OEWeek25: One for the Record Books!

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!

Jason Toal created this comic at the OEWeek Comic Jam Workshop for Students he co-facilitated at the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC). It is shared under a Creative Commons BY-SA license,

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

OEWeek 2025 Report designed by Mario Badilla compiled from statistics supplied by Alan Levine and Isla Haddow-Flood – CC-BY 4.0

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

Win one of these fantastic OEWeek Hoodies (or a voucher for whatever you want from the OEGlobal Shop)! Take this quick OEWeek survey to share your experience and shape OEWeek 2026!


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.

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.

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:


Share Your Reviews, Articles and Blog Posts

Was your experience reflected above? Is your review on the list above? We’d love to hear your views and experiences!

OEG Voices – Latest Podcasts

OE Global Voices

Welcome to the home of podcasts produced by Open Education Global. These shows bring you insight and connection to the application of open education practices from around the world. Listen at podcast.oeglobal.org

OEG Voices 084: Board Viewpoints with Takaya Yamazato

We are pleased to return to our series that introducse you to members of OEGlobal Board of Directors. In this episode, we take you to Nagoya, Japan, for a conversation with Takaya Yamazato, who joined the board in 2024. Listen in to learn more about Takaya’s background, motivations, and vision for open education. You will also hear right in the opening music a fascinating insight into his many talents and his research into the micro details of one of the most iconic paintings.

As professor and Deputy Director at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Nagoya University, Takaya’s specializes in wireless and visual light communication and also leads Nagoya University’s OpenCourseWare initiative, working with faculty to publish and enhance course content. He describes how their OCW effort are much more than uploading content aimed at supporting materials to “preserve a legacy of teaching excellence.”

We offered Takaya the option to reply to our questions in his natural language, but he went beyond that in replying in both English and Japanese. He shared his responses in notes as a PDF we are sharing as a download, which is well worth looking at because Takaya added photos to show key locations near his location in Nagoya, a beautiful photo of him as a child, and examples of his open education achievements.

Side by side photos of Takaya Yamazota sitting in his office and Alan Levine in his home library.
In the OEGlobal Voices studio with Takaya Yamazota (left) and Alan Levine (right).

You find many inspiring and global level viewpoints from Takaya:

We believe that this is a message that will bring back the way of education from the bottom up. The education that a person needs now is to grow people who are able to do the right thing. We must grow people who are not just for efficiency, profit, or national gain, but also for the good of the world.

Open education has the potential to provide a space for that reflection. It can create opportunities for ethical reasoning, global dialogue, and personal transformation, not just academic advancement.

Takaya Yamazota

Notes on This Episode

We are pleased to offer this conversation with Takaya’s voice heard in both English and Japanese and offer a transcript of the English portions. Unfortunately the Descript editing tool we use was unable to process the dual languages, so we lack the usual listen option with the transcript and its GenAI summary.

The episode required additional editing in Audacity to add Takaya’s audio and we used MacWhisper to obtain a transcript of his responses in English. But we do offer as a bonus the full musical track that Takaya shared so we could we use in the episode’s introduction and closing. You should listen to the full episode to appreciate the story behind the music.

Additional Links and Quotes for Episode 84

diverse regions and disciplines, all united by the belief that education should be freely available and socially meaningful.

It’s not just about strategy, it’s about values. And it’s given me hope that open education can help build bridges where politics cannot.

Takaya Yamazota

Italian researchers discovered the letters “LV” hidden in the Mona Lisa’s pupil, unseen for centuries, and only revealed thanks to modern technology with very precise microscope lenses.

Similarly, in telecommunications, the LDPC code was overlooked for decades before being rediscovered and becoming fundamental to today’s wireless standards.

And these examples remind us if we evaluate ideas only by today’s capabilities, we may miss tomorrow’s breakthrough.

That’s why our OCW is designed not just to present knowledge, but to inspire, reinterpretation, and rediscovering. I believe open education should be an invitation not just to learn, but to look again with new eyes.

Takaya Yamazota


Our open licensed music for this episode is “Ceramic Feeling” recorded from a live performance by Takaya’s band “Rough Diamonds” and is shared under a Creative Commons By Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license.

Rough Diamonds band featuring Takaya Yamazota on bass guitar, photos shared by Takaya Yamazota shared CC BY-NC-SA.