About OpenAP

OpenAP exists because the Asia-Pacific needs a dedicated regional space for open education. The region is large, linguistically and institutionally diverse, and shaped by significant differences in access to knowledge, infrastructure, and capacity. It is also a region of sustained innovation in teaching, learning, and openness. OpenAP responds to both realities by providing a forum where institutional, national, and regional experiences, challenges, innovations, and collaborations can meet international conversation on equal terms.

Purpose

OpenAP aims to:

• create a high-quality regional forum for research, practice, policy, and collaboration on open education

• connect work across the Asia-Pacific with international conversations in the open movement

• offer doctoral and early-career researchers a platform for visibility and a pathway into GO-GN Asia-Pacific Hub activities

• bring together institutional, library, and policy perspectives that shape open education in practice

• give particular attention to the experiences of countries and communities often underrepresented in global open education discourse

Scope

The conference places open education, open pedagogy, and Open Educational Resources (OER) at its core. It also welcomes contributions that engage with the wider conditions and emerging directions shaping openness in higher education, including equity and inclusion, policy and institutional change, responsible AI, digital innovation, open scholarship, and cross-border collaboration.

OpenAP welcomes empirical research, case studies, policy analyses, conceptual and theoretical work, technology demonstrations, and doctoral research. The primary focus is higher education, with room for contributions that address broader learner communities and lifelong learning where relevant.

Get involved

OpenAP invites colleagues to contribute in several ways: as authors and presenters, as reviewers, as members of the programme committee, or as hosts and partners for future editions. Institutions interested in co-hosting a future edition of OpenAP are warmly invited to contact the GO-GN Asia-Pacific Hub.