AggieOpen Invited Speaker Series
About the Series
The AggieOpen program partners with departments and programs across the UC Davis campus to feature internal and external speakers in an Open Education Invited Speaker Series. Each Open Education Week, the AggieOpen team will bring distinguished educators to share their research and work to promote a more equitable educational experience for students in higher education through the use of openly licensed learning materials.
Topics will address important issues in Open Education and offer speakers the opportunity to share their research with a broad audience.
Open Education Week 2025 Invited Speaker
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
11:00 AM via Zoom
Our AggieOpen Invited Speaker, Jessie Loyer, explores how open education intersects with social justice and Indigenous sovereignty movements. Her scholarship focuses on Indigenous relationality in digital spaces, including work in the digital humanities, Indigitization, and digital kinship. Please join us for her talk on Tuesday, March 4, for this year’s Open Education Week.
About the Speaker
Jessie is Cree-Métis and a member of Michel First Nation. She is the Indigenous Engagement Librarian at the University of Alberta in Calgary and a guest on Treaty 7 and Blackfoot territory. Her research looks at Indigenous perspectives on information literacy, supporting language revitalization, and creating ongoing research relationships using a nêhiyaw minâ otipêmisiw concept of kinship.
Past Talks
AI Spring: Generative AI, Open Education, and Climate Catastrophe
Marco Seiferle-Valencia
Open Education Librarian and Assistant Professor, University of Idaho
2024
A Call for Reparative Justice in Open Education Labor
Jasmine Roberts-Crews
Professor of Communications, Ohio State University
2023