Find ISKME During Open Education Week March 2-6!

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Date: Friday, February 27, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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Subject: Find ISKME During Open Education Week March 2-6

 

Licensing | OER Commons overview | Accessibility | Open Metadata Exchange | California OER Trailblazers

Find ISKME at #OEWeek 2026 March 2-6!

Events and announcements for OpenEd Week 2026
Our work relies on you, please consider supporting us

 

 

Monday March 2nd, 12:00 pm PT:
Open Oregon Office Hour: Openly License Something

 



Come to this open office hour for hands-on help with the logistics of adding an open license to your work. Bring any kind of resource and we’ll help you openly license and share it publicly. An OER Commons librarian will be on hand to help. 

 

 

Tuesday March 3rd, 10:00 am PT:
OER Commons is free for everyone, forever. 

 

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An overview of OER Commons global digital library! Take a walk through how to search, how to discover OER used around the world, ways to collaborate with other OER practitioners, and how to use Open Author to remix, create, and publish OER.

Learn more and register for the OER Commons Overview

 

 

Wednesday March 4th, 7:00 am PT:
Open Metadata Exchange: Enabling OER Access Across Libraries

 

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​​The Open Metadata Exchange (OME) is a decentralized network that enables open education libraries to share and discover openly licensed resources and metadata across institutions or organizations while maintaining local control.

Learn more and register for this session on ISKME.org!

 

 

Wednesday March 4th, 9:00 am PT:
Introduction to OER Accessibility

 

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The Introduction to OER Accessibility sessions support our OER Commons community with the processes, tools, supports, and best practices for creating and remixing openly licensed resources for accessibility.

Register and learn more about this event.

 

 

Wednesday March 4th, 1pm PT:
Sowing the Seeds of a Global Movement: Stories from California Trailblazers  of Open Education

 

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This webinar launches a new Pressbooks volume, Sowing the Seeds of a Global Movement: Stories from California Trailblazers of Open Education, chronicles the California origins, evolution, and future impact of OER and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) programs.
Join this session!

 

 

Celebrating the Launch of New OER Partner Projects This Week

Launching the InfoLit Hub of Information Literacy Resources!

InfoLit OER are empowering, ethical, and essential for students of all ages and backgrounds. Educators of all grade levels are invited to join our hub to stay engaged.

Click here to join the hub. 

 

 

The Own Your History Hub is for educators who are preparing young Americans to become better-informed citizens. OYH offers a wide range of fact-based materials on seminal events in American history. You are invited to customize and localize the resources to tailor your students’ experiences and interests. 

 

In partnership with SwipeRx, with funding from the Gates Foundation, ISKME has created an open-access Pharmacy Tools for Contraceptive Choice Hub which offers the first pharmacy-focused digital tools designed to expand contraceptive choice in low and middle income countries. These tools were designed by SwipeRx with user-centered design principles including codesign with pharmacy professionals in Nigeria, Senegal and Vietnam.

 

 

Standards-aligned and Culturally Responsive OER in New Mexico

The New Mexico Public Education Department is launching their new site, NMOER. The NMPED grounds their open education practice in Open Pedagogy, authenticity, and community partnerships. From the New Mexico History Museum to the Indigenous Instructional Scope see where OER can take you on NMOER.

 

ISKME is a nonprofit organization that seeks to make education more participatory and open. 

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