Upcoming OERI Webinars and Events
The ASCCC OERI provides professional development regarding OER via webinars, visits to colleges, events, and presentations. During the academic year, weekly webinars provide a forum to share discipline-based information as well as information on specific topics related to OER advocacy, adoption, and development. Live webinars provide an opportunity for the OERI to hear from faculty at the colleges and our archived webinars serve as a useful library of resources.
During the Spring 2026 academic term, the OERI Friday Forums will be held from 10:30 am – 11:30 am on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month. All Friday Forum webinars are recorded and archived.
The ASCCC OERI will provide automated captioning for all webinars and OER Liaison events (i.e., conversations, orientations, and webinars). If you would like to request a live human closed captioner for any of our offerings, please contact us by e-mail at least 10 business days in advance.
Looking for CCCCO-hosted webinars related to ZTC, OER, and/or coding? Please see our OER and ZTC page. Access this page directly using tinyurl.com/OERI-Archives.
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- Using Free Resources to Fill Open Educational Resource (OER) Gaps in Economics
Thursday, April 30, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Establishing zero textbook cost sections of economics courses may require the use of resources that are freely available for student use, but may not be OER. What free resources are available to address homework system, graphing technology, and specialized and/or real-world economics module needs? Join us to learn more.
Register for Using Free Resources to Fill the OER Gaps in Economics - Introduction to Remixing and Open Homework Systems Regional Meeting – South
Saturday, May 2, 2026 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm at Saddleback College
This workshop will showcase LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System.
The OERI, in collaboration with Saddleback College, is pleased to announce a professional development opportunity for those who intend to remix open educational resources in the LibreTexts platform and create openly-licensed assessments – and those who support such work. Attendees of this in-person event at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, CA will be introduced to – and actively interact with – LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System. A light breakfast will be served and lunch will be provided. In order to defray costs, a registration fee of $25 will be charged. Space is limited.
Register for Saturday, May 2, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm OERI Regional at Saddleback College - The Three A’s: Ancillaries, Accessibility and ADAPT – Practical Tools for Inclusive Kinesiology and Health Teaching
Monday, May 4, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Come join fellow kinesiology and health faculty for a relaxed, informal conversation around the “three A’s.” We’ll swap ideas, share what’s working (and what’s not), identify gaps in existing open educational resources, and explore how the LibreTexts ADAPT platform can support accessible teaching. This is a space to ask questions, pick up ideas, and learn from each other.
Register for The Three A’s: Ancillaries, Accessibility and ADAPT - “Problems” in Philosophical Logic
Monday, May 4, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Join colleagues for a conversation on how to create, locate, share, and implement practice and test problems in logic courses in philosophy. We’ll discuss practice problems contained within existing OER textbooks and open databases like LibreTexts’ ADAPT and Canvas Commons.
Register for “Problems” in Logic - Enhancing Biology Instruction with Open Educational Resources (OER) Images, Illustrations, and Infographics
Monday, May 4, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Images, illustrations, and infographics are essential for helping students grasp complex biological processes and structures, especially when encountering them for the first time. Yet many instructors who adopt OER find that available images, illustrations, and figures are often fewer in number and less detailed than those found in commercial publications. In this conversation, participants will explore strategies for enhancing their course materials with high-quality, openly licensed figures. We will examine platforms that provide openly licensed biology images, illustrations, and infographics, and walk through effective search techniques for locating and evaluating these resources.
Bring your questions and examples from your own courses and leave with practical tools and resources to improve the visual quality of your instructional materials.
Register for Enhancing Biology Instruction with OER Images, Illustrations, and Infographics - Exploring New Open Educational Resources (OER) for Geography
Monday, May 4, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
The availability of free learning resources is always growing! Let’s explore some of what’s new! Join this session to learn about new climate and climate change OER and bring your latest discoveries share
Register for Exploring New OER for Geography - Part-Time Faculty and an Open Educational Resources Liaison? This One’s for You.
Tuesday, May 5, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Are you an OERL who is also a part time faculty member? Join this conversation to share time management strategies, effective ways to advocate for OER within your role, and some of the advantages and possible pitfalls of being an OERL as a part-time faculty member.
Register for Part-Time OERLs: This One’s for You - Exploring Open Educational Resources (OER) for Addiction Studies
Thursday, May 7, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
What OER are available for ADS? Faculty who teach ADS courses (such as Introduction to Addiction Studies, Basic Counseling Skills, Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery, and other courses that are required in programs that prepare students to work in the addiction field) are invited to join this webinar to discuss what resources are available and what resources are needed. What do ADS faculty need – and are there ADS faculty interested in using OER?
Register for Exploring OER for Addiction Studies - Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Art History: Values, Strategies, and Possibilities
Thursday, May 7, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Join Meg Phelps, Ventura College art history faculty member and instructional designer, as she shares insights and questions from ongoing conversations about AI at her college and beyond. She’ll focus on an AI approach that foregrounds defining and acting on values and will share considerations and strategies for content creation in academic spaces.
Register for AI and Art History: Values, Strategies, and Possibilities - Empowering Arabic Learning: A Guided Tour of Our Open Educational Resources (OER) Collection
Thursday, May 7, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
This webinar will showcase a curated collection of OER for Arabic language learning. Attendees will be guided through the resources, learn how to integrate them into courses, and gain practical insights into adapting them for their own teaching. The session will also provide an opportunity to ask questions.
Register for Empowering Arabic Learning: A Guided Tour of Our OER Collection - COOL4ED: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Friday, May 8, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
As of April 15, 2026, over 110 submissions have been made to the COOL4Ed portal, the legislatively required place to share new open educational resources (OER) funded by the Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Degree Grant Program. An analysis of the initial submissions revealed the need for guidance related to how and what to submit to COOL4Ed, as well as the necessity of a place for the sharing of non-OER ZTC resources. The analysis also uncovered new OER that fill previously unmet needs, new ancillaries for commonly adopted OER, and effective practices that need to be incorporated into future COOL4Ed guidance. Join us to explore the good, the bad, and the ugly, discuss proposed guidance to address many of the issues, and to ask your COOL4Ed questions.
Register for COOL4ED - Advancing Open Education Together: An Intersegmental OER Summit
Join regional colleagues from across California’s higher education systems for a day-long convening focused on advancing open educational resources (OER) through collaboration, shared learning, and strategic dialogue. Participants from the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges will come together to hear system-level updates, highlight local successes and ongoing challenges, and explore emerging issues shaping the future of open education. The event will also examine the evolving intersection of OER and artificial intelligence and provide space for discussion around regional partnerships and cross-system collaboration. Through conversation and knowledge-sharing, this gathering aims to strengthen the statewide open education community and identify opportunities to expand equitable access to learning materials for students.
- Mathematics and Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours
The OERI is pleased to offer a series of math and OER office hours throughout the term. These office hours will serve as a conversational session where attendees bring in their math OER needs, requests, and questions. Attendees can also use this space to receive guidance and ask questions pertaining to MyOpenMath.
Register for Math OER Office Hours on Friday, May 15, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm - Introduction to Remixing and Open Homework Systems Regional Meeting – South
Friday, August 14, 2026 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm at Allan Hancock
This workshop will showcase LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System.
The OERI, in collaboration with Allan Hancock College, is pleased to announce a professional development opportunity for those who intend to remix open educational resources in the LibreTexts platform and create openly-licensed assessments – and those who support such work. Attendees of this in-person event at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, CA will be introduced to – and actively interact with – LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System. A light breakfast will be served and lunch will be provided. In order to defray costs, a registration fee of $25 will be charged. Space is limited.
Register for Friday, August 14, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm OERI Regional at Allan Hancock
Archived OERI Webinars
All formal OERI Webinars are archived. In the event that a webinar is repeated, one archive will typically be made available. If you are ever interested in the slides used for a webinar, please contact us.
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