Open Educational Resources (OER): Events

Free online event hosted by the University of Central Florida. This year’s theme, Open Education: Forming Bridges for Lifelong Learning, will explore innovative practices in Open Educational Resources, including accessibility and strategies for fostering lifelong learning.

Look for another announcement soon.

Affordable Learning Pennsylvania (ALPA) invites Pennsylvania’s higher education community to participate in this asynchronous certificate course.
Please email Emily Bongiovanni (ebongiov@andrew.cmu.edu) with any questions about this training opportunity.

October 8-10, 2024, in Providence, RI (and online).

Theme: Open Educational Resources: Supporting Faculty, Empowering Students. Registrations opens in September. ONLINE

FREE. Theme: Global Horizons of Open Education: The View from Texas

Registration link for a FREE CCCOER webinar.

Wednesday, July 24, 12 noon (Eastern)

FREE online summit. The theme of this year's Summit is "Innovations and Trends.

Held April 15th-18th, 2024. Hosted by the Kennesaw State University (KSU) Libraries and Texas Tech University (TTU) Libraries

Conversations were held in February and March, 2024.

Description: "...College and university instructors assign students to write Wikipedia articles, empowering them to share knowledge with the world. Students research course-related topics that are missing or underrepresented, synthesize the available literature, and use our free tools and trainings to add the information to Wikipedia."

"The Kennesaw State University (KSU) Libraries invite you to Open Access Week 2023, October 23-26, an international series of events dedicated to raise awareness around the importance of community control of knowledge sharing systems."

This year’s Summit was held in-person at The Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center, on Thursday, May 25th, 2023.

"Building on our previous events and efforts, we are excited to offer the opportunity for Florida stakeholders, of all roles, to come together to work on reducing the cost of textbooks and supplies for our sunshine state students. Faculty, students, librarians, instructional designers, support services, and higher education administrators will not want to miss this year’s event as we explore tools and resources to help them in their OER journey at their home institution. FREE for K-20 public institutions."

The goal of the Language OER Conference is to provide a venue to showcase large-scale language OER and to exchange information on topics related to OER production and adoption.

2024's event was held on February 17.

This year’s ALPA Summit was held virtually from August 9th-August 10th. The theme of this year’s Summit is “Infrastructure for Affordability.”

SPARC hosted a discussion series to provide an introduction to broad concepts and considerations of epistemic injustice and knowledge equity in the areas of academic libraries and archives. These discussions will examine how universities, and thus academic libraries, are rooted in oppressive systems like white supremacy, racism, and settler colonialism, and how that is connected to our current work in libraries.

Paired as a team of two (one faculty + one librarian), you'll learn about the range of open educational practices in the fall, then work together to create a personalized action plan that will allow you to implement your own open educational practice project in the spring (2023).
Deadline: August 5, 2022

This year's annual LibreFest was held virtually on July 18, 20, and 22, 2022.

CCP is an Allied Member of the Open Education Network (OEN) through June 2023.

This webinar featured a variety of speakers offering their experienced-based perspectives on designing OER with sustainability in mind, including strategies for ongoing maintenance and content portability.

"Join this special Open Education Week webcast to get the facts on what Inclusive Access programs mean for your campus, explore how they differ from open models like OER, and examine whether Inclusive Access is "inclusive" at all. Also learn how to access resources and more information from InclusiveAccess.org.

"This special Open Education Week webcast will focus in on the issue of “silos” within the open education field: where barriers to collaboration exist, what factors can perpetuate them, and strategies to breaking them down."

The Arizona Regional OER Conference seeks to support student success by promoting awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources and Pedagogies while encouraging collaboration through statewide institutional partnerships.

Special online presentation by Cable Green, Director of Open Knowledge at Creative Commons, on Monday, March 3, 2025,1:00pm - 2:00pm (SaskTime/ CST). Registration link provided.

March 4, 2024

March 6, April 10, and May 8 events.

Join Oregon’s higher education community in the global celebration of Open Education Week!

"essions will include presentations of OER research, highlighting the results of the 3rd OER Landscape Survey, and a panel featuring grantee experiences in developing and implementing OER. Additionally, to continue to build on the success of the Open Nursing Education (ONE) Summit, we will be discussing the Open Educational Resources Nursing Essentials Project."

March 7, 2024, 3pm-3pm
Attend this webinar to gain inspiration and ideas from a thought-provoking panel of open education leaders as they share how to think strategically and practically about demonstrating the value of open education.

Community College Consortium for OER