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 Fall 2025 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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- Agriculture Business and Open Educational Resources (OER) Updates
Monday, November 10, 2025 from 8:00 am – 9:00 am
What OER are available for agriculture business courses? Are there sufficient OER available to establish agriculture business zero-textbook-cost pathways? Join this conversation to share progress, resources, and next steps for developing and adopting OER for agriculture business courses.
Register for Agriculture Business and OER Updates - Music Theory and Musicianship Open Educational Resources (OER): An Overview
Monday, November 10, 2025 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
In this webinar, we will explore the available OER for music fundamentals, music theory, and musicianship courses. Join us to discuss what OER exist and which ones should be included in the developing the music OER collection on the OERI website.
Register for Music Theory and Musicianship OER: An Overview - Physics and Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours
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 question-and-answer 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.
Meetings will occur on select Tuesdays from 10-11am and Fridays from 9-10am
Register for Physics OER Office Hours on November 11, 21, and 25
Register for Physics OER Office Hours on December 5 and 9 - Open Educational Resources (OER) and Biotechnology
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am
In this webinar, several traditional biotechnology OER will be presented, reviewed, and discussed. Some of these resources are part of a larger project of openly-licensed assignments that focus on soft skills as well as traditional biotechnology knowledge, skills, and abilities. The intention of the project is to provide students a way to reflect on their experiences to understand how to leverage them in interviews. Faculty will be provided with open access to an AI tool that has been constructed to act as an ‘Employment Counselor/Coach’. The structure of the AI “Employment Coach” will be presented as model to build other AI resources for biotechnology curriculum. Faculty will be solicited for ideas.
Register for OER and Biotechnology - Open Educational Resources (OER) and Distance Education (DE) Office Hour
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Drop in to chat, share ideas, and ask questions about the intersections of OER and DE. If you are creating, teaching, and/or supporting DE courses which use OER, let’s talk about platforms, pedagogies, policies, and practices, whether they’re problematic, promising, or a little of both!
Register for OER and DE Office Hour - Beyond the Discussion Board: Reimagining Online Conversations with Discuss-It
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Tired of text-only discussions that feel like checkboxes instead of conversations? Discover Discuss-It, an OER tool in LibreTexts’ ADAPT, that 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 Beyond the Discussion Board: Reimagining Online Conversations with Discuss-It - Geography Study Afield: Sharing Our Favorite Field Study Locations
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
We have all seen the excitement that our students experience when they can see geography in the field as the concepts we teach come alive. What if faculty openly licensed information about their favorite field study locations and resources for teaching about them? In this presentation, we will discuss creating open educational resources for sharing field study resources. Come and learn and be prepared to share!
Register for Geography Study Afield: Sharing Our Favorite Field Study Locations - Open Educational Resources (OER) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Office Hours
Drop in to chat and ask questions about OER and AI. Topics can include attribution and citation questions, ethical considerations, hypothetical and practical scenarios, or discipline specific issues – nothing is too small or too large! Join colleagues to ask questions, get feedback, or brainstorm ways that AI can be a helpful tool in your OER work. These office hours will be held from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm on every Thursday of November except for November 27th.
Register for the November 13 and 20 OER and AI Office Hours - Teaching with Artificial Intelligence (AI): Practical Tools for Biology Instructors
Friday, November 14, 2025 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am
As AI rapidly expands into education, biology instructors have new opportunities to create engaging, accessible, and cost-free resources for their students. This session introduces practical AI tools that help faculty enhance teaching and learning in biology courses, with a special focus on open educational resources. Participants will explore how AI can generate visuals, customize examples, and develop instructional materials that support complex biological concepts.
Register for Teaching with AI: Practical Tools for Biology Instructors - American Sign Language (ASL): Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC), and Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Friday, November 14, 2025 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 - OERI Project Management Course
The OERI Project Management Course begins on Monday, September 29 and end on Friday, October 31. For those of you enrolled in the course, join the office hours on select Fridays from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm to learn and bring your questions regarding the OERI Project Management Course.
Register for the OERI Project Management Course Office Hours in November
Register for the OERI Project Management Course Office Hours in December - Open Educational Resources (OER) and Geology: Expansion to all Earth Sciences
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Join us to explore the development of a set of earth science “sub-discipline” OER. We will discuss using the drop-down menu selections on the geology site to include current geology resources as well as oceanography/marine sciences, meteorology/atmospheric sciences, and planetary/earth system sciences OER.
Register for OER and Geology: Expansion to all Earth Sciences - Mathematics and Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours
The OERI is pleased to offer a series of Math and OER office hours throughout the Fall 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 Tuesday, November 18, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Register for Math OER Office Hours on Monday, December 8, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm - Applying the Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Framework to Open Educational Resources (OER): Economics
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
The IDEA Framework was created to inform the development of new OER and to review and improve existing OER. What does an IDEA review mean for an economics text? What does an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and anti-racist economics OER look like? Join us to consider the applicability of the IDEA Framework in a discipline-specific context to learn how to use and apply it to any OER.
Register for the Applying the IDEA Framework to OER: Economics - Envisioning Open Educational Resources (OER) throughout the Associate in Arts -Transfer (AA-T) Elementary Teacher Education: Integrated Programs
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Calling all education faculty! What do we want to see on our OERI discipline page? Truth: We teach one, maybe two, courses in the entire program of study. Let’s identify which courses in the AA-T Elementary Teacher Education: Integrated Programs degree that we believe should be on our discipline page. Please add your voice to this important conversation and join us for a lively session that will shape the future for our students.
Register for Envisioning OER throughout the AA-T Elementary Teacher Education: Integrated Programs - Philosophy Open Educational Resources (OER) for Logic, Critical Thinking, and Writing
Friday, November 21, 2025 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am
The introduction of Cal-GETC as the only general education pattern for transfer students has impacted logic courses. Previously at least two different courses would be offered: one covering introduction to logic (including symbolic logic) and one covering critical thinking through writing. One approach to these changes has been to offer a single course that meets the needs of all students, including philosophy majors. This webinar will cover OER that can be helpful in crafting an appropriate set of readings for such a course.
Register for Philosophy OER for Logic, Critical Thinking, and Writing - Making Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Data Available With Data Dashboards
Friday, November 21, 2025 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am
In collaboration with the OERI, the Michelson Foundation, and practitioners from a number of colleges, Chabot College built a data dashboard template to help make ZTC section data easily accessible locally. The dashboard’s display includes: (1) the percent of sections within a college that are ZTC, Low Textbook Cost (LTC), or have not yet been converted to ZTC/LTC; (2) the percent of students that utilize these ZTC sections; (3) success rates by textbook cost; and (4) the persistence rates of students that enroll in at least one ZTC section compared to students that do not. In addition, the integration of XB12 data into the dashboards would enable users to answer questions related specifically to the use of open educational resources. In this webinar, we’ll discuss how to use the dashboards, what questions you could potentially answer, and how to set them up at your own college.
Register for Making ZTC Data Available With Data Dashboards - Introduction to Remixing and Open Homework Systems Regional Meeting – North
The OERI, in collaboration with Cosumnes River 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 Cosumnes River College in Sacramento 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, December 5, 8:30 am – 2:45 pm OERI Regional at Cosumnes River College - Making Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Data Available With Data Dashboards – Data Requirements and Template Implementation
Friday, December 5, 2025 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am
In collaboration with the OERI, the Michelson Foundation, and college practitioners, Chabot College built a data dashboard template to help make ZTC section data easily accessible locally. In addition, the integration of XB12 data into the dashboards would enable users to answer questions related specifically to the use of open educational resources. In this webinar, we’ll discuss what data are necessary to import into the dashboard template for Tableau and Power BI softwares. We will also discuss in what ways institutions can change the template to match data that is most pertinent to their individual college.
Register for Making ZTC Data Available With Data Dashboards - Introduction to Remixing and Open Homework Systems Regional Meeting – South
The OERI, in collaboration with Rio Hondo 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 Rio Hondo College in Whittier 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, December 6, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm OERI Regional at Rio Hondo College
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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