Presenter: Mr. Orandi Harris, University of Regina Business Administration Student Title: Supercharging the Creation of Open Textbook Resources as a Student Time: 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. (CST/Saskatchewan time) Abstract: Pressbooks offers editors the possibility to edit and create textbooks using a visual editor and publish it live for usage in university courses. Students can […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
