With less than two months to go, GO-GN is looking forward to participating in this year’s Open Education Global (#OEGlobal26) conference. The conference is taking place 7-9 October 2026 face-to-face at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and online.
This year’s conference theme is Come invent with us! Innovating open practices to uphold and uplift knowledge as a public good.
We are delighted that a total of 22 conference sessions feature 16 GO-GN doctoral researchers and/or alumni, GO-GN pilot hub leads and/or the GO-GN co-ordination team! With a fantastic array of sessions to choose from, you can review our curated list of GO-GN presentations below.
- Find out more about the conference and read more on this year’s theme.
- Check out the full schedule.
- Register for the conference!
Please note that all times are EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). Check out the time where you are. GO-GN doctoral members and alumni are highlighted in bold.
Wednesday 7 October 2026
11.50 – 12.25 AI and the future of openness: Insights from the DOERS AI+OER project. Kathy Essmiller. Room: 7 DR5.
15.35 – 16.20. GO-GN Canada Hub – Rediscovering the land as open educators. Connie Blomgren, Darrion Letendre and Aga Palalas. Room: 7 DR5.
15.35 – 16.20. Data in your neighbourhood: Exploring the potential of secondary data analysis in open education research. Stacy Katz and Jennifer Van Allen. Room: 4 Room T.
16.20 – 16.55. Practicing Rebellion: Strategies to sustain open education leadership. Christina Hendricks, Christine Rickabaugh, Joan Giovannini, Allison Buckley, Ginelle Baskin, Veronica Vold and Brandon Carson. Room: 3 Room I
17.30 – 18.00. Measuring student perceptions of open educational practices in a co-created course. Brandon Carson. Room: 6 DR4.
Thursday 8 October 2026
10.30 – 11.05. Service learning: Decolonizing open education through African knowledge co-creation. Judith Pete. Room: 5 DR3.
11.50 – 12.25. Futures thinking in open education, and what to do when the AI bubble bursts. Billy Meinke-Lau. Room: 8 DR6.
12.25 – 12.55. Teachers as changemakers: Adopting OER for Environmental and Sustainability Education in Middle School. Emily Grady. Room: 8 – Dining Room – 6th floor.
13.40 – 14.15. Reimagining open practices at scale: How Massachusetts is using strategic planning and privacy-conscious AI to advance and deepen the utilization of OER. Robert Awkward, Carey Zigouras and Sarah C. Hutton. Room: 6 DR4.
14.15 – 15.00. Learning in the Wild: A large-scale analysis of GenAI as a dialogic open educational resource. Eyal Rabin. Room: 8 DR6.
14.15 – 15.00. Multilingual Glossary – an OER addressing social injustice in learning pharmacology at Nelson Mandela University. Gino Fransman, Doina Maude and Janet Barry. Room: 2 Room M.
15.35 – 16.20. Building the next generation of open educators: Open textbooks, networks and conversations for the future. Glenda Cox and Nico Pampier. Room: 7 DR5.
Friday 9 October 2026
10.30 – 11.05. Democratizing knowledge through the localization of OER at the school and classroom level in Lebanon. Bethany Eldridge. Room: 7 DR5.
10.30 – 11.05. Sustainable open education: Ideation, advocacy, policy, networks and champions. Igor Lesko. Room: 6 DR4.
12.25 – 12.55. Critical open educational practices: Beyond access, toward pedagogical transformation. Lori-Beth Larsen. Room: 4 Room T.
12.25 – 12.55. The Global Open Graduate Network’s Pilot Hubs: A networked approach to scaling open education research. Robert Farrow, Beck Pitt, Carina Bossu and Saraswati Dawadi. Room: 6 DR4.
13.40 – 14.15. Compensating the creator: Four grant models of tiered OER support. Amy Hofer, Sabrina Davis, Hans Aagard and Emily Helton. Room: 4 Room T.
15.00 – 15.35. The future of openness is shared: Co-creating communication strategies. Kathy Essmiller and Jodi Karlin. Room: 5 DR3.
15.35 – 16.15. From evidence to understanding: Aligning OER research with disciplinary practice. Kathy Essmiller and Jennifer Pate. Room: 3 Room I.
15.35 – 16.15. Open as resilience: Collaborations, storytelling and solidarity in contexts of crisis. Paola Corti, Heather Blicher and Adriana D’Amico. Room: 7 DR5.
16.15 – 16.30. Experiences of online faculty in using open pedagogy to support social justice. Melissa Ashman. Video.
16.15 – 16.30. Reinventing assessment as an open educational practice: an experience in a postgraduate course in Uruguay. Ada Czerwonogora. Video.
Image credits: Featured image: #OEGlobal26 visual is by Mario Badilla at OEGlobal and is licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. GO-GN penguin images: Bryan Mathers of Visual Thinkery for GO-GN and licensed CC BY 4.0.
