Open Education Week

Le Jour de la Carte
2026-02-04 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | Paris, France, Paris, France
La République des cartes, c’est un projet collectif, citoyen et culturel qui veut faire de la carte un outil de
démocratie, de transmission et de création.
Le 4 février 2026 prochain, rejoignez le mouvement en participant depuis vos contrées au “Jour de la carte”.
Partout en France et on l’espère même, au-delà, on vous invite à faire vivre la ou les expériences de votre
choix pour révéler le pouvoir démocratique des cartes et inviter curieux, novices comme passionnés à
découvrir les cartes et leurs territoires sous des angles surprenants, originaux et inédits ! Plusieurs
d’entre-vous avez déjà partagé de superbes intiatives :

Une journée d’animations complète dans un tiers lieu avec Course d’orientation, Géocatching, Quiz,
Apprentissage de la carte…
Organisation d’un atelier “Remonter le temps” par une Micro-Folie
Création d’une carte éducative au Sénégal
Fabrication de cartes – tapis collaboratives

Inside the Wikipedia Assignment: Student Perspectives (WikiEdu Speaker Series)
2026-02-11 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
What’s it like to work on a Wikipedia assignment? Hear directly from the students themselves!
In Wiki Education’s next Speaker Series webinar, student editors from across the country will join Wikipedia Expert Brianda Felix for a live conversation about their experiences improving Wikipedia as part of their coursework. Together they’ll explore the challenges and surprises they encountered, the skills they built, and how the process reshaped their thinking about research, collaboration, and the role of public information.
The event will include a public Q&A. We encourage you to bring questions for the panelists!

Uses and Abuses of AI Agents in Education (OneHE webinar)
2026-02-11 21:10 - 21:40 (Europe/London) | York, United Kingdom, York, United Kingdom
In this webinar, Anna Mills will explore how student and teacher uses of agentic AI browsers affect higher education. She will describe possible applications of agentic browsers for teaching assistance and ways to reduce these browsers’ privacy and security risks.
These days, “AI agent” sometimes refers to a custom chatbot and sometimes to an agentic AI browser that will take actions on the user’s behalf, like clicking and filling out forms autonomously. In this webinar, Anna Mills, English Instructor, College of Marin, USA, will clarify how students might be using agentic AI browsers to automate homework completion and what can be done about that, and will look at ways educators might consider using them to assist their teaching without jeopardizing student data.
This webinar is open to all interested educators.

Designing for Accessibility: Publishing Compliant Content in Pressbooks
2026-02-18 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
In this webinar, the Pressbooks team will walk through how to create and maintain accessible publications using Pressbooks, combining platform tools with practical, real-world best practices.
You’ll get a guided tour of Pressbooks Accessibility Assist, including a demonstration of the Authoring Tool (available now) and the upcoming Scanner Tool and Network Book Scanner designed to help institutions assess accessibility at scale. Along the way, we’ll show how these tools fit into everyday publishing workflows for instructors, librarians, and institutions.
The session will include a show-and-tell walkthrough followed by an open, interactive conversation where attendees can ask questions, share strategies, and learn from peers across the Pressbooks community.
Whether you’re preparing for new accessibility requirements or looking to strengthen existing practices, this session will help you move forward with confidence.
By the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:

Understand the core principles of accessibility compliance as they apply to Pressbooks-published content
Use Pressbooks Accessibility Assist to identify and address accessibility issues during the authoring process
Learn how the Network Book Scanner will support network-wide accessibility reviews and compliance efforts
Apply practical best practices for creating accessible OER and digital learning materials
Engage with peers to exchange tips, challenges, and workflows for accessibility at scale

Shifting Power: University Openness and Collaboration
2026-02-18 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Regina) | Regina, Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Please join the University of Regina for an Open Education Speaker Series online presentation with Dr. George Siemens, University of South Australia/ University of Texas (Arlington)
Session Description: Universities have become end-consumers of AI. Unlike previous technology innovations, where higher education played an active role in technology developments and adoption, learner and institutional use of AI has advanced with only minimal voice from the university system itself. While frontier labs, such as Anthropic and OpenAI, have focused on offering services for learners, they’ve largely sidestepped the system, leaving universities as spectators. This talk will highlight the urgent need for universities to collaborate around shared data, technology, and services to ensure that the mission of serving learners remains central in the adoption of AI in courses and classrooms. When universities collaborate and pursue open standards, they have a sufficiently powerful voice to shape the products and services offered by big tech companies, shifting power from closed systems to the network of education institutions.

Presenter bio: George Siemens researches how human and artificial cognition intersect in knowledge processes. He co-founded Matter and Space – a human development platform that responds to the systemic impact of AI on learning, human development, and wellness. He now serves as Chief AI Officer at SNHU. He is the founding Director and Professor of the Center for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L) at University of South Australia and developed the Masters of Science in Learning Analytics at University of Texas at Arlington. He has delivered keynote addresses in more than 40 countries on the influence of technology and media on education, organizations, and society. His work has been profiled in provincial, national, and international newspapers (including NY Times), radio, and television. He has served as PI or Co-PI on grants funded by NSF, SSHRC (Canada), OLT (Australia), Intel, Boeing, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Soros Foundation. He has received numerous awards, including honorary doctorates from Universidad de San Martín de Porres and Fraser Valley University for his pioneering work in learning, technology, and networks. He holds an honorary professorship with University of Edinburgh. Dr. Siemens is a founding President of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (http://www.solaresearch.org/). In 2008, he pioneered massive open online courses (sometimes referred to as MOOCs). George is President of the Global Research Alliance for AI in Learning and Education (GRAILE – www.graile.ai).

Barcamp Basics: How Unconferences Work
2026-02-21 09:30 - 12:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg, Germany
How do Barcamps work – and why are they such a powerful format for open education and peer learning?
In this compact, practice-oriented workshop, participants will learn the core principles of the Barcamp format: an open, participant-driven learning approach where the agenda is created by the community itself.
The workshop is especially designed for people who

are new to Barcamps or unconferences,

want to understand how Barcamps support Open Educational Practices (OEP),

plan to participate in, facilitate, or organize Barcamps in educational contexts.

Together we will explore:

What defines a Barcamp and how it differs from traditional conferences

The “golden rules” of Barcamps and participant-driven sessions

Typical phases of a Barcamp (arrival, session planning, sessions, documentation)

How Barcamps foster openness, participation, and peer-to-peer learning

Practical tips for participating in or hosting your first Barcamp

The workshop combines short inputs with discussion and exchange. No prior experience with Barcamps is required.
The format and content are based on many years of experience from the OERcamp community and openly licensed materials.

Copim Conference 2026! Exploring the future of community-led open access books
2026-02-26 10:00 - 2026-02-27 16:15, 2026-02-27 10:00 - 16:15 (Europe/London) | London, United Kingdom, London, United Kingdom
This free, two-day hybrid conference will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven open access book publishing. Timed to coincide with the conclusion of the Copim Open Book Futures project in April 2026, this gathering will look forward and debate: what’s next for community-led open access books?
‘Community-led’ publishing can be difficult to define, and even more difficult to implement. How to identify our communities (which are usually overlapping), make meaningful and practical connections with them, and develop open book publishing infrastructures that are used, governed, and sustained by our communities has been an ongoing challenge that the two Copim projects have grappled with both theoretically and practically over the last six and a half years. During this time, we have also engaged with established and brand-new networks that are trying to achieve similar things in different countries around the world.
At this conference we will be asking essential questions and forging collaborative strategies about what comes next for open access book publishing. Our panels and workshops will tackle topics ranging from the likely outlook for collective funding mechanisms in a higher education landscape characterised by austerity and political vandalism; the role of librarians in advancing Diamond OA book publishing; how to make open access books accessible to everyone who might want to read them; the fragmentations and gaps in metadata that inhibit the discoverability of OA books and how to overcome these; the preservation of PhD research in systems that are targets for hackers; how experimental book publishing will change in the coming years (and if it will change how we publish); and where the new scholar-led OA presses are coming from. We will also reflect on broader overarching questions throughout the event, including how to sustain community activity amid political, economic, and institutional crises; how to identify shared goals and forge effective collaborations between groups, networks, and institutions that have different priorities and ways of working; and how to guard against the co-option and hollowing-out of community-based models, language, and organising strategies by commercial actors whose main priority is revenue generation.
Through lively panels and discussions, we will tackle the most pressing themes for community-led open access books today, with a focus on collective action. It’s an opportunity for people across the community-led open access ecosystem to chart the next phase of open access publishing, together.

We would love you to join us, either in person (at Loughborough University | London) or online (via Zoom). Programme details are gradually being released so keep an eye on your inbox!

Thursday 26 February 2026 (10:00 – 17:15 GMT)
Friday 27 February 2026 (09:00 – 16:15 GMT)

Register now!

OEWeek26 Launches
2026-03-02 00:00 - 00:30 UTC | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Here is our marker just to say Open Education Week 2026 is now ON! Of course OEWeek is truly on whenever you arrange for any activity related to Open Education and add it to our calendar. We are listing events that occur any time in February, March, or April.
We at Open Education Global are dedicating this one week of March 2-6 to honor, celebrate, and most importantly make visible through our calendar all that is happening aroiund the world, not just in this time frame.
Please participate in as many activities as you can, share what you discover, bring others along with you, and do all you can to help the world understand why we believe so much in openness around the world.

An Introduction to Finding and Adapting Open Educational Resources
2026-03-02 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Chicago) | St. Louis, United States, St. Louis, MO, United States
Washington University Olin Library, Room 142
In this interactive, 90-minute workshop, learn what Open Educational Resources are, interpret Creative Commons licenses, and locate OER that is relevant to your courses. Through short activities and guided searches, you will identify at least one OER that can be adopted or adapted, explore practical strategies for customizing OER materials to meet your courses’ learning objectives, and connect with experts and peers who can help you implement OER in courses. Bring your device, and we will provide the refreshments.

OEWeek Live! Start Time for Open Education Week 2026
2026-03-02 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Regina) | Concord, United States, Concord, MA, United States
Host Alan Levine is joined by OEGlobal Co-Executive Directors Marcela Morales and Igor Lesko plus OEGlobal Board Members TBA to officially start Open Education Week 2026.
They will share reflections on how this event has evolved since 2012 with highlights of what to expect for this year’s Open Education Week. Guests will share events they plan to participate in, ones they wish they could. Hear details on some new features for this year’s event. And maybe there will be some surprises.
Watch live here or return later to see the recording.

OEWeek Live is hosted in our Streamyard studio and you can watch with others on YouTube. Make use of the chat to ask questions and send comments to the guests in the studio.
Image Credits: Old TV – Time Tunnel – Cameron Highland flickr photo by liewcf shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA 2.0) license remixed with OEWeek image by Mario Badilla licensed CC BY 4.0 and Pexels Photo by BOOM 💥 Photography used under Pexels License.

OER Development Incentive Programs for Faculty
2026-03-02 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Chicago) | College Station, United States, College Station, TX, United States
Grant funding? Course release time? SGA Awards? What incentives exist for TAMU Faculty to develop, adapt, or adopt the use of Open Educational Resources as alternatives to costly textbooks?

Attend this session and learn what’s in it for you from the Libraries OpenEd team.

USask Lunch and Learn Panel: Stories From Those Engaged In the Creation of OER
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina)
Join us at the University of Saskatchewan for lunch and to hear from a panel of instructors and staff who are currently working or have created an open textbook.
Panellists representing the Department of Chemistry, Department of Curriculum Studies, the USask Library, and the new School of Rehabilitation Science will share their stories of why they started these projects and what their experiences have been like.

OE at Saskatchewan Polytechnic
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | Saskatoon, Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
We have some exciting projects we are working on, or have just been completed. Join our instructors and OE developers in a series of lightning talks and take away ideas you can apply tomorrow. Pre-registration is required. A recording will be available with a link sent out to all registrants.

Science Education for a Just and Sustainable World
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
March 2-6, 2026 marks Open Education Week and UN SDG Action and Awareness Week. Join BCcampus, the BC Open Education Librarians, University Canada West, and Langara College for a celebration of both of these events with keynote speaker Dr. Karen Cangialosi.

As global social and environmental problems grow ever more intractable, we need transformative pedagogies that support our students to become critical, creative social agents capable of building a more sustainable and just world.
Open Pedagogy has the potential to shift our traditional modes of teaching and learning towards practices that nurture students to be creators of knowledge focused on the global good. These hopes could be realized if we are responsive to the dual upheavals caused by AI and the attacks on higher education. We can educate our STEM students to become scientists, and all of our students, to become citizens that are cognizant of an uncertain and challenging future, and work from non-traditional frameworks–those that resist competitive, hierarchical, exploitative models of science.
Key to achieving this vision is teaching undergraduates how to center Open Science as the default for how science is practiced by deeply integrating Open Pedagogical practices that support students to address inherent inequities, problems with data-sharing, and other barriers to the adoption of Open Science. To that end, the OCTOPUS project was developed to support higher education faculty and staff to create openly licensed materials that may eventually constitute a comprehensive undergraduate Open Science-Open Pedagogy program.

Speaker bio
Dr. Karen Cangialosi is a passionate change agent, dedicated educator, and student advocate with national recognition in open education, STEM ed, and digital pedagogy. As a Professor of Biology at Keene State College (now emeritus), she brought open education into the biology curriculum and led campus-wide initiatives to make science education more affordable and inclusive. She now serves as Director of Open Education & Open Science at the RIOS Institute which promotes racial justice and openness in STEM education. Her work centers on transforming higher ed systems to better serve students, especially marginalized students. Her Educause article, An AI-Driven Optimism for Transforming Higher Education (It’s Not What You Think) considers the juxtaposition of AI in education. She continues to advocate for integrating Open Science and Open Education to reimagine how we teach, learn, and collaborate in STEM, always with a focus on transparency, justice, and meaningful change. To that end, she is project director for the OCTOPUS project (Open Collaboration for Transformative Open Pedagogy to support Undergraduate Open Science Education) a collaborative effort between the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium and the RIOS Institute.

Office Hour: Openly License Something!
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Albany, United States, Albany, OR, United States
Office Hour: Openly License Something, hosted by Open Oregon Educational Resources
Peter Musser, Head of Library Services for ISKME/OER Commons, will help you openly license and share your work publicly. No experience necessary!

OER und ihre Rolle beim Weg zur digitalen Souveränität von Hochschulen
2026-03-02 12:15 - 13:00 (Europe/Zurich) | Luzern, Switzerland, Luzern, Switzerland
Offene Bildungsressourcen (OER) sind weithin dafür bekannt, dass sie den Zugang zu Bildung verbessern und den Wissensaustausch ermöglichen.
In diesem Vortrag werden drei wichtige Aspekte von OER untersucht, die für interuniversitäre Zusammenarbeit von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Erstens ermöglichen OER die rechtssichere Nutzung von Bildungsressourcen über nationale Grenzen hinweg und beseitigen Unsicherheiten hinsichtlich des Urheberrechts, insbesondere bei Übersetzungen und Adaptionen. Dies gewährleistet die Einhaltung unterschiedlicher rechtlicher Rahmenbedingungen und fördert gleichzeitig die Zusammenarbeit. Zweitens unterstützen OER die Nachhaltigkeit, indem sie sicherstellen, dass Investitionen in Bildungsmaterialien nicht durch restriktive Nutzungsrechte eingeschränkt werden. Dies ist besonders wichtig bei Kooperationen, in denen gemeinsame Ressourcen von zentraler Bedeutung für die Förderung einer langfristigen Zusammenarbeit und die Ausrichtung auf Nachhaltigkeitsziele sind.
Schliesslich tragen OER zur digitalen Souveränität bei, indem sie Institutionen und Pädagog:innen in die Lage versetzen, Ressourcen zu erstellen, anzupassen und zu teilen, ohne auf proprietäre Plattformen oder Lizenzen angewiesen zu sein. Dies deckt sich mit dem übergeordneten strategischen Ziel europäischer Hochschulen, die Autonomie und Widerstandsfähigkeit ihrer digitalen Ökosysteme zu fördern. Der Vortrag zielt also darauf ab die strategische Bedeutung von OER für die Förderung von Zusammenarbeit, Nachhaltigkeit und Souveränität innerhalb europäischer Hochschulen zu verdeutlichen und auch zu erweitern.
Leitung: Martin Ebner, Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn., TU Graz

Pioneers of Open Knowledge: A History of Open Access at IU Indianapolis
2026-03-02 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Indianapolis, United States, Indianapolis, IN, United States
This session will talk about the history of open access at IU Indianapolis, beginning with the creation of one of the first institutional repositories in the state of Indiana and highlighting the major milestones reached since its inception.
Come learn about how University Library has been a pioneer of open access to educational resources and knowledge and how it continues to push for increased access to information for all.

The Open Education Journey: Creating and Sharing Open Education Resources
2026-03-02 14:45 - 16:15 (Europe/London) | Leeds, United Kingdom, Leeds, United Kingdom
Mark Open Education Week and join us for a panel event celebrating the authors behind the University of Leeds Open Books programme. This session is designed for anyone curious about open education – whether you’re involved or just beginning to explore what open educational resources might look like in your own teaching or practice.
Authors of open educational resources from across the University of Leeds will share their experiences of creating and publishing openly through the University of Leeds Open Books initiative, including how they have used Pressbooks as the platform for writing, adapting, and sharing open content. They’ll reflect on the journey from first ideas and early questions to co-creation and classroom use, and student impact, as well as what they learned along the way.
You’ll hear about a range of highly valuable open education resources currently in production, why authors chose to develop an open educational resource, how the process works in practice, and how openness and open publishing platforms such as Pressbooks can support accessibility, access, pedagogical innovation, collaboration, knowledge equity, sustainability, and student engagement. There’ll be plenty of space for questions and discussion, making this a welcoming opportunity to learn from colleagues.
Whether you’re taking your very first steps into open education or simply want to see what’s being created at Leeds, this event offers reassurance, practical insight, and a chance to connect with others at different stages of the open education journey.
Panelists include: Fazil Acar, Costas Loizou, John Palfreyman, Pierre-Philippe Dechant, J Simon Rofe, Carly O’Neill-Barrett, Rachel Nisbet, Barbara Nkosana, Benjamin Chong, Evangelia Papavasileiou
See also the December 2044 announcement Library, Open Educational Resources Launching University of Leeds Open Books.

Zines & Paper Crafts Crafternoon
2026-03-02 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Denver) | Albuquerque, United States, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Want an afternoon study or work break? Join us for a crafternoon celebrating Open Educational Resources and indie publishing.
Bring your own project or come try one of ours for free, including Zine making and paper crafts. No registration needed!
Hosted by UNM OER and LRE-U Engagement

Systematic Information Management
2026-03-02 20:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Hyderabad, India, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
The Centre for Online Education & Learning (COEL), Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU), Hyderabad, is pleased to announce a free international webinar titled “Systematic Information Management.” This insightful session will be delivered by:
Dr. Dominique Scheffel-Dunand, PhD – Directrice, Cycles supérieurs en Études francophones, Lead, Camerise Formation & Recherche (FSL Hub, York University), Professeure agrégée, Études françaises, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Canada.
Register for free
Webinar context:
Open Education thrives on collaboration, shared knowledge, and sustainable practices. Yet in an era marked by rapid digital transformation, increasingly fragmented educational ecosystems, and widening learner diversity, Communities of Practice face a dual challenge: managing expanding volumes of open resources and translating them into actionable guidance that supports teachers’ evolving professional realities.

This session positions Systematic Information Management as a foundational strategy to operationalize pedagogical horizon scanning, helping educators identify, interpret, and apply emerging practices, research insights, and open resources to design relevant, inclusive learning experiences.

Our webinar will highlight how structured curation, shared taxonomies, and open repositories can transform scattered signals (OER, classroom innovations, research findings, policy shifts, and community knowledge) into reusable learning assets—toolkits, learning pathways, micro-credentials, and practice-oriented briefs—that inform, train, and upskill Communities of Practice. In contexts where professional learning days are often dedicated to policy messaging rather than sustained instructional adaptation, embedding systematic information practices within open ecosystems enables communities to co-create knowledge, strengthen OER sustainability, and build inclusive, cross-border professional learning networks that respond to diverse learners and real classroom needs.

OE Week at ELAC
2026-03-03 08:00 - 2026-03-07 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Los Angeles, United States, Los Angeles, 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, and there will be information about ZTC courses, a visual representation of how much students pay for textbooks in the previous semesters, item giveaways, and interviews conducted by our media department to post on social media.

Understanding the Full Potential of Open Access
2026-03-03 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Vancouver) | Athabasca, Canada, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
Interested in publishing open access, but don’t know what it is or how to start? Join this informative, engaging publishing workshop hosted by IGI Global Scientific Publishing, an academic publisher for books and open access journals dedicated to Publishing Tomorrow’s Research Today.
Led by Melissa Wagner, (Vice President of Publishing Ethics & Research Integrity), Grace Long (Director of Journal Development), and Savannah Pecknold (Communication Coordinator of Open Science Publishing), this session will explore the different types of open access, Creative Commons licensing, predatory journal detection, submission and publication processes, open access funding solutions (including Open Access Agreements), and more.
This session is open for anyone interested in learning more about and becoming involved in open access publishing.

OER Champions Showcase at MTSU
2026-03-03 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Chicago) | Murfreesboro, United States, Murfreesboro, TN, United States
This event will feature short presentations from Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) faculty who have developed or adopted Open Educational Resources to enhance student learning.
We’ll also announce our first-ever Textbook Heroes Awards and celebrate a major milestone —$3 million in student savings from Zero Textbook Cost courses.
This session will be facilitated by Ginelle Baskin, Open Education Librarian.

Open Education Solutions for Complex Times
2026-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | Regina, Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Join the University of Regina for this special Open Education Week presentation, “Open Education Solutions for Complex Times” with Anne-Marie Scott, Vice President of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Vancouver, BC.
Abstract: Post-secondary institutions across Canada are facing a complex and uncertain future as they rapidly adjust to economic scarcity, and it is clear that business-as-usual operating models will not support us to meet the challenges ahead. Compounding this is a tendency towards historical amnesia and constant reinvention; often the answers we need are already out there waiting to be discovered. The Commonwealth of Learning has a long history of working in contexts where complexity and uncertainty are the norm and has successfully used open education as an effective innovation toolkit. Drawing on examples, this talk will outline the ways in which various elements of the open education ecosystem could be used to meet some of these big challenges in Canada head-on, and (I hope) provide some inspiration to keep us moving forward.
Presenter bio: Anne-Marie Scott is the Vice President of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) in Vancouver, Canada where she supports COL’s mission and work in open learning for sustainable development across fifty-six countries. She is an internationally recognized expert in digital, online, and open education, with leadership experience across higher education and the non-profit sector. She previously served as Deputy Provost of Athabasca University in Canada, and before that spent nearly two decades at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. She serves on the Board of the Open Source Initiative and continues to teach in the Masters in Learning and Technology at Royal Roads University in Canada.

AggieOpen Invited Speaker - From Free to Usable: The Accessibility Promise of OER
2026-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join us for this year’s AggieOpen Invited Speaker talk, From Free to Usable: The Accessibility Promise of OER! This session explores how digital accessibility, Universal Design for Learning, and upcoming ADA Title II requirements align with the broader mission of open education.
Featured speaker Katie Healey, founder of the A11Y Project and scholar of disability history, brings a disability justice framework to advancing inclusive practices in higher education. Through the University of California Office of the President, she supports more than 120 instructors across all 10 UC campuses in meeting digital accessibility standards. She also hosts the Disability Daily Podcast, highlighting key figures and moments in disability history.
During Open Education Week, Healey will share how accessible design strengthens the impact of OER and supports the diverse ways students engage with course content.
This free event will be held on Zoom. Register to attend!

Leading the Way: How NorQuest Became an Open Education Leader
2026-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver) | Edmonton, Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Open Education at NorQuest College has changed dramatically since 2016, when we first began encouraging faculty to incorporate open images into their online courses. What started as a small initiative has expanded into a major campus initiative.

Our Reimagine Higher Education plan positioned NorQuest as a world leader in open education, with ambitious goals: publishing 15 open textbooks by 2030, hosting the Open Education Global 2023 conference, and becoming a textbook-cost-free institution by the end of the decade.

We are not only meeting these goals—we’re surpassing them.

In a panel discussion with open stakeholders at NorQuest, we will explore the impact of open education at our college and speculate on next steps in our open journey.

Ressources éducatives libres (REL): comment les pratiques stimulent l’innovation?
2026-03-03 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Description : Ce panel réunit des actrices et acteurs engagés qui partageront des exemples d’accompagnement de personnes enseignantes et étudiantes dans la création ou l’adaptation de ressources éducatives libres (REL). Ensemble, nous explorerons les innovations pédagogiques identifiées dans le cadre de l’éducation ouverte, les obstacles rencontrés et les leviers activés pour les surmonter, ainsi que des conseils pratiques pour les porteurs de projets et leurs accompagnateurs pédagogiques.
Avec la participation et la collaboration de : Paul Lyonnaz, Nantes Université; Anne-Catherine Baseilhac, Nantes Université; Claude Potvin, fabriqueREL et Université Laval; Sophie Depoterre, Université Catholique de Louvain.

Open Education Free Book Fair
2026-03-03 11:00 - 2026-03-04 13:00 (America/Denver) | Albuquerque, United States, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Join UNM OER and the Friends of the Public Library for a free book giveaway! The Friends will bring a wide selection of books for UNM students to take home.
Along with free books, you’ll also learn about the power of Open Educational Resources (OER):

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that anyone can freely use, adapt, and share. OER lower costs for students, expand access to course materials, and give educators the flexibility to customize content.

Stop by to:

Pick up a free book to enjoy.

There will be books in many languages to choose form: Arabic, English, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili

Learn how OER is transforming access to knowledge.
Explore how open licensing makes it possible to reuse and remix educational and research materials.
Get details on other Open Education Week events happening across campus.

Student Perspectives on Open Educational Resources (OER): Survey Results & Reflections
2026-03-03 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Vancouver) | Burnaby, Canada, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Many instructors are exploring open educational resources (OER) as a way to make course materials more affordable, flexible, and up to date. But what do students think? And what are the implications of their experiences on course design?
In celebration of Open Education Week, join the Open Education Community of Practice for a conversation highlighting students’ perspectives on using open educational resources (OER) at Simon Fraser University (SFU).
This session will share key findings from two recent student surveys: one conducted by the Library and Learning Experiences Assessment & Planning (LEAP) focused on students’ experiences using open textbooks and other OER in the classroom, and a student satisfaction survey from the Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS) exploring questions around student affordability, course material costs and OER alternatives. These presentations will be followed by a discussion exploring community needs, questions, and opportunities to strengthen support for OER and open education here at SFU.
Speakers
Marcius Sim—Quantitative Analyst, Learning Experiences Assessment & Planning (LEAP)
Jessica Lamb—Vice President External & Community Affairs, Simon Fraser Student Society (SFSS)
Facilitators
Hope Power—Teaching & Learning Librarian (Library)
Parm Gill—Instructional Designer (Centre for Educational Excellence)
Brian Lorraine—Instructional Designer (Centre for Educational Excellence)
