Past eventHeld October 7–9, 2026
Open Education Global Conference 2026
Open Education Global Conference 2026 was a hybrid conference billed as focused on innovating open practices to uphold and uplift knowledge as a public good.
Samberg Conference Center, MIT
- Held
- October 7–9, 2026
- Venue
- Samberg Conference Center, MIT
- Format
- Cambridge, Massachusetts and online
TL;DR
- Open Education Global Conference 2026 took place October 7–9 at Samberg Conference Center, MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- The event was held in person and online.
- Its stated theme was Come Invent With Us! Innovating Open Practices to Uphold and Uplift Knowledge as a Public Good.
About
The conversations by and with the community at OEGlobal 2026, held at MIT's Samberg Conference Center and online in October and coinciding with the 25th anniversary of MIT OpenCourseWare, were billed as shaping open education's next decade. Open Education Global 2026 was billed as a space to share struggles and challenges and to celebrate the solutions and wins of a movement as multifaceted as the education sector itself. The conference was described as being for the community, by the community. OEGlobal 2026 was planning for a record-breaking number of in-person and virtual participants from every region of the world.
Who was in the room
Open education advocates and practitioners
Open education advocates and practitioners were identified as the conference audience.
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Venue
Samberg Conference Center, MITQuestions people ask
5 answeredOpen Education Global Conference 2026 took place October 7–9, 2026.
It took place at Samberg Conference Center, MIT, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and online.
Open education advocates and practitioners attend.
It is most useful for open education practitioners, librarians and advocates who want to meet peers from across the movement, since it was co-hosted by MIT Open Learning, OEGlobal and the Massachusetts OLERAC council and marked 25 years since MIT OpenCourseWare began. The hybrid format let remote participants join, but those wanting vendor demos or a product-driven expo would find less here, because the program stressed community practice, including arts, sciences and Indigenous knowledge systems.
Attendees at open education and academic conferences usually wear casual or smart casual clothing, with few suits. Cambridge in early October is cool, so layers and a light jacket are sensible.
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