The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) is recruiting California Community College faculty to participate in a summer professional development opportunity to prepare faculty to serve as IDEA Framework Assessors. The assessment process will be used to review new or revised OERI-supported materials to ensure that they are inclusive, diverse, equity-minded, and anti-racist (IDEA). The OERI plans to begin the review of resources during the Fall 2025 term. Questions about this opportunity should be sent via email to the OERI (oeri@asccc.org).
The IDEA Framework
The IDEA Framework was created to support faculty as they pursue culturally relevant and anti-racist pedagogy through OER use and creation. The framework can be used to guide the creation of new OER or to evaluate existing OER.
The OERI has been offering IDEA Framework trainings to teach individual faculty members how to use the framework to evaluate OER and piloted the assessment process during the summer of 2024. This assessment process will provide faculty with feedback and suggestions regarding inclusivity, diversity, equity, and anti-racism to improve the OER.
Access the IDEA Framework and Implementation Guide.
IDEA Framework Summer 2025 Assessor Training Participants
To assist the OERI in conducting IDEA Framework assessments, the program participants will meet on Wednesdays for two hours over a consecutive four-week period (June 18 – July 9). Participants are also expected to complete 2-3 hours of work per week outside of the meeting times. Space is limited to up to 30 faculty participants from the California Community Colleges.
We are looking for faculty from diverse backgrounds and disciplines who are willing to use the IDEA Framework to critically analyze OER materials, possibly including their own.
The goals of the program are to:
- Develop an in-depth understanding of the IDEA Framework
- Learn how to use the IDEA Framework rubric
- Conduct OER assessments
- Pair with another trainee to compare findings and collectively produce one final assessment
Participants will receive an honorarium of $1,000 upon project completion.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Faculty (full time or part time) at a California community college in any discipline.
Desirable Qualifications
- Knowledge and /or experience applying IDEA concepts.
- Training in IDEA.
- OER author or adopter.
Required Application Documents
The deadline for applying is May 27, 2025. To apply, please complete the IDEA Assessor Framework Training Program Application and submit your CV to the OERI (oeri@asccc.org).
The IDEA Framework Pilot Program will meet virtually every Wednesday from June 18th to July 9th. The IDEA Assessor Framework Training Program Application will allow you to specify the times you are availability to meet on the following dates: 6/18/25, 6/25/25, 7/2/25, and 7/9/25.
Additional Background on OERI and the IDEA Framework
The mission of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) is to reduce the cost of educational resources for students by expanding the availability and adoption of high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER). In fulfilling its mission, OERI aims to support faculty as they implement a culturally responsive pedagogy by developing a process and review framework to evaluate existing OER to ensure that OERI-supported and other open educational resources are inclusive, diverse, equitable, and anti-racist (IDEA). The goal of the framework is to facilitate an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of course resources to ensure resources are inclusive, diverse, equitable, and anti-racist (IDEA). The OERI hopes that this framework will encourage faculty to not only address issues of inequity in academia, but also promote a transformative reconsideration and re-visioning of how we know what we know and how education has been shaped by those who have been historically recognized as the experts. Currently, the IDEA Framework is being used by individual faculty members as an assessment tool for both new OER projects and to review existing OER. Although the initial focus is on OER, it is anticipated that the framework will be used to review resources and inform curriculum in the California Community Colleges more broadly.
This page last updated April 24, 2025.