Wednesday, October 16, 2024 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Watch the “Exciting Geology OER Textbooks in Development ” recording Access the “Exciting Geology OER Textbooks in Development ” slides Geology is fortunate to have some very good openly licensed textbooks, especially for Physical Geology. Additionally, colleagues from across the state are currently developing OER …

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Join us to review psychology’s approach to OER, including ensuring resources have an emphasis on inclusion, equity, diversity, and justice issues as well as using crowdsourcing to update OER and create ancillaries. Finally, we will discuss any gaps in OER that persist in our discipline. …

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Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Watch the “OER for Biology – Needs and Usage” recording Access the “OER for Biology – Needs and Usage” presentation slides There are many openly-licensed textbooks and ancillaries available for biology faculty to adopt or adapt (Open Educational Resources and Biology) and the Zero Textbook …

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Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am Watch the “Making Journalism Degree Textbooks Cheaper” recording Access the “Making Journalism Degree Textbooks Cheaper” presentation slides In this webinar, we will review the journalism classes that are required for the Journalism Associate Degree for Transfer and consider the recommended zero-cost or open educational resources …

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Friday, October 4, 2024 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am Watch the “Course Cost Transparency in the California Community Colleges – The Past, The Present, and the Future” recording Access the “Course Cost Transparency in the California Community Colleges – The Past, The Present, and the Future” presentation slides In 2010, a federal requirement that the …

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Friday, September 20, 2024 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am Watch the “Fall 2024 Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Program – An Overview and Update” recording Access the “Fall 2024 Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Program – An Overview and Update” presentation slides A year ago, colleges were determining how to use the funds they received from …

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Friday, September 6, 2024 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am Watch the “Harnessing the Power of AI and OER to Support Student Learning” recording Presentation slides: Employing AI to create ancillary resources for OER is one of the many ways that generative AI can support both teaching and learning. While many faculty have experimented with …

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On behalf of the Cal OER Organizing Committee, we invite you to save the date for the fourth annual Cal OER Conference, held virtually on August 7 – 8, 2024. This event is open to everyone, so we hope you will attend and consider presenting. The theme for the 2024 conference is Responsive Pedagogy: Extending Local Innovation to Advance Global Impact. Cal OER …

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Monday, July 22, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Watch the “ADAPT Level 4 – Creating and Using Question Banks in ADAPT” recording Access the “ADAPT Level 4 – Creating and Using Question Banks in ADAPT” presentation slides After you’ve learned to create activities in ADAPT, how do you deploy those activities within a course so …

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