The Open Education Conference List and Webinar Calendar are two of the initial deliverables curated by the Open Education Association Development Project (opened.org). The Project has been developed in response to requests from the open community for a central place to find and share information. The list includes annual events with a primary focus on open education. Email contact@opened.org with questions, and if you have an event you would like to submit you are invited to do so using the suggestion box. 

The Northeast OER Steering Committee is excited to announce the upcoming Northeast OER Summit, a two-day, multi-state collaborative virtual event for new and experienced OER advocates offering groundbreaking ideas, reasearch, and best practices in Open Education. The conference will be offered virtually through UMass Amherst. The deadline for proposals is January 5, 2026.

This year’s theme is Building Bridges: Linking Local Foundations to Global Horizons. Suggested topics include

1. Collaborations Driving Open Education Initiatives
2. Artificial Intelligence
3. Automatic Textbook Billing and Homework Access Codes
4. Data, Assessment, Evaluation, and Advocacy
5. The Future of Open

• When: March 25 - 26, 2026
• Where: Online
• Cost: $35 before March 18, $50 after March 18
• Who Should Attend: People engaged in open education initiatives, including students, faculty, librarians, instructional technologists, administrators, and other campus leaders.
• Registration is now open
   

The Oklahoma Learning Innovations Summit (OKLIS) will be March 5-6, 2026. March 5 will be virtual, and March 6 will take place on the campus of Rose State College, Midwest City, OK. The 2026 OKLIS theme is "Beyond the Horizon: Leveraging Innovation and Readiness". Registration is free.

Presentation Tracks

Innovative Teaching and Learning:

Reimagining pedagogy for a changing world. Focus: Creative instructional practices, authentic assessment, and clasroom innovations that equip learners for the workforce.

Tools for Transfomative Learning

Practical innovations that power teaching, connection, and creativity. Focus: Exploring emerging tools, platforms, and practices that enhance how we design and deliver learning.

Readiness and Resilience:

Preparing faculty, students, and institutions for what's next. Focus: Building capacity and confidence through faculty development, student empowerment, and institutional adaptability.

Partnerships and the Future Workforce:

Connecting classrooms, careers, and communities. Focus: Collaboration between education, industry, and community to align learning with real-world needs.

Submit a Proposal

The Oklahoma Online Learning Excellence Awards provide state-wide recognition of individuals and groups that demonstrate exemplary leadership, innovation, collaboration, and results that advance online and blended learning in the State of Oklahoma. Consider nominating yourself or a colleague for awards in accessibility, innovation (individual or team), teaching, individual leadership, team/program/institution leadership, and open education impact. Awardees will be recognized during the Spring 2026 Oklahoma Learning Innovations Summit. 

Submit your nomination by Monday, February 2, 2026.

The 2026 Florida OER Summit will take place online May 20-21, 2026. The Summit will be held virtually May 21-22  This year's theme is "OER Understood the Assignment." Librarians, instructors, students, instructional designers, and OER professionals from anywhere in the US and beyond are invited to come together to explore how OER continues to meet the financial and pedagogical needs of students past, present, and future. Topics of interest for summit proposals include:

Mirror, Mirror in the classroom

• OER Reflections, looking back
• Examination of OER
• Assessment strategies
• Research or data analysis
• Authorship and remixes/adaptation

Pedagogy in Practice

• Open pedagogy for deeper student engagement and understanding
• Unique open pedagogy--creating something new
• Students as content builders

Nailed it!?

• A Spectrum of success--Florida OER Spectrum
• Did OER understand the assignment?
  • Let's try that again! How OER missed the assignment
  • How to fix it: How OER did get the assignment right

OER's Next Assignment

• Looking forward: OER roadmap
• Beyond OER textbooks: ZTC courses/degrees and AI
• Hopes, fears, and next steps
  • Publisher Models and the future of OER
  • Expectations (meeting ADA requirements, the forecast for OER)
• OER for the workforce

Submit a proposal by Friday, February 6, 2026. Decisions will be communicated by February 25, 2026.

The Colorado OER will take place at Arapahoe Community College in Little, Colorado on Friday, May 29, 2026. The 2026 theme is "Open for Good: Resilience, Innovation and Collaboration." Early bird registration is free.

The committee is inviting proposals from college faculty and instructors, K-12 educators, librarians, instructional designers, students, administrators and other OER advocates. Presentation formats include traditional presentation, roundtable, lightning talks, and workshops with a focus on resilience, innovation, and/or collaboration; you are invited to use this template as a guide for proposal development.

Proposals are due 11:50 PM Mountain time Sunday, February 15, 2026. Conference proposal decisions will be announced April 1, 2026.

The OERizona Network invites you to attend the 8th annual OERizona Converence scheduled to take place online February 19 and 20, 2026. This conference brings together people interested in sharing and discovering innovative teaching and learning practices, connecting with other educators, and further exploring how open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy can enhance student success. The 2026 Conference Theme is "Surviving and Thriving." Registration is open and attendance is free.

The 2026 Open Education Conference will take place online October 27-29, 2026. The Open Education Conference is an annual convening for sharing and learning about open educational resources and open practices. As the conference's 23rd annual gathering, OpenEd26 will be held fully online, with plans to return as a hybrid event in 2027. 

Sign up to receive updates regarding the call for proposals, opportunities for leadership, and to volunteer.

The 2026 OEGlobal Conference is a partnership between Open Education Global and the Massachussetts Institute of Technology Open Learning, and the Massachusetts Open & Low-Cost Educational Resources Advisory Council. This conference typically centers the sustainable development goals, and invites non-commercial approaches to achieving those goals through open practices. Find out more about the 2026 Conference and volunteer to help.

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