Open Education Week

WikiAfrica Hour – De-colonising knowledge on Wikipedia
2025-02-26 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online from Multiple Locations
What do we mean by decolonising knowledge? Why is it essential to document this on Wikimedia projects? What established knowledge decolonisation initiatives are inside (and even outside) the Wikimedia movement that we should pay attention to? How can we improve existing initiatives and encourage others to do the same?
This month on Wiki Africa Hour, we’re doing a deep dive into decolonising knowledge with guest host Achal Prabhala, who will lead a panel experienced in disrupting the information landscape.
Guests include:

Iolanda Pensa: a wikipedian and researcher. She has been contributing to Wikipedia since 2006, she organized in 2016 “Wikimania Esino Lario”, she is chair of the Wikimania Steering Committee, former chair and now national coordinator for GLAMs of Wikimedia Italia, scientific director of WikiAfrica from 2007 until 2011 and co-founder of Wiki in Africa. co-founder of De-colonising knowledge on wikipedia in Switzerland.
Asuru Lutherking Petercan: a research assistant in architectural history and heritage preservation. Advocating for free knowledge in Nigeria, advocating for policy change and creating awareness in the built environment and beyond about heritage and historic architectural archives, contributing to open source platforms, training more professionals to contribute and also starting an architectural heritage community to join in the contribution of Heritage architecture and GLAM related knowledge in Nigeria.
Sandra Schmitt Soster: Sandra Soster is the GLAM and Culture Manager of Wiki Movimento Brasil since 2022. She holds a PhD degree of Architecture and Urbanism by University of São Paulo (USP).
Chantal Edie Ntube: an artist whose art representation extends beyond her visual practice as a photographer and writer. Chantal has a BSC in History, a Masters I in Political Sciences, and an HND in HSC from Reading in the UK.

WikiAfrica Hour:
Wiki In Africa’s WikiAfrica Hour is a monthly live discussion with open movement advocates from around the world. The conversations discuss the WikiAfrica movement’s and Wikimedia activities across Africa and shares insight for anyone (from Africa and beyond) into the global Wikimedia movement.

Open Ed Live
2025-02-26 11:45 - 15:00, 2025-02-27 11:45 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, Orlando, FL, United States
Open Ed Live is a free online event aimed at bringing higher ed faculty, librarians, instructional designers, and others with related responsibilities or interests together to explore the boundless opportunities of open education. It consists of three half-day, virtual events with drop-in sessions for extended conversation on key topics.
Hosted by the Division of Digital Learning and UCF Libraries of the University of Central Florida, along with members of the UCF Bookstore, Office of the Provost of Academic Affairs, and teaching faculty.
Speakers representing all levels of colleges and universities will present informational sessions, participate in panel discussions, and lead interactive workshops for attendees.
You’ll receive actionable advice on how to best incorporate open educational resources and practices into courses.
This second annual event acts as a prelude to Open Education Week which takes place March 3-7, 2025. Open Education Week is an annual, global celebration where educators can actively share and learn about the latest achievements in open education.

Data Reuse Days 2025 (WikiData)
2025-02-26 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-02-27 17:00 - 19:00 UTC | Online from Multiple Locations
The Data Reuse Days 2025 is an online event focusing on how people and organizations use Wikidata’s data to build interesting applications and tools. It aims to bring together data reusers and editors to learn from each other and discover cool Wikidata-powered applications. We will also cover technical aspects of Wikidata and share research and ideas for the future of reusing Wikidata’s data.
The event is taking place online, we will have sessions taking place during periods of 2 hours through 8 days: from February 18 to 27, 2025. Find the schedule below on this page. The sessions take place in English, and are open to everyone interested in the topic of data reuse. You have 3 options to watch the sessions:

Attend live in the Jitsi room: you’ll be able to interact with the speakers and other participants. The unique Jitsi link will be added to the Event details shortly before the event, and visible to people who have registered. Note: if you join the Jitsi room, please be aware that we will be recording the call and broadcasting it live on Youtube.
Watch the livestream of the sessions on Youtube: great option if your connection or device doesn’t allow Jitsi, or if you don’t want to appear on the videos. The links will be added in the table below for each session shortly before the event.
Watch the replay videos later on Youtube or Wikimedia Commons: to catch up in case you missed the live transmission, The links will be added in the table below for each session

2025 OERizona Conference
2025-02-27 08:40 - 16:30, 2025-02-28 08:40 - 16:30 (America/Phoenix) | Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ, United States
Showcase. Build. Connect.
Open Educational Resources (OER) and the pedagogical practices permitted by their use continue to grow in potential to improve the educational experiences of our students, from drastically reducing the cost burden associated with course materials to directly involving students in the generation of knowledge. As educators and administrators across Arizona demonstrate increasing interest in the global open education community, the opportunity to forge meaningful cross-institutional connections related to open education has emerged.
Join us for the 7th annual OERizona Conference, where attendees are invited to discover innovative teaching and learning practices, connect with like-minded educators, and explore how Open Educational Resources (OER) and open pedagogy can enhance student success for all learners.
Register Now!
Event Summary

Who: Advocates, practitioners, and anyone interested in open education. The event is open to the public.
What: A virtual experience inviting participants to showcase projects or ideas, learn from the community, build effective resources, and connect to an ongoing community of practice through the OERizona Network.
When: February 27 and 28, 2025
Where: Virtual
Why: The Arizona Regional OER Conference seeks to support student success by promoting awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources and Pedagogies while encouraging collaboration through institutional partnerships across the state and beyond.
How: The 2025 OER Conference is hosted by Pima Community College and actively seeks institutional sponsorship for the event.

SDCCD Keynote - Small Steps with OER: Building Momentum, Promoting Success
2025-02-28 00:00 (America/New_York)
The prospect of updating your class with freely available materials can seem daunting, yet reducing textbook costs and enhancing course relevance is key to advancing equitable student learning. Join us to identify small steps we can take, practical strategies that aren’t overwhelming, to begin or progress your OER journey. Find fresh inspiration to teach engaging classes in which you and your students can thrive and succeed. Join the San Diego Community College District Open Ed Week via Zoom Events and attend this keynote session.

Sharing Open Education Assets in OER Commons for Open Education Week 2025
2025-02-28 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Regina) | Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), Half Moon Bay, CA, United States
In this special pre-Open Education Week Live session, Alan Levine is joined by Peter Musser to show how this year we are collaborating with OER Commons to curate a collection of open licensed resources or assets shared by participants of OEWeek25.
We will show you how to join the OEGlobal Group in OER Commons as the place to share. You can add a new asset by submitting a web address and basic information or you can directly share something that already exists in OER Commons.
Then we will show how these are added to the public curated collection of OERs highlighted by the open education community this year. You can add your own or ones that you discover as part of Open Education Week.
And in doing this you will discover more ways to make use of the vast collection of OERs available in OER Commons
For more details see:

Open Education Week 2025 https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/
Sharing Assets To OER Commons for Open Education Week https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/assets/oer-commons/
OEGlobal Group (OER Commons) https://oercommons.org/groups/open-education-global/15201/
Open Education Week 2025 Curated Collection (OER Commons) https://oercommons.org/curated-collections/1716

Watch the demo live and ask questions in chat or watch the recording later:

Where are OER conversations happening anymore?
2025-02-28 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Open Oregon, Portland, OR, United States
The Open Ed community is dispersed across platforms, listservs, and group chats. Join our panelists for in-depth discussion about where people come together to learn and talk about Open Ed work, ranging from structured to casual communication.

Heather Blicher, Director, Community College Consortium for OER
Abbey Elder, Open Access & Scholarly Communication Librarian, Iowa State University
Jeff Gallant, Program Director, Affordable Learning Georgia
Margot Hanson, Science Instruction Librarian, UC Berkeley
Alan Levine, Director of Innovation & Community Engagement, Open Education Global

This webinar takes place from 12:00-1:00 pm Pacific time, February 28, 2025. The session will be recorded and captioned to share later.
P.S.
Recording now available plus resources collected: February 2025 Resource Highlight: Building Connections Online.

Wiki Loves Africa 2025
2025-03-01 - 2025-04-30 | Online from Multiple Locations
Wiki Loves Africa is an annual public contest organised by Wiki In Africa in collaboration with the Wikimedia movement across Africa. The contest encourages people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Each year the theme changes and could include any universal, visually rich and culturally specific topic (for example, markets, rites of passage, festivals, public art, cuisine, natural history, urbanity, daily life, notable persons, etc). The project is run across the whole continent. However, some specific actions (training, communication, etc.) are held in some countries with national organizers.
The theme for Wiki Loves Africa 2025 is FARM TO PLATE.
The theme Farm to Plate calls for the submission of media (photos, audio, video) that portrays fields, agricultural practices, farm products, farm machines, people farming, food transformation and processing, cooking, restaurants, dressing on plates, cooking material and the entire process (or a segment of it) that in consists of transforming farm produce into food.
Read more about the theme and get inspiration here.

Celebrated Open Education Week 2025: Creative Commons Licensing in Focus
2025-03-03 - 2025-03-07 | Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, East West University, A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar, Dhaka, N/A, Bangladesh
Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, East West University celebrated Open Education Week 2025 from March 3-7. Open Education Week is an annual event launched in 2012 by Open Education Global, aimed at promoting open education and its positive impact on teaching and learning. The week features achievements and innovative contributions to open education from around the world, providing educators, practitioners, and students with opportunities to deepen their understanding of open educational practices.
To mark the occasion, Dr. S. R. Lasker Library actively promoted various aspects of open education practices on its social media channels, as it did the previous year.
A highlight of the celebration was the Creative Commons Engagement Zone, held on March 5, 2025, from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM at the library. This interactive session provided an opportunity for students to engage with Bhutanese interns from the Department of Information Studies who shared their insights on CC licensing. The session covered essential topics such as legally using, sharing, and remixing educational materials, understanding content creators’ rights, and selecting the most suitable Creative Commons licenses for various types of work.
The event encouraged students to actively contribute to the open education movement, fostering an inclusive and knowledge sharing academic environment. To further engage students, the library organized a quiz competition, where eight students emerged as winners and received prizes for their outstanding participation. A brochure on CC licensing was also distributed to attendees in the engagement zone. The celebration of Open Education Week 2025 at Dr. S. R. Lasker Library reinforced the library’s commitment to advocating for open knowledge and promoting the adoption of OER within the academic community.

Activity-A-Thon on Sustainable Futures: Education, Culture & Heritage in Open Access
2025-03-03 - 2025-03-15 | MIT-ADT University, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Join us in exploring how open education supports sustainability across education, culture, and heritage [Including Food, clothing etc] . Choose from the activities below and contribute to a greener, more inclusive future.
Register here to participate in one or multiple activities:

Reel & Video-Making Competition
Photo & Caption Challenge
Open Knowledge Map
Podcast Challenge

هفنه منابع آموزشی باز در دانشکده علوم ارتباطات، دانشگاه علامه طباطبائی
2025-03-03 - 2025-03-07 | Faculty of Communication Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
https://fcs.atu.ac.ir/fa هفنه منابع آموزشی باز در دانشکده علوم ارتباطات، دانشگاه علامه طباطبائی
Open Educational Resources Week at the Faculty of Communication Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University https://atu.ac.ir/en

Săptămâna Educației Deschise 2025 în cadrul- Bibliotecii Naționale a Republicii Moldova
2025-03-03 - 2025-03-07 | Biblioteca Națională a Republicii Moldova, Chișinău, Republica Moldova, Moldova, Republic of
Biblioteca Naţională a Republicii Moldova / National Library of Moldova se alătură inițiativei globale Săptămâna Educației Deschise 2025, un eveniment internațional dedicat promovării și conștientizării beneficiilor educației deschise.
Biblioteca Națională a Republicii Moldova și-a propus organizarea multiplelor activități, fiind orientate spre creșterea gradului de conștientizare a importanței mișcării și impactului educației deschise asupra dezvoltării personalului de specialitate din biblioteci, dar și utilizatorilor acestora.
Implicarea BNRM la acest evenimentul global s-a axat pe principiul de adaptare a formării continue a personalului din biblioteci la cerințele mediilor informaționale și promovarea noilor modalități de a lărgi accesul la educație pentru toți.
Programul activităților a inclus organizarea unei expoziţii de publicaţii din colecția de specialitate a BNRM „Biblioteca și Educația Deschisă: resurse, platforme, practici”, de asemenea s-a reușit organizarea unor Traininguri profesionale cu tematica:
„Mediul online – mediu sigur pentru bibliotecari”;
„Resurse digitale de învățare disponibile prin intermediul platformei MLearn”;
„Platforma Zoom pentru bibliotecarii formatori”.
În cadrul acestui eveniment a fost organizată și o conferință cu tema : „Biblioteca Națională a Republicii Moldova – promotor fidel al Educației Deschise”.
În acest context, BNRM a reușit să crească gradul de conștientizare asupra importanței educației deschise pentru bibliotecari și utilizatori.

Creative Commons and AI training
2025-03-03 - 2025-03-07 | Creative Commons Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
In this innovative session from Creative Commons Sweden, we aim to explore the intersection of Creative Commons and Artificial Intelligence. Our goal is to foster a collaborative environment where we can discuss, learn, and address the most pressing issues related to AI training and the use of Creative Commons licenses.
Here’s how it works:

Post Topics or Actions: Share your thoughts, questions, or actions on our Padlet board.
Upvote: Review the contributions and upvote the topics or actions you find most urgent or important.
Engage: Participate in the discussions and contribute your insights to help shape our collective understanding and approach.

Click to Discover 23 Reasons in Favor of Open Education!
2025-03-03 - 2025-03-29 | Chaire Unesco RELIA – Nantes Université France, Halle 6 Ouest - Pole Universitaire interdisciplinaire des cultures numeriques 42 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne, Nantes, France
This year, we contribute (once again) to OEWeek and the month of Open Education with a brand new initiative.
With the help of our friends at the UNOE network and the EUniWell European University of Wellbeing, we explore the arguments why people and institutions should opt for Open Education.
To this end, 23 contributors from 13 countries have agreed to contribute an article to justify one of 23 reasons. Throughout the month of March, we will share with you their thoughts on why we should all adopt Open Education.
Each article will be available in several languages. One version in English, and at least one other version in French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Hungarian, Italian or Portuguese.
This proposal was made possible thanks to collaborative work. Our warmest thanks to the authors for accepting our invitation and rising to the challenge!
See a view of the latest publications from all sites together.

Blogging on the Open Web: Open Education Week
2025-03-03 - 2025-03-07 | Online from Multiple Locations
We are proud to take part in OE Week 2025, and support Open Ed Bloggers everywhere.
An annual celebration, Open Education Week (OE Week) is an opportunity for actively sharing and learning about the latest achievements in Open Education worldwide.
Free to attend & everyone welcome. Don’t forget to Register!
During Open Education Week we are planning to:

share blogging tips and inspiration via the Discord channel;
collate open resources and contribute our own;
encourage everyone to share blog posts, what works for their blogging practice or what is stopping them from blogging.

Join the Blogging Community of Practice
We have a dedicated channel set up in our Discord Community Space. This is a friendly social space where everyone is welcome and which is free to join.
Get started

Join us on Discord
#blogging4life is our hashtag . Follow us on Mastodon, Bluesky, X and YouTube.
Subscribe to our blog to keep up to date with what’s happening
Come along to our events
Find out what is going on across our community

We at OEGlobal Love (and we copy) We Like Sharing
2025-03-03 - 2025-03-07 | Online from Multiple Locations
Open Education Week is honored to have back for its fifth year in a row that fabulous We Like Sharing photo competition hosted by TU Delft that has been recognized with a 2023 OE Award for Excellence.
While the original competition is open to TUDeflt staff and students, we always thought this was a replicable format, and even last year ran a small version of it through OEGlobal.
This year we are calling for photos to be openly shared by adding a reply to a topic in the OEG Connect Activity space for Open Education Week. Reply to this topic with a photo that represents what Openness looks like in the world or share a small interesting detail of the physical space on this glob where you do your open education work.
Indicate your votes for the best shared photos using the Like button (you will need to login or create an account in OEG Connect) and then look for a chance to vote for finalists after the end of the week.
Do you like photos? Do you like sharing? Let’s start it happening in OEG Connect!
See the full details
https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/we-love-and-we-copy-we-like-sharing/7393

Featured Image: features a photo from the 2024 TU Delft We Like Sharing competition! Composite image based on Open? flickr photo by We Like Sharing shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license with banner image of the We Like Sharing account in flickr, and the OEWeek 25 badge created by Mario Badilla at OEGlobal and are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The Remixer Machine's Open Education Week Remixer Challenge
2025-03-03 - 2025-03-07 | Online from Multiple Locations
For Open Education Week 2025 we are excited to bring to you the Remixer Challenge being created for us by Bryan Mathers and intern Gracie at Visual Thinkery. This is a fun opportunity to make use of the Fabulous Remixer Machine. recognized in 2024 with an Open Education Award For Excellence for Open Resuse / Remix / Adapation. The Remixer Machine includes a suite of web based tools you can use to generate graphics, cartoons, and unique visuals, all of them openly licensed, through a very simple web interface that lets you easily modify and customize a design from a template..
Each day of Open Education Week, Bryan and Gracie will post in OEG Connect a daily challenge based on one of the tools in the Remixer set, you can find them all at https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/remixer-challenge/7402. All you need to do is spend a few minutes creating a new remix, downloading your fabulous image, and posting it as a reply to the post for each daily challenge.
For more examples of remix challenges Bryan posts them regularly to Bluesky @visualthinkery.bsky.social
And for more audience participation, we invite everyone to keep an eye on the responses, and use the like buttons to indicate your favorites. We will use this as a tally for the best remixes per day, and at the end of the week will open up a poll to vote on winners. The prizes are vouchers to be used at the new OEGlobal Merch store.
All of the remixes can be seen in OEG Connect but to add your own or vote, you will need to login or create an account there (links in tip right)

教師增能研習- 你的 AI 線上論文小書僮
2025-03-03 08:00 - 2025-03-05 17:00 (Asia/Taipei) | National Taipei University, New Taipei, New Taipei, Taiwan
報名連結：https://forms.gle/DatFQDRiRHvVbRXy5
一、主題: 113-2教師增能研習-你的 AI 線上 論文小書僮

二、活動介紹：AI工具百百款，該怎麼使用在論文研究上呢？就讓查特普拉斯的共同創辦人李承翰來告訴你吧！各位老師，快快一起來把AI工具運用自如，成為教學研究的利器吧！
【內容大綱】

解構學術研究流程
人機協作原則
AI 輔助學術研究實作：
– 研究主題發想
– 研究目的＆研究方法
– 文獻探討
– 論文撰寫
新時代的學術研究

三、講者： 查特普拉斯 共同創辦人 李承翰
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： 114/3/3(一) 12:00-13:30
六、參與方式：線上GOOGLEMEET

國立臺北大學教務處 教學發展中心 張韻婷 02-8674-1111 #66236 yunting@gm.ntpu.edu.tw

113-2 教師增能研習 – 你的 AI 線上 論文小書僮
2025-03-03 12:00 - 13:30 (Asia/Taipei) | National Taipei University, New Taipei, New Taipei, Taiwan
AI工具百百款，在论文研究上怎么用呢？
就让查特普拉斯的共同短片人李承翰来告诉你吧！
各位老师，快快一起来把AI工具运用自如，成为教学研究的利器吧！
【内容概要】：
架构研究流程
人力协作原则
AI辅助学术研究实作：
– 研究主題發展
– 研究目的与研究方法
– 文摘探索
– 論文撰寫
新时期学术研究

【活动主题】： 113-2教师增能研习 – 你的AI 线上论文小书童
【活动讲师】： 查特普拉斯 共同专辑人 李承翰
【活动日期】： 114/03/03（周一）
【活动时间】：12:00-13:30
【活动地点】：GOOGLE MEET线上会议室
【主办单位】： 国立台北大学
【协办单位】： 台北医学大学、慈济大学、国立台湾海洋大学、国立台北科技大学

Open Education Week 2025 Exhibit: Sharing Memories of Your Favorite Children's Book(s)
2025-03-03 - 2025-03-31 | WashU, St. Louis, MO, United States
This pop-up interactive exhibit features about 50 award winning titles recently added to the WashU Libraries’ Collection. The exhibit invites viewers to share their favorite children’s books and authors with others. These books support the methods courses for the Teacher Education Program in the Department of Education and covers a range of fiction and non-fiction topics on identity, race, gender, culture, customs, religion, and traditions.
The exhibit runs from March 3-March 31, 2025 and is on display in the Olin Library lobby.

Carteles Educativos por Wikimedia México
2025-03-03 08:00 - 2025-03-07 17:00 (Europe/London) | México, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
Desde el Programa de Educación de Wikimedia México organizamos una serie de #CartelesEducativos con la comunidad de WikiEducación en el país, a manera de memoria de proyectos y editatones educativos, talleres, cursos, charlas y otras actividades en torno al fenómeno educativo que ha generado el uso e implementación de Wikipedia y los proyectos Wikimedia dentro y fuera del aula en México.
Estos carteles se presentan en el marco de la Semana de la Educación Abierta 2025 (#OEWeek) con el objetivo de incentivar a más personas e instituciones a participar en este movimiento de conocimiento libre, descononización de los saberes y de las diversas comunidades de aprendizajes.
Desde México decimos #WikipediaEsParteDeLaEducación en nuestras Redes Sociales donde podrán encontrar cada uno de las WikiPropuestas pedagógicas.

Open Education Week 2025 - TU Delft Kick-off
2025-03-03 12:00 - 14:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
Panel Discussion: “Building Support for Open Education: Present and Future”
Insights from key stakeholders about current open education initiatives and future strategies.
Panelists:
Willem van Valkenburg (Executive Director, Extension School)
Ingrid Klok (Manager, Library Education Services)
Frank van der Hoeven (Programme Manager, Open Science Programme)
Moderator:
Freek Pols (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Applied Sciences
Poster Session:
• Explore the grassroots projects shaping open education at TU Delft, funded by the Open Education Stimulation Fund (OESF’24)
• Interact with Project leaders who are driving open education forward.

Open Education Awards:
OE Ambassador Awards: Each year, we celebrate 9 TU Delft lecturers (one per faculty and including QuTech) for their advocacy of open education and commitment to openly sharing knowledge and educational resources with the world.
They receive the award from Willem van Valkenburg, Executive Director, TU Delft Extension School for Continuing Education. (See previous winners).
Open Interactive Textbooks (OIT) & Open Textbooks (OTB) awards: In 2024, faculties and the Library celebrated Open Interactive Textbook publications. This year, we again honor our OIT authors while also recognizing OTB authors. These authors play a vital role in maintaining control over educational materials, enhance quality, reduce student costs, and share knowledge globally—well worth the recognition!

From UNESCO recommendations to local action - the Swedish case
2025-03-03 13:00 - 13:30 (Europe/Stockholm) | Karlstad University, Universitetsgatan 2, 65188 Karlstad, Sweden
What strategies do Karlstad University and Sweden have for Open Educational Resources and Open Education and how do they match the recommendations made by UNESCO?
Library director Jörg Pareigis talks about the progress being made at Karlstad University and in Sweden to contribute to the national guideslines for Open Science, determined by the National Library of Sweden.
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.

Resurse digitale de învățare disponibile prin intermediul platformei MLearn
2025-03-03 14:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Chisinau) | Chisinau, Chisinau, stat, Moldova, Republic of
Axe de conținut ale trainingului: aspecte de utilizare a platformei MLearn; profilul personal; participare la cursurile de instruire disponibile; testare și certificare

Free Books: Open Publishing at Concordia
2025-03-03 08:00 - 2025-04-30 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
To celebrate Open Education Month, Concordia Library is pleased to present a new display highlighting open publishing at the Library and Concordia University Press (CUP). Together, the Library and CUP collaborate to make scholarship and education free and accessible within and beyond the university.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are digital resources for teaching, learning, and research that are made available for use and re-purposing. They increase the variety of instructional resources in students’ learning experiences while lowering the financial barriers. OER in the form of open textbooks are a hallmark of Concordia’s OER program. Although open-access publications from university presses often do not permit repurposing in the same way that open textbooks do, they are nonetheless free for students and can be adopted in courses. In parallel with open publishing, Course Reserves also offer a free option for students.
This collaborative display illustrates how open education and open scholarship can nurture each other. As higher education becomes increasingly costly, students stand to gain from the cost-saving benefits of viable alternatives to commercial textbooks. Meanwhile, professors can choose to deepen their research and pedagogical impact by developing open-access and knowledge-mobilization plans to benefit students and the wider public.
Organized in six sections, this display introduces students and faculty to the parallels between CUP and the Library’s OER program. In the vitrine and the digital counter, you will find awareness efforts alongside physical and digital books from CUP and Concordia’s OER program. QR codes make these titles easily accessible, while OER and CUP buttons and slogans promote the importance of open publishing.
Finally, the horizons of free course material options can be expanded through student advocacy and faculty pedagogy. We encourage students to nominate a course for open education and show their support for open publishing by wearing one of our buttons found at the Ask-Us Desk. We encourage faculty to consider open textbook grants, course reserves, and open-access university presses.
Let’s reduce barriers to higher education together!
Curated by the Library’s OER Team and Concordia University Press, the exhibition will be on display from March 3 until April 30, 2025. Special thanks to Zo Kopyna, Chhayhee Sok, Saelan Twerdy, Meredith Carruthers and Rachel Harris.
Concordia University Library supports open scholarship, education, and science. As part of this commitment, the Library leads the University’s OER Program and continues to develop open scholarship initiatives and services, such as our open guides and institutional repository.
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L'exploitation de REL par les enseignants de français en Inde et au Canada-Perspectives, pratiques et possibilités
2025-03-03 08:30 - 09:30 (America/Toronto) | Université de York, Toronto, Canada
As part of International Open Education Week 2025, this interactive conversation will bring together specialists and educators from Canada and India to explore the opportunities for teaching and learning French in minority context at post secondary level using Open Educational Resources (OER).
Objectives for the chat:
1. To raise awareness of the practices and challenges of teaching French using OER in Canada and India.
2. To share innovative initiatives to enrich language learning with OER and to encourage the adoption and adaptation of OER developed in different educational contexts and tools to respond to local needs and global access.
3. To reflect on strategies that bring together the adaptation and creation of OER adapted to learning communities.

Speakers: Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (Université York, Canada), Natasha Gomez (Goa University), India

Being a Teacher is Difficult- Open Educational Resources Can Help Us
2025-03-03 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Bucharest) | Facultatea de Științe Politice – SNSPA, Bd. Expoziţiei, Nr. 30 A, Sector 1, Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Nowadays, being a teacher is a challenge. The curriculum evolves, the social context changes, the graduate’s profile is (or should be) entirely different.
For undergraduate students aiming to become teachers, preparation is now more intense, more varied and more demanding than ever. They will be working with generations of students whose basic and specialized competencies, namely declarative knowledge (knowing how to communicate), procedural knowledge (abilities – knowing how to do something), as well as attitudes and values (the way in which we relate to what we know and do), will be built in the context of a flexible and customized academic journey.
How are such teachers trained? How will they work with their students? Open educational resources could contribute to a better correlation between teaching-learning-assessment practices and the competencies that need to be fostered in students. How do we select these resources? Can we build them ourselves? How?
Questions such as these will be discussed during a workshop organized by the Laboratory for Didactical Innovation, intended mainly for students enrolled in the psycho-pedagogy module.
