Upcoming Conferences

Open Nursing Education Summit

  • Save the date for the Open Nursing Education Summit: February 27-28, 2024. Fully online, free to attend!
  • OpenStax and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) are joining forces to host the first-ever Open Nursing Education Summit! Over the course of two days, you’ll hear from both industry experts and nursing education leaders, instructors, and administrators on critical issues in nursing education and how we can address them. Additionally, you’ll learn how to effectively incorporate openly licensed nursing resources – like the THECB’s and OpenStax’s upcoming 8-textbook nursing series – into your course or program.

Open Texas 2024

  • Save the date for Open Texas 2024: September 25-27, 2024. Fully online, free to attend!
  • The Open Texas conference will once again convene librarians, faculty, administrators, and other open education practitioners, researchers, and advocates in Texas and beyond.

Previous Conferences

Open Education Conference 2023 | #OpenEd23

Save the Date! The Open Ed Conference will be held virtually November 7-9, 2023.

Open Texas 2021 logo

#OPENTX2021 | Open Texas 2021: Adoption, Engagement, & Impact

In partnership with University of Houston-Downtown, the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas, and Texas Digital Library, the HAOER Consortium participated in the hosting the inaugural Open Texas conference, which took place virtually on March 11-12, 2021. 

For archived recordings and conference materials, visit the Open Texas 2021 webpage.