Open Education Week

Supercharge teaching & learning with Open Education
2026-03-06 13:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | Leeds, United Kingdom, Leeds, United Kingdom
This workshop from the University of Leeds Library introduces the core concepts and practical benefits of Open Education in higher education and beyond. Participants explore what Open Educational Resources (OER) are, why they matter, and how they can enhance accessibility, equity, and student engagement.
The course highlights the pedagogical value of open practice, including renewable assignments and student co-creation of learning materials. Participants are introduced to key tools such as Pressbooks and Sylla, alongside guidance on finding, adapting, and licensing open resources responsibly.
By the end of the course, participants will have practical strategies to start using open education in their teaching and learning, supported by institutional guidance from the University of Leeds Libraries and examples of good practice.
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Une gestion de projet efficace pour le développement et la pérennité des REL: le rôle stratégique de la personne chargée de projet pédagonumérique
2026-03-06 10:00 - 10:45 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Cette conférence propose un retour d’expérience sur la création d’une ressource éducative libre (REL) à l’École des sciences de la gestion de l’UQAM, en soulignant l’importance d’une gestion de projet structurée pour assurer le succès et la pérennité de telles initiatives. La réussite des projets REL et la mise en œuvre de pratiques éducatives ouvertes exigent bien plus qu’une simple volonté d’innovation. Elles reposent sur une coordination structurée et interdisciplinaire, souvent sous-estimée dans les discours institutionnels, mais reconnue comme un facteur clé de réussite dans la littérature. À partir d’une expérience de terrain, nous montrerons comment une gestion de projet rigoureuse — intégrant la planification, la coordination interdisciplinaire, l’animation d’équipe, le suivi, la documentation et la diffusion — constitue un levier essentiel pour aboutir à une ressource cohérente, libre, accessible et réutilisable.
Seront mis en évidence les différents leviers qui ont favorisé ce projet : la complémentarité des expertises (chargés de cours, professeurs, technopédagogues, conseillers pédagogiques, bibliothécaires, étudiants auxiliaires, graphistes, techniciens multimédias, réviseurs linguistiques), l’appui d’une politique locale, un accompagnement soutenu, ainsi que l’accès à une plateforme ouverte (Pressbooks) et à un environnement numérique d’apprentissage institutionnel (Moodle).
Cette présentation offre une réflexion sur les conditions à réunir pour pérenniser la création de REL à l’échelle d’un établissement, tout en reconnaissant pleinement l’expertise des professionnels en gestion de projets spécialisés en pédagogie numérique comme facteur déterminant de succès.
Avec la participation et la collaboration de : Sirléia Ferreira Rosa, chargée de projets pédagonumériques, UQAM

Introduction to Pressbooks
2026-03-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | St. Catharines, Canada, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Are you looking to create an Open Educational Resource (OER)? This Brock University introductory workshop will guide you through the fundamentals of using Pressbooks, a publishing platform designed for creating customized and open content. The workshop will cover:

setting up your account,
organizing your content,
accessibility in Pressbooks, and
exploring key features such as formatting, multimedia integration, and exporting your work in various formats (EPUB, PDF, and more).

By the end of the workshop, you’ll have the knowledge and tools to begin creating and publishing your OER. No prior experience with Pressbooks is required.

Intro to Open Book Publishing through TAMU Libraries Open Digital Publishing platform
2026-03-06 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | College Station, United States, College Station, TX, United States
Curious about publishing an open book with TAMU Libraries?
This in-person session provides a brief overview of the open publishing paths and tools supported by the Open Digital Publishing platform, then shifts to a hands-on introduction to Pressbooks. Participants will receive a development shell in advance and will use their own devices during the session to build a sample book step by step.
No prior experience required – just bring your ideas and your laptop.

Publishing a Book with Pressbooks - An Introduction
2026-03-06 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Pressbooks is a powerful and popular tool for creating open educational resources such as textbooks. Whether you are looking for training for yourself or your research assistants, this training will cover the basics of how to use Pressbooks to create and enhance content. By the end of this session participants will be familiar with:

Overview of Pressbooks functionality;
The layout of Pressbooks;
Creating book chapters and parts;
Embedding images, video, and slides

Students as Creators - Pressbook Enabled Assignments as Open Pedagogy
2026-03-11 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Open pedagogy applies the principles of openness to teaching and learning, giving students greater control and agency in their own education as well as aligning their work with the academic mission of the University. It combines strategies and technologies that support collaboration, co-creation, and shared knowledge. There are many tools that support open pedagogical practices and Pressbooks, an open text publishing tool, is one that supports students as creators of knowledge.
This session will explore practical approaches to using Pressbooks for open assignment and will include:

Guidance on development of course assignments, including skillsets needed by students to engage in publishing
Examples of course assignments and published works by UBC students

Trent University OER Launch Party: OER? Oh! We Are!
2026-03-13 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Peterborough, Canada, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
What happens when educators say yes to sharing?
When students say yes to co-creating?
When learning says yes to openness?
Join us for the virtual launch of our new Open Education Resource; a project built on collaboration, curiosity, and the belief that learning is deepened when it’s shared.
This won’t be a formal presentation. It’s a call and response experience. It’s an invitation to join a community.
We’ll share the story behind the resource: why we built it, what problems it hopes to solve, and how it invites a response. You’ll hear short reflections from contributors, see inside the resource itself, and have space to respond: in the chat, on the mic, in ideas sparked for your own teaching and learning.
Come explore how this resource might liven your courses, reduce barriers, and open new pedagogical possibilities. Bring your curiosity. Bring a question. Bring a colleague or a classmate.
Let’s launch something and respond to what it becomes.
Hosted by Terry Greene, Senior eLearning Designer, with collaborators Darcy Culp and Najah Wardat.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to teachingcommons@trentu.ca
Update
Oh! We Are! was definitely launched in this webinar and is available to all at https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/openattrent

Tuesday Demos Live: AI Declaration Statement from Kwantlen Polytechnic University
2026-03-17 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Regina) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Learn about and try out yourself the AI Declaration Statement developed at OEGlobal member Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU). The template is woven into a Pressbooks Template offered to KPU faculty as a starting step for creating OER AI Declaration Statement template.

When: Tuesday, March 17 10:00am – 11:30am PDT (check for local time)
Where: Register to attend via zoom
Recording: To be shared here later
Discuss: in OEG Connect

Amanda Grey from KPU will share how and why the template was developed, including its being remixed from Kari Weaver’s The Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework and the Me and My Machine Labels developed at Fontys University of Applied Science.

Amanda shared the template last November in OEG Connect plus she and Karen presented it this week as a lightning talk for the Open Education Talks series.

This is not just talking over slides! Amanda and Karen will lead us through a guided practice of creating your own statement. So come with an OER you developed with GenAI assistance and leave with your own AI Declaration Statement you can add to it.

We will see as well some techniques KPU is trialing to have GenAI draft the statement and learn about ideas they have to make a version that is interactive.

This is also the first/premiere of our new series of Tuesdays Demo Live sessions offered by us where OEGlobal Members are here for both telling and showing their open education related projects and resources. To accomodate global schedules, these will take place at various times on future Tuesdays.

This is also offered in conjunction with Open Education Week which does not stop after one week!

From the Field: Inside Fanshawe’s OER Design Studio (CCCOER Webinar)
2026-03-18 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Join CCCOER’s From the Field series – a conversational approach to webinars. Each session begins with a 15-20 minute presentation from a CCCOER member or partner, highlighting a project, practice, or experience from the field. We then open the floor for discussion. Come to listen, stay to connect. Whether you’re curious or simply looking for new ideas, these sessions are designed to spark meaningful dialogue and showcase the great work happening across our community.
Join Shauna Roch, Project Lead, and student designers from Fanshawe College in Ontario, Canada, for a look inside the OER Design Studio – a collaborative space where faculty, librarians, designers, and students work together to bring Open Educational Resources to life. The team representatives will share how their studio model supports accessible, high-quality OER creation, drawing on the Fanshawe OER Development Guide, open-source tools developed, and project examples.
Bring your questions and curiosity for an open, practical conversation about how students and faculty can collaborate to create high-quality, accessible OER – and get ideas for starting or strengthening an OER Design Studio at your own institution.
Presenters:

Shauna Roch, CPA, MBA, M.E.T., Accounting Faculty & Project Lead, OER Design Studio
Koen Liddiard, Graphic Design Student and OER Design Studio Employee

Please use the link to register for the webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join us on March 18. This meeting will be recorded and the recording will be sent out to all registrants as well as posted on this page.
This webinar presented in collaboration with Pressbooks.

Pressbooks Around the World: Open Publishing in Practice Across Europe
2026-03-26 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Join us for a global conversation on open publishing in higher education, featuring Pressbooks partners from across Europe. In this panel, leaders from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), the Technological University of the Shannon (Ireland), and HfH Digital (Switzerland) will share how they are building and scaling open publishing networks to support various publishing initiatives.
Each panelist will showcase their Pressbooks network and highlight key projects, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how open publishing is being implemented in different national and institutional contexts. We’ll explore why each institution chose to launch a Pressbooks network, the types of publishing they support, and how these platforms are advancing institutional goals around openness, access, and teaching innovation.
Attendees will hear what each team is most proud of, lessons learned along the way, and what’s next for open publishing at their institutions.
