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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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OMT provides not only the material for a complete traditional core undergraduate music theory sequence (fundamentals, diatonic harmony, chromatic harmony, form, 20th-century techniques), but also several other units for instructors who have diversified their curriculum, such as jazz, popular music, counterpoint, and orchestration.”This text features accessibility-focused design elements such as screen reader-friendly terminology for major and …

Open Music Theory (Gotham, Gullings, Hamm, Hughes, Jarvis, Lavengood, Peterson; 2023) (CC BY-SA)Read More »

“The main purpose of the course… is to explore basic music theory so thoroughly that the interested student will then be able to easily pick up whatever further theory is wanted. Music history and the physics of sound are included to the extent that they shed light on music theory.“ The text focuses on core …

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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, …

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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 …

Philosophy Open Educational Resources (OER) for Logic, Critical Thinking, and WritingRead More »

This comprehensive four-semester interactive online textbook emphasizes phrase-based harmonic analysis rather than traditional four-part voice-leading, focusing on motivic development, phrase structure, and melodic construction techniques including inversion, augmentation, diminution, and ornamentation. “This text differs from other music theory textbooks by focusing less on four–part (SATB) voiceleading [sic] and more on relating harmony to the phrase.“ …

Music Theory for the 21st Century Classroom (Hutchinson, 2017) (GNU Free Documentation License 1.3)Read More »

Friday, October 24, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Watch the “Sin Fronteras: Inclusive Open Educational Resources (OER) in Spanish” recording Access the “Sin Fronteras: Inclusive Open Educational Resources (OER) in Spanish” presentation slides Today more than ever there is an urgency to embrace language teaching practices that are both inclusive and equitable. This …

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