If you are looking for something else to do or contribute to Open Education Week, we have a warehouse you can help fill with what we call Open Assets, essentially OER. These could be a media item, an activity worksheet, an interactive learning activity, an online lesson, an open course, an open textbook, an open published paper, and open data set, and open journal, even an entire repository.
In years past we collected open assets in our own database, but in the frame of OEWeek being distributed, we promote sharing anywhere that is relevant to you. We seek to make visible your currently created assets but as well, ones that you find elsewhere.
For some guidance we have create a few suggested pathways with detailed steps outlined for each.
Share open assets in OER Commons – one of the most comprehensive collections. With support from our colleagues at ISKME through the collective action of OEWeek participants, we are building a curated collection of Open Assets for OEWeek 2026. Sharing in OER Commons is very simple, all you need to enter is a web address for OER that is openly licensed. The site automatically checks for basic information and you can add more detail as a description, plus languages, education levels, etc. It might take 10 minutes. And the ISkME librarians do all the rest to review it. See the full guide for sharing in OER Commons for OEWeek.
Place open assets (and organizations, projects, services) on the OER World Map. What could be a better way to see what was shared than a map view? The OER World Map allows much more than OERs to be added. Just by creating an account there you are part of. And you can then add en entry for your organization, plus any OER, project, program that you consider important in 2026.
The mpping is just getting started, can you help us color the map in more. See the guide for sharing on the OER World Map.
Share an asset anywhere else. Just let us know via the Open Assets Added Around the World form which lets you indicate the repositiry you added an open asset for OEWeek. We have a longer list of possible repositories (and we always are looking to add more to the list). This is just sharing what you share. See more information about our open approach to sharing.
A Strategy for Sharing from Events
We have hundreds of events happening for Open Education Week in which many web sites and resources are mentioned. No one person can catalog that! Consider an activity during your Open Education Week participation is to save notes with web addresses for interesting open assets worth sharing. By putting references to them in any of these pathways, we can collectively share across the range of activities.
For example on Monday I attended OE at Saskatchewan Polytechnic a series lightning talks by faculty about new OER projects they completed. One that caught my attention was an open textbook for Leadership Through Communication: Essential Skills and Strategies for Managers. After the session I took a few minutes to share it in OER Commons where now this OER is part of our 2026 OEWeek Open Asset collection.
And today I completed a DS106 Daily Create, one of the ongoing activities this year for Open Education Week. This made use of a fabulous site to explore the sounds of the world’s forests, Tree.fm. In reading about this site, I learned it drew from Sounds of the Forest a site provided by a UK organization that asks people around the world to record and upload audio recorded in Forests. All audio is shared under a Creative Commons license, a crowdsourced audio collection. It just took a few minutes to fill out the form to add it to the OER World Map.
Not everyone is as crazy about collecting and sharing resources as me, but I hope a few are.
Adding Open Assets for Open Education Week is a small way you can contribute to the global pool of shared knowledge. I hope others feel inspired to take part! And everyone can explore what is collected through this effort.
Featured Image: hc-2 flickr photo by octal shared under a Creative Commons (BY 2.0) license modified with one of the OEWeek Visuals Kit images by Mario Badilla shared CC-BY