History of OEGlobal Conference

The organization Open Education Global (OE Global) was formally launched in 2008.

However its legacy is far older, having been rooted in open courseware. The first manifestation of the current organization was the Open Courseware Consortium (OCWC) which then evolved into the Open Education Consortium.

Given this history, the OEGlobal Conference has been held in various forms since the OCWC Global Conference in 2005. The OEGlobal conference is one of many long-term interventions and annual events hosted by OEGlobal to facilitate the work of Open Education communities around the world as they share, collaborate, assist, support, and celebrate each other’s efforts in advocating, leading, creating and driving open education globally.

Historically, the Open Education Global conference has been an in-person event, co-hosted by academic institutions around the world. COVID-19, however, has changed this model with two online conferences being hosted in 2020 and 2021 allowing for more global members to attend than ever before.

Previous Open Education Conferences themes were:

  • 2021 (OEG Connect, co-hosted with Université de Nantes): UNESCO OER Recommendation action areas
  • 2020 (OEG Connect, co-hosted with Tapei Medical University): Connecting the global open education community
  • 2019 (Milano, Italy): Open Resources for an Open Future
  • 2018 (Delft, the Netherlands): Transforming Education through Open Approaches
  • 2017 (Cape Town, South Africa): Open for Participation
  • 2016 (Krakow, Poland): Convergence through Collaboration
  • 2015 (Banff, Canada): Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • 2014 (Ljubljana, Slovenia): Open Education for a Multicultural World
  • 2013 (Bali, Indonesia): Delivering quality education to your fingertips
  • 2012 (Cambridge, UK): Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education
  • 2011 (Massachusetts, US): Celebrating 10 years of OpenCourseWare
  • 2010 OCWC Global Conference
  • 2009 OCWC Global Conference
  • 2008 OCWC Global Conference
  • 2007 OCWCGlobal Conference
  • 2006 OCWC Global Conference
  • 2005 OCWC Global Conference