OpenCon Ohio 2026 - Call for Registration

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Heather E Caprette

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Apr 8, 2026, 10:17:49 AM (3 days ago) Apr 8

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Dear Colleagues,

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!

The virtual part of the event will be held online the week of May 11-15, 2026. During the week, asynchronous conversations will be held online in Discord to discuss prerecorded lightning talks. On Friday, May 15, we will have live presentations and interactive conversations via Zoom!

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)!

We are also pleased to offer an in-person component to our event for the first time since 2020. Our in-person preconference event will be held at Cleveland State University on Thursday, May 14th. The free preconference is meant to build community, allow for the exchange of ideas and resources, and offer training related to textbook affordability for our Ohio colleagues. The intended audience for this event is support staff at Ohio institutions. Registration (while spots last) includes breakfast and lunch. The preconference is generously sponsored by the Midwest Higher Education Compact (MHEC).

Registration for the May 14th preconference is open through April 16th. Registration for the May 15th virtual conference is open through May 8th.

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