Georgia State University Library is accepting proposals for our free Open Education Week celebration, The Open for Student Success Symposium, to take place online on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 from 9:30am-4:30pm ET. The call for proposals is now open. Proposals are due November 1, 2025.

Our distinguished keynote speaker this year will be Josh Bolick, Head of the David Shulenburger Office Of Scholarly Communication & Copyright at the University of Kansas. With Maria Bonn and Will Cross, he co-edited Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge (ACRL, 2023) and co-founded the Scholarly Communication Notebook (SCN). In his keynote speech, "Open but Not Finished: What We've Won and the Work Ahead," Bolick will summarize the shift to open, examine emerging and lingering challenges, and consider how the Open Movement can continue progress toward more open research and teaching cultures.

The missions of the Open for Student Success Symposium are to:

• gather and celebrate innovators who are practicing and studying open and affordable education in higher education
• produce an annual collection of openly accessible recordings and ancillary materials that advance the landscape of open and affordable education. 

The scope of the Open for Student Success Symposium's includes everything relating to:

• Open Education: sparcopen.org/open-education/
• Open Educational Resources: unesco.org/en/open-educational-resources
• Global Open Education Week: oeglobal.org/activities/global
• No-Cost and Low-Cost Courses and Materials: affordablelearninggeorgia.org/resources/banner-attributes

Faculty and staff: We welcome proposals by faculty and staff practicing open and affordable education at any institution of higher education. Faculty and staff are encouraged to invite student collaborators as co-presenters. 

Student spotlights: We welcome proposals by students who have completed research or class projects on the topic of open and affordable education. Other submissions will also be considered. 

Recordings will be produced by Georgia State University Library as part of the Open for Student Success Symposium. Recordings, slides, and ancillaries will be uploaded to our YouTube channel and institutional repositories.

Presenters featured in each recording will retain creator ownership for the content of their work, which will be shared with permission under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonComerical-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

This means others are free to share and adapt the work under the following terms:

• Others must give appropriate credit to the presenter(s) and link to the original CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license terms.

• Others must indicate whether changes were made.

• Others may NOT use the material for commercial purposes.

• If others remix, transform, or build upon the material, they must also distribute the new version of the work under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license.

• 45-minute presentation or panel discussion (live), followed by a 10-minute Q&A 
• 20-minute lightning talk (live), followed by a 5-minute Q&A 
• 10-minute lightning talk or poster presentation (pre-recorded), recordings will be posted on the day of the symposium

• Accessible Design with OER
• Adaptation or Authorship of OER
• Adoption of OER
• Artificial Intelligence and Open Education
• Collaboration on Open Education Projects
• Copyright, Creative Commons, and Open Licensing
• Courseware and Open Education
• Educational Affordability and Open Education
• Faculty Perspectives in Open Education
• First-Year Experience and Open Education
• Graduate Studies and Open Education
• Grants in Open Education
• Learning and Assessment in Open Education
• New Technology for Open Education
• Open Education and Language Learning
• Open Education in the Arts
• Open Education in STEM
• Open Pedagogy Projects
• Research Conducted on Open Education
• Student Belonging and Representation in OER
• Student Voices in Open Education
• Successes & Challenges with Open Education
• Sustainability of Open Education
• User Design and Open Education