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 Spring 2024, the OERI’s twice monthly webinars (Friday Forums) will be on the 1st and 3rd Friday starting in February. There are expectations with February 23 and April for Spring Plenary session. The final one of the term will be on May 3rd.
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.
Show Upcoming OERI Webinars and Events
- American Sign Language (ASL) and Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours
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The OERI is pleased to offer a series of ASL and OER office hours throughout for the month of May. These office hours will serve as a Q&A session where attendees bring their ASL and OER needs, requests, and questions. Attendees can also use this space to receive guidance and ask questions pertaining to the discipline.
Register for ASL and OER Office Hours on Wednesday, May 1, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Register for ASL and OER Office Hours on Tuesday, May 14, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
- MyOpenMath (MOM) for STEM Courses Office Hour
Thursday, May 2, 2024 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Register for MyOpenMath for STEM Courses – Office Hour
Are you considering using MyOpenMath for your STEM course? Please join us with your questions as you get started with MOM or to continue support you as you use MOM in an existing course.
- Math OER Office Hours
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The OERI is pleased to offer a series of math open educational resources (OER) office hours throughout the term. These office hours will serve as a Q&A 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 Thursday, May 2, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Register for Math OER Office Hours on Wednesday, May 15, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
- Using Open Educational Resources (OER) to Teach Statistics – A Focus on the How and Why
Friday, May 3, 2024 from 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Register for Using OER to Teach Statistics
Have you wondered how faculty use OER to teach statistics? What are the benefits of using OER to teach statistics? What options are available to address the need for a homework system? Join us to explore what is possible when using OER to teach statistics and, hopefully, increase the probability that you will give OER a try.
- Continuing the Path to Zero in Spanish Open Educational Resources (OER): Tarea Libre 2
Friday, May 3, 2024 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Register for Continuing the Path to Zero in Spanish OER: Tarea Libre 2
Join us for a sneak preview of Tarea Libre 2, a second-year Spanish homework ancillary that consists of a comprehensive and accessible OER question bank of more than 800 interactive activities created all in ADAPT for intermediate and advanced Spanish. Specifically aligned with C-ID SPAN 200 and 210, this supplementary resource will complement the Spanish OER text materials already identified on the ASCCC OERI Spanish Discipline page and will continue the work started with Tarea Libre (first-year).
- The ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI): Resources and Services to Support Your Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Pathway Development
Friday, May 3, 2024 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Register for “The ASCCC OERI: Resources and Services to Support Your ZTC Pathway Development”
Establishing a ZTC pathway in a sustainable way can only be accomplished when faculty make the commitment to doing the work and they are supported to do so. The OERI’s statewide OER infrastructure can assist you in your ZTC journey, whether you are new to OER or are an experienced OER author who wants to share their work but is hesitant to do so. Join us for an overview of the available resources to prepare you for OER work and the available services to support that work.
- Open Educational Resources (OER) in Economics: Filling the Gaps
Monday, May 6, 2024 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Register for OER in Economics: Filling in Gaps
Join us for a conversation about the topic areas in economics that are missing in current OER resources and what resource types (chapters, lessons, videos, practice, etc.) are in high demand.
- Updates on Geography Open Educational Resources (OER) and Future Projects
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Register for Updates on Geography OER and Future Projects
Join us to discuss and review existing Geography OER as well as to consider plans for addressing OER gaps in Geography that have been identified over the past year.
- Open Educational Resources (OER) for English: How Students Can Annotate the Text Together
Thursday, May 9, 2024 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Register for OER for English: How Students Can Annotate the Text Together
Assigning collaborative annotation makes engaging with textbook material much more social and enjoyable for students and teachers even as it supports critical reading. It is also an opportunity for open pedagogy when we invite students to comment on and suggest changes to learning materials. We can do this with OER texts and not with commercial ones. We will look at examples of collaborative annotation of OER texts in reading and writing pedagogy and tour some platforms that allow for this.
- Sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) Within and Across Ethnic Studies Disciplines
Thursday, May 9, 2024 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Register for Sharing OER Within and Across Ethnic Studies Disciplines
In this conversation, faculty are invited to share the OER that they have used in the classroom. We will share successes and reflect on differences and similarities between five Ethnic Studies disciplines: Ethnic Studies, Black Studies, Native American / American Indian Studies, Chicanx and Latinx Studies, and Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies.
- Moving Math and Statistics Courses to Open Educational Resources (OER)/ Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC)
Friday, May 10, 2024 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Register for Moving Math and Statistics Course to OER/ZTC
Join us in this webinar to go over the mathematics OER and ZTC options that are out there for textbooks and homework systems. We will look at common courses such as statistics, calculus, and other courses that the attendees have interest in using OER and moving to ZTC.
- Spanish Open Educational Resources (OER) Homework Hackathon 2: Let’s have fun with ADAPT
Friday, May 10, 2024 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Register for Spanish OER Homework Hackathon 2
Do you want to help us expand the Spanish OER homework activities in ADAPT? During our OER Hackathon 2, we will create a collection of activities using LibreTexts ADAPT homework system. Come and join the fun and share the newly created resources with the world!
- Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Framework Office Hour
Register for Friday, May 10, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm IDEA Framework Office Hours
Drop in to chat about the OERI IDEA Framework. This space is for anyone using the framework to assess existing OER materials, to create new OER, or to discuss all things IDEA. Join your IDEA colleagues to ask questions, get feedback, or brainstorm.
- A Deep Dive into Open Educational Resources (OER) Options for Digital Journalism and Public Relations
Monday, May 13, 2024 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Register for A Deep Dive into OER Options for Digital Journalism and Public Relations
As we wrap up the spring term, it’s time to consider adopting and adapting OER for classes in fall 2024. Please join us to investigate our OER options – including some new choices – for digital journalism and public relations classes.
- Astronomy and Open Educational Resources (OER)
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Register for Astronomy and OER
Join us in this conversation to discuss the OER needs of the Astronomy and Physics community and expand discipline collaboration on developing and implementing OER.
- Administration of Justice Open Educational Resources (OER) Introduction and Brainstorming Session
Thursday, May 16, 2024 from 11:00am – 12:00 pm
Register for Administration of Justice OER Introduction and Brainstorming Session
Join us for an introduction to our new ADMJ Discipline Lead and an update on the work of the ADMJ collaboration cohort. We will also review existing OER and identify any gaps or needs in ADMJ OER course materials.
- How Can We Best Assign Diverse Contemporary Literature and Nonfiction Books in Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Classes? A discussion for English faculty
Thursday, May 16, 2024 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Register for How Can We Best Assign Diverse Contemporary Literature and Nonfiction Books in ZTC Classes?
Join us for an open conversation about the pros and cons of different approaches, including library eBook access.
- Cal OER 2024
On behalf of the Cal OER Organizing Committee, we invite you to save the date for the fourth annual Cal OER Conference, held virtually on August 7 – 8, 2024, and to submit a presentation proposal. This event is open to everyone, so we hope you will attend and consider presenting. The theme for the 2024 conference is Responsive Pedagogy: Extending Local Innovation to Advance Global Impact.
Cal OER will focus on OER efforts and impact, broadly defined, across the state of California and especially across the state’s three public higher education systems, the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California.
Presentation proposals are due at 5:00 pm on June 3, 2024. Access the 2024 Cal OER Conference: Presentation Proposal Submission Form.
Information about keynote speakers and registration for the event is forthcoming.
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.