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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- Engaging Students: Surveys, Bookmarks, and Tools for Open Educational Resources (OER) Momentum at Your College
Monday, March 2, 2026 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Students experience textbook costs as a barrier to access every day—yet many don’t know that zero textbook cost and OER options even exist. This webinar equips OER advocates with simple, ready-to-use tools to change that. Participants will learn how to engage students using a shared, Institutional Review Board approved student-facing survey that can be deployed immediately with built in blurbs, and customizable bookmark templates designed to raise awareness, spark curiosity, and invite participation. The session shows how to engage students to build OER momentum across campus. With no complex research setup and no added workload, this session focuses on plug-and-play tools that help students feel seen while grounding OER efforts in authentic, campus-relevant student voice.
While these events are intended for OERLs, please invite your colleagues to attend if you think they would be interested.
Register for Surveys, Bookmarks, and Tools for OER Momentum at Your College - Using Open Educational Resources (OER) in Hospitality Management
Monday, March 2, 2026 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
How can OER be used in hospitality management classes to improve learning, encourage innovation, and increase access to quality educational materials? Join us to discuss the benefits of OER for faculty and students, as well as what OER is needed in the discipline and what OER needs to be improved.
Register for Using OER in Hospitality Management - 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 question-and-answer 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 Monday, March 2, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Register for Math OER Office Hours on Tuesday, March 17, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm - Fresh and Easy? Authentic Assessment for the Communication Studies Open Educational Resources (OER) Classroom in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The current surge of generative and agentic AI can mean having to shift gears constantly as an instructor. No matter the course and no matter the AI policy, this session will help support you in your OER classroom to find low-lift ways to refresh content, revise assessments, and identify boundaries or policies that align with your educational philosophy without having to overhaul your entire course.
Register for Fresh and Easy? Authentic Assessment for the Communication Studies OER Classroom in the Age of AI - AI Bytes: Rubrics, Resilience, and Robots
Thursday, March 5, 2026 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
The OERI is pleased to announce the introduction of its Brown Bag Series. Each brown bag is a 30-minute mini-webinar where participants can drop in to learn about a focused topic. After the session ends, presenters and participants are welcome to stay and engage in further dialogue or ask questions about the topic.
This session will explore rubric language that supports academic integrity, transparency, and discipline standards no matter the AI use policy (allowed or not) in the classroom. Participants will leave with concrete assessment tweaks and rubric phrases to help support their equitable grading practices.
Register for AI Bytes: Rubrics, Resilience, and Robots - Finding the Human Connection in a Digital World: Using Discuss-It to Build Community, Promote Critical Thinking, and Shift the Focus of Assessment
Friday, March 6, 2026 10:30 am – 11:30 am
In an age of automation, how do you ensure that student work remains a reflection of genuine learning? Join us to learn about Discuss-It, an openly-licensed tool within the LibreTexts platform. Discuss-It transforms discussions into interactive, multimedia exchanges through audio, video, and text. Learn how integrating voice and video responses can boost engagement, build community, and bring human presence back to your courses regardless of your discipline.
Register for Finding the Human Connection in a Digital World - Digital Media: Building a New Open Educational Resources (OER) Discipline Collection Together
Monday, March 9, 2026 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Digital media is a new discipline for the OERI, offering an opportunity to shape its direction and create support for faculty from the ground up. This session will focus on what materials digital media faculty need, what resources we already have, and how we can leverage existing tools, OER, and partnerships to identify gaps and plan next steps together.
Register for Digital Media: Building a New OER Discipline Collection Together - Physics and Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours for March 2026
The OERI is pleased to offer a series of Physics Open Educational Resources (OER) office hours throughout the term. These office hours will serve as a conversational session where attendees bring in their Physics OER needs, requests, and questions. Attendees can also use this space to receive guidance and ask questions pertaining to MyOpenMath. All the following sessions will be from 9:00 am – 10:00 am.
Register for Physics OER Office Hours on Tuesday, March 10
Register for Physics OER Office Hours on Thursday, March 19
Register for Physics OER Office Hours on Friday, March 27 - Accessibility Apps: Complex Images and Alt Text
Tuesday, March 10, 2026 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Writing alternative text (alt text) for simple images is one thing, but what about dense charts, layered maps, complex infographics, scientific diagrams, or multi-panel visuals? This webinar dives into practical strategies for describing highly detailed images in ways that are clear, accurate, and aligned with accessibility standards. Bring your image challenges to add some flavor to the discussion.
Register for Complex Images and Alt Text - Adapting Open Educational Resources (OER) for Education Courses: How Do I Add or Change Content? Or Can I?
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Want to include, or update education OER content in your course but don’t understand what you are allowed to do legally, or how to begin? Bring your questions about specific content in an education OER and the licenses associated with it and let us help you clarify the multi-dimensional aspects of creative commons licensing. You will walk away with a list of do’s and don’ts for the content that matters most to you.
Register for Adapting OER for Education Courses - How Should the California Community Colleges Calculate the Cost Savings Resulting from the Adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER)?
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 from 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Resolution 114.04, Developing a Consistent Method for Calculating Student Cost Savings Resulting from Open Educational Resources Adoption, was adopted at the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) Plenary Session in Fall 2025. This resolution called on the ASCCC to research and develop a standardized method for calculating the savings associated with OER adoption to be presented for consideration at the Spring 2026 Plenary Session. Join us to learn about our findings and to share your views.
Register for How Should the CCCs Calculate OER Cost Savings - Owning the Curriculum: How a Spanish Program Replaced Commercial Textbooks with Open Educational Resources (OER)
Friday, March 13, 2026 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Commercial language textbooks are costly and often rely on generic, outdated content disconnected from today’s students. In this webinar, the author of Salón de Clase, an intermediate Spanish textbook for educational professionals, will outline the collaborative process, key stakeholders, and guiding pedagogical principles that lead to the development of this OER. Additionally, participants will learn how curriculum ownership enabled the integration of custom tools like My Language Level (an app based on can-do statements) into instruction.
Register for Owning the Curriculum: How a Spanish Program Replaced Commercial Textbooks with OER - Pathways to Zero: Partnering with Counselors to Promote the Visibility of Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) and Open Educational Resources (OER)
Monday, March 16, 2026 from 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Counselors are key influencers in how students discover courses, build schedules, and understand degree pathways. This session explores how to collaborate with counseling teams to increase the visibility of ZTC programs, highlight OER-designated sections, and embed cost transparency into guided pathways conversations. Going beyond just marketing, we’ll examine how OER messaging can support equity goals, student completion, onboarding processes, and institutional enrollment strategies.
Register for Pathways to Zero - Toolkit for Inclusive Workforce Education: Embedding Essential Professional Skills into Your Courses
Monday, March 16, 2026 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Join us to explore the Toolkit for Inclusive Workforce Education, a new openly licensed resource designed to help faculty integrate essential professional skills into existing course content without changing course objectives, discipline, or modality. Explore five adaptable module templates that support communication, technology use, self-advocacy, goal setting, and problem-solving, along with student reflection tools and a faculty implementation checklist. Come preview the resources and share feedback to help shape how they can best support CTE instruction. Ample time for questions and feedback will be provided. As this resource could be used by many disciplines, your perspective on the toolkit and its elements, as well as where you would expect to find such a resource are aspects of the feedback we are hoping to collect.
Register for Toolkit for Inclusive Workforce Education: Embedding Essential Professional Skills into Your Courses - Agriculture Business and Open Educational Resources (OER) Conversation
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 from 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Join your agriculture business colleagues to connect and explore how OER can support teaching and learning.
Register for Agriculture Business and OER Conversation - Accessibility Apps: So, You’re Suddenly Expected to be an Accessibility Expert
Tuesday, March 17, 2026 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
New to accessibility review? This webinar introduces the OERI Accessibility Checklist. Focusing on practical strategies, the checklist can help you to confidently provide feedback to your OER authors.
Register for So, You’re Suddenly Expected to be an Accessibility Expert - What Does Information Technology and Information Systems (ITIS) Need in Open Educational Resources (OER)?
Friday, March 20, 2026 from 9:00 am – 10:00 am
This session will be a guided conversation focused on the OER needs of ITIS programs. We’ll discuss gaps in existing materials, challenges to adoption, and opportunities for creating, adapting, or sharing OER that better support ITIS courses and students. Participants will share experiences, identify priorities, and explore next steps for building sustainable, high-quality OER for the ITIS discipline.
Register for What Does ITIS Need in OER - Exploring Open Educational Resources (OER) for ENGL C1001: A Conversation for English Faculty
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Wondering how OER can align with the new ENGL C1001 framework? This conversation offers Englishfaculty space to exchange perspectives, review available OER materials, and identify where additional resources may be needed. Come with questions, insights, or curiosities; your input will help shape next steps toward a sustainable zero-textbook-cost ENGL C1001.
Register for Exploring OER for ENGL C1001: A Conversation for English Faculty - AI Bytes: Boosting Accessibility, Not Workload
Thursday, March 26, 2026 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
The OERI is pleased to announce the introduction of its Brown Bag Series. Each brown bag is a 30-minute mini-webinar where participants can drop in to learn about a focused topic. After the session ends, presenters and participants are welcome to stay and engage in further dialogue or ask questions about the topic.
This session will explore opportunities for AI to support Universal Design for Learning in the online and in person classroom. When faculty are using open educational resources, AI can be employed to create ancillary resources and other educational materials. Participants will leave with tools, prompts, and examples to support generating accessible handouts, organize complex instructions, and create alternative formats for multiple learning preferences, while also being mindful of student privacy, accuracy, and accommodation versus modification.
Register for AI Bytes: Boosting Accessibility, Not Workload - Using Open Educational Resources (OER) to Design Unique Engineering Course Materials
Thursday, March 26, 2026 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The cost and accessibility of textbooks can serve as a barrier to student success. Yet in many lower-division engineering courses, instructors use textbooks not only as a reference and a guide for students, but also as a source of homework and exam problems. In this webinar, participants will explore several OER designed to support lower-division engineering coursework and discuss strategies to incorporate open materials into assignments and exams.
Register for Using OER to Design Unique Engineering Course Materials - Elevate Your Open Educational Resources (OER): Inclusive, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-racism (IDEA) Framework Summer 2026 Assessment Information Session
Friday, March 27, 2026 from 10:00 am – 10:30 am
The OERI is expanding the IDEA Framework assessment process, a dedicated approach to reviewing new and revised OERI-supported materials to ensure they are inclusive, diverse, equity-minded, and anti-racist. Two exciting assessment sessions will be offered this summer. In the sessions, participants may either submit authored or adopted OER materials for expert review by specially trained IDEA Framework assessors or participate in a four-week guided IDEA Framework assessment alongside fellow OER adopters, learning collaboratively while evaluating authored or adopted OER materials. Join the upcoming information session to learn about the qualifications and expectations as well as obtain answers to any remaining questions.
Register for the IDEA Framework Summer 2026 Assessment Information Session - American Sign Language (ASL): Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) and Open Educational Resources (OER)
Friday, March 27, 2026 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Join us for a conversation about the ASL OER that are currently available or under development. Together we will explore how to use OER and other resources to get your courses to ZTC.
Register for ASL: ZTC and OER - Leading with Impact: Communicating the Value of Open Educational Resources (OER) to Governing Boards and Executive Leadership
Monday, March 30, 2026 from 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Effective OER work requires institutional alignment—and that begins with how we communicate impact to governing boards and executive leaders. This session focuses on translating OER outcomes into data-driven, mission-centered narratives that resonate at the administrative level. Participants will explore strategies for presenting student success data, fiscal stewardship, equity impact, workforce alignment, and community return on investment in ways that secure long-term support and sustainability.
While these events are intended for OERLs, please invite your colleagues to attend if you think they would be interested.
Register for Leading with Impact
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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