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 …

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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 …

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Thursday, March 26, 2026 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Access the “Using OER to Design Unique Engineering Course Materials” slides – pending 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 …

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Tuesday, March 24, 2026 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Watch the “Exploring Open Educational Resources (OER) for ENGL C1001: A Conversation for English Faculty” recording – pending 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 …

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This OER introduces students to the four sub-disciplines of anthropology: cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and archaeology. The chapters are mostly derivative works that draw upon Perspectives, Explorations, and other previously published OER, and are augmented by the authors’ contributions. The editors’ goals are to present diverse perspectives and contemporary research across all four …

Introduction to Anthropology: A Four Field Approach (Edited by Pawlowicz; Brooks; Phaup; and Rector) (CC-BY-NC)Read More »

Rhetorical Communities introduces students to key concepts such as rhetorical situation, discourse communities, genre, and multimodality, while examining how language, identity, and power shape communication across contexts. With its modular structure and inclusion of topics like linguistic justice and generative AI, the text offers a flexible, rhetorically grounded resource that can support ENGL C1000 and C1001.

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, …

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Friday, April 10, 2026 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Join us for a conversation with two community college faculty members who are developing new OER for linguistic anthropology — the only anthropological subdiscipline that lacks a comprehensive OER. They will present their work-in-progress and invite participants to provide feedback and further direction.Register for Linguistic …

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