News and Updates
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CCCOER Summer Book Club… with a new twist
This summer, join OEGlobal’s CCCOER Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee’s summer book club–with a new twist. This year’s series features a curated selection of academic articles exploring Global Perspectives on […]
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OEWeek 2026: The World Showed Up for Open Education
Open Education Week 2026 has drawn to a close — and what a celebration it was! Across every continent, time zone, and language, the Open Education community showed up. You hosted events, shared resources, sparked conversations, and reminded the world why being “open” matters.
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Ready for the new season of OEAwards: Planting Seeds of Recognition Again in 2026
Today the Open Education Awards for Excellence is starting the new cycle of recognition with the site now accepting nominations for the 2026 awards. Our ecological theme introduced last year […]
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OEWeek Ambassadors: Showing Up and What We’re Learning
Open Education Week (OEWeek) always leaves us with a lot to think about. Not just because of the number of events and contributions, but because of what it reveals about […]
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May 20 – CCCOER Webinar – A Fierce Commitment to Teaching: Michigan Faculty Voices on OER
At Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan, strong faculty collaboration fuels innovative teaching. This panel will share the story behind a “fierce commitment to teaching” and how that ethos shapes their work with Open Educational Resources. Learn how strategic OER integration during course redesign can improve learning outcomes, reduce costs, and remove financial barriers…
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Compelling Reasons to Attend OEGlobal 2026
One OEGlobal 2024 attendee said, “Universities are repositories of social hope,” and we couldn’t agree more! This October, the Open Education community will gather at MIT’s Samberg Conference Center, Cambridge MA, and online for OEGlobal 2026. The conversations we have there will help shape the next decade of Open Education. Read on for some reasons…
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From One Story to Many: Open Education as Resilience
CCCOER Director, Heather Blicher, explores how vital Open Education is when education systems (and populations) are under siege, and how important it is to listen to those powerful stories.
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April 14 – Opening the 2026 Season for OER Under the Hood
Join us for a new season of OER Under the Hood – live webinars featuring demos of OERs demonstrated by their creators.
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OEG Voices 097: Virginia Rodés, Colin de la Higuera, Lucie Grasset, and Marcela Morales
All of our episodes are special but this one even more so as it was recorded the day that the…
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CCCOER Webinar on April 15 – How Do Course Materials Impact Student Belonging? Insights from User Experience Research
Explore how course materials – especially OER – shape students’ sense of belonging through insights from a user-experience-informed research study with undergraduate learners.