Call for Proposals 

We are inviting proposals to facilitate 30 min breakout sessions focused on projects, initiatives, showcases or insights involving open education or 60 min interactive workshops. Proposals should keep the conference theme in mind, "Surviving and Thriving" and directly address one or more of the suggested topics/tracks. At the same time, you are encouraged to shape your proposed session to best communicate your unique experiences with and ideas about open education at the local, regional, national, and/or global level. 

Conference Theme: Surviving and Thriving 

Suggested Topics/Tracks:

• Student success stories and metrics from OER implementation

• Opportunities for collaboration/connection across colleges/institutions/K-12

• Institutional OER initiatives: successes and lessons learned

• Engagement with students about OER and textbook costs

• Obstacles to OER adoption (and maybe how to overcome them)

• Technologies to support development and dissemination of OER

• Local, regional, national, and/or global arguments for OER

• Experiences authoring and remixing OER

• What It Means to be a "Leader" in Open Education 

• Ensuring that OER meet accesibility guidelines 

• Using AI to create or adapt OER 

Session Formats: 

Virtual Presentation -- 25 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A

An opportunity to showcase and share a project, strategy, or idea.  

Interactive Virtual Workshop -- 60 minutes

Designed to maximize interaction and involve participants in some sort of meaningful work, whether individual or collaborative. Participants should (virtually) walk away from a workshop with something that they can use immediately in their classroom or open education initiative. 

Proposals (for either breakout sessions or workshops) with a commercial or product-centered focus will be considered, but only if the reviewers determine that it will be valuable to attendees. 

Call for Proposals Deadline: Sunday, November 16, 2025