Celebrate Open Education Week 2025! This annual celebration is an opportunity to raise awareness of the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning. All listed events are free and open to the public.
BCcampus Sponsored Events
Simon Fraser University: Open Education Week Community Panel
March 5, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
SFU’s Open Education Community of Practice (CoP) invites you to celebrate Open Education Week 2025 with BCcampus, the Centre for Educational Excellence, and the Library. Open education is a growing movement that seeks to make learning more affordable, accessible, collaborative, and community-engaged. SFU faculty are not only using open educational resources (i.e., openly licensed materials that are free or low-cost for students) in the classroom but also employing open educational practices, using open platforms, and exploring the intersections of open and generative AI. The panel will feature a speaker from BCcampus, as well as SFU instructors and students engaging with open education in their classrooms.
Thompson Rivers University: Open Education Week Kickoff Event
March 5, 2025 | 11:00 a.m.– 1:30 p.m.
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is hosting a catered lunch and streaming the first set of Open Education Talks, followed by an inspiring keynote by Dave Cormier, director of curriculum services at TRU Open Learning. Register to join in person or virtually!
Open Education Talk: What Might Open Ed Look Like in the Future?
The word open in education carries many meanings—spanning licensing, pedagogy, and social justice. But how do we communicate its importance effectively? This engaging session will introduce a simple, inclusive model for thinking about openness and how it can guide decision-making in education.
British Columbia Institute of Technology: Growing OERs Across Institutions: A Collaborative Cycle
March 6, 2025 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Join BCIT instructor Julia Alards-Tomalin and University of Alberta’s Valerie Miller to explore the exciting evolution of a cross-institutional OER project. Learn how Valerie’s educational game, “Become an Earth Doctor,” sparked a collaboration that led to BCIT students creating expansion decks focused on local BC ecosystems. Discover how this collaborative approach fosters a “growing” OER that benefits both institutions and beyond. This inspiring story highlights the power of OER to bridge distances and create collaborative learning opportunities.
BC Open Education Librarians: Vectors of Trust: Practicing Reciprocal Values in Challenging Times
March 6, 2025 | 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
.In eduspaces, we talk about values in nebulous terms. We believe in open, we believe in barrier-free, we believe in social justice, and we believe in student-focused pedagogies. But what are these values as praxis for those of us who support student-focused spaces? In this keynote, Dr. Ann Gagné will discuss how we are currently living through a crisis of trust in higher education, institutionally, governmentally, societally, and within our own communities. She will support reflection on how trust is a vector, with both magnitude and direction that impacts the work we do and the work we want to do. By highlighting broken reciprocal values and support systems, this talk defines the moral injury seen in our eduspaces and gives participants the opportunity to leave with tangible next steps to promote trust as reciprocal and etymologically radical.
University of British Columbia: Gen AI and Open Educational Resources in Teaching & Learning
March 7, 2025 | 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Join us for an interactive workshop where we will explore the challenges, contradictions, and opportunities at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Open Educational Resources (OER). In this session, we will discuss the potential of AI in generating dynamic content, including interactive textbooks, and its potential in developing open educational resources and practices. We will also engage in discussions about the legal and ethical considerations of both AI and open education including copyright, privacy, and open licensing. This workshop will include practical exercises, including the co-creation of a textbook chapter, demonstrating the real-world application of AI in OER.
Community Events
Open Education Talks 2025
The Open Education Talks is a series of lightning talks and a digital poster wall focusing on open education in post-secondary institutions. These fifteen minute talks and posters cover various facets of open education including open pedagogy and learning, utilizing open educational resources, and integrating open strategies and technologies in higher education.
- Lightning Talks: Every Wednesday in March 2025, from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Each session will feature multiple speakers, who will have fifteen minutes to discuss their practice and answer participant questions.
- OE Talks Digital Poster Wall: Discover creative open education projects through infographics, posters, and visuals
UBC Open Education Week 2025
Join the UBC Library and the Centre for Teaching and Learning Technology (CTLT) for a variety of workshops and opportunities to actively share and learn about the ongoing developments and trends in Open Education.