OpenEd Week 2026 at Texas A&M

Join the Open Education revolution!

#OEWeek – launches 2-6 March – 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 15th 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.

OER Development Incentive Programs for Faculty (In-Person)

Grant funding? Course release time? SGA Awards? Learn more about available incentives for TAMU Faculty to develop, adapt, or adopt Open Educational Resources as alternatives to costly course materials.

Postcards: Let’s Thank Faculty Who Use Low-Cost Materials! (In-Person)

Students, do you have instructors who use Open Educational Resources instead of commercial textbooks for their courses? Join us in thanking them for making their courses more affordable. Come write a quick note and OpenEd will send it for you. No registration required.

Discussion Panel –"Faculty Voices: Unlocking Affordable Education” (In-Person)

Join us for an engaging moderated panel discussion featuring five TAMU faculty members who are leading the charge in making education more accessible and affordable.

Panelists: Dr. Vanessa Coffelt, Dr. Ryan Fletcher, Dr. Jeremiah Green, Dr. Catharina Laporte, and Dr. Aurora Le.

How to Adopt/Adapt an OER for Faculty (In-Person)

Presenter: Johannah White

Join Johannah White, TAMU OER Librarian, and learn more about the process of adopting an open educational resource.

CRAFTernoon: Junk Journaling with Open Educational Resources (In-Person)

Presenters: Krystal Dean, Chance Medlin, OpenEd department 

Celebrate Open Education Week with us by starting a Junk Journal! Learn more about OpenEd at Texas A&M. Registration is NOT required for this event.

Invited Talk: “Designing AI-Supported OER: Creation, Scale, and Responsible Use” (Online)

Speaker: Joshua Hill, Hillsborough College, Tampa FL

This session focuses on AI OER creation in practice and presents a set of institution-ready guardrails that support responsible and scalable implementation. Positioning AI as a faculty-controlled productivity tool rather than an autonomous author, the session highlights human oversight, open licensing clarity, accessibility-first design, accuracy verification, and transparency of AI use. Drawing from applied AI-supported OER workflows and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) initiatives, the presentation demonstrates how these guardrails strengthen faculty confidence, reduce institutional risk, and enable sustainable open textbook creation at scale.

Intro to Open Book Publishing through TAMU Libraries Open Digital Publishing platform (In-Person)

Presenter: Seyed Shahrokni

Curious about publishing an open book with TAMU Libraries? This in-person session provides a brief overview of the open publishing paths and tools supported by our Open Digital Publishing service.