Open Education Week is March 3-7, and I wanted to share with you some virtual events happening around Canada and the world. And you can find out more about our Open Education/ZTC Recognition award recipients on this previous post.
What’s happening
For a list of events from around the world, visit OE Global’s Open Education Week site. I recommend going to their calendar and refining the search by Event Category or Country.
Virtual Events from Institutions around Canada
- UBC’s Open Education Week Events
- BCIT’s Open Education Week Events
- University of Windsor’s Open Education Week Events
- Collab4Open (Ontario Colleges) Open Education Week Events
Some Virtual Session Recommendations from Me (Emily)
- Student Perspectives on Working in Open
- Affordable and Accessible Learning
- Unbottling the Genai: Gen AI and Open Educational Resources
- Opening Doors and Breaking Barriers: Advancing EDI through Open Education
- Open Up: Eliminating Barriers in Education
- 2025 Open Education Talks (a series)
- Seeking âsokanihkew – a conversation about bridging 40 years of copyright and First Nation’s knowledge
- Open Your Teaching: Enhancing Student Learning through OER, Pedagogies, and Practices
- Education: The Future is Open
CHALLENGE: For Open Ed Week I challenge you to reach out to me, or to your subject matter librarian, or to any of your colleagues who are already doing this work, to find out more about how you can adopt, adapt, or create OER or go Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC). Replacing expensive course materials with Zero cost materials is a great SD project. And we want to recognize and celebrate your work, but we can’t do that if we don’t know about it.