Join us! Open Education Week 2025

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OER Project Virtual Showcase and Poster Session

Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Online

The UBC OER Project Showcase will celebrate the innovative work of UBC faculty, students, and staff who have developed open educational resources (OER) projects supported by the UBCV OER Fund and UBCO ALT-2040 fund. The use of OER helps support affordable and inclusive access to learning materials and can allow instructors to provide meaningful, contextualized resources for their students. During this virtual showcase, project teams will present posters about their OER projects.

For those interested in innovative open education projects and practices, the event is a great way to learn about exciting projects and meet innovative faculty, staff, and student project team members from across the university. For faculty, staff and students interested in applying for OER Fund or ALT- 2040 Fund grants, the event will provide helpful examples of the kinds of projects that these programs support.

The event is hosted within a single Zoom meeting room and breakout rooms will be used for presentation spaces. The schedules of presenters and topics is still being developed but will be published soon.

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How Far Have We Come? – The Canadian National Open Education Landscape  

Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Location: Online

This panel brings together experts across Canada engaged at a national level in open education. Canada’s open education landscape is diverse, dynamic, and uniquely influenced by provincial contexts. This webinar delves into the open education strategies, challenges, and achievements of provinces across the nation. This panel discussion brings together speakers to provide a provincial examination of how open education is shaping post-secondary education in Canada.

This webinar will exam:

• Provincial Policy Frameworks – Learn about government initiatives supporting open education in each province.
• Regional Innovations in OER – Explore success stories and impactful projects advancing open educational resources and open pedagogy.
• Indigenous Engagement – Explore current discussions and thinking on the intersection OE and Indigenous Knowledges.
• Barriers and Opportunities – Understand the unique challenges faced by different provinces and how they are being addressed.
• Toward a National Framework – Discuss the potential for greater collaboration and integration of efforts across provinces to strengthen open education nationwide.

Panelists

• Nicole Askin, University of Manitoba 

• Catherine Lachaîne, University of Ottawa 

• Kayla Lar-son, Xwi7Xwa Library, UBC 

• Alexandra Marcaccio, AtlanticOER Lead at the Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries 

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