Following the momentum of the Eleventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF11), COL has launched a new post-Forum webinar series to continue the conversation on transforming education through openness, innovation, and inclusion.

This four-part series will run every two months, with each webinar exploring one of the PCF11 sub-themes.

Join us as we collectively rethink the future of open education.

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1. Changing Mindsets for Inclusive Open Education, explores how Open Educational Resources (OER) and open practices can enhance teaching and learning across diverse disciplines.

Date: Tuesday, 24 November 2025

Speakers:

• • Professor Ian Frank (Future University Hakodate) – “AI, DX, and Learning by Doing: What’s Stopping Educators from Creating Open Resources?”
  • Professor Manas Ranjan Panigrahi (Sangam University) & Dr Aakriti Singh (MIER College of Education) – “Strengthening Teachers and Students in the Nursing Education and Profession through OER”.
  • Dr Afutendem Lucas Nkwetta (University of Dschang) – “Shifting from Conventional to Open Community-Backed Modules in Agriculture: A Case Study of University of Dschang, Cameroon 2023–2025.”

2. Gender, technology and innovation in open education

Date: planned for January 2026.

3. Skills development through lifelong open education

Date: planned for March 2026.

4. Sustaining communities of learning and practice in innovative open education

Date: planned for May 2026.