In a previous post, we mentioned that the Open Education Global (OEGlobal) consortium will be holding its 2026 conference this October, in a hybrid in-person/online format co-hosted by MIT Open Learning along with the Massachusetts Open & Low-Cost Educational Resources Advisory Council (OLERAC).
To understand the close relationship between MIT Open Learning and OEGlobal, it helps to have some historic context. This 2023 OEGlobal blog post by Alan Levine sketches out some of that history: how MIT OpenCourseWare—part of MIT Open Learning—helped launch the open education movement, how MIT joined with other educational institutions to found the OpenCourseWare Consortium in 2008, and how that consortium morphed eventually into the organization we now know as OEGlobal. With ties running back so many years, it’s fitting that OEGlobal 26 should be taking place partly on the campus of what Levine refers to as OEGlobal’s “Member Zero,” and that it should do so in the same year that MIT OpenCourseWare is celebrating its 25th anniversary.
If you’ve been working in or studying open education and you’d like to share your experiences, thoughts, findings, or innovations with others in the field, please note that OEGlobal 2026’s call for proposals is currently open, with a deadline of April 7th. You can find more information about the call for proposals, including descriptions of the five conference tracks, in this recent OEGlobal blog post by Isla Haddow-Flood. At the end of that post you’ll also find a button linking you to the conference’s call for proposals page, which describes the conference tracks in more detail and also outlines the session formats, selection criteria, and submission requirements.
We hope to welcome you here on campus—or online—for the conference, October 7–9, 2026!
(Header image courtesy of Open Education Global. License: CC BY.)
