Open Education Global (OEGlobal) is thrilled to announce that the OEGlobal 2026 Conference website is live, and the OEGlobal26 Call for Proposals is now officially open. This is your invitation — wherever you are, whatever your context — to help shape one of the most important gatherings in the global Open Education calendar.
The Hybrid Conference
The 2026 Open Education Global Conference (#OEGlobal26) will take place October 7–9, 2026, at the Samberg Conference Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States — and online. It is co-hosted by Open Education Global, MIT Open Learning, and the Massachusetts Open & Low-Cost Educational Resources Advisory Council (OLERAC). The venue, MIT’s Samberg Conference Center, sits in the heart of Cambridge — a city with a deep, intertwined history of education, technology, and ideas.
“Open Education thrives when people come together to share ideas, challenge assumptions, and build solutions for the common good,” share Marcela Morales and Igor Lesko, Co-Executive Directors of Open Education Global. “Hosting OEGlobal 2026 at MIT, the place where OpenCourseWare helped ignite the global open movement, is a powerful reminder of what this community can achieve together. We look forward to welcoming educators, researchers, and advocates from around the world to reflect on how far we have come and to imagine and shape the next chapter of openness together.”
Five Tracks. One Invitation.
Proposals are invited across five conference tracks, each designed to capture the full breadth of where open education is today — and where it is heading:
- Hacking the Open Ecosystem and Praxis for the Public Good — Reimagining the open knowledge system through the lens of policy, pedagogy, licensing, publishing, and data, and exploring open education’s real-world impact.
- Innovating Open Content to Democratize Knowledge — How has your context shaped your work with open content? Localization, language, community-sourcing, climate-responsiveness — we want to hear your story.
- Catalyzing Human Connection, Creativity, and Curiosity to Thrive — How do open communities cultivate resilience and collective thriving? Panels, round tables, and lightning talks are welcome.
- (Re)Inventing Our Shared Global Vision Together — Share your perspective, practice, solutions, and questions on how we reimagine open policies and pedagogies to solve real-world challenges.
- Exploring Emergent Technologies and the Future of Openness — If you are working with tools that shape human connections, creativity, and curiosity — AI, open-source platforms, and beyond — we want to hear from you.
Who Should Submit
This conference is for open educators, open technologists, open advocates, open researchers, and open innovators. If you work in or around open education — whether you are a practitioner in the classroom, a policymaker, an institutional leader, a researcher, or a student — this is your space to share, discuss, collaborate, and celebrate.
Creativity thrives when different perspectives meet. We are excited to receive proposals that explore arts and sciences; Indigenous and Western knowledge; global and local views; research and lived experience; or participate in open movements (open source software, open data, open access, open science) and Open Education. Share your experiments, unfinished ideas, provocations, data, and questions to help build this global movement.
Important Details
- Submission Deadline: March 30, 2026
- Conference Dates: October 7–9, 2026
- Location: Samberg Conference Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA — and online
We look forward to seeing you in Cambridge — and online — this October.