March 2025
What an incredible March it has been—a true celebration of open education! There are still many activities and events to look forward to.
This email will help you plan your Open Education activities over the next few weeks. It provides information on upcoming events, opportunities for participation, discussions to join, and news and ideas to consider. Discover everything happening in the global open education community right here.
Save The Date!
Still happening in March
- Mar 28: OERcamp How-to Barcamp Workshop (OERcamp How-to Barcamp Workshop - Open Education Week) , Max-Brauer-Schule Hamburg, Germany
- Mar 28: OE Café #8 Who is behind the ENOEL Toolkit? Applicability and reusability of the Toolkit in practice (OE Café #8 Who is behind the ENOEL Toolkit? Applicability and reusability of the Toolkit in practice - Open Education Week) , Europe Rome, DC, Italy
- Mar 28: OER Bootcamp 2025: Adopt, Adapt, Author (free afternoon webinar series) (OER Bootcamp 2025: Adopt, Adapt, Author (free afternoon webinar series) - Open Education Week) , Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) Tallahassee, FL, United States
In April
- April 7:Illinois Open Education Summit - Building an Open Future: Supporting and Expanding Open Education Across Illinois (Register for the Illinois Open Education Summit — NILRC)
- April 7-11: All Things Open 2025 (All Things Open | Conferences, Workshops, and Lectures | Kennesaw State University) , Kennesaw
- April 8: Open Science e OER per gli studi umanistici (Open Science e OER per gli studi umanistici - Open Education Week) , Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro Bari, Italy
- April 9: The HAN Change Approach (The HAN Change Approach - Open Education Week) , HAN University of Applied Sciences Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
- April 10: Open Educational Resources for reward, recognition and academic promotion (Open Educational Resources for reward, recognition and academic promotion - Open Education Week) , University of Technology Sydney Sydney, Australia
Happening throughout 2025
- May 21-22: Florida Virtual Campus – Florida OER Summit (OER Summit 2025 - OPEN FL - LibGuides at Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC))
- May 30:https://www.unco.edu/news/articles/au-oer-call-for-proposals-25.aspxUniversity of Northern Colorado – 2025 Colorado OER Conference (2025 Colorado OER Conference Call for Proposals)
- June 23-24: ALT – #OER25 – Open Education (OER) Conference (Open Education (OER) Conference | Association for Learning Technology) “Speaking Truth to Power: Open Education and AI in the Age of Populism” for London conference center, London. Register (OER25: Speaking Truth to Power: Open Education and AI in the Age of Populism | Association for Learning Technology)
- Aug 6-9: Wikimedia Community – Wikimania Nairobi, Kenya (2025:Wikimania - Wikimania)
- Sept 10-12: Commonwealth of Learning –Eleventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (https://pcf11.org/)
- Oct 28-30: SPARC –Open Education Conference (https://openeducationconference.org/)
- Nov 10-13: ICDE –30th ICDE World Conference 2025 (ICDE World Conference 2025 - ICDE)
Looking towards 2026
- Sep 30 - Oct 02: OEGlobal 2026 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (Save The Date for OEGlobal 2026 – OEGlobal) hosted by MIT Open Courseware, Massachusetts Open Education Resources (OER) Advisory Council and Open Education Global (OEGlobal) (https://www.oeglobal.org)
Open Education Calls!
- Open Education Conference (#OpenEd25 Call for Proposals is Open — Open Education Conference) 2025 Call for Proposals
Deadline April 4 - ALT’s Open Education (OER) Conference #OER25 (Oxford Abstracts) Call for Proposals
Deadline April 7 - Call for open education research fellows (US and Canada) (Call for open education research fellows (US and Canada))
Deadline April 30 - Call for Papers - OEP Landscapes (Call for Papers - OEP Landscapes)
Deadline May 15
Just Published!
In case you missed it – OR – catch it again …
OEWeek
- The Remixer Challenge Winners (Winners By Vote! The OEWeek25 Remixer Challenge)
- 2025 Open Photo Competition winners (2025 Open Photo Competition winners – Online Learning HUB)
- OEWeek Live Sessions throughout March (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLze0jtuKTgpF2xJDCPWody5K1SHnrIXFf&feature=shared)
- All the OEWeek 2025 sessions on YouTube (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLze0jtuKTgpHcuc-dvcR0Jqc2gwGh2XQf&feature=shared)
CCCOER
- All the CCCOER Sessions during OEWeek (Webinars – CCCOER)
- Casual Coffee Hour with MIT OpenCourseWare and CCCOER (Casual Coffee Hour with MIT OpenCourseWare and CCCOER – CCCOER)
- 2025 Winter News (CCCOER Winter 2025: News & Updates)
Other essential musts
- OEGlobal Voices – Patrina Law on OE Award for Leadership (OEG Voices 077: Patrina Law on OE Award for Leadership – OE Global Voices)
- EUNIWell – 23 Reasons to Choose Open Education – A month long celebration (Archives des 23 good reasons - Page 3 of 3 - EUniWell Open Education)
- ENOEL Toolkit - The (ENOEL Toolkit - last version now available in 22 languages) lastest version now available in 22 languages (ENOEL Toolkit - last version now available in 22 languages) , ENOEL
- New Curated Collection on OER Commons: Spanish-language OER! (New Curated Collection on OER Commons: Spanish-language OER!)
- See how Sushumna Rao used one of the OEWeek Remixers in a Telugu language class (పదబంధం_ Connecting Telugu letters to form words | OER Commons) …!
Up For Discussion …
A taste of conversations now happening on OEGlobal Connect (https://connect.oeglobal.org/) …
- Another Small Things: Ephemeral Messages at Dear Next Visitor (Another SmallThings: Ephemeral Messages at Dear Next Visitor)
- What Open Education Podcasts to You Know / Listen to / Recommend (What Open Education Podcasts to You Know / Listen to / Recommend)
- Educators in the United States, how are the new gov threats to funding with regards to DEI impacting you? (Educators in the United States, how are the new gov threats to funding with regards to DEI impacting you?)
- Helping Participants Leverage Markdown Publishing with Docsify-This.net – User Study (Helping Participants Leverage Markdown Publishing with Docsify-This.net – User Study)
- Measuring the impact of OER (Measuring the impact of OER)
In The News
News from the open movement far and wide …
- Why am I dedicating time to the UNCTAD Working Group on Data Governance and the 2025-2026 UN Working Group on Safeguards for Digital Public Infrastructure (Why I am dedicating time to the CSTD Working Group on Data Governance and the 2025-2026 UN Working Group on Safeguards for Digital Public Infrastructure – Open Knowledge Foundation blog) , Renata Ávila, Open Knowledge International
- Strengthening Professional Development for Academic and Research Librarians, (Strengthening Professional Development for Academic and Research Librarians | OER Africa) OER Africa
- Trump’s Escalating War With Higher Education (https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily) , The Daily
- Open Education Week 2025 – a testament to the growing open education community of TU Delft (https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/library/open-education-week-2025-a-testament-to-the-growing-open-education-community-of-tu-delft)
- Brock lauds open education resource champions (https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2025/03/brock-lauds-open-education-resource-champions/) , Brock University
- Explore free educational resources for learning about Dee Valley history (Explore free educational resources for learning about Dee Valley history - Wrexham.com) , Wrexham.com
- Illinois college expands OER initiative (https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMifEFVX3lxTFBHYXFtM2tpamcwbWlIdlFqNnJiLUFoRjBQaGVia0pQUUNzZ1BBYV9kM0w1ejdsdm5KNHdFUy1hb2dEZVNiYUpXSWZQMDhnOWppSlZjZlNSZTllMzVqb0Y4QldYemNRUmo0MmtfdmtheXZ4WUlyLWxKMnRoOXk?oc=5) , Community College Daily
- Rethinking K-12 Education in the Age of AI (Rethinking K-12 Education in the Age of AI - Online Learning Consortium) , OLC
- Community in 2025 (Community in 2025 - Creative Commons) , Creative Commons
- Welcoming New CC Board Members (Welcoming New CC Board Members - Creative Commons) , Creative Commons
- Toluca-Cape Town Declaration is a Milestone for Recognizing Science as a Public Good (Toluca-Cape Town Declaration is a Milestone for Recognizing Science as a Public Good - SPARC) , SPARC
- Two new OEGlobal Members! (Two new OEGlobal Members! – OEGlobal) , OEGlobal
- Save The Date for OEGlobal 2026 (Save The Date for OEGlobal 2026 – OEGlobal) , OEGlobal
- Embracing Emergence: Leadership in a Complex World (https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights/2025/02/embracing-emergence/) , OLC
- Wikipedia Recognized as a Digital Public Good (https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/02/12/wikipedia-recognized-as-a-digital-public-good/) , Wikimedia Foundation
- OEGlobal Board: Introducing Two New Members and Elected VP (https://www.oeglobal.org/2025/02/11/introducing-two-new-members-and-elected-vp/) , OEGlobal
- Open Educational Resources awards announced (https://source.washu.edu/2025/03/open-educational-resources-awards-announced/) , WashU
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