Open Bioinformatics Education for Professional Development A modular, open education approach in Biochemistry- presented by Zareen Amtul
2024-03-05 13:00 - 13:20 (America/Toronto) | University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Amid the increased demand for flexible learning experiences, especially hybrid course offerings, as well as an exponential growth in life science research data, bioinformatics has become an exciting, and popular skill set both in industry and academia. To increase students’ competencies and to get them familiarized with data science professions as well as to fulfil a substantial demand for technology use in post-secondary education, we developed an open education resource containing a set of bioinformatic exercises into a capstone course of a graduate program.
Bioinformatic exercises were designed to teach students to navigate bioinformatic databases such as UniProt, GenBank™, BRENDA, and SWISS-Model use built-in tools, and software like MEGA, and CHIMERA, algorithms, analyze data, and perform programming in R and Python. The skillsets imparted by this hybrid bioinformatic pedagogical approach are meant to empower students to be able to leverage this knowledge for their future endeavours in the bioinformatics field. The student performance in the hybrid course and survey responses overwhelmingly suggested that greater, and meaningful technology integration in teaching and learning going forward is direly needed.

Open Pedagogy at Douglas College
2024-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Vancouver) | Douglas College, 700 Royal Avenue, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Our Douglas College event is on March 5th at 10 am in Zoom, when we will hear from Communications faculty members. Janice Sestan will talk about the UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship and creating renewable assignments with students. Sam Schechter will talk about working with students to publish their best work in Open Educational Resources e-books.

Campus Talks: Access, Affordability, and Open Education
2024-03-05 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock, AR, United States
As part of Open Education Week, members of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus community will present on the topics of affordability, access, and open education. The presentations will be a series of 5-minute talks, presenting different perspectives of Open Education.

Growing Institutional OER Programs: Is Pressbooks right for you?
2024-03-05 13:30 - 14:15 (America/Toronto) | Pressbooks, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Many colleges, universities, and higher education systems rely on Pressbooks’ open publishing platform as an essential part of their technology infrastructure to support OER and other institutional publishing programs.
This session provides a guided show-and-tell about Pressbooks networks and what to consider as you make choices around open publishing tools for your campus community. What goals can Pressbooks help you achieve? How do Pressbooks networks work, and what’s required to make them successful? How can this toolset help you manage, scale and sustain your open education programs?
Join us as we delve into these questions and any others you bring us.

Open Education 101 at UBC
2024-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
Would you like to learn more about open education and open educational resources but don’t know where to start? This introductory workshop is for you.
This session will provide an overview of the open education movement including what it is and why it matters. This session will cover:

Definition and examples of open educational resources
Benefits of OER to both students and faculty
First steps toward adopting, adapting, or creating OER
How to find additional support with OE at UBC Library

Generative AI, Open Education, and Climate Catastrophe - Professor Marco Seiferle-Valencia
2024-03-05 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | UC Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, United States
The UC Davis Library’s AggieOpen program is thrilled to host Open Education Librarian & Assistant Professor Marco Seiferle-Valencia as our invited speaker for 2024. Professor Marco Seiferle-Valencia will present “Generative AI, Open Education, and Climate Catastrophe” on Tuesday, March 5th, at 11:00 am PST via Zoom.
While AI promises to revolutionize many fields, including education, this technology’s unsustainable carbon footprint and other devastating ecological impacts mean that revolutionary progress is far from guaranteed. In fact, the rapid, widespread adoption of energy and resource-hungry AI invites revolutionary regression. This year’s talk discusses the environmental impacts of generative AI by examining the often hidden ecological costs of these new tools and asks how we, as open practitioners, can ensure the burgeoning collaboration between AI tools and open education serves learners, teachers, and the environment.

Using LibreTexts to Remix
2024-03-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | Southwest Tennessee Community College, 5983 Macon Cove, Memphis, TN, United States
The LibreTexts OER textbook platform makes it easy to customize an existing OER textbook to make it your own. This can include adjusting its content to be more consistent with your presentation, adding new content of your own, and mixing in content from other OER sources. Bill Turner, the Southwest Tennessee Community College OER Facilitator, will explain the benefits and demonstrate the basics of how to use “The World’s Most Popular Online Textbook Platform.”

Webinar: The Intersection of Wikipedia and Open Education Resources
2024-03-05 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Open Oregon, Portland, OR, United States
This hands-on, 90-minute workshop will be led by Laurie Bridges, an Oregon State University librarian and co-founder of the Wikimedia Campaign #EveryBookItsReader.

Introduction to LibreTexts Commons & Conductor Platforms
2024-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join a member of the LibreTexts team as they introduce you to our Commons & Conductor platform. A multi-functional platform that provides enhanced searching capabilities across all of LibreTexts over 600,000 page of openly licensed content via the Commons, as well as a project management platform that provides a gathering point for all of your authors to share, search, and remix OER developed and curated by your community in the Conductor. And speaking of community, you can use the Conductor to plan, collaborate, and manage OER efforts across your campus.

Access the recording of this video here:

Open Education Week- This Is My OER
2024-03-05 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at Arlington, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, TX, United States
Many students are not aware that OER exist, and this has caused students to miss out on potential opportunities and benefits they could obtain and use in their academic journey. Therefore, this event is established and designed to attract students to learn and grow in the knowledge of OER that will hopefully enhance their college experience.

UNM OER Showcase Online & In-person
2024-03-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Denver) | University of New Mexico, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, Albuquerque, NM, United States
UNM OER Showcase
March 5th at 1 – 2 pm MT
Online & in-person in the Willard Room in Zimmerman Library
Interested in learning about OER projects in development at the University of New Mexico? On Tuesday, March 5th from 1-2 p.m. Mountain time, hear from faculty creators from the departments of Art History, English, Spanish, and Latin American Studies. These OER projects will result in openly licensed materials aimed at making UNM students’ education more open, accessible, and equitable.
Opening Remarks: Chancellor Samuel Dosumu, UNM Valencia Campus
Moderator: Associate Dean and Professor Reilly White

Open Education Week: Finding Openly Licensed Media & Educational Resources for Research, Teaching, & Publication
2024-03-05 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, United States
Come learn how to find and use open access images, video and other open access content, as well as open educational resources including lesson plans and textbooks. Learn how to properly give credit or attribution to copyrighted or open access content and how to give your own creations/designs a creative Commons license. Presentation tips and tech tools that can make your presentations and publications more professional and interesting will be also be covered. Image copyright topics will briefly covered as well.

Beyond Copyright: Exploring Creative Commons
2024-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD), San Mateo, CA, United States
San Mateo CCD’s Open Education Week 2024
San Mateo County Community College District’s (SMCCCD) Textbook Affordability Solutions Workgroup (TASW) invites you to participate in Open Education Resources Week. This year’s theme is Leveraging Our Capacity to Reduce Barriers for All. Our website is the central location to learn about the events that will take place across the district. You can participate in as many events as you please.
Beyond Copyright: Exploring Creative Commons (12pm-1pm)
Join Prof. Diana Tedone-Goldstone (Cañada College) as she leads a workshop on Creative Commons Licensing. Learn the difference between fair use, public domain, and Creative Commons. Explore how to mix and match the different Creative Commons licenses to share your own materials!
Register for the virtual Beyond Copyright: Exploring Creative Commons session

Building an Open Education Research Community (CCCOER Webinar)
2024-03-05 14:00 - 14:20 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
Join us for a 20-minute webinar hosted by members of the CCCOER Research & Impact Committee for an introduction to the committee’s history and emerging CCCOER discussions and resources around open educational research and impact. We’ll explore how the committee can seed cross-institutional collaboration and be a place for new research connections. Participants will be invited to share their perspectives on Open Education (OE) research and contribute to ongoing discussions about the impact of open education on institutions and the students they serve.
Following the webinar, we’ll invite participants to share their favorite OE research on OEG Connect.
Presenters:

Michael LaMagna, Delaware County Community College, Learning Commons
Amanda Di Battista, Conestoga College, School of Business

OE Tips and Tricks: More than Just Textbooks
2024-03-05 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Regina) | Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
This session will provide a series of lightening talks with each speaker given 5 – 7 minutes to discuss tips and tricks for their tech/OE area. OE is more than just textbooks. We will explore podcasts, interactives, simulations, videos and on-line courses. Check out the event website for details.

Open Educational Resource and Student Success in a Hispanic Serving Community College: Do Ethnicity and Financial Needs Matter?
2024-03-05 15:00 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL, United States
Dr. Vasumathi Raman will present the key findings of her dissertation research. Her study explores the correlation between open educational resources (OER) adoption and student outcomes, focusing on Hispanic and financially needy students in a large community college.

Accelerating Climate Action and Climate Justice Through Open Education
2024-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States
Escalating climate disruptions and injustices demand that we keep developing and refining our forms of knowledge creation and sharing. Expanding learning opportunities through open educational resources and community-engaged open pedagogy practices can play an invaluable role in our collective response to the climate crisis and work toward a more resilient and equitable future.
This moderated panel session highlights three inspiring open climate education projects in the U.S. that extend beyond conventional OERs, with modular adaptable resources and engaging methods to reach more learners in more ways. Panelists and their projects are:

Denise Linder (high school teacher, Grafton MA): Climate Solutions Scenarios with En-ROADS, a Subject to Climate lesson plan for high school teachers
Christopher Rabe (postdoctoral associate, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative): the Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit, with resources to support teachers infusing climate justice into a wide range of undergraduate courses and disciplines
Edward Waisanen (platform and program manager, University of Michigan): Gala, a collaborative case study platform and community focused on sustainability

The session will be hosted and moderated by Curt Newton, director of MIT OpenCourseWare, and Richard Sebastian, teaching and learning coach at Achieving the Dream.
The session will begin with brief presentations by each panelist, followed by discussion among the panelists and moderators drawing out key learnings and points of resonance among the projects, and close with time for attendees’ open Q&A and discussion.

Augmenting OER with Open Source AI
2024-03-05 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, and Head of External Education Programs for Sandbox AQ, Marianna Bonanome as they discuss a new partnership to bring AI and OER together to help close the gender gap in the workforce.
This initiative is a collaborative effort to couple LibreTexts’ corpus (950,000 webpages of OER content) with emerging AI so that OER texts can be equipped with a customized open source AI tutor. Intellectual isolation is a particular problem for adult learners who, without close interactions with instructors and fellow students, can lose focus. The AI tutor system will provide guidance to LibreTexts’ learning materials for individual students based on individual needs expressed in natural language.

Access the recording for this presentation here:

A Pivotal Moment for OER: Using Research to Inform Strategic Direction
2024-03-05 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin, United States
Learn about THECB-commissioned statewide OER research that provides the foundation for strategic resource development, program, and service delivery for the state.

Building Courses in LibreTexts Open Homework and Assessment Platform, ADAPT
2024-03-05 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 the next three years. For educators outside of California, ADAPT is available at cost–with a price point far below what traditional publishers charge.

OE Week Live! Tuesday Open Conversations #1
2024-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
Another one of our open conversations of everything happening during and around Open Education Week. Watch live on YouTube and participate with the guests via chat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIUKjQ2UaOA
Or join us on screen in the studio to share your projects, interests, concerns, sessions attended, or any other topic you would like to discuss. The conversations are unscripted, dynamic, and live(ly).
See the full schedule with links to watch and look also for the form sign up to be on a show https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/oe-week-live/6391

Exploring Openness in Education 2024
2024-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Edmonton) | Athabasca University, 1 University Dr, Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
Panel Presentation – Athabasca University M.Ed. and Ed.Doctorate programs

Rory McGreal – UNESCO OER Chair; Editor – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning – open access journals
Levina Yuen – AI and Open Educational Resources
Connie Blomgren – Openteacherab.ca; Global connections to open education (Board Vice President Open Education Global; ICDE OER Advocacy Committee); GO-GN and OTESSA
Marti Cleveland-Innes – Inquiry based MOOCs Commonwealth of Learning
Adnan Qayyum – Moderator

Audience: M.Ed. and Ed. Doc students and faculty, including alumni
Purpose: To provide M.Ed. and Ed Doc faculty and students with an Open Education Week activity.
Outcomes:

Strengthen M.Ed. and EdD students’ understanding of open education.
Further Education program students and faculty awareness of the changing landscape of open education.
Highlight open education projects and activities.
Contribute to a community of open educators.

Format:

Welcome from Moderator
Land acknowledgement
Panel presenter #1= 5-7 minutes
Panel Presenter #2= 5-7 minutes
Panel Presenter #3= 5-7 minutes
Panel Presenter #4 = 5-7 minutes
Discussion among panelists (10 minutes)

What changes do you see on the near horizon for your area of OER and open education? Moderated discussion.

Question and Answer period (10 minutes)
Closing

From Concept to Classroom: Creating an Open Textbook in 12 months
2024-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Sydney) | University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Follow the journey of our intrepid authors who aim to create an open textbook in just 12 months! Keith Heggart, Mais Fatayer, Shaun Bell and Rhiannon Hall share it all – the planning, strategies, collaboration and support models needed from multiple institutions to pull this off. You’ll also enjoy a sample chapter of this forthcoming textbook Designing Learning Experiences for Inclusivity and Diversity: Advice for Learning Designers. This project was a successful 2023 grant recipient of the CAUL OER Collective.
Speakers

Dr Keith Heggart
Dr Keith Heggart is an early career researcher with a focus on learning and instructional design, educational technology and civics and citizenship education. He is currently exploring the way that online learning platforms can assist in the formation of active citizenship amongst Australian youth. Keith is a former high school teacher, having worked as a school leader in Australia and overseas, in government and non-government sectors. In addition, he has worked as an Organiser for the Independent Education Union of Australia and as an independent Learning Designer for various organisations.

Dr Mais Fatayer
Dr Mais Fatayer is the Learning Experience Design Manager at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research interests focus on using technologies in learning and teaching, open education, learning design, and design-based research. Her Ph.D. thesis is titled “Towards a sustainable OER module: Tapping into the cognitive surplus of student-generated content” which presents the design principles of adopting OER in learning and teaching. Following her doctoral work, Mais has utilised her experience in teaching and research to enhance the adoption of technology in learning and teaching practices in tertiary education.

Dr Shaun Bell
Dr Shaun Bell is a learning designer at UTS’ Postgraduate Learning Design unit, working with experts to co-design innovative digital learning. They hold a PhD in Literature from UNSW and have published reviews and award-winning essays on literary culture and the teaching of English in JASAL, Southerly and TESOL Quarterly. Shaun has taught in the English Program at UNSW and has several years of experience designing learning materials for eLearning and distance education.

Rhiannon Hall
Rhiannon Hall writes and edits content for LX at UTS, the digital home of the University of Technology Sydney’s LX.lab. Rhiannon works across content on all aspects of learning and teaching and has a particular interest in accessibility, social equity and collaborating with students. She is passionate about educating the learning and teaching community on accessible practices and has co-facilitated several projects working with students as partners. Rhiannon has a Bachelor of Communication from the University of Newcastle and a Master of Cultural Studies from the University of Sydney

Application of Open Educational Resources
2024-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (Asia/Taipei) | Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
你對於開放式教育了解多少呢？
您想知道如何更好地利用教育資源嗎？
【開放式教育資源運用】防疫活動一定能讓您有所收穫！
一起來探索開放教育資源運用吧！
錯過了這個難得的機會，現在就手刀報名參加期待的分享會~
【活動日期】：2024/3/6
【活動時間】：12:00-13:00
【活動地點】：Google Meet線上會議室
【導師】： 臺北醫學大學陳玫潔副教授、國立臺北科技大學郭忠義教授

The application of Generative AI in General Practice Courses
2024-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 (Asia/Taipei) | Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
一、主題：【112-1數位增能研習】生成式AI於通識實務課程運用
二、活動介紹：特邀通識中心楊喨智老師分享在通識課中，如何引導學生運用GitHub AI Copilot /ChatGPT幫助進行改寫以及運用Midjourney 等AI 工具幫助完成繪圖，Mintable NFT 平台上架的AI 應用的課堂實務。
三、主講人：台北大學通知識中心楊喨智老師(11學年本校教學創新績優獎(AI應用小組教學)
四、參加對象：北聯大系統、國際導向開放線上教育者聯盟的教職員
五、活動日期： 113/3/6(三) 12:00-13:00
六、參與方式：
線上（完成報名後，活動前將發送線上連結至您的報名信箱）

Launch Media Plan of “Maharat” Platform for Open Educational Resources
2024-03-06 08:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Riyadh) | King Abdul Aziz University, F6VX+XJQ, King Abdulaziz University, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
Building on King Abdulaziz University’s leading role and in line with its strategic goals towards developing community service, the university has launched the “E-Learning Mharat ” platform. This platform aims to promote open educational resources and e-learning practices, enhance the competencies of faculty members, and develop students’ skills through self-learning, continuous training, and community sustainability towards completing the digital transformation; to be an Arab reference in the field of e-learning. In support of the university’s positive interaction and community interest in the digital world and the use of its tools in various aspects of life in general and the educational process in particular, the Mharat platform has offered 153 training courses with an average of 459 training hours.

Rentgen Otwartych Zasobów
2024-03-06 08:00 - 2024-03-10 17:00 (Europe/Warsaw) | AGH University of Krakow, al. Mickiewicza, 30, Kraków, Poland
Information about your paths with open educational resources, during 5 days of training not only the basic theoretical foundations, but above all, experience of working with open resources.
Several tools are waiting for you, equipped with improved search, selection, resource utilization and sharing tools. The training is open to teachers and academic teachers as well as PhD students from all universities in Poland.
In conducting training: you will learn why educational products can be open, you will analyze the pros and cons of using OER in practice; you will learn Creative Commons licenses and practice systems for using renewable energy sources in accordance with the need for licenses; discover access to resources and learn about the systems they come from and the quality and credibility criteria; you will find out whether selected resources can be combined with each other to create a new quality; Instead, you created and published your own, open to other learning activities! Form: online training in the form of a daily challenge (every day for 5 days, participants of alternative competitions – any time of the day) Data: 4-8/03/2024

Týždeň slovenských knižníc 2024 / Week of Slovak libraries 2024 (Wednesday)
2024-03-06 09:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Bratislava) | National Bank of Slovakia, Imricha Karvaša 1, Bratislava, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
In-person event organized by the Slovak Association of Libraries, hosted by the National Bank of Slovakia.
Program:

Snippets from the history of Bratislava and famous personalities on collectible euro coins (9:00-12:00)

Bratislava’s mayor Michal Gomboš and the Orphan’s Treasury Deficit Case — Doc. Mgr. Ivona Kollárová, PhD., Historical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
PamMap.sk – Memory Portal — prof. PhDr. Juraj Šedivý, MAS, PhD., Department of Archives and Museology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University
Alfréd Wetzler — Mgr. Eva Pindjáková, Ružinov Library and Ing. Martin Chren, Mayor of Bratislava-Ružinov

Valorile general umane: reflectare și promovare prin intermediul lecturii
2024-03-06 10:00 - 12:40 (Europe/Chisinau) | Biblioteca Științifică a Universității de Stat Alecu Russo din Bălți, Republica Moldova, 38 Puşkin Str., Bălţi, Moldova, Republic of
Training profesional online: “Valorile general umane: reflectare și promovare prin intermediul lecturii”
Date de contact:
Join Zoom Meeting
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OER Literacy
2024-03-06 14:00 - 2024-04-05 16:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Dr B R Ambedkar Open University, Road No.46, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
During Open Education Week, the Centre for Online Education and Learning (COEL) of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University (Dr. BRAOU), Hyderabad, India, will organise weekly OER literacy (awareness) sessions for the faculty members and students within the university.
We encourage our faculty and students to visit COEL office, meet the team with queries and ideas relating to OER and learn about open licenses every Wednesday between 2 to 4 pm (IST) from 06 March to 05 April 2024.
The month-long weekly event will include:
• Awareness of open licences for OER beginners
• Exploring online OER.
• knowing the 5 Rs of OER
• Learning about Dr BRAOU OER policy.
