Open Education Week is March 1-5, 2021

Open Education Week (March 1-5, 2021) celebrates open education in all of its forms. Open Educational Resources (OER) are free and open resources that support our collective education and wellbeing. 

Interested in learning how to make your educational resources open, but aren’t sure where to start? Interested in integrating open content into your teaching practice?  

Come to our build-a-longs during Open Education Week to take in announcements and presentations related to open education, and receive customized support on every step of the OER development and publication process. 

Join us to celebrate what freely available educational resources can do!   

Register: March 3: 1-4 p.m. & March 5: 9-12 p.m. 

Zoom link will be provided to registered participants closer to the date.

Event breakdown

March 3rd Event - Drop-in anytime!

Time 

Introduction and Welcome to the Session 

1:00 - 1:15 

Showcase: Assignments across disciplines presented by Andrea Williams 

1:15 – 1:35 

Showcase: Open Learning in Digital Scholarship: Designing modules for open use presented by Jenna Mlynaryk 

 

2:30 - 2:50 

Break Out Rooms 'Build-a-longs' 

 

Topic #1 – Choosing a license (creative commons, copyright) 

 

Topic #2 – Planning OER (project management)  

 

Topic #3 – Finding & evaluating existing OER 

 

Wrap up and Next Steps  

3:45-4:00 

 

March 5th Event  - Drop-in anytime!

Time 

Introduction and Welcome to the Session 

9:00 - 9:15 

Showcase: Open Pedagogy On-Ramps 

presented by Will Heikoop & Hedieh Najafi, Online Learning Strategies 

 

9:15 – 9:35 

Showcase: A Speedy Introduction to eCampusOntario Pressbooks and H5P Studio 

presented by Rama Kaba-Demanin, eCampusOntario & Andrea Liede-Sevsek, Online Learning Strategies

10:30 – 10:50 

Break Out Rooms 'Build-a-longs' 

 

Topic #1 - Pressbooks & H5P 

 

Topic #2 – Adapting existing OER (finding, licensing) 

 

Topic #3 – Sharing your OER (Making your content open and discoverable, repositories) 

 

Wrap up and Next Steps  

11:45 – 12:00 

 

Related LibGuide: Open Education by Scholarly Communications & Copyright Office