Keynote: Designing for Justice with Open Educational Practices

University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Whereas the adoption of open educational resources can widen equitable access by helping alleviate the financial burden experienced by students, the embrace of broader open educational practices carries the potential to advance additional dimensions of social and epistemic justice. This presentation will focus on practical ways in which educators may approach learning resources, activities, assessments, […]

Keynote: Then. Now. The Future: Directions for Open Education in the Changing World of Higher Education (Dr. Glenda Cox)

University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

In this presentation, Dr. Glenda Cox will be looking back at the Cape Town open education declaration (2007) and the 10 directions suggested at the 10 year anniversary in 2017. Dr. Cox will include discussions of student protests calling for the decolonisation of the curriculum, first held in 2015 and now 10 years later where […]

Keynote: Racing Towards a Wasted Future: Generative AI and the Resurgence of Nuclear Energy (Dr. Marco Seiferle-Valencia)

University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

As the potentials and promises of generative AI sweep into the field of Open Education, educators and advocates have a holistic responsibility to think deeply and expansively about the known and still emerging environmental impacts of these technologies. Demand for energy by the hungry server farms that create so-called artificial intelligence is bringing damaging and […]

Keynote: Open and the Oligarchs: Planting Seeds in a World on Fire (Dr. Robin DeRosa)

University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Dr. Robin DeRosa has been working on open initiatives, including projects around OER, open pedagogy, and open access to research, for more than a decade. She has been interested not only in the practices that animate open, but also in the values that power an open vision for the future of education and knowledge-sharing. But […]

Shifting to Community Owned and Operated Open Knowledge

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 […]

Shifting to Community Owned and Operated Open Knowledge

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 […]

Artificial Intelligence and Open Education: how, when, where and why

Saskatchewan Polytechnic Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Alec Couros, Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Regina will discuss the positive and negative effects of Artificial Intelligence, particularly focused on it's effect on OE. Check out the event website for details. The speaker for this event has been graciously provided by the University of Regina. We express […]