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Tuesday, October 27
 

12:15pm EDT

Another Kind of Open: What a Community Pow Wow Can Teach Us About Openness
Tuesday October 27, 2026 12:15pm - 12:55pm EDT
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Open education often emphasizes digital access and sharing, but I’ve been thinking more about the relationships that actually make openness possible. In this session, I reflect on a community Pow Wow hosted at Cambrian College as an example of “another kind of open.”

As someone working in reconciliation education, I’ve come to see the Pow Wow as more than an event. It’s a space where learning happens through connection, respect, and reciprocity, a space where social justice and intercultural exchange are lived and felt. I see Indigenous pride and allyship in action. Helpers each play a unique role in creating an inclusive space rooted in Anishinaabe culture.

The Pow Wow encourages me to question the idea that openness is primarily digital, and to think about how the ethos of open education lives in relationships and community practices. I’ll invite attendees to reflect on how these observations might influence their own work and understanding of openness beyond the screen.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe how a community Pow Wow can function as a site of relational learning and “another kind of open”.
  • Reflect on how relationships, roles, and responsibilities shape meaningful open practices.
  • Identify ways that openness can extend beyond digital spaces into community-based contexts.
  • Consider how reconciliation education, allyship, and Indigenous-led spaces can inform their understanding of open education.
  • Apply insights from this session to re-think their own approaches to openness in their teaching or work.
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Jessica O'Reilly

Professor, Cambrian College
From humble beginnings scooping ice cream at her grandparents' Supply Post, Jess now spends her time serving up scoops of decolonial truths (tastes awful, but it works)! In the Truth and Reconciliation course she facilitates, Jess endeavours to disrupt colonial narratives in a gentle... Read More →
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Tuesday October 27, 2026 12:15pm - 12:55pm EDT
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1:00pm EDT

A Metatheoretical Investigation of Expanding Open Education to Union Education Environments
Tuesday October 27, 2026 1:00pm - 1:25pm EDT
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While open educational practices (OEP) have shaped countless classrooms in higher education, K-12, and beyond, these ideas are largely unheard of in the world of organized labour. This session presents a metatheoretical model suggesting that the scholarly processes that proliferate OEP in formal academic settings are predominantly disconnected from organized labour, yet there are existing channels to bridge the connections. The model employs a systems thinking framework with two main subsystems. First, is the prospect for OEP in union education settings. For example, in Joint Health and Safety Committee certification training programs, there are numerous OEPs that have the potential to enhance engagement and inclusion. The second subsystem comprises open labour practices (OLP), which are practices with concepts similar to OEP such as renewable content. Renewable union reports will be discussed as a manifestation of OLP with a case study of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Understand the metatheoretical model explaining why OEP practitioners are primarily present in higher education settings and absent from union education settings.
  • Understand the ways that OEP can be applied to union education settings such as the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
  • Understand the way that open labour practices (OLP) can facilitate advocacy for wider adoption of OEP in union settings.
  • Understand the channels by which unions in higher education settings can catalyse exchange of such ideas to the broader movement of organized labour beyond academia.
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Tuesday October 27, 2026 1:00pm - 1:25pm EDT
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2:00pm EDT

Scaling Open Education With Student Success and Institutional Innovation
Tuesday October 27, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm EDT
V5
As open education initiatives expand, the next challenge is connecting OER to broader institutional and statewide priorities such as student success, workforce readiness, and digital learning innovation. This session explores how open education moves beyond affordability to become an integrated part of innovative success strategies. Using statewide initiatives as practical examples, presenters will share how open education efforts can be connected to student success, institutional partnerships, and emerging innovation to expand reach and impact. Attendees will explore how positioning OER within broader student success efforts expands opportunities for collaboration, sustainability, and buy-in. Participants will explore resources and partnerships designed to support institutions as they scale open education initiatives. This session will highlight practical strategies for connecting OER efforts with broader institutional goals and ensuring open education continues to expand its impact.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Connect OER initiatives to broader organizational priorities, positioning open education as part of institutional and statewide success frameworks.
  • Identify ways to expand collaboration across institutional units and partnerships to strengthen and scale open education initiatives.
  • Examine practical examples of resource hubs, OER playbooks, and innovation frameworks that support institutions in expanding the reach of OER.
  • Consider how integrating open education into student success conversations can increase visibility, sustainability, and impact for OER programs.
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Tuesday October 27, 2026 2:00pm - 2:40pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Connecting the Dots: Advancing Continuing Professional Education Through OER
Tuesday October 27, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
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Presenters and attendees in this session examine the benefits/impact of OERs in continuing professional development for professions that require continuing education. This mixed-methods pre-post OER intervention study with 77 registered nurses investigates nurses' perceptions of OERs before and after participating in a continuing educational activity using an OER. Pre-to-post RN perceptions of OERs improved, with participants noting their quality, economic benefits, increased equitable access, and convenience for professional development. Educators should incorporate OERs into professional development offerings. RNs affirmed the benefits of including OERs in continuing nursing education and professional development. Their feedback stressed the vital role these resources play in promoting access, equity, and persistent learning within the profession.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe the role of open educational resources (OERs) in continuing professional development.
  • Examine key findings from a mixed-methods pre–post study evaluating the impact of OER use in professional education.
  • Identify perceived benefits of OERs, including quality, cost-effectiveness, accessibility, and convenience for continuing education.
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Laura Schwarz

Assistant Professor, Nursing, Minnesota State University, Mankato
I have been an RN for 23 years and have over 18 years of teaching experience including many years of online teaching. I am also a Certified Nurse Educator and Certified Quality Matters Peer Reviewer. I am an expert in the areas of online nursing education and the use of technology... Read More →
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Tuesday October 27, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm EDT
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Wednesday, October 28
 

9:30am EDT

An Open Educational Ecosystem for Global Research Capacity Building: IFMSA’s Peer-Assisted Learning
Wednesday October 28, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
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Access to research education remains uneven for medical students worldwide, limiting opportunities to develop essential skills and engage in research.

The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) addresses this gap through three Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) research education workshops, guided by the Basic Research Competencies Framework (BRCF). This five-pillar structure shapes all educational content and is supported by a broader open educational ecosystem. This ecosystem includes openly licensed materials, manuals and agendas, compiled in centralized resource repositories, enabling National Member Organizations (NMOs) to replicate these workshops and activities independently.

In this session, attendees will explore how to assess, implement, and adapt open-access educational materials and frameworks in their institutions or networks, enabling them to expand access to research education, strengthen skill development, and drive collaborative learning worldwide

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:.
  • Explain the global inequities in access to research education and identify the core competencies needed to address them.
  • Describe how PAL, open-access resources, and open licensing collectively create a sustainable, equitable research education ecosystem.
  • Understand IFMSA’s specific efforts to strengthen research capacity building, advocacy, and research exchanges through its open educational practices, the BRCF, organizational structures, and tools such as strategic plans and baseline assessments.
  • Assess strategies for implementing open-access educational frameworks within their own contexts, such as reusing openly licensed training materials, establishing shared resource repositories, or developing peer-led training models.
  • Design research training initiatives that integrate open practices, ensuring scalability, inclusivity, and sustainability.
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V3
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

9:30am EDT

Collaboratively Developing Open Resources Across Cultural Boundaries
Wednesday October 28, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V5
This session will describe the development of an OER by collaborators in India and Canada. The original idea for this project arose out of a thought that, like common journalists, teachers and students are not capable of reporting, writing and analyzing the news information they want to share with the academic community.

The team engaged in a joint collaboration on an Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) project in 2021-22. The OE4BW project involved the creation and delivery of a MOOC in Educational Journalism. This then led to a collaboration by the three participants in the development of an open resource through the Pressbooks platform.

One of the goals of the project was to create a more accessible and interactive resource for educationists/academicians in educational journalism.

An additional goal of this presentation is to describe the best practices for selection of cross-cultural teams, digital tools, interactive multimedia and strategies for maintaining openness.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe the challenges involved in cross-cultural open education collaborations.
  • Identify strategies for addressing challenges to maintaining downstream openness.
  • Explore processes for identifying appropriate digital tools for open content development.
  • Identify the skills needed to pursue cross-cultural open content creation projects.
  • Gain insights into how to create effective cross-cultural teams for open educational projects.
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V5
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

10:00am EDT

A Multilingual Wikipedia Editathon for Knowledge Equity
Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
V4
This session presents a scalable, classroom-based Wikipedia Editathon model implemented at JSS Medical College to advance open educational resources (OER), multilingual knowledge production, and digital equity. Students contributed to underrepresented topics in communication sciences and disorders by creating and translating content into regional languages (e.g., Kannada), aligning with principles of participatory knowledge and inclusive access. The session highlights instructional design, training workflows, and assessment strategies (pre–post–delayed measures) used to evaluate student learning, engagement, and sustainability. Attendees will gain practical guidance on integrating Wikipedia-based assignments into curricula to promote open pedagogy, culturally responsive teaching, and global knowledge sharing.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Design a classroom-based Wikipedia Editathon aligned with OER and open pedagogy principles.
  • Implement multilingual content creation strategies to support knowledge equity.
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
V4
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

10:00am EDT

Between Us: Connection, Not Expertise, Sustains Open Learning
Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
V3
Open education expands access, but access alone does not sustain learning. When learners or instructors feel uncertain, disconnected, or unsupported, expertise is not enough to keep them engaged. Drawing on research in volunteer retention and learner-centered pedagogy, this session explores how connection, belonging, and psychological safety shape participation in open learning environments. Using The Carpentries as a case study, we highlight how community-driven teaching practices shift the focus from performance to participation by normalizing mistakes, encouraging collaboration, and centering the learner experience. Participants will reflect on moments when connection influenced their own learning and identify practical strategies to foster belonging in their contexts. This session reframes open education as not just what we share, but how we support one another in the space between us.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Analyze a learning environment to identify where connection and belonging are lacking.
  • Distinguish between teaching approaches that emphasize performance versus participation.
  • Design a small, actionable intervention to improve learner engagement or instructor support.
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
V3
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

10:30am EDT

Ooh Blogging Is a Place on Earth
Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am EDT
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For many in educational technology, blogging has been framed as open digital writing within networked systems. Yet it has become entangled with platform logics—metrics, visibility, and virality—that distance it from lived experience and local community. This session reframes blogging as an open, situated, place-based practice.

Drawing on bava.studio—a physical storefront in Trento, Italy—this talk explores what happens when a blog is grounded in a material location. Posts become installations, archives become objects, and digital reflections move into public space. The blog shifts from a content stream to a site of encounter, curiosity, and conversation.

Through this experiment, I ask: What might edtech look like if accountable to place? How might blogging, freed from platform imperatives, support local culture, reflection, and meaningful community connection?

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • What if blogging were understood not merely as an online publishing tool, but as a place on Earth?
  • In educational technology, blogging is often framed as digital writing within networked systems. Yet it has become entangled with platform logics—metrics, visibility, and virality—that distance it from lived experience and local community. This session reframes blogging as a situated, embodied, place-based practice grounded in openness as an approach: participation, sharing, and permeability between people and environments.
  • Drawing on bava.studio—a physical storefront in Trento, Italy—this talk explores what happens when a blog is grounded in a material location. Posts become installations, archives become objects, and the blog becomes a site of encounter rather than a stream of content.
  • This provocation asks: What might edtech look like if accountable to place? How might open, place-based blogging foster meaningful connection, reflection, and community in the real world?
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 10:30am - 10:55am EDT
V1
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

11:15am EDT

OER-oboros: What We Can and Should Learn From Mutual Aid Before the Open Movement Eats Itself
Wednesday October 28, 2026 11:15am - 11:55am EDT
V1
Part call to action, part practical guide, this session offers a new frame for considering open education work. Beginning with a brief overview of why values-based work matters, this session will aim to problematize some of the common working assumptions of open education and then argue for a new approach. It will highlight several key parallels between the stated goals of open education work and several of the core principles of mutual aid, including: solidarity, non-hierarchy, intersectionality, and collective action. Finally, it will invite the audience to imagine what other lessons can be gleaned from organizing and mutual aid practices that might better position open education work to continue its impact for the long haul.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Describe the importance of values-based work.
  • Identify the ways in which open education work can prop up existing systems of exploitation and oppression.
  • Recognize the overlap between the basic tenets of mutual aid and open education work.
  • Devise strategies for integrating mutual aid principles and organizing tactics into open education work.
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Abbey Childs

OER Librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 11:15am - 11:55am EDT
V1
  Concurrent Session (40 min)

2:30pm EDT

Podcasting as Pedagogy for the Public Good
Wednesday October 28, 2026 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
V1
Through our Libraries services, we have supported faculty who are engaging in open pedagogy projects, specifically student-created podcasts. We identified a gap in resources for the use of student-created podcasts and imagined an opportunity to embody the open value of reciprocity. Faculty integrated podcasting into their instruction with similar aims of creating spaces in their classrooms to explore themes of justice, access, inclusion, and belonging. Enabled by a state-level grant, the instructional designers developed a unique opportunity for faculty to gather and meet multiple goals. In this session, we will share the process we created and facilitated with four faculty that resulted in an openly licensed teaching guide. The faculty will reflect on their experiences of co-creating an OER. We are defining this unique space between us as the intersection of professional development, publishing process, and pedagogical reflection, which is grounded in open values and practices.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify the key components of the process used to develop a co-created interdisciplinary OER grounded in the values of open.
  • Experience examples of various pedagogical uses of student-created podcasts as open pedagogy projects.
  • Consider how they might adapt and/or learn from our experiences and the OER as we all seek to create learning spaces that are more innovative and inclusive through our open work.
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Nicole Wilson

Instructional Designer, James Madison University
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 2:30pm - 2:55pm EDT
V1
  Concurrent Session (25 min)

5:15pm EDT

OER That Don’t Look Like OER: Designing Learning That Meets Students Where They Are
Wednesday October 28, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm EDT
V5
Students today engage with learning in spaces like short-form video, podcasts, interactive apps, and social media, yet many open educational resources still rely on traditional formats like textbooks and PDFs. This workshop challenges that assumption by exploring how OER can be reimagined in formats students already use and enjoy.

Participants will explore strategies for creating non-traditional OER, including social-media-style content, audio, interactive media, comics, and microlearning modules, while emphasizing practical ways to maintain openness, accessibility, and impact.

A hands-on activity invites participants to take a concept and reimagine it as a short video, microlearning chunk, podcast segment, or visual/comic resource, collaborate to share ideas, and reflect on engagement and accessibility. Designed for instructors, designers, librarians, and open education advocates, this session provides actionable ideas to create resources that truly meet learners where they are.

Attendees of this session will be able to:
  • Identify non-traditional OER formats, such as social-media-style content, audio resources, interactive media, comics, and microlearning modules, and explain how these formats can increase learner engagement and accessibility.
  • Take a concept or learning objective and reimagine it in a format that aligns with learners’ habits and preferred platforms.
  • Evaluate how different formats support diverse learners, promote accessibility, and enhance meaningful engagement with content.
  • Outline practical steps for adapting or creating OER in non-traditional formats, including starting small, layering formats, and co-creating with learners.
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Pranjal Saloni

Open Education Lab Supervisor, Ontario Tech University
I manage the Open Education Lab at Ontario Tech University, where I oversee student-driven projects that advance open educational practices and the creation of open resources. With a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering and Management, I bring an interdisciplinary perspective... Read More →
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Wednesday October 28, 2026 5:15pm - 5:55pm EDT
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Thursday, October 29
 

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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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
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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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Thursday October 29, 2026 9:30am - 9:55am EDT
V2
  Concurrent Session (25 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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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 →
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Thursday October 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:40am EDT
V5
  Concurrent Session (40 min)

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
V2
  Concurrent Session (40 min)

2:00pm EDT

Launching Skills: Open Education’s Role in the Future of Work
Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
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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 →
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Panel (55 min)

Concurrent sessions take place virtually on Zoom. At the time of the event, a button will appear in the session description you can click to join. All sessions are recorded and posted by the next day. 


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Thursday October 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:55pm EDT
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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)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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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)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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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)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

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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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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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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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

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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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

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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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

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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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

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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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

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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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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4:00pm EDT

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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Lightning Talks (View Anytime)

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Thursday October 29, 2026 4:00pm - 4:10pm EDT
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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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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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