Open Education Week

Upcoming Events | Open Education Week

Open Education Week is an annual celebration that raises awareness of global efforts to make learning more “open” — that is, more affordable and accessible to students everywhere. Every March, this weeklong, online event gives educators and students an opportunity to learn more about open educational practices and be inspired by the work being developed around the world, including by Oregon State University faculty.

Please join us for Open Education Week this year to learn how you can get involved and make a meaningful difference in the lives of OSU students.

2026 event schedule

Openly License Something (Office Hour)

Sponsor: Open Oregon Educational Resources

Monday, March 2, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Pacific time)

Come to this open office hour for hands-on help with the logistics of adding an open license to your work. Bring any kind of resource and we’ll help you openly license and share it publicly. No experience necessary!

Peter Musser, Head of Library Services for ISKME/OER Commons, will be on hand to help with all your attribution needs.

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Science Education for a Just and Sustainable World (Dr. Karen Cangialosi)

Sponsor: BC Campus

Monday, March 2, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (Pacific time)

As global social and environmental problems grow ever more intractable, we need transformative pedagogies that support our students to become critical, creative social agents capable of building a more sustainable and just world.

Open Pedagogy has the potential to shift our traditional modes of teaching and learning towards practices that nurture students to be creators of knowledge focused on the global good. These hopes could be realized if we are responsive to the dual upheavals caused by AI and the attacks on higher education. We can educate our STEM students to become scientists, and all of our students, to become citizens that are cognizant of an uncertain and challenging future, and work from non-traditional frameworks–those that resist competitive, hierarchical, exploitative models of science.

Key to achieving this vision is teaching undergraduates how to center Open Science as the default for how science is practiced by deeply integrating Open Pedagogical practices that support students to address inherent inequities, problems with data-sharing, and other barriers to the adoption of Open Science. To that end, the OCTOPUS project was developed to support higher education faculty and staff to create openly licensed materials that may eventually constitute a comprehensive undergraduate Open Science-Open Pedagogy program.

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Open Education Solutions for Complex Times

Sponsor: University of Regina Center for Teaching and Learning

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 @ 9:00 am - 10:00 am (Pacific time)

Post-secondary institutions across Canada are facing a complex and uncertain future as they rapidly adjust to economic scarcity, and it is clear that business-as-usual operating models will not support us to meet the challenges ahead. Compounding this is a tendency towards historical amnesia and constant reinvention; often the answers we need are already out there waiting to be discovered. The Commonwealth of Learning has a long history of working in contexts where complexity and uncertainty are the norm and has successfully used open education as an effective innovation toolkit. Drawing on examples, this talk will outline the ways in which various elements of the open education ecosystem could be used to meet some of these big challenges in Canada head-on, and (I hope) provide some inspiration to keep us moving forward.

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Getting Started with Open Education

Sponsor: Open Education Association

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am (Pacific time)

Getting Started with Open Education is a practical introduction for faculty, staff, and campus leaders who are new to open education or want to strengthen their foundation.

In this session, participants will:

• Learn what open education is and how it’s commonly defined
• See concrete examples of how open education shows up in teaching, campus initiatives, and system-level efforts
• Explore why open education matters for access, affordability, and instructional practice
• Get oriented to the open education community and where to find resources, beginning with the Open Education Association’s Getting Started Guide.

The 60-minute presentation will be recorded and posted online following the event. Live participants are welcome to stay for an optional 30-minute Q&A with small-group discussions.

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Open for Antiracism: Trauma informed approaches to open education

Sponsor: CCCOER/OE Global

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 @ 10:00 - 10:45 am (Pacific time)

Open for Antiracism is a special project of OE Global that has been providing professional development programming across California Community colleges on OER and Open Pedagogy for over 6 years.

In this 2-part session, you’ll first hear from our program directors, Laura Dunn and James Glapa-Grossklag, on how the antiracism and equity landscape has changed since the program’s beginnings in 2020, the impact that OFAR has had on students and faculty, and how OFAR is applied in the classroom.

In the second half of our session, OFAR coach, past participant, and professor of child development at Cerro Coso Community College, Tyrone Ledford shares how he has adapted OFAR’s program in his trauma informed approach to teaching child development. Tyrone will be presenting how to blend anti-racist curriculum and trauma informed teaching strategies to create classroom environments that are empathetic and inclusive to students of diverse backgrounds who have experienced trauma.

Registration is not required. Follow the link below to attend the webinar. 

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OpenEd25 Keynote Rewatch: Dr. Kim Hunter Reed (Louisiana Commissioner on Higher Education)

Sponsor: Open Education Association

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (Pacific time)

The Open Education Association invites you to a virtual rewatch of Louisiana Higher Education Commissioner Dr. Kim Hunter Reed’s keynote from the 2025 Open Education Conference. Entitled New Horizons: Opening Doors and Transforming Lives Through Higher Ed in Louisiana, this inspiring talk explores how to pave the way toward more affordable and accessible higher education through bold policy, open innovation, and strategic investments in resources, partnerships, and programs that prioritize student success. All are welcome to attend this virtual “rewatch party,” which will feature a livestream of the keynote and live chat in Zoom. After the recording, attendees are welcome to stay for an optional discussion.

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OpenEd25 Keynote Rewatch: adrienne maree brown

Sponsor: Open Education Association

Thursday, March 5, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (Pacific time)

The Open Education Association invites you to a virtual rewatch of bestselling author adrienne maree brown’s keynote from the 2025 Open Education Conference. Drawing on decades of movement facilitation, science fiction scholarship, and community care, this keynote invites participants to reflect on transformation, imagination, and the practices that help communities grow and heal. All are welcome to attend this virtual “rewatch party,” which will feature a livestream of the keynote and live chat in Zoom. After the recording, attendees are welcome to stay for an optional discussion.

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AI, Copyright, and Open Education: What We Know Now.

Sponsor: Copyright First Responders Pacific Northwest, Open Oregon Educational Resources

Friday, March 6, 2026 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm (Pacific time)

Artificial intelligence is transforming how we create and adapt educational content, but it’s also raising complex copyright questions. Can you use AI tools to generate OER content? What about training AI on openly licensed materials? Who owns AI-generated text and images? This session explores the emerging intersection of AI, copyright, and open educational resources. Through discussion and real-world scenarios, we’ll examine the copyright implications of using AI in OER.

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