Open Education Week is here!

[Walz, Anita]

Happy Spring Break at Virginia Tech -- and Happy Open Education Week! 

While international Open Education Week events overlap with VT's Spring Break and VT's programs occur later (see next paragraph) if you'd like to participate in Open Education Week you can still head over to oeweek.org to see the calendar of 244 events hosted by 135 organizers from around the world and explore the growing collection of open assets shared to the world’s OER repositories. A list of all of today’s events is available on the OEWeek website, and some highlights for the week are forwarded below.

In two weeks the University Libraries' Open Knowledge Committee is again hosting a "Connecting the Opens" panel discussion in partnership with the Grad School's Future Professoriate course. This panel will feature library faculty specializing in Open Publishing, Open Data, and Open Education and will be joined by Emeritus Professor, Dr. Don Orth, author of peer-reviewed open textbook: Fish, Fishing and Conservation (2023). (See book review.) This event is scheduled for March 18^th 6-8pm in person and online. Register here. 

Published (and forthcoming) openly-licensed works published thru the Open Education Initiative are listed and linked from https://bit.ly/VTOERShowcase. Further information about these open educational resources (OER) releases and their respective stories at: https://openvt.lib.vt.edu  

NOTE: Grants are available for summer work so if you or colleagues have a project in mind to leverage or create an more open, affordable learning strategy using, customizing, or creating open educational resources, or if you're interested in collaborating on assessment software pilot projects (example) to replace homework software access codes, or in other projects we're working on regarding accessibility of documents created in LaTeX, I'd love to hear from you. Please contact me or book an appointment with me.  

Warm regards,

Anita

Anita R. Walz

Associate Professor

Assistant Director for Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Library Liaison to Economics and Legal Studies

Virginia Tech | University Libraries (0434)

560 Drillfield Drive

Blacksburg, VA 24061

arw...@vt.edu | T: 540-231-2204 | Twitter: @arwalz

http://www.lib.vt.edu

Open Educational Resources Guide http://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer

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From: Liz Yata <liz...@oeglobal.org>

Subject: Open Education Week is here!

 

It’s day 1 of Open Education Week 2024! 

If you haven’t already, head over to oeweek.org to see the calendar of 244 events hosted by 135 organizers and explore the growing collection of open assets shared to the world’s OER repositories. And while you’re there, add your own event or resource.

Weeklong events:

We Like Sharing @ OEGlobal - For We Like Sharing @ OEGlobal we invite anyone to share a photograph that communicates a visual metaphor for the potential, benefits, characteristics of openly sharing. We seek especially photos from all parts of the world that convey something special about that place.

OE Week 2024 Open Education Challenge Series - 5 days, 5 challenges, each done in 10 minutes. Sign up and every day during #OEweek24 you will receive an email with information and a challenge that you can do in 10 min. or less.

Knowledge Equity Network (KEN) Lightning Thoughts, Lightning Talks - KEN presents a series of thought provoking bite-sized videos, sent to you daily during OEWeek. These talks will focus on the ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of Open Education from across the world, focusing on the perspectives of a variety of signatories from the Knowledge Equity Network.

Open Education Global live events:

9:30 am - 10:30 am EST - OE Week Live! Special Session on AI Language Translation (of AI for Teachers)

11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST - OE Week Live! Welcome and First Round of Conversations

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm EST - OE Week Live! Monday Open Conversations #2

Featured events:

10:00 am - 12:00 pm EST: Conestoga Panel Discussion and Screening of Dr. Cable Green’s “Diamond Open Knowledge” OE Global Keynote (CCCOER member)

11:30 am - 12:45 pm EST - OER and Social Justice: Are We Keeping Our Promises? Affordable Learning Kentucky

1:00 pm - 1:20 pm EST - Maada’oonidiwag – Sharing Anishinaabe pedagogies into a Western OER- presented by Jamie Kechego and Lorie Stolarchuk University of Windsor (OEGlobal member) 

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm EST - Open Educational Resources: Building Equity in Education Madison Area Technical Colleges Library (CCCOER Member)

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST - Planes, trains, and generative AI: Recentering open education values in new technology adoption BC Open Education Librarians

2:00 pm - 3:00pm EST - Copyright, Creative Commons, and You! NorQuest College (CCCOER Member and OEGlobal 2023 conference host)

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST - Centering Social Justice in OER with Dr. Jasmine Roberts-Crews San Mateo CCCD Textbook Affordability Solutions Workgroup

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST - OER 101: Getting Started with Open Educational Resources Open Oregon (CCCOER Member) 

Need more OEWeek? View all of today’s events on the OEWeek website or take a look at CCCOER’s OEWeek events