Final Call for Registration for OpenCon Ohio 2026!

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Heather E Caprette

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May 5, 2026, 10:32:54 AM (8 days ago) May 5

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Dear Colleagues,

Last call to register for this free, virtual conference! Registration closes at EOD on Friday, May 8th!

Call for Registration

If you are interested in attending an open education conference that:

Offers maximal flexibility for attendees to view content when it is convenient
Has an amazing keynote speaker
Prioritizes community building, both synchronous and asynchronous
Is in its 9th year of supporting the open ed community
Is completely free and online ...

... then we hope you will join us for OpenCon Ohio 2026!

Registration for the May 15th virtual conference is open through May 8th.

This year’s OpenCon Ohio 2026 will be offered for free via Zoom on Friday, May 15, 2026 with an in-person preconference on May 14 at Cleveland State University. Our theme this year will be Reimagining Learning: The Future of Open Education. We are thrilled to have Anna Mills, visionary leader in open education and AI, as our keynote speaker (more info below)! Conference lightning talks include the following and more:

AI as Co-Designer: Reimagining Open Pedagogy Through Transparent, Ethical AI Integration
Champions of Affordability: Designing a Library-Led OER Recognition Program
Lessons from an Accessibility Audit of 100 LibGuides
You Matter: Supporting Our Community through Reading, Writing, and More Success Strategies

Synchronous online sessions include the following, plus the keynote described below:

Designing Open Learning Tools in a Generative AI Era
Accessibility by Design: Agentic AI for Pressbook Accessibility
From Local Practice to Collective Futures in Open Education
Looking into Your Open Education Future: Discussion Opportunity

More details and full schedule: https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/oa/opencon2026/

Keynote Speaker (May 15) via Zoom:

Anna Mills, Visionary leader in open education and AI Writing

Anna Mills has taught writing in California community colleges for 20 years and is author of the widely used open educational resource textbook How Arguments Work: A Guide to Writing and Analyzing Texts in College and the newly released AI and College Writing: An Orientation. Her writing on AI appears in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Computers and Composition, AIPedagogy.org, and TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments. She serves on the Modern Language Association Task Force on Writing and AI. As a volunteer advisor, she has helped shape the pedagogical approach of MyEssayFeedback.ai, and she currently serves as prompting and communications lead for the Peer & AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR) project funded by the California Education Learning Lab.

Please feel free to direct any questions to Mandi Goodsett at a.goo...@csuohio.edu and/or Heather Caprette at h.cap...@csuohio.edu.

We hope you can join us!

Sincerely,

OpenCon Ohio 2026 Planning Committee

"for there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it" - Amanda Gorman