The 2019 Open Education Symposium is in celebration of Open Education Week, an internationally recognized initiative sponsored by the Open Education Consortium with the goal of raising awareness of open education. The theme of the 2019 Open Education Symposium at Virginia Tech is “Expanding Open Education in Colleges & Universities.” Supporting topics include open educational practices and open pedagogy; connecting the opens; student perspectives; and policies and strategies for open education in formal educational spaces. The poster session includes faculty, instructional designers, graduate students, and librarians from six institutions of higher education will briefly present an overview of peer-reviewed posters on diverse topics including: Creating open educational resources, linking open education and the career center, a cMOOC for exploring open education, class book projects, introduction to an open learning object repository, open software for graphic, and campus responses to the use of open educational resources. Conference proceedings may be found at http://hdl.handle.net/10919/87776. Further details about the 2019 Open Education Symposium can be found at https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/oeweek. March 4th - Newman Library, 1st Floor Multipurpose Room 1:30pm Opening Remarks 1:35pm Lightning round presentations 1:50-3:30pm Poster presentations and refreshments