March 25-26, 2026

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2026 Northeast OER Summit! We hope you enjoyed the sessions. All recorded sessions will be available in the UMass ScholarWorks institutional repository soon. Stay tuned for updates.

We are pleased to announce our keynote, Dr. Royce Kimmons!

AI Killed OER… Long Live OER!

As AI continues its disruptive influence on society, many have claimed OER’s rapid fall into irrelevancy. After all, if AI can generate relevant, localized, high-quality content on-the-fly, then why would we need static content in the form of OER? This view, however, ignores the unique potentials OER offers for meaningfully shaping our AI future. Rather than an either-or between AI and OER, a model of AI+OER helps us address some of the core challenges and limits of AI, including inequity, opaqueness, bias, degradation, and unsustainability. Rather than AI killing OER, it may be that OER gives AI the ethical and practical structure it needs to truly impact education for good.

The Northeast Open Educational Resources (OER) Summit is a virtual event for new and experienced OER advocates offering the opportunity to learn and share effective practices in awareness building, implementation, collaboration, strategy, and re search.

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