Register for Open Education Talks 2025!

This week's theme: Student Partners and Engagement: Strategies and Practices

We are excited to announce the fourth annual offering of The Open Education Talks. This series of lightning talks and new digital poster wall focus on open education in postsecondary institutions. These 15-minute talks and posters will cover facets of open education, including open pedagogy and learning, utilizing open educational resources, and integrating open strategies in higher education.

These talks aim to create an accessible, virtual space to engage in conversations about open education. For these talks, we share our understanding of open education from the UNESCO Cape Town Declaration:

“…open education is not limited to just open educational resources. It also draws upon open technologies that facilitate collaborative, flexible learning and the open sharing of teaching practices that empower educators to benefit from the best ideas of their colleagues.''

Schedule and Topics:

Every Wednesday in March 2025 from 12:00 pm - 1:30pm MT, presentations will focus on the following broad topics:

• Building Blocks of Open Education: These talks focus on the basics of open education, what it is, and why it has had an impact on higher education, including examples. 
• Artificial intelligence, Technology, and Open Education: These talks focus on emerging and responsive connections between artificial intelligence, technology, and Open Education. 
• Student Leadership and Partnership in Open Education: These talks amplify student-led Open Education projects and initiatives.
• Tensions and Possibilities for the Future of Open Education: These talks focus on how educators integrate open research into their courses and scholarship of teaching and learning practices.

For more information, visit the Open Education Talks website.

Registration:

Registration is free and open to all interested in attending. On the registration page, you can select to attend one or more of the weekly sessions.

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Open Education Talks Steering Committee

This initiative has been developed in partnership with the University of Calgary, Thompson Rivers University, University of Alberta, Mount Royal University, and University of British Columbia.

For more information about the Open Education Talks, please connect with Sarah Adams at oer@ucalgary.ca.