Since 2012 Open Education Global (OE Global) has coordinated Open Education Week (OE Week) as a celebration and opportunity for those working in Open Education to actively share their achievements and learn about what others are achieving worldwide. The whole goal is to make all of this available as a community built calendar of events, all locally organized by institutions and organizations worldwide.
Category: In The Spotlight
In the Spotlight: International Mother Language Day
City Tech’s Writing Center and the ESOL Department are again hosting an event to celebrate world languages on International Mother Language Day. This year the event is on Wednesday, February 25th, from 2:30-4:30pm in room L-632. All are invited to read, sing, share, listen, eat, unite!
In the Spotlight: Spring 2026 Welcome Back!
City Tech welcomes new students and faculty and staff members every year–so welcome to everyone new, and welcome back to everyone returning!
The OpenLab team is excited to work with you this semester as you do great things on the OpenLab–and to help you learn more about using the OpenLab and working in an open community.
In the Spotlight: Pre-semester OpenLab Support
As you prepare for the start of the Spring Semester, the OpenLab team is here to help. Join a workshop, reach out with specific questions, or find an answer in OpenLab help materials.
Join a Workshop
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In the Spotlight: OpenLab Show & Tell
This Tuesday, 12/9/25, 1:00-2:00pm, our OpenLab team is hosting an open session via Zoom for you to share something you did on, with, or about the OpenLab this semester.
Drop in at any point to show and tell, learn a few things, or just join us to celebrate our community’s accomplishments.
In the Spotlight: Science Fiction Symposium
The Spotlight is on the The tenth annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, which will take place at City Tech on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 from 9:00am to 5:00pm, and features work from science fiction writers, scholars, and students..
Symposium organizers invite everyone to the City Tech Academic Building at 285 Jay Street in downtown Brooklyn, New York in Room A-105 to join for the day-long event, or stop by as schedules permit, whether for a panel or for the keynote address, “Is Contemporary Science Fiction Strange Enough?”
In the Spotlight: Open Education Award Winner!
The OpenLab at City Tech has won an Open Education Award for Excellence – recognizing contributions to the Open Education community that exemplify excellence in the field. And since the award, 2025 Open Assets Award, includes that the OpenLab is “Recognized as an Open Community,” that means that you, the OpenLab community, have won this award, too!
In the Spotlight: Plan Week Fall 2025
Plan Week starts today, October 17th and runs through Friday, October 24th. You can take part in Plan Week activities to prepare for advisement and registration for next semester, to ensure you are taking the right courses and asking the right questions to stay on the path to graduation and achieving your future goals.
In the Spotlight: You use WordPress!
When you use the OpenLab, you’re using WordPress, the most popular software for building websites, powering over 43% of the internet. That means that when you do things like develop your portfolio, add a post in a course, comment in a discussion, build a club or project site to bring together people in your community, you’re learning different aspects of WordPress.
In the Spotlight: Co-working as a strategy
The OpenLab team provides many different modes of support to help members learn how to do what they want to do on the OpenLab. Co-working sessions are a little different as they’re more about fostering a community of support.
These hour-long sessions are for quiet working time alongside others, with the option to move to a breakout room for conversation or questions.