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!
Author: Amy Liao
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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Fall 2025, Resolution Number 111.04 Whereas, Title 5 §54221 requires governing boards to “adopt policies that ensure student access to textbooks and supplemental materials that are needed on the first day of class” and delineates “practices that enable first day access to zero-cost resources”, but does not specify college responsibilities after the first day of …
Fall 2025, Resolution Number 111.03 Whereas, The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Burden-Free Instructional Materials Task Force was charged with providing recommendations and regulatory actions to reduce instructional material costs and create sustainable, equitable solutions that prioritize the removal of financial, administrative, and psychological burdens on students, as outlined in its 2024 report Advancing Equity …
Friday, November 7, 2025 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am Watch the “OER and Burden-Free Access to Instructional Materials Policy Development” recording Watch the “OER and Burden-Free Access to Instructional Materials Policy Development” presentation slides What does Title 5 §54221, Burden-Free Access to Instructional Materials, really mean? What do “policies that ensure student access to …