Thursday, November 13, 2025 from 9:00 am – 10:00 am Watch the “Integrating OER into Program Review and Resource Allocation Processes” recording Discover how to strategically document OER adoption within your program review process to create a powerful, data-driven case for resource allocation. This session provides practical tools to translate your OER efforts into compelling …
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Watch the “Geography Study Afield: Sharing Our Favorite Field Study Locations” recording 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 …
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Watch the “Beyond the Discussion Board: Reimagining Online Conversations with Discuss-It” recording 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 …
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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!
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am Watch the “OER and Biotechnology” recording 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. …
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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. Please contact the OERI …
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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.
Fall 2025, Resolution Number 114.04 Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges has long supported lowering course material costs through the adoption of open educational resources[1]; Whereas, The adoption of open educational resources saves students money, but gathering the data to calculate actual cost-savings is labor-intensive and there is no standardized systemwide method to facilitate the calculation of savings that colleges could use to track and quantify savings; Whereas, A simple standardized method …
Fall 2025, Resolution Number 113.02 Whereas, Automatic-billing programs, also referred to as “inclusive access” programs, typically charge students a per-unit fee for course materials, regardless of the actual cost of the required resources and often fail to clearly notify students of opt-out options, thereby limiting student choice and creating new financial burdens[1]; Whereas, The Academic …
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Fall 2025, Resolution Number 111.05 Whereas, All openly licensed resources created with Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Program funds must be shared, but California Education Code §78052[1] specifies that “Testing and assessment materials posted online pursuant to this paragraph shall be safeguarded to maintain the integrity of those materials.”; Whereas, Canvas Commons is a platform for sharing complete …
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