The 2026 Open Education Global Conference is almost here! As the flagship gathering for educators, students, librarians, and leaders advancing Open Education worldwide, it’s always an inspiring milestone for our community—whether you are traveling to Cambridge, MA or participating online.
CCCOER members and community college leaders are leading high-impact sessions on AI integration, open pedagogy, ZTC pathways, and sustainable leadership.
Whether it’s online on in-person, be sure to bookmark these sessions. The full OEGlobal26 schedule is publicly available (until the conference, then only registered participants can view) in Sched.
Wednesday October 7, 2026
- From Frameworks to Futures: Rethinking OER Quality as a Shared Practice [Leeward Community College, Salt Lake Community College, College of Southern Nevada, Maricopa Community Colleges]
- The California ZTC Degree Grant Program: Preliminary Outcomes and What We’re Learning [College of the Canyons]
- OER Beyond Gen Ed: Lessons from Washington’s Professional-Technical Programs [Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges]
- Open All the Way Down: A Freely Reusable Toolkit for Scaling OER, Access, and Equity [Cosumnes River College]
- Data in Your Neighborhood: Exploring the Potential of Secondary Data Analysis in Open Education Research [Lehman College, CUNY]
- Practicing Rebellion: Strategies to Sustain Open Education Leadership [Northern Virginia Community College]
Thursday October 8, 2026
- AI Enhanced Open Pedagogy: Empowering Students as OER Creators in Mathematics [York College, CUNY]
- From Print to Audiobook: Amplifying Student Voices Through Open Pedagogy [College of DuPage]
- A Massachusetts Initiative to Connect OER with Responsible AI Use [Northern Essex Community College]
- Building the Open Education Association: A Framework for Field-Building [College of the Canyons]
- Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Open Education During Politically Challenging Times [Leeward Community College, College of DuPage]
- Designed for Humans: Invitations and Boundaries for the Future of Open Courses [Washtenaw Community College]
- The Structural Value of Openness: Open Infrastructure for Public Good [CUNY]
- For the Benefit of All: Rethinking OER Access Through Discoverability and Student Navigation [Irvine Valley College]
- Inventing Open Together: A Massachusetts Snapshot of Statewide Collaboration [Berkshire Community College, Massachusetts Bay Community College, Bunker Hill Community College
Friday, October 9, 2026
- Future of Openness: A Human-in-the-Loop Framework for Agentic OER [De Anza College, Chabot College, Rio Hondo College]
- Critical Open Educational Practices: Beyond Access, Toward Pedagogical Transformation [Central Lakes College- she listed her grad school in the description]
- Compensating the Creator: Four Grant Models of Tiered OER Support [Open Oregon Educational Resources]
- Open for All: Implementing UNESCO’s Capacity Building Practices to Support a Thriving, Resilient OER Community [Palo Alto College, San Antonio College]
- Leading Openly, Reaching Widely: MOLLI Beyond Maryland [Southern Nevada University, Maricopa Community College System]
- Beyond the Textbook: Innovating Open ASL Curriculum for Equitable Access [San Diego City College]
- Open as Resilience: Collaborations, Storytelling, and Solidarity in Contexts of Crisis [CCCOER]
- The Inclusion Algorithm: Using AI Gems to Audit Equity in Open Education [Salt Lake Community College]
- Don’t I Know You?: Redesigning Open Programming for Inventive Collaboration [CCCOER]