Collab4Open brings together Ontario Colleges to celebrate Open Education Week 2026 through collaboration and shared learning.
This week of collaboration and innovation goes beyond institutional boundaries, bringing together faculty, educational developers, librarians, instructional designers, students and other open education advocates across Ontario colleges to discuss current trends, issues and initiatives shaping open education.
Everyone is welcome to participate and celebrate the transformative power of open education!
Remix Your Course: Teaching Flexibility with Open Educational Resources
Ever wish you could tweak your course materials to better fit how you teach and who your students are? In this session, we’ll explore common challenges with traditional educational resources and how Open Educational Resources (OER) can help. You’ll learn what “remix” means in an open context, how open licensing enables adaptation, and where to find high-quality OER you can reuse and customize. Designed for faculty who are curious but short on time, this session focuses on practical ideas, simple examples, and easy first steps for remixing your course materials without starting from scratch.
Discover how faculty, library support and students (from three institutions: Conestoga, Georgian and Sheridan) collaborated to share resources and develop supplementary materials.
This panel discussion will include student OER Assistants from Fanshawe's Design Studio, Centennial's OER Hub, and Conestoga's Open Learning team. OER Assistants will share perspectives on Open, the types of projects they work on and what a day in the life of an OER assistant entails. There will be time for Q&A.
Are you curious about OER and want to learn more about the creation process? Join this informative session led by experienced OER creators, who will walk you through the steps of developing an OER. The presenters will cover how to assess readiness for an OER project, as well as share key highlights and challenges along the way.
Open educational resources are innovative not just because they are free but because of how teachers adopt and creatively adapt them, bringing them to life in the classroom or to reach every student. This session introduces Open Educational Resources and Practices, how to spot an open resource and where to find them. Loyalist College.