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9:30am EDT

Beyond Borders: OER and Academic Performance Among LIS Undergraduates in Nigerian Universities
Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
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This study presents a Global South perspective on open education by examining how Open Educational Resources (OER) are perceived, accessed, and used by undergraduates in Nigerian federal universities, an underrepresented context in dominant discourse. The population comprised 3,574 200-, 300-, and 400-level Library and Information Science (LIS) students across accredited federal universities, using a descriptive correlational survey design. A stratified proportionate random sampling technique (60%) yielded 2,145 participants from 12 universities. Data were collected באמצעות a structured questionnaire (sections A–E) with strong reliability (α = 0.86). Descriptive statistics were used for analysis; Pearson correlation tested hypotheses 1–6, while multiple regression tested hypothesis 7. Findings challenge Global North–centric assumptions and highlight contextual factors such as ICT self-efficacy, infrastructure constraints, and awareness gaps shaping OER use.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • By the end of this session, participants will be able to:.
  • Explain the role of OER in promoting equitable access, cost reduction, and improved academic outcomes in higher education contexts beyond North America.
  • Analyze the relationships among ICT self-efficacy, student perceptions of OER, patterns of OER use, and academic performance using evidence from Nigerian federal universities.
  • Identify the most commonly used types of OER among Library and Information Science undergraduates and the academic purposes they serve.
  • Evaluate how contextual factors such as infrastructure limitations, awareness levels, and internet access shape OER adoption and effectiveness in low-resource environments.
  • Discuss the implications of student-centered evidence from Nigeria for advancing global, inclusive, and context-responsive open education strategies.
  • Understand policy development for sustaining OER initiatives beyond the Global North.
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OI
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Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
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9:30am EDT

Beyond University Boundaries: Digital Transformation Expands Open Education in Chinese Universities
Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
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After participating in this session, learners will be able to explain how digital transformation can be understood as a pathway for expanding open education in Chinese universities.

After participating in this session, learners will be able to identify how MOOCs, online open courses, shared platforms, and AI-supported tools widen access, flexibility, and resource sharing.

After participating in this session, learners will be able to assess the main constraints on digitally mediated openness, including inequality, governance, recognition, and platform dependence.

After participating in this session, learners will be able to apply insights from the Chinese case to wider discussions of emerging technologies and open education.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Understand how digital transformation is reshaping open education in Chinese universities.
  • Recognize how MOOCs, online open courses, shared platforms, and AI-supported tools expand access, flexibility, and resource sharing.
  • Identify the main opportunities and challenges that emerging technologies bring to open education in the Chinese higher education context.
  • Reflect on how the Chinese case can inform broader discussions about inclusive and sustainable open education.
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QB
SL
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Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
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  Concurrent Session (25 min)

9:30am EDT

Not Everything Should Be Open: Ethics and Care in Open Education
Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
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Open education is often framed in terms of access, sharing, and innovation. But what happens when openness creates risks for learners? This session explores open educational practices through a different lens, asking not only what we open, but what we protect. Drawing on experiences in carceral classrooms and work with marginalized communities, this presentation examines how openness is neither neutral nor inherently liberatory. Participants will consider how knowledge can be shared, appropriated, or weaponized, and how educators make intentional decisions about when to open knowledge and when to protect it. This session reframes open education as a relational and ethical practice rooted in care, responsibility, and lived experience. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of how to approach openness with intentionality in their own contexts.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe how open educational practices can function as relational and ethical practices, not just access-based approaches.
  • Identify risks associated with openness, particularly for marginalized communities.
  • Analyze how decisions to share or protect knowledge shape learning environments.
  • Apply intentional decision-making when implementing open practices in their own contexts.
  • Reflect on how care, authorship, and responsibility influence their approach to openness.
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RN
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Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V3
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

9:30am EDT

Open Policy as a Method of Open Education: How IFMSA Policy Documents Shape Global Student Advocacy
Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V2
Open education has grown through wider access, resource sharing, and collaboration, but the governance structures needed to sustain these practices remain insufficiently addressed. As a result, open values such as participation, equity, and reuse are not translated into organizational action.

The International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA) addresses this gap through a participatory policy process that moves from needs assessment and collaborative drafting in Small Working Groups to review, democratic adoption, implementation, and renewal. Through this process, policy documents become practical tools that guide student advocacy, learning, and action thus functioning as an open educational infrastructure.

In this session, attendees will explore how open policy making can be used to build sustainable educational and advocacy frameworks in their own contexts, helping them strengthen student organizing, guide initiatives, and support long term open education practices.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • By the end of this session, at least 80% of participants will apply the session’s methodologies to:.
  • Describe IFMSA’s open policy-making process and its key steps, from needs assessment ,collaborative drafting to adoption, implementation, and renewal.
  • Understand the three dimensions of open policy-making and how, when used as a framework, they can transform policy documents into open educational resources.
  • Analyze how policy documents can guide diverse forms of implementation across thematic areas, including workshops, conferences, campaigns, partnerships, webinars, small working groups, and educational resources.
  • Adapt strategies of open policy-making approaches within their own organizations, institutions, or cities to strengthen advocacy, student organizing, sustainability, and open education.
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FA
DB
AL
NW
KK
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Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V2
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

9:30am EDT

Two Households, Both Alike in Dignity: An Exploration of Open Textbooks and the Humanities
Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V5
The use of open textbooks is often associated with STEM fields, likely due to their large intro courses and costly textbooks. This is a misconception, however, as humanities courses can and do benefit from OER. A review of the literature yields numerous examples of OER adoption in fields like art history, English, and world languages. Taking this perceived gap between STEM and the humanities as a starting point, this presentation will consider the space between what we know and would like to know about the use of open textbooks in humanities disciplines. The presenter will share the findings of an original study of characteristics of humanities textbooks in the Open Textbook Library. These findings will be contextualized in the scholarly literature on the use of OER in the humanities, including potential benefits and barriers to adoption, and the presenters’ experiences as a humanities librarian participating in a program that incentivizes the use of open and affordable resources.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Summarize the findings of a study on the characteristics of open textbooks in the humanities included in the Open Textbook Library.
  • Identify one or more potential benefits of OER or barriers to OER adoption in the humanities.
  • Generate potential strategies to best support humanities faculty interested in OER adoption and/or creation.
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ZW
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Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V5
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

10:00am EDT

Connecting the Open Dots: Policy, Alliance-Building, and Community Practice in Europe
Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V2
Open education often advances through disconnected efforts in policy, coordination, and practice. This session explores how connecting those “open dots” can strengthen impact across Europe. Drawing on SPARC Europe’s work on Connecting the Opens, the feasibility report for a European Open Education Alliance, and the community-building work of the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL), the presentation examines how open education can be better linked with related open movements, supported through stronger coordination, and sustained through practitioner networks. Rather than treating these as separate strands, it presents them as complementary parts of a broader strategy to advance open education as a public good. Attendees will gain a European perspective on how policy alignment, alliance-building, and community practice can work together to create more coherent, connected, and sustainable open education ecosystems.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe how policy, alliance-building, and community practice interact in shaping open education ecosystems.
  • Explain the value of connecting open education with adjacent open movements.
  • Identify key opportunities and challenges in building more coordinated open education structures at a regional level.
  • Analyse the contribution of practitioner networks such as ENOEL to sustaining the open in practice.
  • Apply the idea of “connecting the open dots” to their own institutional, national, or regional context.
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VP
PS
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Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V2
  Concurrent Session (40 min)

10:00am EDT

From Learning to Earning: Building Workforce Skills for the Next Generation Using Customized OER
Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V4
Across disciplines and institutions, instructors face growing challenges regarding student engagement and academic integrity. These challenges are compounded by the emergence of AI and shifting workforce needs. Our workforce requires students to develop an ever-increasing set of skills to obtain entry-level jobs. Traditional print textbooks can't keep pace with these shifts, but OER can!

Drawing on data from the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025, this session highlights the skills and competencies increasingly valued by employers worldwide. We’ll share practical strategies for customizing OER to support skill development, respond to emerging technologies, and meet local and industry-specific needs, all while maintaining academic rigor and relevance. Participants will leave with an AI prompt template to create five ready-to-implement, skills-based assignments that align with emerging workforce needs, meet course objectives, and incorporate OER content.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify key challenges facing college educators, including maintaining student engagement, managing the impact of AI, and equipping students with ever-changing, in-demand career skills.
  • Analyze emerging workforce skills from the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025 and their relevance in specific academic disciplines.
  • Explain how OER can be customized to support skill development while maintaining academic rigor.
  • Apply a structured AI prompt template to generate 1) skills-based learning activities aligned with course objectives, open content, and industry needs, and 2) aligned instructional support materials (e.g., grading rubrics, scaffolding for struggling students).
  • Refine AI-generated activities to ensure they support individual course contexts, follow accessibility best practices, and meet activity design preferences.
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LJ
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Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V4
  Concurrent Session (40 min)

10:00am EDT

From Trust to Textbooks: Project Management Strategies to Strengthen OER Teams
Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V3
Strong teams are the bedrock of successful OER projects. Across three federal grant initiatives LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network has sustained long-term team participation using a cohort model to produce sixty OER textbooks and accompanying LMS courses. This panel will discuss how LOUIS uses project management techniques to build resilient teams to ensure project success through - building a culture and atmosphere of trust, empowerment, and engagement. Cohort Leaders from the most recent “Building a Competitive Workforce” project will address common challenges, such as change, conflict, and distributed teams, and solutions to maintain team morale and momentum. Tailored to new or aspiring leaders of amazing humans and project leaders, this discussion emphasizes lessons learned and actionable insights participants can apply immediately to strengthen team dynamics.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain project management strategies to build strong OER teams through a culture of trust, empowerment, engagement and resilience in OER project teams.
  • Recognize common challenges and identify effective solutions for building resilient OER project teams.
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Jared Eusea

Assistant Professor of Nathematics, River Parishes Community College
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Amelia Brister

LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
MW

Michael Waller

Government Documents & Applied and Natural Sciences Librarian, Louisiana Tech University
JW
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Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V3
  Concurrent Session (40 min)

10:00am EDT

Mix-and-Match Modular OER: From Concept to Campus-Wide Implementation
Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V5
What if the gap between instructor autonomy and institutional consistency didn't have to be a compromise?

This session tells the story of modular OER in action — from framework to failed pitch to campus-wide adoption. Melissa Williams will introduce Minnesota State's mix-and-match model, where discrete learning modules snap together like building blocks, giving instructors creative freedom while preserving shared outcomes. Christine Rickabaugh will then share how she brought this model to a first-year seminar at the University of Arkansas- 160+ sections, one very flat initial pitch, a two-week about face, and an iterative OER creation structure that actually stuck.

They'll show what lives in the space between top-down mandates and every-instructor-for-themselves: a scalable, sustainable, instructor-owned approach to OER that works across platforms and contexts. You'll leave with a transferable framework and the kind of honest, hard-won lessons that only come from doing it together.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Design modular OER content that supports instructor customization while preserving shared learning outcomes and assessment.
  • Identify key components of a governance and maintenance plan for multi-section courses using customizable OER modules.
  • Apply strategies for building stakeholder buy-in for modular OER adoption.
  • Outline an implementation pathway for adapting the mix-and-match approach to their own institutional context.
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avatar for Christine Rickabaugh

Christine Rickabaugh

Open Education Librarian, University of Arkansas Libraries
Christine Rickabaugh is a former early childhood educator who traded crayons and glitter for Pressbooks and Creative Commons licenses — and hasn't looked back. Now the Open Education Librarian at the University of Arkansas Libraries, she leads the university's OER program, chairs... Read More →
MW
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Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V5
  Concurrent Session (40 min)

10:00am EDT

The Open Nebraska (ONE) List: Developing a System of Academic and Publishing Authority Tags for OER
Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V1
This session shares the ONE List, a tagging framework developed at the University of Nebraska Omaha to make visible the authority signals often missing from OER discovery systems: author credentials, publisher type, editorial oversight, revision history, accessibility features, and more. Grounded in information literacy and the ACRL frame “Authority Is Constructed and Contextual," this project aims to develop an objective system for categorizing OER according to standard notions of publishing authority through application of relevant metadata. This provides potential faculty adopters with ready markers of publishing authority when scanning for materials. The session will also discuss a newer phase of the work: investigating the feasibility of AI assistants in a human-in-the-loop workflow to assist with tagging while preserving transparency, evidence, and librarian review. Attendees will leave with a practical model for improving OER discoverability, trust, and adoption support.

It is not claimed that this system should be the primary method for categorizing and recommending OER to potential adopters, nor that traditional notions of publishing authority are the exclusive qualifiers of potential source quality. Rather, this presents a way to promote objective categorization, address common adopter concerns, reward the existence of still-important publishing attributes, and ultimately improve the toolkits we use in adoption and promotion.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify common metadata gaps that may be initial barriers to OER adoption.
  • Describe how an objective tagging attribute framework can surface markers of academic authority.
  • Apply fundamental information literacy tenets to OER discovery and selection.
  • Adapt key elements of the ONE List model to local OER, library, or instructional design workflows.
  • Evaluate the benefits and limits of using human-in-the-loop AI to support metadata creation in open education settings (this portion of the project is still in-progress).
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SF
YD
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Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
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  Concurrent Session (40 min)

10:40am EDT

Break (20 min)
Thursday October 29, 2026 10:40am - 11:00am EDT
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Thursday October 29, 2026 10:40am - 11:00am EDT
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11:00am EDT

Day 3 Keynote
Thursday October 29, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
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Thursday October 29, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
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  Keynote

12:20pm EDT

Breakout (Keynote Debrief)
Thursday October 29, 2026 12:20pm - 1:00pm EDT
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Thursday October 29, 2026 12:20pm - 1:00pm EDT
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1:00pm EDT

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Thursday October 29, 2026 1:00pm - 1:15pm EDT
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Thursday October 29, 2026 1:00pm - 1:15pm EDT
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1:15pm EDT

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Navigating Policy Barriers to Open Values and Practices
Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
V4
From “equitable access” models to anti-DEI mandates and limited infrastructure funding, navigating policy barriers to Open Education Practices (OEP) while working to sustain engagement and increase adoption is challenging work.

Drawing on a statewide student textbook survey, an institutional faculty survey, and practitioner experiences, this session highlights tensions between affordability, access, academic freedom, and student choice.

A case study examines how the implementation of a campus-funded “equitable access” program dampened advocacy for, adoption of, and engagement with OEP. While often framed as affordability solutions, these programs can create structural and political barriers for OER advocacy, particularly when institutions constrain messaging tied to bookstore partnerships.

Participants will reflect on how context shapes OER work and engage in discussion about navigating different types of policy constraints.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Interpret a case study on student and faculty perspectives on cost, access, and course materials.
  • Reflect on the ways institutional context shapes OER work.
  • Consider potential approaches for navigating barriers to OER engagement.
  • Engage in discussion with peers about these issues.
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KS
BL
LH
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Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
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1:15pm EDT

Dive Into the Warp: The Need for Standard Operating Procedures in OER Programs
Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
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Every day, we hit warp speed. Every day, we forget what it means to warp. If Open Education programs want to survive, our captains need to stare into The Warp, the Immaterium, the Unspace: The Space Between.

The early years of open education management included what many leaders called "building the plane as we flew it." Open Education organizations and initiatives were assembled for pilot projects like grant programs or workshops - sometimes built solely around the existence of funding or an idea for one event. As OE programs mature, what used to be "the plane" now travels faster than light. But do we know enough about how we travel? Do we understand what it means to warp?

Through the cosmic lenses of Star Trek, Warhammer 40K, and Adrian Tchaikovsky, Jeff will take you through the sometimes-painful creation of an open Standard Operating Procedures document and how this practice could help build transparency and ethical automation into the fundamental processes that make Open happen.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify standard definitions and explain their open education programs within these terms.
  • Adapt and create a Standard Operating Procedures document for their own open education program.
  • Build accessibility into existing processes and target accessibility-by-default in both publishing and work procedures.
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JG
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Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
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1:15pm EDT

From Inception to Practice: Developing Open and Inclusive Education Resources
Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
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This session will tell the story of how a series of accessible open education resources were developed and how the project helped inform ways educators practice inclusion and accessibility. In 2024-2025, the English Language Arts Network of Ontario (ELAN) developed a series of over 30 resources to support teachers in implementing the Grades 1 to 9 English Language Arts curriculum in Ontario, Canada. This story will be told by classroom teachers, curriculum leaders, resource developers, designers, and accessibility specialists. The session will trace the project from its inception to the use of the resources in the classroom. Presenters will share critical points in the process as well as the “spaces” in between that helped reshape and reposition previously held ideas about learning resources.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe the accessibility features built into a set of resources (Accessible authoring practices).
  • Understand how to make OERs more inclusive and accessible for both educators and learners.
  • Access to a website containing a library of downloadable ELAN Ontario OERs that support the provincial curriculum. OERs include lesson plans and monographs authored to be accessible for a diversity of educators and learners.
  • Gain insights into how decisions at each stage may impact accessibility and inclusion downstream.
  • Understand how teachers are using the resources to support student learning and professional learning.
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BW
LL
CW
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Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
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1:15pm EDT

OER Developers’ Perspectives on Creating Mathematics Visuals With GenAI
Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
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This presentation shares preliminary findings from an ongoing research project on OER developers’ needs, preferences, and practices in generating mathematics visuals for curriculum materials using GenAI tools. Drawing on interviews from ten mathematics OER developers, the study explores how visual production workflows are evolving in response to emerging technologies. Early analysis suggests that developers increasingly adopt hybrid workflows that combine traditional design tools with AI support, using iterative processes to refine visual accuracy and pedagogical alignment. Findings highlight the advantages of AI in streamlining visual development while also identifying challenges related to the accuracy and accessibility of AI-generated content. Additional time is needed to present emerging findings, illustrate visual development workflows, and discuss practical recommendations from developers to support the responsible AI integration in mathematics OER development.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe key needs and preferences of OER developers regarding the generation of mathematics visuals in curriculum materials.
  • Identify common practices and hybrid workflows used by developers when generating mathematics visuals using generative AI tools.
  • Explain the advantages and challenges of using generative AI for mathematics visual development.
  • Describe practical recommendations from developers regarding AI tool development and integration to support a sustainable content development environment for OER developers.
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avatar for Virginia Clinton-Lisell

Virginia Clinton-Lisell

Associate Professor, University of North Dakota
Dr. Virginia Clinton-Lisell began her career in education as an ESL teacher in New York City. She then obtained her PhD in Educational Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science at the University of Minnesota where she was trained in educational research. She has published over... Read More →
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Candace Walkington

Southern Methodist University
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Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
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1:15pm EDT

Publish and Publicize: How to Help Your Open Textbook Find Its Audience
Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
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Many authors spend months or years laboring over their open textbooks and find themselves faced with a similar challenge: how to get their book in front of the audience it was written for.

In this session, we’ll help first-time and experienced authors and publishers understand simple but effective things that they can do to ensure their publications find the audiences they were designed for. We'll cover how to add and improve your book's metadata, and how to add publications to institutional repositories, search engines, indexes, and popular open directories. We’ll discuss how to generate metadata exports that can be ingested in library catalogues and other discovery platforms. Finally, we'll share practical advice about promoting your published books, including tips for reaching a wider audience through email, online communities, social media and more. No matter what publishing platform you use, you'll leave with actionable next steps for increasing your books' visibility and impact.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • (1) evaluate and improve the quality of their book's metadata to improve its discoverability.
  • (2) identify key indexes and directories for OER submission.
  • (3) apply a practical promotion strategy to help their publications reach wider audiences and more potential adopters.
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Cheryl Casey

Open Education Librarian, University of Arizona
Cheryl Casey has led OER initiatives at the University of Arizona since 2014. She’s active in the OER community as a trainer for the Open Education Network (OEN) and one of the instructors for the OEN's Certificate in Open Education Librarianship. She holds a a Master’s in Library... Read More →
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Thursday October 29, 2026 1:15pm - 1:55pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Accessibility Across Areas: Navigating Disciplinary Tensions in OER
Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
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While the benefits of Open Educational Resources (OER) are often touted as universal, the practical reality of implementation is deeply shaped by disciplinary boundaries. This panel explores the messy, productive intersections of OER across diverse departments, moving beyond "one-size-fits-all" narratives to examine how field-specific needs dictate success.



The panelists will share how they developed and implemented OER in their specific disciplines (Library Science, French, Communication, and Sociology) and which insights they gained through interdisciplinary collaboration. Rather than just showcasing success stories, presenters will also highlight the tensions inherent in different assessment strategies, curriculum decisions, and student expectations.



Attendees will gain a look at the cross-departmental collaboration process, focusing on the "friction points" where OER meets specialized academic requirements.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identifyspecific disciplinary friction points that influence the adoption and adaptation of Open Educational Resources across diverse fields.
  • Analyze how unique assessment strategies and curricular requirements in fields like French or Sociologynecessitatedifferent OER structures.
  • Develop strategies for fostering interdisciplinary collaborations that respect the pedagogical nuances of different academic departments.
  • Evaluate the impact of student expectations regarding "authoritative" versus "open" texts within their own specific academic context.
  • Navigatecommon tensions in OER implementation by applying lessons learned from the cross-departmental development process.
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TV

Tanja Vierrether

Rollins College
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NG
JJ
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Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
V3
  Concurrent Session (55 min)

2:00pm EDT

Beyond Tech vs. Content: Articulating the Public Interest in AI Policy
Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
V4
Public debate continues to rage over AI policy - the economic, technical, and legal regulation of AI tool creation and use. These debates, however, reduce the interests down to a balancing of the interest and demands of the content industry with the interests and demands of the technology industry. Neither of those interests align particularly closely with the interests of users, and of public interest institutions including libraries, educational institutions, and the populations they serve.

The members of the panel will discuss what issues define the public interest as distinct from both of these corporate interests - working from the experience of the open education community as both committed to the public interest and engaged with new technologies. We will cover interests including accessibility, transparency, due process, interoperability, and surveillance - focusing on implementation choices made by institutions and educators with an open pedagogy framework.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Better understand the way specific choices in AI implementation will affect open pedagogy goals, including student centeredness and student agency.
  • Advocate for the interests of public institutions in the AI policy debate.
  • Contribute to the exploration of emerging interests as AI policy is made at institutional and legal levels.
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MJ
WC
KD
JR
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Panel (55 min)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
V4
  Concurrent Session (55 min)

2:00pm EDT

From Silos to Shared Strategy: K-12 and Higher Ed OER in Conversation
Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
V2
Open education often lives in the “space between”—but one of the least examined divides is between K–12 and higher education. Why have these OER ecosystems largely developed in parallel, and what would it take to align them toward a shared national agenda?

This interactive panel brings state leaders into conversation across sectors to surface the tensions and opportunities at that boundary. K–12 OER is shaped by standards alignment, district adoption, and system-level funding, while higher ed centers faculty autonomy and affordability. Where do these models clash—and where might they connect?

Panelists will engage the audience in tackling shared challenges—accessibility, sustainability, awareness, and responsible AI use—while exploring practical points of alignment, from pre-service teacher preparation to dual enrollment course design. The goal: move beyond comparison to identify where collaboration is necessary, and possible.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify key policy and practice differences shaping OER in K–12 and higher education.
  • Examine why these systems have evolved in parallel—and where alignment is emerging or possible.
  • Compare state and organizational strategies for sustaining OER across distinct governance and funding models.
  • Explore shared challenges across sectors.
  • Apply cross-sector insights to opportunities such as pre-service teacher preparation and dual enrollment.
  • Engage in dialogue to identify practical strategies for building a more connected, national OER agenda.
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avatar for Barbara Soots

Barbara Soots

OER and Instructional Materials Program Manager, Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
In her role as Assistant Director, Open Education and Instructional Materials, at the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) in Washington, Barbara Soots implements state legislation directing collection of K‚Äì12 OER resources aligned to state learning standards... Read More →
RL
RH
AM
AE
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Panel (55 min)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
V2
  Concurrent Session (55 min)

2:00pm EDT

Launching Skills: Open Education’s Role in the Future of Work
Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
V1
As education shifts toward skills-based learning and credentials, a critical question emerges: what lies in the space between open education and workforce-aligned recognition? This panel explores that space where values of openness intersect with the growing demand for verifiable, skills-based credentials. Panelists from community colleges, universities, and international open education leadership will share perspectives on how open practices can support more transparent, equitable pathways to employment.

Through a high-level demonstration of a microcredential authoring platform and a real-world use case, the Open Financial Services Essentials project, attendees will see how open, skills-based content can be designed, validated, and recognized. Grounded in practice and policy, this session invites participants to consider how we can bridge the gaps between learning and work, and reimagine what is possible when openness meets skills.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Articulate the relationship between open education and skills-based credentials within evolving workforce ecosystems.
  • Describe how open practices can support more equitable and transparent pathways from learning to employment.
  • Connect policy, practice, and technology to advance open, skills-based credentialing initiatives.
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Kevin Corcoran

Assistant Vice Provost, University of Central Florida
Kevin Corcoran is the Assistant Vice Provost of the Center for Distributed Learning. Kevin has over 25 years of experience in the development and support of strategies for the effective use of digital learning tools and content that focuses on quality standards and practices, student... Read More →
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Amanda Coolidge

VP, Strategic Engagement and Growth, Pressbooks
Amanda Coolidge is VP of Strategic Engagement and Growth at Pressbooks, where she leads marketing, sales, and customer success and serves as product manager for the company's microcredential platform. She is the founder of Coolidge Collaborative and former Executive Director of BCcampus... Read More →
LY
TM
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Panel (55 min)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
V1
  Concurrent Session (55 min)

3:00pm EDT

An Open Competency Framework to Recognize the Skills and Knowledge of Open Education Professionals
Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V1
People working in open education develop their knowledge and skills in open education in a range of ways. While some may take formal courses or training, often it is built through hands-on projects, the day-to-day work, and peer relationships. As such, BCcampus is working to develop a Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) framework for open education, a process to evaluate and provide formal recognition for the skills, knowledge, and experience gained through work, volunteer, and life experiences. This session discusses why BCcampus is pursuing a PLAR approach to recognition and badging, and shares the openly licensed competency and assessment frameworks being developed.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain the purpose of PLAR and its value for open education practitioners;.
  • Describe competencies that enable open education work in a post-secondary context;.
  • Identify flexible methods and options for demonstrating competencies; and.
  • Understand the assessment framework for evaluating mastery of competencies.
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JG
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Presentation (25 min)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V1
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

3:00pm EDT

Authenticity by Design: A Business Spanish OER Case Study in Spanish for Specific Purposes
Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V5
This short presentation examines the instructional decisions involved in the creation of an OER for Spanish for Business Professionals at the University of Kentucky. Authenticity serves as a core principle in these decisions, as it lies at the intersection of OER practice, instructional design, and second language acquisition. Using this Business Spanish resource as a case study, the presentation will discuss its planning, development, and classroom implementation, showing how these choices are informed by instructional design and learning theories. It will also explore how authentic materials, meaningful tasks, and real-world professional contexts are integrated into the resource to support relevant and transferable learning, and it will reflect on possible next steps for further improvement.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain how OER, instructional design, and second language acquisition inform one another.
  • Evaluate the role of authenticity in the design of second language learning materials.
  • Analyze how learner needs and instructional context influence OER development.
  • Apply practical principles for planning and developing OER in higher education.
  • Identify transferable strategies for revising and improving openly licensed teaching materials.
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JF
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Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V5
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

3:00pm EDT

Beyond Download Counts: Using Coefficient of Variation to Assess OER Program Health
Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V4
Normalizing usage data through coefficient of variation analysis makes meaningful comparison actionable, revealing whether reach is genuinely broad or concentrated, and whether engagement is sustained or episodic. Understanding variability is fundamental to improvement science in education, providing critical insights into the health of the systems we create. Drawing on data from a library-led OER initiative at MD Anderson Cancer Center, the presenter will demonstrate how CV analysis reveals patterns that aggregate counts obscure, including whether usage concentrates in a handful of countries, whether a small number of resources dominate downloads, and whether engagement is sustained or episodic over time.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain why coefficient of variation analysis provides diagnostic value for evaluating OER program health.
  • Distinguish between geographic, content, and temporal dimensions of OER variability and what each reveals about program reach and engagement.
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Clara Fowler

Director, Research Medical Library, The UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Presentation (25 min)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V4
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

3:00pm EDT

Filling the Space Between: A Statewide OER Journey Across Nevada
Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V3
What begins with a single conversation can transform an entire system. This session traces how the College of Southern Nevada sparked a statewide open education movement — one relationship at a time.

Early outreach to sister institutions across the Nevada System of Higher Education grew into monthly cross-campus collaborations, bringing together faculty, librarians, and administrators from Las Vegas to Reno. What once felt like vast distance began to shrink.

Those community-driven connections laid the groundwork for a statewide OER symposium, bringing Nevada's higher education community together for the first time — and that momentum carried forward into policy, culminating in NSHE's commitment to expanding access to zero-cost and low-cost course materials systemwide.

If you're working in isolation or looking to build bridges across your state system, Nevada's story offers a practical roadmap for turning grassroots energy into lasting impact.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify strategies for initiating cross-institutional OER collaborations within a state higher education system.
  • Describe how consistent community building and monthly convenings can advance a statewide open education agenda.
  • Recognize the role of grassroots faculty and staff efforts in driving systemic policy change around course material affordability.
  • Apply lessons from Nevada's statewide OER journey to develop or expand open education initiatives at their own institution.
  • Articulate the connection between statewide OER coordination and improved student access to zero-cost and low-cost course materials.
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avatar for Gracie McDonough

Gracie McDonough

Reference/Instruction/OER Librarian, College of Southern Nevada
Gracie McDonough serves as a Lead Librarian at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. Since joining CSN, she has been a dedicated advocate for Open Educational Resources (OER), contributing to a significant increase in institutional OER adoption from less than 3% to over 22... Read More →
OE
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Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V3
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

3:00pm EDT

From AI Disclosure to Human Declaration: Centring Human Authorship in OER Creation
Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V2
As AI tools become increasingly common in OER creation, the question is no longer whether authors use them — it's how to disclose that use honestly and transparently.

The KPU AI Declaration Framework for OER Creation takes a human-centred approach, asking not "what did AI do?" but "what was the relationship between the author and AI?" The framework adapts Kari D. Weaver's AID Framework for OER contexts, identifying ten categories of activity relevant to publishing projects. It incorporates the Me & My Machine labels — adapted for a North American context — to capture the spectrum from fully independent human creation to AI-generated content, making human effort and creative direction visible even where AI plays a significant role.

A self-assessment rubric, interactive rubric tool, and Pressbooks front matter template support authors in building their own declaration statement. While developed for OER, the framework applies to any resource creation project.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe the KPU AI Declaration Framework for OER Creation — including its categories, label system, and self-assessment rubric —and identify how it differs from existing approaches to AI disclosure.
  • Determine whether and how a human-centred approach to AI disclosure might be implemented in their own institutional or publishing context.
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Amanda Grey

Open Education Strategist, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Amanda Grey, MLIS, is the Open Education Strategist at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in British Columbia, Canada. Over the past several years, she has worked across the full spectrum of open education practice, supporting educators in textbook affordability, OER adoption and... Read More →
KM
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Presentation (25 min)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
V2
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

3:30pm EDT

Closing
Thursday October 29, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
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Thursday October 29, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
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  Keynote

4:00pm EDT

A Brave Choice: Zero-Textbook Cost at CCA or You’re Already Doing the Work
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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In unveiling the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan for the Division of Academic Success as CCA, we were presented with 5 “Brave Choices” or goals to focus on. The first Brave Choice is to “embrace ZTC pathways in our top 10 transfer programs and in our 15 highest-enrollment gateway courses.” This seemed like a formidable ask, until we ran the numbers. Sifting through the data, we discovered that CCA a) already has ZTC pathways for 3 degrees, b) we’re making good progress on all the degrees impacted by this goal, and c) 10 out of 15 of the highest-enrolled GT courses are OER! This lightning talk describes the ways the OER team at CCA gathered, sorted through, and distributed this data, showing attendees how they can do the same at their institutions to visualize the progress toward their Open goals.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Participants will.
  • Understand how their institutions are already building Zero-Textbook Cost pathways.
  • Understand what data to gather when tracking goals related to Open.
  • Leave inspired to run the numbers and track their own Open progress.
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AP
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Lightning talks are short, pre-recorded videos that can be viewed anytime during the conference. Most lightning talks are released a week early and will remain available after the conference. Don't miss this incredible collection of quick takes!
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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  Lightning Talk

4:00pm EDT

Amplifying Open at the Intersection of Science and Education
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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This lightning talk will introduce the Open Education Ecosystems Research Coordination Network (OEE-RCN) and highlight our work at the intersection of open science and open education. We are a diverse community of open science service providers, education reform projects, professional communities, open education specialists, and teaching faculty. The integration of open science resources (data, protocols, tools, collaborative spaces, publications) with open education practices has the potential to transform undergraduate STEM education. The goals of this project include surveying the landscape at the intersection of open science and open education to highlight emerging opportunities and identify barriers to adoption. We are currently seeking partnerships with projects, organizations, and individuals interested in joining the conversation to catalyze adoption of open practices in science classrooms. https://oee.qubeshub.org

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Gain familiarity with the Open Education Ecosystem project.
  • Find additional information about how to collaborate with the OEE-RCN.
  • Recognize some of the opportunities and challenges associated with working to integrate open science and education.
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SD
DL
DR
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Lightning talks are short, pre-recorded videos that can be viewed anytime during the conference. Most lightning talks are released a week early and will remain available after the conference. Don't miss this incredible collection of quick takes!
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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  Lightning Talk

4:00pm EDT

Between Us: Open Educational Practices as a Bridge Between Classrooms and Families
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Open education is often discussed in terms of cost and access, but its greatest impact may be relational. This session explores how open educational practices can bridge the space between classrooms and families by fostering transparency, accessibility, and shared ownership of learning. Across K–12 settings, educators can use openly licensed resources, adaptable learning tools, and transparent communication practices to strengthen family partnerships and reduce barriers to engagement. Participants will explore practical, scalable strategies for making learning more inclusive and collaborative beyond the school day. Whether you are new to open education or looking to deepen your practice, this session will offer concrete ideas for connecting school and home through openness.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Articulate how open educational practices extend beyond affordability to support relational equity between classrooms and families.
  • Identify common barriers that limit family engagement and explain how open practices can reduce those barriers across K–12 contexts.
  • Apply a three-pillar framework (transparency, accessibility, partnership) to evaluate or redesign their own instructional practices.
  • Design at least one adaptable, openly shared strategy to strengthen family-school connections in their educational setting.
  • Critically reflect on the opportunities and challenges of implementing open practices in diverse educational environments.
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LM
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Lightning talks are short, pre-recorded videos that can be viewed anytime during the conference. Most lightning talks are released a week early and will remain available after the conference. Don't miss this incredible collection of quick takes!
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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  Lightning Talk

4:00pm EDT

Beyond “Yes-Man” AI: Solving Spatial Scarcity & Algorithmic Bias for Marginalized Learners in India
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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While Open Education (OE) focuses on digital access, it often ignores the physical and cognitive realities of learners in the Global South. This session presents a case study from the PragatiSankalp India Foundation in Nashik, Maharashtra, addressing two barriers: "Spatial Scarcity" and "Algorithmic Sycophancy."

Grounded in Ambedkarite philosophy, we share findings from socio-economic surveys of 600+ residents in Bhim Nagar. We identify how high-density housing creates a physical barrier to learning, solved by our "Bodh Saksham Study Hall"—a physical open-infrastructure hub.

We also tackle the cognitive risk of AI in OE. We demonstrate how AI "sycophancy", the tendency for models to prioritize agreement over truth, harms first-generation learners. We propose "Intentional Role Prompting" as a pedagogical tool to turn AI from a "yes-man" into a constructive mentor. Attendees will learn a scalable model for bridging the gap between digital openness and physical/ethical access.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Define "Spatial Scarcity" and identify it as a critical barrier to the use of Open Educational Resources in high-density urban environments.
  • Apply "Intentional Role Prompting" techniques to mitigate AI sycophancy and encourage critical thinking in student-AI interactions.
  • Describe the "Open Infrastructure" model for community learning centers that combine physical safety with ethical digital guardrails.
  • Utilize localized socio-economic data to advocate for interdisciplinary safety standards in open education.
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SS
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Lightning talks are short, pre-recorded videos that can be viewed anytime during the conference. Most lightning talks are released a week early and will remain available after the conference. Don't miss this incredible collection of quick takes!
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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  Lightning Talk

4:00pm EDT

Beyond Anecdotes: Building a Data Dashboard for Open Education Initiatives
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Last year, Texas A&M University Libraries' OpenEd department launched a data dashboard to track, visualize, and communicate the impact of our OER initiatives across campus. This lightning talk will showcase how the dashboard aggregates data on course adoptions, student savings, and enrollment figures to tell a compelling story about open education's value. We'll share the technical approach, data sources, design decisions, and lessons learned from developing this public-facing tool. Attendees will see real examples of how quantitative evidence can support OER advocacy, demonstrate institutional commitment, and identify growth opportunities. Whether you're just starting to track OER impact or looking to enhance existing assessment practices, this lightning talk will provide practical insights into making your open education data work harder for your program, and how transparent reporting can build stakeholder trust and support for continued investment in open education initiatives.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify data points that effectively communicate the impact of your open education initiatives to various stakeholders.
  • Explain how transparent data visualization can support OER advocacy and institutional buy-in.
  • Apply lessons learned from Texas A&M University's experience to enhance your own institution's impact assessment practices.
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Lindsey Todorovich

Open Education Librarian, Texas A&M University
Lindsey Todorovich works as an Open Education Librarian at Texas A&M University, where she manages the OpenEd department’s data dashboard. Her work supports evidence-based decision making, strategic outreach initiatives, and efforts to advance course affordability across campus... Read More →
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Lightning talks are short, pre-recorded videos that can be viewed anytime during the conference. Most lightning talks are released a week early and will remain available after the conference. Don't miss this incredible collection of quick takes!
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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  Lightning Talk

4:00pm EDT

Bridging Access and Practice: Designing a Fully OER Course for Real-World Impact
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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What does it take to move from the idea of open education to meaningful, accessible practice? This lightning talk shares the design and implementation of a fully OER undergraduate course built to meet the needs of a diverse student population requiring free, virtual, and accessible materials. Drawing from a curated collection of open resources and high-quality instructional materials (HQIM), the course not only removed cost barriers but also introduced students to a range of tools they can access in their future classrooms.

This session explores the intentional decisions behind selecting, organizing, and integrating OER and HQIM to bridge the space between access and application. Attendees will gain insight into how exposure to multiple high-quality, openly available resources can empower future educators to make informed, equitable instructional choices.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe key considerations when designing a fully OER course for accessibility and equity.
  • Identify strategies for integrating multiple HQIM within an OER framework.
  • Explain how exposure to diverse open resources supports pre-service teacher development.
  • Apply practical approaches to bridging the gap between open access and instructional practice.
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SS
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Lightning talks are short, pre-recorded videos that can be viewed anytime during the conference. Most lightning talks are released a week early and will remain available after the conference. Don't miss this incredible collection of quick takes!
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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  Lightning Talk

4:00pm EDT

Bridging the Gap Between Learning and Contributing: Women in Open Knowledge
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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This session shares a grassroots initiative in Indonesia that empowers women to move from learning to contributing in open knowledge platforms. Through the SheSaid 2025 campaign, participants were introduced to Wikimedia projects such as Wikiquote and Wikimedia Commons, as well as basic Creative Commons licensing. Through hands-on activities, they created quote posters using openly licensed images and learned to share knowledge responsibly. This session highlights the “space between” learning and active contribution, demonstrating how open education can bridge gaps in participation and representation, particularly for women in digital knowledge spaces. The strategies used in this initiative—combining training, mentorship, and hands-on contribution opportunities—can also be adapted to other open education and community-based learning contexts beyond Wikimedia.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Understand how open education initiatives can empower women in underrepresented communities.
  • Identify strategies to bridge the gap between learning and active contribution in Wikimedia projects.
  • Apply basic Creative Commons licensing in creating and sharing open content.
  • Recognize the impact of community-based programs such as SheSaid in increasing women’s participation in open knowledge.
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Lightning talks are short, pre-recorded videos that can be viewed anytime during the conference. Most lightning talks are released a week early and will remain available after the conference. Don't miss this incredible collection of quick takes!
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Bridging the Space Between: Using AI and UDL to Open Access in Higher Education
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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The space between traditional course design and truly open, accessible education is where too many students get lost. This session presents a practical framework for using generative AI through a Universal Design for Learning lens to close that gap — making course materials more flexible, inclusive, and openly adaptable. Drawing on real examples from economics and finance courses at Berklee College of Music, participants will see how AI tools can help faculty move from rigid, one-size-fits-all content toward open educational practices that meet every learner where they are. Three key takeaways: (1) How UDL principles function as a prompting framework for AI-assisted course design; (2) A replicable workflow for creating openly adaptable course materials using AI; (3) Strategies transferable across disciplines and institution types.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain how UDL principles function as a framework for open, AI-assisted course design.
  • Use generative AI to create or adapt course materials that reflect open educational practices.
  • Identify at least two strategies for moving their own courses toward greater accessibility and openness.
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FG
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Lightning talks are short, pre-recorded videos that can be viewed anytime during the conference. Most lightning talks are released a week early and will remain available after the conference. Don't miss this incredible collection of quick takes!
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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  Lightning Talk

4:00pm EDT

Building a Foundation for an OER Badge
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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The course badge was designed to educate students from San Antonio College about open educational textbooks/resources. After many redesigns, over a span of two years, it has grown to be a badge available for anyone (students, faculty, staff). It is now an advocacy tool to give a foundation component to open educational practices and resources.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Develop a sample course map relating to the course badge.
  • Describe the process of creating a course badge.
  • Utilize the badge as a gateway for open advocacy.
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BC
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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

Lightning talks are short, pre-recorded videos that can be viewed anytime during the conference. Most lightning talks are released a week early and will remain available after the conference. Don't miss this incredible collection of quick takes!
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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  Lightning Talk

4:00pm EDT

Co-DREAM OER: An End of Project Update on Innovative STEM Open Resources
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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In 2021, Co-DREAM OER, a multi-institutional project to develop 9 innovative open textbooks and interactive ancillary materials on robotics, mechatronics and advanced manufacturing for the associates, bachelor's and graduate levels, received a $2 million US Department of Education’s Open Textbook grant. In 2026 the project is near completion. This presentation introduces all the works of the project and discusses the critical gaps in STEM OER that they fill. It also discusses the many features that they contain to support the learning needs of all learners, which includes availability in print and online format, ability to be used online and offline, the inclusion of multimedia resources, such as videos, interactive simulations and animations, programming packages, and well as compliance to WCAG 2.1 AA standards. The presentation concludes with a discussion of the first implementation of the books, as well as attempts to build a community who can improve and sustain them over time.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Learn the purpose of the Co-DREAM project and the important gaps in OER that its textbooks fill.
  • Identify the benefits of new textbooks produced by the project, the types of institutions, courses, and programs they are designed for and the innovative features they contain.
  • Discover how the accessibility and other features of the books meet the needs of a variety of learners.
  • Hear about the project's efforts to build a community of users by having a small group of faculty conduct a trial implementation of each textbook.
  • Describe the educational research being conducted to assess the impact of the textbooks.
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Yang Wu

Open Resources Librarian, Clemson University Libraries
Yang Wu, Open Resources Librarian at Clemson University, South Carolina is a OER specialist with experience in many types of Open Education activities. He served on several major OER organizations, including the Open Education Network Steering Committee and OpenEd Conference Advisory... Read More →
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Lightning talks are short, pre-recorded videos that can be viewed anytime during the conference. Most lightning talks are released a week early and will remain available after the conference. Don't miss this incredible collection of quick takes!
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Cultivating Open Education in Austria: Designing and Accrediting an OER Training Programme
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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This lightening talk examines key competences required for creating Open Educational Resources (OERs). For this, it presents the modular OER training programme at the University of Graz (Austria) and explains how this programme is embedded into the university’s OER strategy.

The OER training programme consists of three components: a self-study course on Moodle, a base module with four webinars, and a qualification module in which participants create and publish three new OERs. Successful completion leads to the certificate “OER Practitioner”, awarded by the Austrian association “Forum for New Media in Teaching Austria”. The accredited pedagogical concept is openly accessible on the University of Graz OER repository.

The talk argues that such structured professional development programmes are crucial for enabling teachers to implement Open Education sustainably in their teaching and it seeks to inspire participants to reflect on and further develop their own OER skills.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • … explain the value of OER competences (such as copyright expertise, quality assurance, pedagogical design) for higher education institutions and their teachers.
  • … understand the structure and components of the modular OER training programme and consider how it could be adapted or transferred into their own institutional contexts.
  • … reflect on their own OER competences and the relevance for their teaching.
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NL
KN
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Curating the Space Between: Student-Created Virtual Galleries Using OER
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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In this presentation, I will explore how student-created virtual galleries can occupy the “space between” access and creation in Art and Art History education. Using Open Educational Resources (OER), students move beyond passive viewing to become curators, interpreters, and creators of visual culture, a more active space where we want students to be. Students will also learn how to see and understand broader visual culture as well.

During this session, participants will learn how to facilitate an environment where they move beyond their typical role as a passive observer to actively design virtual exhibitions that explore narratives, construct themes, or challenge traditional art and cultural narratives. Students will use OER materials for this project, including open source images and virtual presentation platforms. The resulting virtual galleries exist in the “space between” the museum and the classroom and the student and the curator.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Create adaptable project ideas that promote student agency, equitable access to art, and multifaceted engagement with Art, Art History, and Visual Culture.
  • Construct and share OER materials based on designing virtual gallery exhibitions where students can become curators.
  • Develop multiple ways in which students can move from passive observers to active participants in the art world.
  • Apply strategies for guiding students in selecting, interpreting, and contextualizing artworks within a thematic exhibition.
  • Integrate digital tools (e.g., website builders or virtual exhibit platforms) to facilitate accessible and engaging student exhibitions.
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GL
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Designing an Open Tutorial for Accessible Lecture Capture Using Embedded Audio Description
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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This session presents the design, pilot testing, and dissemination of an open tutorial that trains faculty to integrate embedded audio description (AD) into lecture capture videos. Grounded in digital accessibility and universal design principles, the tutorial positions AD as an extension of existing teaching and recording practices rather than an added burden. Beyond improving accessibility for learners with disabilities, the session argues that targeted training in accessible multimedia production can substantially enhance the overall quality, clarity, and usability of OER video content. Data from a pre–post study—including survey outcomes and think-aloud reflections—will illustrate changes in faculty knowledge, self-efficacy, and implementation intentions. The tutorial will be released as a Creative Commons–licensed OER, enabling broad reuse and adaptation.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe the role of embedded audio description in enhancing accessibility of lecture capture videos.
  • Explain how accessible multimedia practices can improve the overall quality of OER artifacts.
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AA
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Do Open Textbook Grants Reach Students Who Need Them Most?
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Do Open Textbook Grants Reach Students Who Need Them Most?

This session presents the first cross-institutional evaluation of the U.S. Open Textbooks Pilot (OTP) program, examining whether federal OER investments translate into measurable student outcomes and reach the highest-need institutions. Using College Scorecard, IPEDS, and American Community Survey data, we employ propensity score matching, panel difference-in-differences, event-study diagnostics, and empirical-Bayes benchmarking to compare 12 OTP grantees against matched controls. Results show a significant 6.9 percentage-point completion rate increase at four-year grantees (p = .044), with null debt effects. However, the grantee pool is concentrated in the four-year sector with a mean Pell rate below the national median, revealing a persistent gap between federal investment and realized equity impact -- the space between policy intent and student benefit.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain the difference between course-level OER evidence and institution-level OER policy evaluation.
  • Describe how matched comparison and panel methods can be used to study open education initiatives.
  • Identify the main findings of this evaluation of the Open Textbooks Pilot program.
  • Assess how competitive grant design may shape who benefits from open education funding.
  • Consider policy and implementation strategies for making OER investment more equitable.
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IM
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Don’t I Know You?: Re-Designing Open Programming for the Space Between
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Open Education programming often favors the familiar, but curiosity and connection can take us somewhere meaningful and new.

This talk explores what happens when we treat programming not as event planning, but as relationship-building. It highlights how curiosity, informal conversations, and community feedback can lead to more inclusive and responsive programming. I’ll share two experimental formats shaped by this philosophy: 1) From the Field, and 2) Open Exchange – both designed to create space for dialogue, not just delivery.

Working in “the space between” means making room for new perspectives, unexpected connections, and the kind of conversations that don’t always fit neatly into a traditional webinar format, but matter just the same. This is an invitation to consider not just what we share, but who we make space for, how we design it, and who we might become as a result.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Reframe programming as relationship-building, understanding how curiosity, informal conversations, and community feedback can guide more responsive and inclusive programming.
  • Apply design strategies for dialogue, recognizing how experimental formats, like unrecorded peer discussions, can create safe spaces for candid conversations and richer engagement.
  • Explore how intentionally designing for connection and new perspectives can enhance the impact of Open Education efforts.
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HB
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Embedding Openness and Flexibility for Adaptive Schooling in K-12 Education: Pathways & Constraints
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Openness and flexibility remain insufficiently integrated in mainstream K–12 education, even though several of their elements are already visible in fragmented forms. This session examines how principles and practices of open education may be meaningfully integrated into school education, while also recognizing the pedagogical, structural, and administrative constraints that shape such possibilities. Situated in the Indian context, the session draws on a systematic literature review and findings from a learner perception survey to explore how openness and flexibility may support more inclusive, adaptive, and continuity-oriented schooling. It further considers which dimensions of openness are already present in school education, which may be meaningfully integrated, and which continue to remain constrained within existing systems. In doing so, the session moves beyond advocacy for flexibility to examine its practical usefulness, perceived value, and systemic limits in school education.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Participants will develop a clearer understanding of openness and flexibility in K–12 education and how these relate to open schooling, conventional schooling, and other educational modalities.
  • Participants will identify existing school practices and structures that reflect elements of openness in partial or fragmented forms, such as flexible pathways, inclusive design, and learner-centred approaches.
  • Participants will gain insight into how findings from the systematic literature review and learner perception survey inform the possibilities of greater openness and flexibility in K–12 schooling.
  • Participants will critically reflect on the pedagogical, structural, administrative, and policy-related challenges involved in integrating openness and flexibility into mainstream school education.
  • Participants will identify possible pathways through which openness, flexibility, and technology-enabled practices may support more adaptive and continuity-oriented K–12 education.
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RB
AP
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Expanding Education: Narrative Role-Playing Games and Open Education Resources
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Despite growing interest in game‑based learning and the rising cultural popularity of role‑playing games (RPGs), most narrative RPG materials remain commercially produced and sold, making them difficult to license and adapt for educational use. As a result, educators and education researchers interested in narrative roleplay often rely on purchased systems, create their own materials from scratch, or attempt to adapt the limited number of existing RPG‑focused OERs, many of which may not suit their specific teaching contexts or learner needs. This lightning talk briefly highlights the unique capacity of narrative roleplay to foster intrinsic motivation, agency, and engagement across age groups. The session then explores existing RPG OERs and research‑informed entry points that educators can use to navigate this emerging area of open, narrative‑driven pedagogy, and, if inspired, contribute to the development of new, openly shared narrative RPG tools.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Define key components of game-based learning, including distinctions between gamification, game-based learning, and gameful learning, and describe how these approaches differ in goals and implementation.
  • Articulate the pedagogical promise of narrative role-playing games, particularly their capacity to support learner motivation, agency, collective meaning-making, and engagement with complex ideas through storytelling and play.
  • Identify existing open educational resources related to narrative RPGs, as well as gaps in current literature and resource availability, in order to imagine how their own teaching, research, or open education work might contribute to this emerging area.
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AP
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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From Classroom to Community: Discover the Importance of Open Education in Public Health Training
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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This session is about analyzing how open education can help connect what medical students learn about health in their medical school to what actually happens in real communities by highlighting how open-access resources, peer learning, and digital platforms can enhance public health training and empower students to apply their knowledge beyond the classroom.

The presentation will discuss practical strategies for integrating open educational practices into public health education, including student-led community awareness initiatives, and how to use freely available learning materials. However, it will also address challenges such as limited access to structured resources, variability in community engagement, and the need for culturally appropriate content.

People who attend this session will learn how open education can make public health training practical, accessible, and focused on the community especially in places where resources are limited.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • 1- Explain how open education will be able to facilitate the transfer of health knowledge from academic education to community-based public health programs.
  • 2- List some open education materials and technologies being used in the field of public health that may serve them well.
  • 3- Inform them about the responsibility of students in facilitating community-based health educational programs.
  • 4- Identify obstacles that may hinder them while implementing open education in the field of public health.
  • 5- Utilize methods by which they can incorporate open education in their public health education and practice.
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ZA
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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From Here to There Together: Building Institutional Pathways to Barrier-Free Curriculum Resources
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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By 2030, Deakin Library aspires for all students to have barrier-free access to essential curriculum resources. But our institutional systems, policies and practices weren’t designed with that goal in mind.

Historically, curriculum resource provision has been shaped without sufficient consideration of affordability and access. Cost, licensing, rights management, and the opportunities open resources afford student-centred learning are not consistently factored into resource choice. Open Education is identified in institutional strategy, yet efforts remain fragmented and not fully integrated into curriculum governance.

Policy change in 2025 prioritised barrier-free curriculum resources in curriculum design and delivery, marking a significant shift for the organisation. This prompted Deakin Library to assess current barriers and deliver a multi-year institutional roadmap for implementation to achieve our ‘barrier-free’ vision.

This lightning talk outlines our approach and key findings.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify how libraries can effectively frame current state challenges in ways their institutions can understand and engage with.
  • Apply road-mapping as a strategic tool to translate ambitious access and affordability goals into achievable institutional actions.
  • Articulate the strategic value of OER as a sustainable, institution wide investment rather than a siloed initiative.
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MI
DJ
SR
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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From Vision to Impact: A Change Approach Toward Accessible Digital Educational Resources
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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At HAN University of Applied Sciences, we are building an ecosystem that gives students and educators easy access to high‑quality learning resources, open, semi‑open, and commercial, to create an optimal mix for teaching and learning. We believe education should be accessible, reliable, and inclusive, and that public resources should be used wisely through sharing and reuse.

Rather than treating openness as a separate goal, HAN embeds Open Educational Resources (OER) into everyday practice through an institution‑wide strategy. This approach is built on five pillars: hands‑on support through a Content Support Team; professional development to strengthen OER competencies; recognition and rewards for open educational practices; structured change management at faculty level; and a robust technical infrastructure centered on a single institutional repository. Together, these pillars enable sustainable adoption of openness at scale.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain HANs five-pillar institutional approach and how these pillars collectively enable sustainable OER adoption.
  • Identify practical strategies for supporting educators in combining open, semi-open, and licensed resources into coherent, high-quality learning materials.
  • Evaluate the role of recognition and rewards in increasing faculty engagement with OER and understand how to implement similar incentives in their organizations.
  • Adapt governance and change-management practices that support cultural and structural shifts toward open and blended resource use.
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avatar for Marja Versantvoort

Marja Versantvoort

Projectmanager HAN approach Digital Educational Resources, HAN University of Applied Sciences
Master’s in EducationIn 2016, Marja led a five-year national flagship project. This was a collaboration among 17 Dutch bachelor’s programs in Nursing, aimed at creating a community centered on the open sharing and collaborative development of educational resources. Following that... Read More →
MP
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Generating Reach by Embedding OER in Volunteer Formats for Sustainable Marketing Programs
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Open Educational Resources (OER) are promoted in different ways around the world. In the US, this work is often called “OER advocacy,” while in South Africa the Open Education Influencers MOOC (https://oe4bw.org/project/open-education-influencer/) is a notable example.

This lightning talk shares how the University of Innsbruck is reaching a wider audience:

* OER practitioners talked about the creation and the publication of their projects in The JOERney@UIBK: Experience Talks (https://oerworldmap.org/resource/urn:uuid:75e1c2a7-8540-4ff2-b2c6-04b2f23b3cda?language=en).

* The Aqua MOOC, a 2021 citizen science MOOC on water communities, was presented at a local district club. Volunteers from Computerias and libraries were invited.

The findings from this talk may inspire attendees of the lightning talk to leverage local venues, themselves; using a single, high-interest MOOC or resource, other OER and the OER repositories can be cross-promoted to potential re-users and interested people.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • …find connections between marketing OER at their institutions and involving local volunteers in the dissemination of information about OER.
  • …think outside "the box", aka their institutional limits, and reach for a wider audience.
  • …generate new leads for their OER practitioners to create OER for and broadening their understanding or who their ideal audience might include.
  • …gain an understanding for the value of “old” OER and the sustainability efforts included in the production and the active advertising of a MOOC with so-called "ever-green contents" that is intended for a "long run".
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EF
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Harnessing OER to Support Production and Provision of Juvenile Titles in Underserved Languages
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Imagine a world where you grow up never having enough to read. This is the reality for many children who speak minority or indigenous languages (hereafter “underserved languages”). The scarcity of juvenile titles (fiction, non-fiction, videos, games, audio books, etc.) in their own languages is a persistent barrier to learning. We invite collaborators to a research group with the goal of building and expanding processes for creators—writers, editors, illustrators, and translators—who can benefit from networking and professional development and learning to use Creative Commons licensing and other OA policies and practices. We wish to amplify collaborative efforts by creators to increase available titles in underserved languages. Our central goals are to establish a design for a replicable, democratic, and participatory multilingual collaborative and to analyze the design process. We will share a pilot that we have conducted in 2026 with speakers of Yoruba and Burmese in Indiana, USA.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Participants will gain specific knowledge about the gaps in access to literacy and learning materials for learners who speak underserved languages around the world.
  • Participants will learn about storytelling and story creation efforts in Indiana that we have begun with Yoruba and Burmese speakers.
  • Participants will be invited to join scholarly and practical efforts to share practices and ideas for developing and providing juvenile titles in underserved languages in areas that are of concern to them.
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BS
CD
MK
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

How Students Perceive Open Education: A Pre- and Post-Course Analysis
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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How do students perceive Open Education before and after completing a course dedicated to open education? This session presents findings from a mixed-methods study involving undergraduate students enrolled in an open education-focused course at a Canadian university. Using pre- and post-course surveys, student reflection assignments, and follow-up interviews, the study examines changes in student attitudes, awareness, and willingness to engage with Open Educational Practices (OEP). The session highlights key patterns in student experiences and evolving perspectives on open education. Attendees will gain practical strategies to support student engagement and consider how open practices can enhance the student learning experience.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe how student perceptions of open education can shift through participation in a course dedicated to open education.
  • Identify key factors that shape student engagement with Open Educational Practices (OEP).
  • Recognize how surveys, reflection assignments, and interviews can be used to examine changes in student attitudes and experiences.
  • Apply practical strategies to support student engagement in open educational practices and open sharing.
  • Reflect on how student perspectives can inform open course design and teaching practice.
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Brandon Carson

Sessional Instructor and Research Associate, Ontario Tech University
Brandon Carson is an open education scholar-practitioner whose work sits at the intersection of teaching and learning, educational technology, and higher education change. With more than 17 years of experience in the post-secondary sector, Brandon has supported initiatives related... Read More →
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Individuals & Institutions: The Structure of Change and the Open Education Network
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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In this presentation, Robin DeRosa, Executive Director of the Open Education Network, will explore the theory of change that undergirds the OEN. In a community that focuses its activities on the grassroots work of educators (including faculty, librarians, instructional designers, technologists, and other support staff), the OEN’s membership structure centers around institutions and consortia. What is the relationship between individuals who engage with open practices and the systems that contain, support, and sometimes thwart them? How can organizations that leverage open education to make change respond to the needs of learners and teachers while building support from the surrounding educational systems that don’t always center those needs? Hear about the rationales, hopes, and tensions that animate the OEN’s model, and the current ways we are envisioning our role in advancing open education and building a more equitable future for higher education.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Reflect on the tensions and synergies between individual practice and systemic support in the open education movement.
  • Articulate reasons why both grassroots practice and institutional commitment are key sustainable and impactful open education progress.
  • Understand the approach of the Open Education Network, and how it leverages institutional commitment to make structural change in higher education.
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Robin DeRosa

Executive Director, Open Education Network
Dr. Robin DeRosa is an educator and community leader who has served in many roles over the span of her career. She has been a middle school theater teacher, a high school literature and writing teacher, and a college professor of both English and Interdisciplinary Studies. She has... Read More →
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Making It Local, OER in Papua New Guinea a Localisation and Expansion Case Study
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Many communities in low resource areas could benefit from access to the content available in OER materials if only they were able to access them. While this content is technically free the act of connecting to the internet and downloading it still presents a barrier in terms of economics and infrastructure in many parts of the world. Offline servers filled with OER are part of the solution to fill that gap. A large variety of groups work to collate materials and create servers with localized wi-fi networks that will work in low resource environments.

This talk focuses on a new partnership between the distributors of one offline server and the government of a low-income country. Following their progress to design a localized build that encompasses the required curriculum and local language needs as well as distribute their devices in one of the most geographically challenging environments in the world.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Greater understanding of partnerships between volunteers, NGO’s and Government bodies.
  • Describe and reproduce the steps for localization of OER content.
  • Describe and reproduce the steps for distributing OER servers.
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Katherine Huth

Griffith University
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Mapping OER to State Numbering Systems
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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This session focuses on finding ways to reduce the cognitive load for faculty, and faculty supporters, interested in adopting OER for the general education courses in Texas, with potential replicability for other states. This is done through the overview of the following resources:

* Texas Common Course Numbering System (TCCNS),

* Academic Lower Divison Guide for Texas Higher Education courses,

* Open Educational Resources, and

* University specific course numbering systems

The overview is followed by an exploration of how these systems work together to create an articulated interface, the Core to Open tool, that facilitates quick and wasy to understand OER discovery for faculty and faculty support providers. The presentation wil conclude with a demonstration on how to use the Core to Open tool itself. From investigation to deliverable, the process emphasizes learning, making connections, and supporting iterative design.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain the relationship between course numbering systems, course learning objectives, and OER – as well as how this could be replicated for their state or system.
  • Choose a relevant gen ed course and navigate to OER for that course.
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IA
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Open Ed Practices as a Compass: Building Cognitive Resilience Against AI-Mediated Disinformation
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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As AI tools become foundational to education practices, we must examine how they interact with information, specifically distinguishing between misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation. This session explores the role of open education fundamentals in fostering cognitive sovereignty within the "infocracy," a regime where automated data and algorithmic narratives define the information landscape and where we propose cognitive resilience. We present the proposal of a matrix of ethical AI literacy that utilizes open principles (transparency, collaboration, and reuse) as a compass for navigating this landscape. This proposed framework aims to enable learners to move from passive information consumption to actively engaging in contemplative-reflexive narratives, ensuring that "open" serves as a framework for epistemic justice and ontological openness by introducing intentionality in human-in-the-loop supervision.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Distinguish between misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation within an AI-mediated informal learning context;.
  • Identify how "cognitive offloading" (the outsourcing of thinking to AI) impacts learner agency and the ability to construct personal narratives;.
  • Apply open education principles (specifically transparency of provenance and collaborative review) as ethical defenses against algorithmic bias, data opacity, and the lack of interpretability in automated systems;.
  • Evaluate the role of "human-in-the-loop" intentionality as a mechanism for maintaining narrative agency and resisting algorithmic narratives in the infocracy.
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LS
MM
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Performing Open: Theatre, Zines, and Pedagogy in the Space Between
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Performing arts classrooms are inherently collaborative, adaptive, and co-creative; however, they are rarely framed as sites of open pedagogy. This session argues that theatre and performance-based disciplines do not simply accommodate open practices; they embody them.

Drawing on the idea of open pedagogy as participatory and learner-driven, this presentation repositions performance as open knowledge-making. Students interpret, remix, and co-create meaning for audiences, aligning closely with open values.

Using a student-created zine project as a case study, this session explores how ephemeral performance can become tangible, shareable artifacts. Central to this work is student agency and consent: learners choose if and how their work is shared.

Attendees will gain a framework for designing open, participatory learning in creative and performance-based classrooms.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Articulate how core elements of performance (collaboration, interpretation, audience engagement) align with open pedagogy principles.
  • Analyze the role of student agency and consent in ethical open educational practices.
  • Evaluate the opportunities and tensions of applying open pedagogy within embodied and arts-based classrooms.
  • Consider assignments that position students as co-creators of knowledge in creative or non-traditional formats.
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Bethany Mickel

Instructional Design & OER Librarian, University of Virginia
Bethany Mickel is the Instructional Design & OER Librarian at the University of Virginia, facilitating open education initiatives and collaborating with faculty, staff, and students on open projects. She partners with librarians and faculty to embed pedagogical design and create information... Read More →
AH
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Reducing Students’ Psychological Distance From Climate Change: Design of an Open Mapping Assignment
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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This session introduces an open (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) climate distance mapping assignment designed to help students connect climate change to places, systems, and near-future conditions relevant to their lives. Drawing on the concept of psychological distance, we examine why students may understand climate change but struggle to situate it in their own contexts.

Participants will learn how assignment design can reduce abstraction without pressuring students toward personal or potentially traumatic disclosure. The session demonstrates how structured choice allows students to engage at varying levels of personal proximity while still making meaningful, place-based and life-path connections.

Educators, instructors, and those teaching late high school and introductory college courses may find this session most useful.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain how psychological distance influences students’ perceptions of climate change.
  • Identify why students may struggle to connect climate change to their own lives.
  • Model assignment design that reduces abstraction without requiring personal disclosure for students.
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LW
DM
NB
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Reframing Medical Education Through Theater of the Oppressed, Critical Pedagogy, and Open Education
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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This session explores innovative approaches to medical education through the integration of art-based methodologies, open educational resources (OER), and virtual learning communities. Grounded in the critical pedagogy of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal, it challenges traditional technicist models by promoting dialogical, participatory, and human-centred practices. The presentation highlights how the Theatre of the Oppressed can foster empathy, active listening, and nonviolent communication among future health professionals. Additionally, it examines the role of collaborative digital environments and OER in expanding access to knowledge and enabling co-creation. Participants will engage with the concept of virtual communities as spaces for experimentation, shared learning, and the development of more inclusive and ethical healthcare practices.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain Theatre of the Oppressed can be applied in medical education.
  • Identify strategies to foster empathy, active listening, and nonviolent communication in healthcare training.
  • Analyze the role of Open Educational Resources (OER) in promoting inclusive and collaborative learning environments.
  • Critically reflect on the limitations of traditional technicist models in health education and propose human-centred alternatives.
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CS
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CG
NR
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Sowing Discord for Iterative Discovery: AI Roundtables Built on Friction
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Ask generative AI a question, and you get a confident answer. What you don't get is a second read, a dissenting take, a reason to dig deeper. When open educators use AI to create and remix resources that others will reuse, that untested confidence travels with the work.

The counterintuitive fix? Sow discord. Not by asking AI to see both sides, but by designing personas with named stakes that structurally conflict, then putting them in the same room. When multiple perspectives are built for friction, disagreement surfaces ideas neither would reach alone. Then run the output back through a critical lens, round after round, until what remains has been earned by both sides.

Open educators make decisions alone that deserve a panel, and this roundtable method convenes one on demand. Attendees leave with a replicable roadmap for building and running their own expert panel, no subject matter expertise required.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Explain why single-prompt AI use produces untested confidence and why that matters when the work will be reused by others.
  • Apply the roundtable method by assigning personas with structurally conflicting stakes to surface complex ideas no single perspective could reach alone.
  • Use iterative review loops to pressure-test AI output and recognize what repeated scrutiny reveals that a single pass misses.
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CM
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Structure and Emergence: How BarCamps and Peer-to-Peer Learning Build Open Education Communities
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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What if the most productive learning spaces are the ones we don’t fully control? OERcamp operates between structure and emergence—combining planned formats with self-organised collaboration. As a BarCamp-based modal, an open, participant-driven unconference format, it has no fixed programme, instead attendees collaboratively shape the agenda and sessions through peer-to-peer learning.

Drawing on 14 years of experience, this presentation shows how fluid roles foster engagement and sustainable community building. It reflects on how participatory formats can surface challenges in open education and how communities respond collectively.

Transfer: Participants gain practical insights into designing participatory formats and cultivating communities that support open education over time. This proposal contributes to “Beyond Borders” by sharing perspectives from the German open education community.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Recognize the value of “in-between” spaces for participation and knowledge creation in open education.
  • Learn how to design participatory formats that enable engagement without relying on full control or predefined roles.
  • Develop practical approaches to building and sustaining community-driven open education communities.
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JM
KL
NH
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

Teachers as Changemakers: Adopting OER for Environmental and Sustainability Education
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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This session explores the availability of Open Educational Resources (OER) for environmental and sustainability education in Grades 5 to 7. As global environmental challenges escalate, OER provide accessible, adaptable materials that align with curriculum standards and UNESCO's Sustainable Development Goals.

Highlights:

* Comprehensive analysis: the study identifies existing resources, gaps, and opportunities for integration.

* Scalable methodology: it introduces a systematic process for analyzing educational materials, including the use of AI, that can be applied to other subjects and curriculum standards.

* Immediate impact: attendees will receive a curated list of OER ready for immediate classroom use.

This research servers educators, policymakers, and environmental organizations by promoting OER adoption in K-12. By bridging the gap between available resources and curriculum needs, this study offers a sustainable educational solution for an ever-changing world.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe why OER is a solution to delivering environmental and sustainability education in K-12.
  • Identify the pivotal age for introducing environmental literacy and social action.
  • Identify where to find openly available environmental and climate education resources that meet specific educational standards.
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avatar for Emily Grady

Emily Grady

Master's student, Athabasca University
Emily Grady is in her final year of Athabasca University's Master of Education in Open, Digital and Distance Education, specializing in instructional design. As an avid outdoorsperson, a parent, and an environmental advocate, her personal, academic and professional interests center... Read More →
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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The Interstitium: An Emergent Practice for the Spaces Between
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Western scientists recently “discovered” a new organ in our bodies: the Interstitium. This collagen scaffolding had long been discarded by conventional medicine and belief systems as static and generally in the way. However, a fresh look with modern tools at LIVING tissue (!) revealed that the Interstitium has myriad life-sustaining functions, previously unrecognized or underappreciated. It activates the Spaces Between within our bodies.

The Interstitium is also a powerful metaphor and a generative frame of reference for situations where reciprocal flows of knowledge, creativity, and care are vital yet unnoticed. This metaphor, brought to light in a 2023 Radiolab podcast, has spurred a growing community of practice for “Interstitionaries” who do this essential but often unsung bridging work. In this talk, I’ll introduce the Interstium as metaphor and methods, and highlight how its methods (including a self-assessment and discussion prompts) might serve the open education community.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Understand the Interstitium as an inspiring and useful metaphor for any socially-connected work.
  • Use the Interstitium model and its practices to help unlock new approaches for relational and recognition challenges and opportunities in open education work.
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CN
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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TUS Open Press: Inclusive Teaching and Learning OER Collection
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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This session will provide an overview of how and why TUS Open Press has published a collection of inclusive teaching and learning OER. This collection includes TUS Sensory Awareness Guide, Your Essay Builder: Clear Steps to Plan and Structure Your Essay and forthcoming publications including Starting University Guide for Students with Disabilities and a Case Study of how Mind Mapping Software was successfully used in our institution. We will share the perspectives of the authors and how they have embraced Open Licensing. Our authors have created their works using Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles and have very generously shared their considerable expertise with our TUS Open Press Community of Practice members which has been hugely beneficial. We are excited to continue supporting our Student Support Services colleagues to publish Pressbooks which embody inclusive teaching practices for the benefit of our TUS university community, and the OER community more broadly.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Understand the origins of, and ethos behind, this inclusive teaching and learning OER collection.
  • Engage with the OER collection.
  • Reflect on the experiences of these OER creators.
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MF
LH
RK
EK
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Using Limited Resources to Support OER Accessibility
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Many open education resources (OER) publishing programs offer a full suite of services, including helping instructors create their own OER. However, not all higher education institutions have the resources or staffing to provide that level of support. This lightning talk will discuss how one public university attempts to provide some support to instructors, especially for accessibility, while seeking to ensure a sustainable level of help. This includes offering a publishing platform and then providing support to instructors interested in collating various existing OER into one place, as well as providing editing support to ensure OER meet legal accessibility requirements. The session will also detail how the institution’s library has experimented with several staffing models for this support as well as how it continues to refine its workflow to ensure that the work remains manageable.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Consider how much, if at all, your institution can support some OER publishing support.
  • Discuss how libraries can help remediate OER for accessibility.
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Teresa Schultz

Scholarly Communications & Social Sciences Librari, University of Nevada, Reno
Prior to becoming Social Sciences Librarian, Teresa served as Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian at UNR, where she still provides copyright education. Her first career was in journalism.
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Visible Impact: Creating Effective Alt Text With Students
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Alternative text (alt text) is important, though often a secondary thought, when creating digital resources. When creating open educational resources, the written content is often the focus, with visuals added to support it. Accessibility requirements mandate that written descriptions be added to visual content in educational resources. With recent advances in AI, many are using AI to generate alt text for images in OERs. This can be done relatively quickly, but still requires significant time for reviewing, editing, and correctly inserting alt text so screen readers can access it and provide detailed descriptions. This talk advocates working with students to develop alt text to focus on the educational component of OERs. Students are eager to work with faculty on meaningful projects and can successfully develop alt text and assess its effectiveness. This talk will discuss how to do this, the benefits, and the challenges.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Develop and refine alternative text.
  • Incorporate students in the process of developing and refining alternative text.
  • Encourage student involvement in OER development and creation.
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AH
CR
EH
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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Who Defines Science? A Multilingual, Student-Built Open Science Glossary
Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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This lightning talk introduces the OCTOPUS Project (Open Collaboration for Transformative Open Pedagogy to support Undergraduate Open Science Education), a multilingual, student-generated Open Science glossary designed to make scientific language more accessible and equitable. While the glossary resource has already been developed, it will be implemented in undergraduate science courses where students contribute definitions, translations, and cultural and ethical context. This project leverages open pedagogy to position students as co-creators of knowledge while critically examining inequities in Open Science, including language barriers, authorship, and global access. Attendees will gain insight into how multilingual, student-driven resources can support more inclusive and globally relevant open education practices.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe how open pedagogy can be used to support student-generated knowledge in STEM.
  • Explain the role of multilingual approaches in improving access to scientific terminology.
  • Identify ways to integrate equity-focused discussions into Open Science education.
  • Apply strategies for implementing student-driven OER projects in their own courses.
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