Open Education Week 2025
Open Education Week is a celebration of the global Open Education Movement. Its goal is to raise awareness about the movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Below are events scheduled for this week hosted by 九色视频 from the Center for Instruction & Research Technology and the Thomas G. Carpenter Library. For any questions, contact cirtlab@unf.edu.
Unlocking LinkedIn Learning: Locating and Integrating Open Educational Resources
Tuesday, March 4
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Online
Presenters: Rebekah Allred & Khia Thomas
Discover how LinkedIn Learning can enhance your course as an open educational resource. Join us for an interactive workshop with Rebekah Allred of LinkedIn Learning to explore how this free platform serves as a rich repository of video-based content across academic disciplines. You will be walked through how to locate and embed engaging and relevant instructional materials to supplement your own instruction in your courses. Don’t miss this opportunity to enrich your teaching!
Osprey Wings: A Student-Designed OER Textbook for Beginning Spanish
Friday, March 7
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: Online
Presenters: María Ángeles Fernández Cifuentes, Ph.D. and students
This presentation explores the development of Open Educational Resources (OER) in the classroom as a model to enhance learning outcomes and increase student agency while alleviating financial burdens associated with textbook costs. The focus is on an ongoing project to create an accelerated online Spanish textbook, where undergraduate students collaborate in designing a multimedia OER. The project incorporates Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), and other digital tools, all within the framework of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to address student variability."
Open Education Week Global
Week of March 3 - 7, 2025
OE Week connects hundreds of open educators worldwide to share their passion for open education by showcasing their innovations and collective work with students, technologists, and other faculty members.
This is the 14th edition of OEWeek. Since 2012, the open education community in 79 countries has hosted 2,064 events and shared 843 Open Education assets in 38 languages. Open Education Week has included 85,535 engaged participants from 192 countries.
Join the Open Education revolution!
"Open Educational Resources have been a great tool for us, for our students. I encourage everyone to use it. It is really, I believe, the future of education."
— Shyam Paryani, OER Initiative Participant
If you are interested in exploring how other institutions across the globe are recognizing OE Week see the .