Event Categories

OE Week Events can be organized into categories by the topics represented, making it possible to filter the calendar by similar types of events. Below are the descriptions of each category, which can be used both for reference when contributing events and for searching/filtering for events from the OE Week calendar.

Each category listed includes examples for events where known. Note that you are welcome to use multiple categories.

• Artificial Intelligence – Such a hot topic we hope does not require explanation! Includes the technology, issues, anticipated impact on open education (i.e. ethics, practices) (Example 1)
• Climate Action – Open Education as it applies to climate change, integrating into learning, as part of UN Sustainable Development Goal 17 (Example 1)
• Digital Skills – Digital literacies, building capacity with technology, support
• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access – Practices, frameworks, support for open education in encouraging fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination on the basis of identity or disability (borrowed from Wikipedia)
• Indigenous Ways of Knowing – integrating Indigenous Knowledge and practive with and into open education
• Libraries – addressing issue, recognizing the skiils and contributions of Open Education Librarians
• Micro-credentialing – Use of open standards as alternatives to traditional credentialing
• Open Data – use, development, and outcomes of making data public and available to all
• Open Education Policies – regulations and strategies that encourage the development and implementation of Open Educational Practices
• Open Education Resources – we would count that you know what OERs are! Speaking of R, see the 5Rs as explained by David Wiley (Example 1)
• Open Educational Practices – “is a broad concept which can be characterised by a range of collaborative pedagogical practices that include the use, reuse, and creation of OER.” (Wikipedia) (Example 1), (Example 2)
• Open Repositories – Use of, offering of the collections of OERs
• Open Science – the “movement to make scientific processes and practices, including research methodology and outputs, more open and transparent” (Government of Canada Science and Innovation) (Example 1)
• Open Source Platforms – Use of or development of technology tools, services that are built on open source code
• Social Justice – equal rights and equitable opportunities for all as applied in open education
• Sustainability – how open education supports ““meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” (United Nations)
• Tools and Techniques – Including but not limited to the technologies used to create and deliver open education (Example 1), (Example 2)
• z— Other – Categorizing is always hard! If no categories fit, make it clear in your event description.