2026 Colorado OER Conference

2026 Colorado OER Conference

12:00pm MDT

Pre-Conference: Accessibility Workshop Summit Room

8:00am MDT

Registration, Breakfast, and Networking Summit Room

9:00am MDT

Opening Remarks Summit Room

9:20am MDT

Governor Z and Colorado OER Awards Summit Room

9:45am MDT

Keynote: Past, Present and Future of OER Summit Room

10:15am MDT

10:30am MDT

Building and Managing a Large OER Textbook TBA Introduction and Basics of Open Educational Resources TBA Keeping it Fresh: The Evolution of the Calvin Project for Teaching Motivation TBA Showcasing a faculty student collaborative college-level OER: The Biology of Plants Coloring Textbook TBA Teaching Climate Change Across the Curriculum - Open Access Climate Education Resources for Higher Education Remix as Resistance: Zine and Craft Room TBA

11:00am MDT

11:10am MDT

Creation of an OER Textbook as an Opportunity for Continuous Renewal and Transformation Creation of open-source catheter simulators for clinician training MSU Denver OER Club: Student-centered OER Leadership & Advocacy Partnering for OER: Translanguaging Instructional Videos for K-16 students Using Publicity to Encourage Course Materials Reporting at UNC Remix as Resistance: Zine and Craft Room

11:40am MDT

11:50am MDT

Building Workforce Partnerships for OER Integration Embracing AI Tools to Build Sustainable, Community-Centered OER Practices People, Not Platforms: How Librarians can help Navigate the "Gray Spaces" of Sustainable OER Resilience in Practice: Sustaining OER and ZTC Efforts in a Mandatory Book Fee Environment Understanding the Wide Scope of Accessibility in OERs Remix as Resistance: Zine Workshop

12:20pm MDT

Break Summit Room

12:30pm MDT

Lunch Summit Room

1:30pm MDT

1:45pm MDT

Remix as Resistance: Zine and Craft Room Citizen Science in the Garden: Integrating Community Engagement and Soil-Based Fieldwork into Higher Education Critical Thinking: Lessons on Openness, Identity, and Innovation from Bad Bunny and HSI Leadership Get your OER Ready for Screen Readers How to find, create, and share open access 3D printed models for STEM education. Leveraging AI to find OER nursing resources

2:45pm MDT

Better Together: A Collaborative Workflow for OER Creation Beyond the Bot: Cultivating "Generalists with Judgment" using OER and AI in the Humanities Classroom Lightning Talks Open for Launch: Building Open Pathways in STEM TBA Using Student Input to Create an Engaging Introductory Statistics Textbook Remix as Resistance: Zine and Craft Room

3:15pm MDT

3:25pm MDT

Closing Panel: Student voices Summit Room

4:15pm MDT

Closing Remarks Summit Room