There are now over 270 events and activities listed for Open Education Week 2026 with many of them happening into April. Resources, projects, practices and more is shared and worth sharing back from these events, and we would love to know about them!
Is there anything more fundamental to open education than the act of sharing?
For this year’s Open Education Week, we are honored and impressed by the team coordinated by UNESCO UNESCO RELIA Chair Colin de la Higuera to publish all month long a series of blog post style articles on the theme of Sharing is a Challenge. The series includes 16 articles by 27 authors representing 15 countries, published 4 days each week from 3 web sites… in 7 languages!
We hope this motivates you to consider the perspectives published so far on Obligación, Colonialism, Naïveté, Détournment, Verseny, Reciprocity, Complexité, حماية, Legality, Jugement, Legitimidad, with more to come this week. The OEWeek Web site includes the 16 Challenges hub to update with the newest articles as they are published, plus Erwan Louërat from EUniWell has been posting a summary of each in the OEG Connect Community space. We invite you to “share” your thoughts there in the discussions.
Sharing After the Events
If you saw anything really interesting to you, very likely many people would appreciate knowing about them. I would! That is the idea behind our effort as part of Open Education Week to invite the sharing of open assets any place, any way you can. A few options we suggest include:
- Add OERs to OER Commons. All that you need is the web address for any openly licensed OER, and maybe 5 minutes to fill out a form. Our guide shows you how to join out OEGlobal Group in OER Commons, where you can indicate an OER is worth including in the curated collection we are building for OEWeek26. We have 64 so far and we appreciate the contributions so far from the OER Librarian, Open.Ed Edinburgh, Victoria Peters, Anna Vater, Matthew Jones, Jacqueline Michielen, and Paul Hibbitts. If you saw any OER recently that looked valuable, commendable, please consider your challenge to share those OER.
- Putting Open Organizations, Services, Projects, Resourcers on the OER World Map. Can there be a better way to show what is shared/discovered during OEWeek than putting it on a map? Again, the action of adding an item requires a web address and a few minutes to add other information to a web form. We have quite a bit of the map to color in for 2026, can you help?
- Share Anywhere, Anything. We do not care where you share, just that you share. Let us know either just the information or perhaps if you shared it in any other repository in the world.
- Share in OEG Connect. You can share a link, a publication, a video, or just some obversations from any event or activity you participated in. Take a peek at what has shared so far.
Indeed I may have exceeded the recommend use of the word “share” in one post, but again, is there anything more central to our open education efforts? Our “Town Square” of Open Education this year is too vast and dynamic to see it all, so the more we can share individually, the more we can all communally benefit from this action.
What might you share?
Featured Image: One of the stickers included with many images in the OEWeek Visuals Kit designed by Mario Badilla shared CC-BY. This one is available as a real sticker in the OEGlobal Merch shop.