Thursday, March 26, 2026 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Access the “Using OER to Design Unique Engineering Course Materials” slides 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 students, but …
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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 …
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 …
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.
Thursday, April 30, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Establishing zero textbook cost sections of economics courses may require the use of resources that are freely available for student use, but may not be OER. What free resources are available to address homework system, graphing technology, and specialized and/or real-world economics module needs? Join us to …
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Wednesday, April 29, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm In this webinar, we will discuss how faculty are leveraging OER and AI to expand access, reduce costs, and support innovative teaching in business classes. We will also explore practical strategies faculty are using to integrate OER and AI tools to enhance course design, improve student engagement, …
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Dual enrollment can be a student’s first college experience. Ensuring that this significant opportunity is clearly communicated is essential to expanding access. This webinar focuses on how colleges can highlight ZTC and OER options as a key benefit of their dual enrollment programs.Register for Making …
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, …
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Your journalism program likely produces a publication, but do you have the necessary curriculum and educational resources to support it? And are those resources free to students? In this conversation, we will share a list of existing journalism OER and explore what resources we may …
Monday, April 27, 2026 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Join us to get a preliminary look at findings from the Irvine Valley College ZTC Degree Feasibility Study. In this webinar, we will share the preliminary data including charts, early triangulated themes, and powerful student quotes. The study is still underway, so it’s not too …
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