This year, Open Education Week 2025 was a six-week event! Intense activity took place from March 3-8 … events, contests, activities, and challenges took place from around mid-February until the very last day of March.
Collectively, the global open education community contributed 461 elements to Open Education Week – from as little as adding an asset to one of 3 platforms to as much as hosting a series of events at their college. It was an incredible expression of open education – introducing open education via comic books, showcasing exciting new assets, exploring the impact of OER on campuses, discussing the challenges that open educators face, and adding new images to the Commons. Every event, every micro contribution brought a little more open education into a world that needs it!
2025 is the 13th year of Open Education Week … and it was an incredible display of the diverse contributions that can be made in the pursuit of open education!
Thank you, Open Education heroes around the world! You have provided fantastic fuel to an increasing community of passionate users and practitioners.
From OEGlobal’s side, we were excited to see as many as 25% of all events by OEGlobal Members, including our two newest ones, Han University of Applied Science and Thanh Do University. It was fantastic to see direct and indirect support for OEWeek and activities around it from our network partners in the Network for Open Organisations.
We were delighted with the strategic timing of the 23 Good Reasons for Open Education released by Chaire Unesco RELIA in collaboration with hashtag#UNOE and EUniWell – European University for Well-Being!
We were excited to collaborate with OER Commons and OER World Map to share OEWeek Assets with existing repositories, and with Pressbooks on OER Under the Hood Series. We also loved the Remixer Challenges from Visual Thinkery, and it is always a pleasure to collaborate with TU Delft on the We Like Sharing Photo Competition.
All the numbers … OEWeek 2025
Download the OEWeek25 Summary: static and animated slides • .pdf version
You’ve seen the animation above, but here are a few more statistics we’ve gathered for Open Education Week 2025 – there were:
- 151 freely licensed education resources or assets shared
- 310 events organised and hosted by
- 161 organisations, added by
- 126 contributors in 29 countries in 21 languages!
- OEGlobal Members hosted 115 events, or 25% of all activities.
- 20,083 participants are estimated to attend in 141 countries.
- 99 discussions were started in OEGlobal Connect, which received 24,983 views from 1,277 OEGlobal Connect registered users and 5,797 non-registered visitors.
- 6 CCCOER-hosted sessions.
- 21 hosted live sessions with 13 OEWeek LIVE! conversations with 57 open educators, since watched 377 times. Catch them all here.
- 791 #oeweek25 posts were generated by 225 #oeweekers on the X platform, receiving 192,66 impressions, creating a maximum reach to 1,37 million people.
- 9 emails sent out to 11,063 subscribers (44,377 total emails delivered)
- 158 photos entered the We Like Sharing photo contest hosted by TU Delft.
- 39 answers to the five challenges in the OE-Week25 Remixer Challenge
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Relive the OEWeek25 Experience
Like all things open education, OEWeek never truly ends! Everything has been recorded and collated for you to access when needed.
- Discussions are still ongoing at OEGlobal Connect!
- Explore the OEWeek25 assets added to the OER Commons
- Journey through the OEWeek25 assets added to the OER World Map
- Discuss the OEWeek25 assets shared on OEGlobal Connect
- Marvel at the Remix Challenges – and create your own:
- Monday Challenge: Say Hello with the My Name is badge
- Tuesday Challenge: Share the place of your first OE Experience as a Field Note
- Wednesday Challenge: Where the Venn Are You in Open Education?
- Thursday Challenge: Share your feelings on the OE Couch
- Friday Challenge: Open is Elemental – Remix an Element in the Periodic Table of Openness
- Take a retrospective look at what happened and when.
- Watch the 44+ sessions on OEWeek 2025 playlist.
- Watch the OEWeek LIVE! Sessions on YouTube.
The TU Delft I Like Sharing Photo Contest Winners 2025
Voices from the OEWeek Community
The very best aspect of Open Education Week is that it is a week month of celebration by open educators for open educators. Below are a few links that have been added, others will be added as we find them or you share them.
- 2025 Open Photo Competition winners (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
- Over 500 participants at the Open Education & Science Practices 2025 Workshop (Politehnica University of Timișoara, Romania)
- MCC Celebrates Open Education Week (Middlesex Community College, MA, USA)
- Celebrating milestones during Open Education Week (Brock University, Ontario, Canada)
- Open Knowledge Ghana hosts Climate Education Workshop (T.I. Ahmadiyya Girls’ Senior High School (SHS) in Effiduase-Asokore, Ashanti region, Ghana)
- St. Clair’s Centre for Academic Excellence hosts Open Education Week (St Clair College, Ontario, Canada)
- Instagram videos from faculty and students at Douglas College, British Columbia, Canada)
- Open Resources – find them – use them – learn! (Jason Toal, on Comic Jam at Simon Fraser U)
If you don’t see your write-up or review of OEWeek here, please add it to our OEGlobal Connect page, and we’ll add it!
We loved all the events that were held, but wanted to give a special shout-out to these activity-oriented events:
- Open Education Week Special Program: Student Staff Talks! Behind-the-scenes by Nagoya University OpenCourseWare (NUOCW)
- Semana de la Educación Abierta 2025: +mujeres, +wikipedia, +ciencIA by Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
- Blogging on the Open Web: Open Education Week by Reclaim Hosting
- Activity-A-Thon on Sustainable Futures: Education, Culture & Heritage in Open Access by MIT-ADT University
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