Openness, learning, leadership, and creative practice
I’m Megan Zara, an educator, writer, open practice strategist, and PhD student exploring how people and institutions translate values into lived practice.
I write, speak, design learning, advise organizations, and create across mediums. Across all of it, I’m interested in the conditions that make care, participation, access, and meaningful change possible.
Work that connects ideas with practice
My work sits at the intersections of open education, curriculum and learning design, relational leadership, care, communities of practice, and institutional change.
I’m especially drawn to the messy middle between vision and implementation: the place where ideas need structure, people need support, and values must become something others can actually experience.
Explore My Work
Writing
Read Field Notes, where I write about openness, leadership, learning, care, institutional change, doctoral inquiry, and ideas still taking shape.
Work With Me
Partner with me on advisory work, curriculum and learning design, research, writing, facilitation, or fractional projects.
Speaking
Explore keynotes, workshops, presentations, and conversations about open education, student leadership, learning design, relational practice, and change.
Made by Megan
Explore books, art, photography, videos, cakes, crafts, free resources, and other things I create across mediums.
The Open Practice Academy
I founded The Open Practice Academy to help educators, libraries, institutions, and communities move from good intentions to meaningful practice.
TOPA offers professional learning, curriculum and program development, communities of practice, open education support, and institutional partnerships grounded in care, access, participation, and relational change.
Current and Featured Work
From Vision to Practice
Closing keynote from the Borderlands Open Access Symposium on the structures that help people move from believing in open education to participating in it.
Field Notes
Follow my ongoing writing about openness, learning, leadership, care, institutional life, and the questions emerging from my doctoral work.
Open Education in Practice
Explore my openly licensed book and learning resource developed to help educators move from curiosity about open education toward informed practice.
