Open Education Week 2025

Open Education Week is March 3rd – 7th, 2025, and Saskatchewan Polytechnic Library will be hosting a series of events.  

Please register for a session to receive invitation to view the recording when they are available.

Open Education Week (OE Week) is a yearly event that showcases and celebrates the amazing achievements of the global Open Education community. It was started in 2012 by Open Education Global and has become a collaborative and open space for sharing and learning. During these events, participants will have the opportunity to build a greater understanding of open educational practices and explore how openness can enhance learning, teaching, and content creation. Open Education has the potential to make education more accessible, improve content quality, and empower learners to be critical thinkers and knowledge creators.  

Whether you are attending live events, contributing open resources, or engaging in discussions, OE Week celebrates open education as an exciting solution for learning and knowledge dissemination! 

Event Information 

Monday, March 3, 2:30pm - 3:30pm: Andrés Vera from Wiki Education - Register Here.

• Teaching with Wikipedia (for all disciplines) at Saskatchewan Polytechnic: Creating an OE resource While Assessing Student’s work 
• In this 50-minute webinar, you'll learn how to use a Wikipedia assignment and how to access Wiki Education's free support and resources. With the rise of AI, assessing student work is challenging. This session will show how a Wikipedia assignment can take students beyond the classroom. By using faculty expertise and Wikipedia's rules, students can fill content gaps, improve representation, and enhance citations. Wiki Education supports many faculty in the U.S. and Canada with custom syllabi, resources, training, and staff support. Students gain research, writing, and digital literacy skills while improving knowledge equity. 

 

Tuesday, March 4, 12:00pm - 1:30pm: Lucas Wright and Will Engel, from University of British Columbia - Register Here.

• Unbottling the Genai: a workshop exploring Gen AI and Open Educational Resource
• This workshop will focus on practical magic where you will co-create a textbook chapter and explore how AI can be used in OER. Join Lucas Wright and Will Engel, experts from the Learning and Teaching division of the University of British Columbia for an interactive online workshop about generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) and Open Educational Resources (OER). We will also explore legal and ethical issues, such as copyright and privacy. You are welcome to join for part of the workshop and catch the rest on the recording.

 

Wednesday, March 5, 2:30pm - 3:30pm: Harvey Knight, Andrea Jonasson, Donna Thiessen- Register Here.

• Seeking âsokanihkew - a conversation about bridging 40 years of copyright and First Nations Knowledge 
• In the late 1980s, Alexander Wolfe wanted to save his family and community oral tradition stories, so he wrote a book called "Earth Elder Stories." Harvey Knight from Muskoday First Nation assisted in the writing of the book. Harvey will talk about the book's history (why oral tradition was committed to print) and discuss how oral tradition stories should be used in libraries and communities now and in the future. Andrea Jonasson, a Saskatchewan Polytechnic instructor will talk about her experience using the stories in her classroom. Participants are invited to bring their experiences with using traditional knowledge in the classroom. 

 

Thursday, March 6, 2:30pm - 3:30pm - Justin Matheson, Matthew Van Nus, Katrina Matt Register Here.

• . . . but is it Learning? Game-based Learning and Sharing OE Resources in a College Curriculum

• At Saskatchewan Polytechnic, we're learning how to use games in education. Last year, the Saskatoon library set up a gaming lab (the SPARK lab) and this year we are using an OE tool called H5P (integrated into Pressbooks) to make interactive learning modules. This session will explore using game-based learning and gamification, and how they can help engage students, with some success stories. Join Justin Matheson from Learning Technologies and Instructor and Registered Nursed, Matthew Van Nus in a session hosted by Saskatoon Library Supervisor, Katrina Matt.