Monday, April 8, 2024 from 2:30 pm – 1:30 pm Register for Anthropology and ZTC Conversation The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative have created a ZTC Collaboration Cohort to ensure awareness of available OER, determine whether or not proposed ZTC work is duplicative, and consider collaboration. Although not part …
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Friday, April 5, 2024 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am Watch the “Unlocking OER” recording Access the “Unlocking OER” presentation slides While OER can be open, some OER are effectively locked up – available only in formats that can’t be modified, housed in a course management system, built in proprietary software, or purposefully not allowed …
This textbook was written and designed especially for College of the Canyons Communications students. The following chapters will cover topics such as: understanding cultural identity, social construction, cultural biases, and culture shock. There are two types of interactive features in this book to help you, the student, engage with the various concepts and procedures behind …
Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy is a contemporary, interdisciplinary public speaking textbook that fuses rhetoric, critical/cultural studies, and performance to offer an up-to-date resource for students. With a focus on advocacy, this textbook invites students to consider public speaking as a political, purposeful form of information-sharing.
This text is an OERI-supported project. It welcomes students to the study of California government and politics and invites them to develop their opinions and become active participants in shaping the future of our state.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Watch the “Funding the Development of OER and Navigating Your Local Context” recording Access the “Funding the Development of OER and Navigating Your Local Context” presentation slides How do you take a proposed scheme for funding faculty to do OER work and execute it using …
Thursday, March 28, 2024 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Access the “ZTC, OER, and Political Science” slides The ZTC Acceleration Grant Collaboration Cohorts established by the ASCCC OERI will increase the use of OER by ensuring an awareness of openly-licensed texts and ancillaries as well as, hopefully, lead to the development new resources. This …
Thursday, March 28, 2024 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Watch the “ZTC Labs – Lab-Specific Challenges and Solutions” recording Watch the “ZTC Labs – Lab-Specific Challenges and Solutions” presentation slides Labs are commonly reported to be one of the most challenging types of courses to get to ZTC. While openly-licensed lab manuals may be …
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Thursday, March 28, 2024 from 10:00 am – 11:00 am Watch the “OER for Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology” recording Access the “OER for Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology” presentation slides An analysis of zero-textbook-cost (ZTC) data obtained from California Community Colleges (CCC) reveals that the biology courses that commonly are needed for allied health pathways are …
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024 from 10:00 am – 11:00 am Register for Back to our Roots – Chatting about OER Are you tired of hearing about zero textbook costs (ZTC) and/or worrying about how your ZTC dollars are being spent? Put ZTC aside and join us for this conversation to discuss OER with fellow OERLs …
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