OEP Conference 2026

TWU Faculty Commons and the TWU OEP Ambassadors are excited to announce the third Open Educational Practices Virtual Conference.

Scheduled for virtual delivery on April 2, 2026, 9 am to 4:30 pm CST. Attendance is free and limited to the first 250 registrants.

The conference covers Open Educational Practices (OEP), including Open Educational Resources (OER) and other relevant topics. OEPs create learner-driven educational environments where students can collaborate on course content, exercise agency in course decision-making, and create renewable assignments.

Open Educational Resources (OER) refer to publicly available educational resources free of charge or at a low cost. By incorporating OER, instructors often experience the pedagogical shift to focus on inclusive materials with culturally and contextually responsive texts.

For more information, continue reading or contact alundahl@twu.edu with questions.

Conference Accessibility

Zoom automatic captioning will be provided for all presentations. Live captioning will be provided for the keynote address. We also ask that presenters follow TWU’s Document Accessibility best practices for any handouts you plan to use. If you have any additional accessibility needs, please contact alundahl@twu.edu.

Dr. Virginia Clinton-Lisell began her career in education as an ESL teacher in New York City. She then obtained her PhD in Educational Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science at the University of Minnesota where she was trained in educational research. She has published over 60 articles in education research and teaches courses in education research, program evaluation, and psychological foundations of education. Her current research focuses on the psychology of reading comprehension and open education. She is a primary researcher for the open education group, which sponsors a fellowship for early career researchers.

Kaitlin Schilling is the Programs and Community Manager at The Rebus Foundation, a role that aligns with her passion for open education and fondness for working with people. She is the author of Making Ripples: A Guidebook to Challenge Status Quo in OER Creation and one of the authors of The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (so far). Kaitlin is committed to democratizing storytelling and believes in the transformative power of OER to foster a more inclusive educational landscape.

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