops have resulted in a 45% adoption rate by participating faculty.

OE Week at East Los Angeles College (ELAC) Student Engagement
2025-03-04 11:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, CA, United States
East Los Angeles College (ELAC) students will be welcomed to learn more about ZTC at our table on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday during OE week.
We will table from 11am – 2pm on those days. There will be a “money board” for students to demonstrate how much they paid for textbooks in the previous semesters, item giveaways, and interviews conducted by our media department to post on social media.

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

San Diego Community College District OER Grants
2025-03-04 11:00 - 23:45 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego Community College District, San Diego, CA, United States
Across the state of California, funding is becoming more readily available for efforts in OER. Join this presentation to become familiar with grants available to faculty who are interested in adopting or developing OER and explore application process.
Join the San Diego Community College District Open Ed Week via Zoom Events and attend this presentation session with Dr. Melanie Nakaji, American Sign Language Instructor at City College.

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.

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.
