OEGlobal 2026

OEGlobal 2026

All sessions are available online except round tables, special activities, and workshops.

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8:45am EDT

Welcome to Day 2 1 Salon MIT

9:00am EDT

Keynote 3 1 Salon MIT

10:30am EDT

AI Enhanced Open Pedagogy: Empowering Students as OER Creators in Mathematics 8 DR6Virginia Thompson From Print to Audiobook: Amplifying Student Voices Through Open Pedagogy 2 Room MLauren Kosrow • Danielle Oakes Open Pedagogy in Action: Enhancing Information Literacy Through Student-Led OER Revision 4 Room TVirginia Clinton-Lisell Reframing the Past, Reimagining the Future: OER Project’s Approach to History and Climate Education 6 DR4Chelsea Katzenberg • Angelina Meadows Comb Service Learning: Decolonizing Open Education Through African Knowledge Co-Creation 5 DR3Judith Pete The Curious Commons: Towards a Digital Public Goods Lab 7 DR5Tanveer Hasan • Vasudeva Varma Open Education Fresk, a Collaborative Workshop to Explore Benefits of Open Sharing and Best Practices 3 Room IAnne-Catherine Baseilhac • Arnaud Guével

11:05am EDT

Connecting the Opens in Europe: From Strategy to Alliance-Building for Knowledge as a Public Good 2 Room MPaola Corti • Vanessa Proudman • Paul Stacey From Campsite to Commons: Reimagining Who Builds and Owns Open Knowledge 4 Room TTyson Brown • Patrick Cavanagh Identify, Connect, and Refresh: A Practical Framework for Multi-Institutional Collaboration to Democratize Educational Resources 5 DR3Ying-Wei Leong Innovating Practices Around Open Education Through BarCamps and Unconferences. Learnings from 14 Years of OERcamps 8 DR6Jöran Muuß-Merholz • Nicole Hagen • Frank Homp TESSFEG: An Open Source Gamified Simulations System for Democratizing Technical Knowledge for Global Learners 6 DR4Pariton Langpoklakpam

11:50am EDT

A Massachusetts Initiative to Connect OER with Responsible AI Use 5 DR3Susan Tashjian • Donna Mellen • Robert Awkward • Ben Atchison An Open Introduction to Film: Lessons from a NotebookLM Case Study 6 DR4Tamara Perkins From Conference Spark to Campus Change: Students as Co-Creators of Open Practice 2 Room MSydney DelMastro • Lisa Young Futures Thinking in Open Education, and What to Do When the AI Bubble Bursts 8 DR6Billy Meinke-Lau What If Open Learning Began with the World Each Learner Brings? 4 Room TPaula Laurel Jackson Embedding Open Scholarship into the Ecosystem 3 Room IChris Bourg • Sue Kriegsman • Heather Sardis • Erin Stalberg Sometimes Open Isn’t Enough: Leveraging Library Resources in an Oer Ecosystem 7 DR5Cheryl Casey • Anna Crosswhite • Nancy A. Henke

12:25pm EDT

Digital Resilience of ePortfolios for Open Education – Lessons for the Future 2 Room MNorm Vaughn • Mphoentle Modise From AI Disclosure to Human Declaration: Centring Human Authorship in OER Creation 5 DR3Amanda Grey • Karen Meijer Teachers as Changemakers: Adopting OER for Environmental and Sustainability Education in Middle School 8 DR6Emily Grady The Open Science Adoption Gap in Research Training 6 DR4Mariana Porta Galván Wikipedia and Open Education 4 Room TAndrew Lih • Peter B. Kaufman

12:55pm EDT

Lunch 9 7th Floor Lobby

1:40pm EDT

After the Origin Story: Inheriting, Reframing, and Growing a Library-Led OER Program 5 DR3Christine Rickabaugh Building the Open Education Association: A Framework for Field-Building 8 DR6Nicole Allen • Joy Shoemate • Aishah Abdullah Reimagining Open Practices at Scale: How Massachusetts Is Using Strategic Planning and Privacy-Conscious AI to Advance and Deepen the Utilization of OER 6 DR4Robert Awkward • Carey Zigouras • Sarah C. Hutton The Keys to Opening Open Pedagogy: Unlocking Student-Created Digital Escape Rooms Through Renewable Assignments 2 Room MNatalie Lopez What Would You Do with $100? Student-Centered OER Advocacy in the Library 4 Room TKhrisma McMurray Charting the Path: Seeding the Open Education Movement 7 DR5DeLaina Tonks • Katsusuke Shigeta • Willem van Valkenburg • Curt Newton • Brandon Muramatsu Commons, Ecosystems, and Schools: Structures for Futuring Open 3 Room ILisa Petrides • Jim Luke • Robin DeRosa

2:15pm EDT

Building Bridges Between Higher Education and K-12 Through Open Lifelong Learning 5 DR3Fatma Bozkurt • Çelebi Kalkan Learning in the Wild: A Large-Scale Analysis of GenAI as a Dialogic Open Educational Resource 8 DR6Eyal Rabin Multilingual Glossary – an OER Addressing Social Injustice in Learning Pharmacology at Nelson Mandela University 2 Room MGino Fransman • Doina Naude • Janet Barry The Open EdTech Advantage: Winning Support (and Funding) in a Proprietary World 6 DR4Taylor Jadin The Pit Stop Program at NC State: Where Emerging Educational Technology Meets Open Practice 4 Room TMaria Gallardo-Williams • David Tully • Katya Mueller • Tyler Kroon • Campbell Barnes

3:00pm EDT

Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Open Education During Politically Challenging Times 2 Room MWayde Oshiro • Lauren Kosrow Conversations in Care: Strategies for Collective Healing in the Open Education Movement 8 DR6Natalie Hill • Veronica Vold Designing AI to Support Learning, Not Bypass It: A CLT-Grounded MOOC Case from NTHU 6 DR4Tonny Menglun Kuo OERs for Kids, Edited by Kids – Online Engagement to Maximise Accessibility and Learning Outcomes 7 DR5Laura Henderson Re-Designing an International, Student-Led, Co-Curricular, Community-Engaged, Experiential Learning Project for OA 5 DR3Beth Lewis Samuelson Fostering Creativity in Creative Commons: Empowering Communities to Remix Educational Resources 4 Room TAda Ren-Mitchell Open Publishing in Practice Across Europe 3 Room ICeline Peignen • Maura Flynn • Amanda Coolidge • Kirstine McDermid • Jane Saunders

3:35pm EDT

Activating Open Collections for Education: Developing Decolonial OER from Cultural Heritage Collections 2 Room MAmanda Figueroa • Nicole Malli Building the Next Generation of Open Educators: Open Textbooks, Networks and Conversations for the Future 7 DR5Glenda Cox • Nico Pampier Creating Community Through Curiosity: Student Authored Open Texts at the Queensland University of Technology 8 DR6Sal Kleine • Michael Hawks • Gabrielle Hayes Cross-Institutional Assessment of Student Outcomes Associated with Course Material Cost in Massachusetts Public Higher Education 5 DR3Connie Strittmatter • Amanda Simons • Bernadette Sibuma • Emma Wood • Robert Awkward • Emily Alling • Suzanne Smith The Content Mafia: How Publishers Weaponize Copyright to Control Educational Resources 6 DR4Beth Chenette Design Discomfort: The Friction Open Education Requires 4 Room TCameron King

4:20pm EDT

Designed for Humans: Invitations and Boundaries for the Future of Open Courses 6 DR4Claire Sparklin • Michelle Westerdale For the Benefit of All: Rethinking OER Access Through Discoverability and Student Navigation 5 DR3Cheryl Bailey • Rachel Fleming Open Access in Action: The Real-World Impact of Transformative Agreements 7 DR5Sarah Whalen The Structural Value of Openness: Open Infrastructure for Public Good 8 DR6Laurie Hurson Make a Zine and Make Community 4 Room TElizabeth Siler Inventing Open Together: A Massachusetts Snapshot of Statewide Collaboration 3 Room IChris Laney • Gina Foley • Bernadette Sibuma • Ceit De Vitto • Heather Blicher Sparking Connection, Creativity, and Curiosity with the Open Education Network 2 Room MOpen Education Network

4:55pm EDT

Augmenting Open Educational Resources at Scale: AI-Driven Approaches to Adoption, Adaptation, and Distribution 6 DR4Delmar Larsen Beyond Open Access: The CARE–KNOW–DO Framework for Transformative Open Education 5 DR3Alexandra Okada How Can Open Education and Artificial Intelligence Be Sustained to Build a Better World? 8 DR6Werner Westermann When Open Content Moves Beyond Vision: Tactile and Multisensory Design for Accessibility 7 DR5Taekyeom Lee Beyond Tech vs Content: Articulating the Public Interest in AI Policy:The Open Education Perspective 4 Room TWilliam Cross • Meredith Jacob • Robin DeRosa

5:30pm EDT

Preparing for the Future of Work: Communications Between Workforce and OER 3 Room IJaimie Henthorn • Mindy Newfarmer Beyond Epistemicide: The Polymath Protocol for Decentralized Knowledge Creation in the Global South 7 DR5Dhairya Chauhan Designing Open Support Ecosystems for First-Year Open and Distance Learners: Lessons from PASE SUAyED 6 DR4Indira Ochoa • María José Barrera Olmedo • Anabel de la Rosa Gómez Inventing Together: Collaborative Product Strategy in the Open edX Ecosystem 8 DR6Jenna Makowski Open as a Strategic Imperative for Sustaining Public Systems 5 DR3Josie Gray Who Gets Credit When AI Shares the Work? A Provenance Conversation 4 Room TVictoria Brame • Chris Macek

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