GO-GN is delighted to be participating in this year’s UK open education conference (OER26) on 22 and 23 June 2026. The conference theme is Openness Reimagined: Continuity, Change and Shared Vision. OER26 will take place face-to-face at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
A total of 37 sessions feature 31 GO-GN members, alumni and/or the team. GO-GN will be supporting 16 members and alumni to participate in the conference. We will also be holding a 1-day workshop post-conference.
- Find out more and register for the conference!
- Listen to GO-GN co-directors (and conference co-chairs) Rob and Beck on Terry Greene’s podcast Comin’ up for Air!
- Join GO-GN’ers live and direct from Milton Keynes on Wednesday 24 June 2026 at 12.00-12.45BST to discuss the conference, workshop and more! Join the call.
All times below are BST (GMT/UTC+1). GO-GN members, alumni or the team are highlighted in bold. Schedule will be updated with room information shortly.
Monday 22 June 2026
11.05-12.05 Stop leaving students to guess: Reimagining OER through the PASS framework. Brenda Smith, Verena Roberts, Lindsay Blackstock and Sharon Brewer.
11.05-12.05 Teaching open education: A collective, inclusive and digitally-critical approach. Suzanne Stone, Angelica Risquez, Catherine Cronin, Celine Peignen, Claire McAvinina, Eamon Costello, James Brunton, Fiona O’Riordan.
12.15-13.15. Making things local: the why, what and how. Katherine Huth.
12.15-13.15. Equity through co-design: Building just and open teacher development pathways in crisis settings. Gabi Witthaus, Tejendra Pherali, Elaine Chase and Greg Tyrosvoutis.
12.15-13.15. “Openness” in economic and refugee crises: How a Lebanese non-profit organization supports teachers of vulnerable students through its localization of OER. Bethany Eldridge.
12.15-13.15. Federating openness: The Global Open Graduate Network pilot hub initiative. Beck Pitt, Rob Farrow, Carina Bossu and Saraswati Dawadi.
12.15-13.15. Re-imagining student co-creation in engineering design: An open platform to bridge pedagogy, industry practice and OER. Anuradha Peramunugamage, Chulantha Jayawardena and Carina Bossu.
12.15-13.15. Open Educational Practices as digital public goods: Promoting resilience, equity and innovation in Higher Education ecosystems. Javiera Atenas, Leo Havemann and Fabio Nascimbeni.
14.00-15.00. Practicing what we preach: Embedding open educational practices in the Research Capability Hub (RCH). Carina Bossu, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Craig Walker, Bart Rienties, Helen Selby-Fell, Franzi Florack, Duygu Bektik and Paul Walley.
15.00-16.10. GitHub as sociotechnical infrastructure for responsible openness: Practices and tensions in open education. Juan Pablo Rivera Barrera, Frank Alexander Parra Sanchez, Henry Omar Sarmiento Maldonado, and Carmen Amalia Camacho Sanabria.
15.00-16.10. What have we learned about open education after 20 years of OpenLearn? Andy Lane, Simon Ashby, Cathy Casserley and Glenda Cox.
15.00-16.10. What it really takes, getting OER to remote areas: A journey. Katherine Huth.
15.00-16.10. Stewarding our past with care and collective vision: Archiving 50 years of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland’s ephemera with the Digital Repository of Ireland. Mags Almond, Kate Molloy and Richard Millwood.
15.00-16.10. Exploring the use of Open Educational Practices (OEP) and professional learning by sessional instructors in Western Canada: A case study. Manisha Khetarpal.
15.00-16.10. What happens when open educational practice is guided not by institutions, but by land? Melissa Jakubec and Verena Roberts.
16.10-17.30. Defining “open” Artificial Intelligence in Education: Expert variations. Vidminas Vizgirda, Vi Truong and Robert Farrow.
16.10-17.30. Bildung and epistemologies of the South: A promising horizon for open education? Sandrine Favre and Barbara Class.
16.10-17.30. Eight years of collective learning on equity, diversity and inclusion in open education: Reflections from the Global Open Graduate Network (GO-GN). Carina Bossu, Beck Pitt and Rob Farrow.
16.10-17.30. Critical literacy in data and AI through the digital humanities: A proposal for open educational practices at secondary level. Alejandra Beatriz Lliteras and Alejandro Martin Artopoulos.
16.10-17.30. Student perceptions of the community inquiry framework in open entry, online courses: Implications for open practices and pedagogical design. Melissa Jakubec.
16.10-17.30. Resilience after ACEs: A bilingual open educational resource as a practice of care for university students. Angelica Janeth Cortez Soto.
16.10-17.30. Valuing OEP: Community, care and scholarship. Leo Havemann.
Tuesday 23 June 2026
10.35-11.35. Reimagining openness: Insights from the DOERS AI + OER project. Kathy Essmiller.
11.45-12.45. Generative AI, OER and platformisation: A literature review and multiple case study analysis of emerging open education futures. Virginia Rodes-Paragarino, Ben Williamson and Javiera Atenas.
11.45-12.45. Ibero-America and Open Education: Between challenge and innovation. Virginia Rodes and Francisco Iniesto.
11.45-12.45. Theoretical frameworks in doctoral open research (2005-2025): An extended review from global perspectives. Wale Iyinolakan.
11.45-12.45. Thirty years of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education: Open scholarship as intellectual practice. Robert Farrow and Katy Jordan.
13.30-14.30. Humanizing learning in online spaces for instructors of adult learners who face barriers to postsecondary education. Meridith Lovell-Johnston, Joan Chambers, Sonia Mastrangelo, Lucas Johnson, Helen DeWaard, Steven Secord and Rebecca Toman.
13.30-14.30. Research Funding Workshop. Robert Farrow and Beck Pitt.
13.30-14.30. Opening education: what is in and what is out? When designing an offline server, what would you include and why? Katherine Huth.
13.30-14.30. Recessing Openness: A hands-on, collaborative approach to knowledge making and movement. Rehshetta Wells.
13.30-14.30. Rethinking openness in educational research: From open outputs to open processes. Verena Roberts, Barbara Brown and Sandra Abegglen.
13.30-14.30. Developing an undergraduate certificate in publishing and editing. Kathy Essmiller and Aimee Parkison.
14.50-15.50. Beyond borders: ICT self-efficacy, perception and use of open educational resources, and academic performance among undergraduates in Nigerian universities. Wale Iyinolaken.
14.50-15.50. Beyond access: How doctoral students in Nigeria engage with open educational practices. Esther Jatto and Abiola Abioye.
14.50-15.50. Opening up digital energy learning for all: The case of the Every1 project. Denise Whitelock, Beck Pitt, Irina Rets, Leigh-Anne Berryman and Chris Edwards.
14.50-15.50. Open education fellowship programme: Students-as-partners for the promotion of student voice through co-creation and co-authoring. Bianca Masuku and Glenda Cox.
Image credits: Berrill Building, The Open University is by Beck Pitt and licensed CC BY 2.0. GO-GN artwork produced by Bryan Mathers (Visual Thinkery) for GO-GN and licensed CC BY 4.0.
Hello everyone!
I feel happy and grateful for the experiences we shared during the two days of the OER2026 conference and the GO GN workshop. A wonderful group of professionals dedicated to open education. Thank you for letting me be part of it. Let’s all work together for open education!
Best regards,
Ale Lliteras from Argentina (AlfaDatizando)