Welcome to the LibreTexts “LibreVerse”
2025-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join a member of the LibreTexts team as we introduce you to the LibreTexts project.
We will guide you through each component of what we refers to as the greater “LibreVerse” including: the LibreTexts repository, home to over a million pages of OER content; our state of the art Remixer that allows you to take any content in the repository and remix it into something new for your course; LibreTexts project management platform, Conductor, and Workbench tool to help keep your projects and teams organized and on track; our open homework and assessment platform, ADAPT; and much, much more.

OER at Minnesota State
2025-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Minnesota State, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Minnesota State has fostered the development and use of open educational resources since the early 2010s. This presentation will provide an overview of the work that has been supported, including OER Learning Circles, faculty development workshops, Z-degrees, library resources, grant initiatives, as well as the plans for future support.

Comic Jam Workshop for Students
2025-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Justice Institute of BC, 715 McBride Boulevard, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Hi Students! Want to have some fun, get creative, and score a FREE lunch and gift? 🎉 Join us for a 60-minute Comic Jam workshop where you’ll draw your experiences using free, open textbooks, meet other students, and have a blast—no drawing skills needed!
Here’s what’s in it for you:
✅ Get creative and draw comics about Open Educational Resources (OER) in a fun, easy way
✅ Discover Creative Commons licenses and how to share your work
✅ Enjoy a FREE lunch🍕
✅ Take home a thank-you gift! 🎁
📅 Spots are limited—register before Wednesday, February 26!

This event is made possible thanks to generous funding from BCcampus.

Keynote with Flower Darby - Small Steps with OER: Building Momentum, Promoting Success
2025-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego Community College District, San Diego, CA, United States
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 with invited speaker Flower Darby.

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 - 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!

Online University of Windsor Open Education Week Conference
2025-03-03 12:00 - 2025-03-06 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Online from Multiple Locations
The Office of Open Learning at the University of Windsor is hosting a conference throughout the Open Education Week and everyone is invited to join us for a week of free events. Events will be added over time, so check the site regularly.
This year will feature presentations about open educational practices, as well as some presentations about educational technologies.

NorQuest Open Education Pecha Kucha
2025-03-03 12:10 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | SCFL 3-071@NorQuest, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
NorQuest continues to do incredible work in Open Education! Faculty at NorQuest College have published a number of successful OERs. Besides being used in our own courses here at the college, many have found an audience in the wider post-secondary world.
Join us for a visual journey through the creation of these works, hosted by their authors.

McMaster University OER Grant & Lightning Talks
2025-03-03 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Toronto) | McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
This event features McMaster faculty and instructors who are incorporating open education into their teaching. Hear from some of the 2024-2025 OER Grantees as they update us on their awarded projects. Learn about the open resources being created for McMaster courses and hear about experiences in creating open and accessible content.
Gather ideas for possible OER projects of your own. Find out more about the McMaster OER Grant which will be offered again in Spring 2025.

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.

Shifting to Community Owned and Operated Open Knowledge
2025-03-03 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Regina) | University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
To celebrate Open Education Week (March 3 – 7, 2025), the University of Regina’s Centre for Teaching and Learning OEP Program invites you to a special online presentation by Dr. Cable Green, Director of Open Knowledge at Creative Commons.
Abstract
If we are going to solve the world’s most pressing challenges (e.g., climate change), the knowledge about those challenges must be open.
This talk will explore what open knowledge structures society might need to ensure the knowledge components necessary for education and science – both critical elements in solving global challenges – are open by default. Open Education and Open Science both require significant, stable public funding. Both education and science are public goods and the production, reuse and revisions of education and science resources should be publicly funded and openly licensed to ensure educational opportunities for all.
What might “Community Owned and Operated Open Education” look like? What are the barriers and the opportunities? What if funding currently spent on expensive commercial educational resources were redirected to support the creation, stewardship and sharing of effective OER in every discipline, in every grade level in multiple languages? What if we redirected existing public funding to create a sustained shared open learning infrastructure for the public good?

OER In Action: Faculty Stories of Success
2025-03-03 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Indiana Unviersity Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Discover how faculty at IU Indianapolis are transforming their classrooms with Open Educational Resources. Hear from nominees and winners of the IU Indianapolis Open Education Award as they share their OER beginnings, challenges, and successes in using OER to impact student success.

What is OER? at UTA Libraries
2025-03-03 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) | University of Texas at Arlington, 702 Planetarium Place, Arlington, TX, United States
In this presentation from UTA Libraries we will explore Open Educational Resources (OER) as an innovative educational movement by breaking down the elements that define OER, and the benefits for faculty and students We will conclude with what OER support is available for UTA faculty and students.
Attend “What is OER?” via Teams

Shifting to Community Owned and Operated Open Knowledge
2025-03-03 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Regina) | University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
To celebrate Open Education Week (March 3 – 7, 2025), the University of Regina Centre for Teaching and Learning’s OEP Program invites you to a special online presentation by Dr. Cable Green, Director of Open Knowledge at Creative Commons.
Abstract
If we are going to solve the world’s most pressing challenges (e.g., climate change), the knowledge about those challenges must be open. This talk will explore what open knowledge structures society might need to ensure the knowledge components necessary for education and science – both critical elements in solving global challenges – are open by default. Open Education and Open Science both require significant, stable public funding. Both education and science are public goods and the production, reuse and revisions of education and science resources should be publicly funded and openly licensed to ensure educational opportunities for all. What might “Community Owned and Operated Open Education” look like? What are the barriers and the opportunities? What if funding currently spent on expensive commercial educational resources were redirected to support the creation, stewardship and sharing of effective OER in every discipline, in every grade level in multiple languages? What if we redirected existing public funding to create a sustained shared open learning infrastructure for the public good?

Keeping Courses Affordable with Open Educational Resources
2025-03-03 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities (MCU) now requires faculty to include an itemized cost breakdown of all textbooks and learning materials, both required and optional, in their course outlines. Seeing high course fees can be discouraging to students.
One potential solution to keep costs down is through the use of Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are learning, teaching, and research materials that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open licence permitting no-cost access (UNESCO). By using OER textbooks available through eCampus Ontario, faculty have saved students in Ontario over $26 million dollars.
Join the Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries, the Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching, and the Chang School to learn how the MCU directive will impact your teaching, and how you can leverage Open Educational Resources to reduce costs and make your courses more appealing to students. We will review how to find, adapt, and create OERs, and hear from a panel of faculty and students about their experience with OERs.

"Open House" - Celebrating 10 years of Open at USask
2025-03-03 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Regina) | University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Celebrate with us – It’s been 10 years of Open at USask! Since the start of this journey in 2014, our USask community have worked together on the creation of open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy projects. Our dedicated work has saved USask students over $9,000,000!
During this event we will hear from USask leadership, instructors who have created Open textbooks and resources, and from students who have been impacted by this work. Please join us to learn more about these projects and how you can get started too! – Registration is not required to attend, however space may be limited.

Creating Engaging and Interactive Learning Experiences with Pressbooks + H5P
2025-03-03 14:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Pressbooks, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
>> REGISTER HERE
In this session, we’ll share some high-level principles and examples of how to create engaging learning materials in Pressbooks that encourage active learning through the use of social annotation, inline quizzes and other formative assessments.
We’ll also demonstrate how instructors with access to an enterprise Pressbooks network can easily bring this content into courses taught within a learning management system and see grades updated in real time and get deeper insight into what students are learning as they complete individual activities
>> REGISTER HERE

Unlocking Education: Discover the Power of OER
2025-03-03 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | St Claire College, Chattam-Kent, ON, Canada
Brought to you by Collab4Open.
Join us for an eye-opening webinar on Open Educational Resources (OER) and discover how these freely accessible tools can revolutionize your classroom. Learn the benefits of adopting, adapting, and developing your own OER to enhance student engagement and success.
This is an introductory session on OER aimed at addressing the “What” and the “Why.” Attendees of all levels of knowledge and experience are welcome!

Introduction to LibreTexts ADAPT Open Homework and Assessment Platform
2025-03-03 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | LibreTexts, Davis, CA, United States
Join LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, as he gives you an inside look at LibreTexts open homework and assessment platform, ADAPT. Participants will get a firsthand, guided tour on how ADAPT is changing the game when it comes to homework platforms in higher education. Currently sponsored by the California Education Learning Lab (CELL), ADAPT is free for all California instructors and students. For educators outside of California, ADAPT is available at cost–with a price point far below what traditional publishers charge.

Poco a poco, se va lejos: Developing a Spanish Z-degree at Colorado State University Pueblo
2025-03-03 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Denver) | University of Northern Colorado, 406 Dunne Dr., Greeley, CO, United States
This talk explores the development and implementation of the Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Spanish degree at Colorado State University Pueblo, a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). It examines both the theoretical and practical considerations that shaped the process, emphasizing how a custom-built curriculum can integrate students’ lived experiences and identities while aligning with program objectives and course learning outcomes. This approach enhances accessibility while advancing inclusion, diversity, equity, and student-centered pedagogy.
As with any creative endeavor, the curriculum continues to evolve through ongoing refinement and improvement. The presentation will highlight key lessons learned, challenges faced, and potential alternative approaches, offering recommendations for those interested in developing a Z-degree. Ample time will be provided for questions and discussion.

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

Teaching with Wikipedia
2025-03-03 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Regina) | Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
In this 50-minute webinar, you’ll learn how to use a Wikipedia assignment and how to access Wiki Education’s free support and resources. You can still catch our event recordings, if you missed the registration.
With the rise of AI, assessing student work is challenging. This session, presented by Andrés Vera from Wiki Education will show how a Wikipedia assignment can take students beyond the classroom.
By using faculty expertise and Wikipedia’s rules, students can fill content gaps, improve representation, and enhance citations. Wiki Education supports many faculty in the U.S. and Canada with custom syllabi, resources, training, and staff support. Students gain research, writing, and digital literacy skills while improving knowledge equity.

OER Panel: Faculty Showcase
2025-03-03 14:30 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego Community College District, San Diego, CA, United States
In this panel, faculty members will share their experiences integrating OER (Open Educational Resources) into their online courses. This presentation will highlight innovative approaches to using OER to enhance student learning, improve accessibility, and reduce textbook costs. We will showcase a variety of courses that have successfully adopted OER, providing insights, best practices, and lessons learned. Whether you’re new to OER or looking for inspiration to refine your course materials, this session will offer valuable takeaways and real-world applications.
Join the San Diego Community College District Open Ed Week via Zoom Events and attend this faculty showcase hosted by Madeline Button, OER Analyst and Kelly Spoon, Math Faculty at Mesa College.

OE Week Live! March 3 Open Conversations
2025-03-03 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Regina) | Online from Multiple Locations
Open Education Week 2025 is happening this week and we are hosting a few of our OEWeek Live webcasts as open conversations. For each show we invite a group of open educators willing to have a discussion that lacks an agenda and slides with bullet points.
These conversational sessions start with sharing of their current projects, activities, and interests but flow into general discussions of what is happening in the world of open education. We invite questions and comments from the audience through the chat.
Guests so far confirmed for this show include:

Todd Conaway (University of Washington-Bothell) on Community
Verena Roberts (Thompson Rivers University) on Open practices in asynchronous learning environments / Open Learning Design Online
Gardner Campbell (Virginia Commonwealth University) on Idealism and unintended consequences
Ken Bauer (Tec de Monterey) on #educoffee events during OE Week

Watch live and ask questions send comments to the guests in the studio via chat or watch later

Learn More:

Open Education Week https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/
OE Week Live Schedule https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/oeweek-live-webcasts/7383

Ready for Take-off? How Emerging Technologies are Fuelling New Approaches Around OER in the UK & the US
2025-03-03 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, United States
Today we are faced with emerging technologies such as (Gen)AI, which have incredible potential – yet also significant risks and challenges. During this panel session at the Northeast OER Summit, we will hear from two forward-looking universities in the UK and the US about their views and experiences with (Gen)AI and OER. While both are unique in terms of their local context, challenges and levels of experience with OER, they are unified by their ambition to locally grow OER success and by their high expectations for its future.
From this session, expect to learn more about practical and real-world examples of (Gen)AI use at these two universities and their library today: how it is used to identify OER gaps, how to understand local OER potential as well as convincing senior leadership to get behind this. Moreover, expect to walk away with concrete ideas for how we can fuel a scaleable OER future at any institution and why now is the time really for this to take off.
During this panel session, we will hear from two different institutions in the UK and the US about their views and experiences with (Gen)AI and OER. While both are unique in terms of their local context, challenges and levels of experience with OER, they are unified by their ambition to locally grow OER success and by their high expectations for its future. You’ll hear practical and real-world examples of (Gen)AI use, such as how it is used to identify OER gaps and to understand the potential of OER.
We’ll hear from each of the panelists about where they are with OER today and why they feel now is the time for OER to take off.

Dal Badesha, Head of Learning Resources and Student Engagement, Coventry University. Dal oversees the learning resources and student engagement team at Coventry University. She plays a crucial role in making sure students can find and use learning resources, including OER.
William Walters, Executive Library Director, Manhattan University. William Walters is the executive library director at Manhattan University. His current research focuses on scholarly communication, academic librarianship, AI in higher education, nonprofit management, and assessment. In one of his latest publications he took a deep dive into the online discoverability of open textbooks.
Tom Mosterd, Co-Founder & Director, Higher Education, Sylla. Tom is one of the cofounders of Sylla, a new technology solution that helps libraries and faculty to easily find, assess and adopt OER tailored to their teaching. At Sylla he works on ensuring new technologies are used for the benefit of libraries.

Hunting for Open Educational Resources Suited to Your Discipline (In Person)
2025-03-03 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Toronto) | Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Open Educational Resources (OER) are free learning materials for students, which can easily be adapted or tailored for accessible, course-specific learning. This workshop introduces OER basics such as renewable assignments and open textbooks and their place in the open ecosystem. You will learn to search for and discover OER relevant to your courses and disciplines.
In an open document, we will collaboratively search OER repositories for materials that can be added to Concordia’s OER By Discipline Resource Guide, which you might find useful to your studies. Through collaborative small group discussions and guided practice, you can benefit yourself and your fellow students, and leave equipped to advocate more effectively for OER in your classrooms.
Learning Objectives:
Understand the basic differences between OER, paywalled textbooks, and pirated resources
Search OER repositories for OER suited to your courses
Co-adapt Concordia’s OER By Discipline Resource Guide – 2nd edition

Part of Open Education Month at Concordia University Library

Colorado's K-12 OERColorado Hub and Microsite Platforms
2025-03-03 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | OERColorado, Denver, Colorado, United States
In celebration of OE Week 2025, the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) is hosting a webinar showcasing Colorado’s K-12 OERColorado Hub and Microsite Platforms.
CDE invites anyone interested in learning more about Colorado’s work with OER in K-12 education to join us on Monday, March 3 between 4:00PM – 5:00PM MST in Zoom.
Email our OERColorado Team at OERColorado@gmail.com with any questions!

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.

Semana de la Educación Abierta 2025: +mujeres, +wikipedia, +ciencIA
2025-03-03 17:00 - 2025-03-04 20:00 (America/Mexico_City) | Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
La Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, con apoyo de la Escuela de Mujeres Wikipedistas, el Club Rotario Contry Guadalupe y Mensa México, convoca a la Semana de la Educación Abierta: +mujeres, +wikipedia, +ciencIA, que se llevará a cabo en el Centro de Desarrollo Profesional el lunes 3 y martes 4 de marzo.
Examinaremos cómo se usa la inteligencia artificial para generar conocimiento abierto. Tendremos un editatón, en el que editaremos Wikipedia y contribuiremos a artículos sobre mujeres pertenecientes al Sistema Nacional de Investigadoras e Investigadores (SNII) de México.
Más información: https://psicologiauanl.wordpress.com/2025/02/23/semana-de-la-educacion-abierta-2025-mujeres-wikipedia-ciencia/

Connecting the Opens: A Panel Discussion for the Future Professoriate
2025-03-03 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Join the Virginia Tech University Libraries and invited guests for a discussion for future professors regarding open access, open educational resources, and open data. University Libraries’ faculty will provide brief overviews of open publishing, open educational resources, and open data to provide some general information on the topics.
Guest presenter, Dr. Laura Neser, Department of Geosciences will discuss her work adapting openly-licensed content into the first and second editions of Introduction to Earth Science. Presenters will discuss how aspects of open have impacted their career development as well as how they have incorporated open practices into their research and scholarship, and the audience will be invited to participate in the robust conversation. All are welcome!
