Open Education Reviews: Discovering Relevant Learning Materials Through Peer Reviews
2026-03-27 11:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Vienna) | Fontenay-sous-Bois, France, Fontenay-sous-Bois, France
Finding the right learning material is often harder than creating the session itself.
With zillions of videos, courses, tools and resources available online, how do trainers and teachers identify what is truly relevant for their learners?
On 27 March (11:00–12:00 CET), we invite you to a live webinar introducing Open Education Reviews, a collaborative platform designed to:

Improve the discoverability of high-quality educational materials through peer reviews
Connect trainers and teachers in a growing global community
Share professional experiences to continuously improve the platform

During this session, we will:

Explore the main challenges trainers and educators face when searching for learning resources
Demonstrate the platform and its key features (reviews, search, playlists, community tools)
Collect your feedback to help shape the next steps of the project

Open Education Reviews is built with and for education professionals and your perspective matters.
We look forward to welcoming you!

The initial development of Open Education Reviews was carried out within the “Dataspace for Education and Skills” project, led by Prometheus-X and co-funded by the European Union under the Digital Europe Programme.

Contemplative pedagogy and practices in the classroom launch
2026-03-27 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
In an increasingly fractured world, how can we cultivate deeper, more connected ways of learning? Contemplative practices and pedagogy (CP&P) offers a response by engaging the ‘whole person’ – mind, body, and spirit – in teaching and learning.
Join Concordia University’s Centre for Teaching and Learning to launch the new open educational resource (OER) on Contemplative practices and pedagogies in the classroom. This collection was co-created with our faculty interest group in 2025 with contributions from faculty, staff, students and guest speakers. Contributors documented testimonials, insights and practices that free to access and adapt for the Concordia community and beyond.
Agenda:

Opening remarks from Dr. Rosemary Reilly and Cristina Galofre Gomez, co-facilitators of the faculty interest group
Process of co-creating the open-access resource with faculty and preview of the contents with Josephine Guan
Framing this work as evidence of teaching excellence with Margo Echenberg, CTL, and Dr. Rachel Harris, Scholarly Publishing Librarian
Breakout discussions on focused topics led by the speakers:

Contemplative pedagogy in higher education led by Dr. Reilly
Hands-on dossier workshop with Margo and Dr. Harris

De la autoría a la publicación: cómo crear y compartir contenidos con eXeLearning
2026-04-03 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain
La sesión “De la autoría a la publicación: cómo crear y compartir contenidos con eXeLearning” ofrecerá una introducción práctica a esta herramienta para la creación de recursos educativos abiertos. Se presentarán sus utilidades y ventajas, así como los pasos esenciales para elaborar contenidos con eXeLearning y publicarlos posteriormente en Moodle. Además, se explicarán los distintos formatos de exportación y su relación con el depósito en repositorios institucionales, un aspecto especialmente relevante para el personal bibliotecario y de soporte a la docencia. Público destinatario: Profesorado y todos los perfiles profesionales que participan en el apoyo y la mejora de la docencia: personal de bibliotecas universitarias, servicios de publicaciones, institutos de ciencias de la educación, unidades de innovación y calidad docente, servicios de apoyo académico y tecnológico, y otros equipos implicados en los procesos formativos.

All Things Open 2026
2026-04-06 13:00 - 2026-04-09 16:00 (America/New_York) | GA
Curious about open access, open data, or open educational resources? Join us virtually for Kennesaw State University Libraries’ fourth annual All Things Open Conference from April 6-9 as we celebrate all Open Movements, including…

Open access journals and publishing
Open data
Open educational resources
Open pedagogy and equitable teaching practices
Open repositories
Open science
Open-source software
Open licensing and fair use
Open “hidden gems”
And any other efforts to increase access and equity!

Sessions begin at 1PM ET each day and span undergraduate scholars in open access publishing, zines in open pedagogy, funding and licensing OER, and more!
Our keynote speaker Dr. Katherine Rose Adams is the Higher Education Leadership and Practice (HELP) Doctoral Program Coordinator at the University of North Georgia. She’s a teacher and mentor to graduate students and adult learners, and her research revolves around university-community partnerships and open educational resources.

From Bold Idea to Global Legacy: 25 Years of MIT OpenCourseWare
2026-04-08 10:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Cambridge, United States, Cambridge, MA, United States
Celebrate 25 years of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW)—a bold experiment that became a global movement. This symposium brings together learners, educators, supporters, open knowledge leaders, and the MIT community to honor OCW’s extraordinary impact and to chart the future of open education.
Since its launch in 2001, OCW has empowered millions worldwide with free access to MIT course materials. This anniversary offers a moment to recognize the vibrant ecosystem that sustains open knowledge as a public good—and to reaffirm MIT’s mission-driven leadership in ensuring that high-quality learning remains accessible to all.
Join us for an engaging, dynamic, and celebratory program featuring MIT leadership, pioneering faculty, global learners, open education innovators, and philanthropic partners. Together, we will explore OCW’s legacy, its role in the evolving open ecosystem, and the opportunities and challenges ahead.

Centering Humanity and Compassion in Our Approach to AI
2026-04-08 17:00 - 18:00 (Africa/Cairo) | Cairo, Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
We would like to invite you to a session offered by the Wellbeing Higher Education Network (WHEN), in collaboration with Equity Unbound.
This online gathering will feature a spotlight session titled Centering Humanity and Compassion in Our Approach to AI, led by Equity Unbound co-leads Maha Bali and Mia Zamora.
In light of our current reality and the growing presence of AI in higher education, this session will offer a space to reflect together on how we can stay grounded in humanity, care, and compassion in the ways we engage with these tools. We hope you can join us.

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.

Universal Design for Learning and Open Education: Integrating Accessibility and Inclusion
2026-04-15 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | Regina, Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Join the University of Regina, Centre for Teaching and Learning for our final 2025/2026 Open Education Speaker Series presentation “Universal Design for Learning and Open Education: Integrating Accessibility and Inclusion” with Dr. Ann Gagné and Kosar Dakhilalian (Brock University)
📅Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2026
🕰️Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
🗺️Time Zone: CST/Saskatchewan Time
📌Register at https://uregina.libcal.com/event/4004017 (This link will open in a new tab).
Abstract: This session will explore the three main principles of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines, to provide examples of how open education can foster engagement, give options for representation, and demonstrate learning. The speakers will provide examples of resources, tools, and assessments from their co-created OER on Accessible Adoption, to allow participants to reflect on how UDL can be an attainable and sustainable way to approach accessibility and inclusion in Open in their specific disciplinary contexts.
Dr. Ann Gagné (she/her) is Senior Educational Developer, Accessibility & Inclusion at Brock University. She has worked in higher education for over 22 years. Her work focuses on the need for accessible pedagogies through awareness of disabled lived experiences. She regularly facilitates workshops on accessible and inclusive pedagogy and trauma-informed UDL.
Kosar Dakhilalian is an Educational Developer, Open Educational Resources at Brock University since 2023. She facilitates workshops to respond to the OER needs of the instructors, offers consultations, and helps with design and creation of OER and interactive elements.

How Do Course Materials Impact Student Belonging? Insights from User Experience Research (CCCOER Webinar)
2026-04-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Explore how course materials – especially OER – shape students’ sense of belonging through insights from a user-experience-informed research study with undergraduate learners. This CCCOER webinar highlights key questions faculty authors should ask themselves about course reading language, organization, and purpose, in order to further student belonging.
Attendees will take away practical strategies for editing OER with student needs in mind, along with research approaches that can be adapted across higher education settings, including community colleges. This session offers a concrete example of how thoughtful inquiry can guide the creation of more inclusive, engaging, and student-centered course materials.
Presenters:

Sarah Hare, MLIS, Open Educational Resources Librarian, University of California, Santa Cruz
Alexandra Marcaccio, MA, MLIS, Atlantic OERLead, The Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries/Conseil des bibliothèques postsecondaires de l’Atlantique (CAAL-CBPA)

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join us on April 15. This meeting will be recorded and the recording will be sent out to all registrants as well as posted on the event web site..
This webinar is produced in collaboration with CCCOER’s Research and Impact Committee.

The big debate: Is Generative AI fundamentally incompatible with Open Educational Practices?
2026-04-20 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Sydney, Australia, Sydney, Australia
Generative AI is changing everything! how we teach, how we learn, and how we share knowledge. But where does that leave Open Educational Practices and the values of access, equity, and collaboration at their core?
UTS Open Education Week 2026 puts this question centre stage with a lively, structured debate that is rigorous and entertaining. Come curious. Leave informed!

TCC 2026 Worldwide Online Conference: Human By Design: AI, Creativity, & Purpose In Education
2026-04-21 09:00 - 2026-04-23 17:00 (Pacific/Honolulu) | Honolulu, United States, Honolulu, HI, United States
Join us for our 31st annual event to share expertise, experiences and network with colleagues. Gain new knowledge related to the use of educational technologies in learning, teaching, innovation, and academic services. This event provides a strong foundation for learning with modern and emerging technologies, especially with online learning.
Technology, Colleges & Community (TCC), is a worldwide online conference attended by university and college personnel including faculty, research associates, academic support staff, counselors, student services personnel, students, and administrators.
Plenary speakers include:

Maha Bali, Professor of Practice, The American University in Cairo
Carolina Cuesta-Hincapie, Learning Experience Designer, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (UAO)
Maricel Lawrence, Innovation Catalyst, Purdue Global
Michael Menchaca, Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Casandra Silva Siblin, Lecturer in Philosophy, CUNY York College
Florence Williams, Faculty Instructional Designer, University of Central Florida

Discount registration rate for students (USD$19) and early bird individual rates (USD$99), plus more packages available.

Open Wiki Assignments for Authentic Learning
2026-04-24 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Sydney, Australia, Sydney, Australia
Many student assignments are written for one person, read once, and then never read again.
In this session, Dr. James Neill, from the Disciple of Psychology, University of Canberra, will challenge that model by exploring how open wiki assignments can turn student work into useful, open knowledge.
Rather than producing disposable assessments, students can curate their work using Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) sister projects such as Wikipedia, Wikiversity, and Wiki Commons. Student editing of one of world’s most widely used knowledge platforms helps develop critical research skills, meta-knowledge, and communication skills by writing for a real audience.

ISKME OER Summit
2026-04-29 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Half Moon Bay, United States, Half Moon Bay, CA, United States
This free event will be hosted virtually on April 29 from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Pacific Time. Taking inspiration from resilient redwood forests, ISKME’s OER Summit will focus on how being deeply rooted and connected in our communities helps us to rise and thrive together. Stay up to date about this event on the OER Commons 2026 OER Summit Hub.
We’ll seek to develop connections, showcase best practices, and provide opportunities for OER leaders to learn from each other to advance their OER work. We’ll highlight our partners’ inspiring and impactful OER initiatives from around the world during the Summit’s Opening Session with National Geographic Society, and the OER Showcase Sessions featuring presentations from Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, US Virgin Islands, and more.
This event is free for everyone, with a suggested donation of $25 to support ISKME’s continued work in developing OER communities, the OER Commons digital library, and free access to knowledge globally.
See Also

The OER Summit Hub where most likely the recordings of sessions will be available
Community Notes shared and edited by participants
Live notes added in OEG Connect
