OER Liaisons

• Part-Time OERLs – This One’s for You: A Conversation Space for Part-Time Liaisons (OERL Conversation)

  Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

  Are you an OER liaison who is also a part time faculty member? Join this conversation to share time management strategies, effective ways to advocate for OER within your role, and some of the advantages or pitfalls of being part-time and an OERL.
  Register for Part-Time OERLs – This One’s for You

• Open, Relevant, and Ready: Business Open Educational Resources (OER) for the Future

  Tuesday, November 4, 2025 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

  In this conversation, faculty will discuss innovative strategies to keep OER for business courses current, accessible, and impactful to prepare students for success in today’s dynamic economy.
  Register for Open, Relevant, and Ready: Business OER for the Future

• Artificial Intelligence (AI), Open Educational Resources (OER), and Art History: A Conversation

  Wednesday, November 5, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

  What does the recent explosion in AI availability and usage mean for Art History? How does it impact teaching and assessments—especially for faculty using OER and/or teaching online? What policies have you established in your own courses? What assignments have you updated or implemented to either embrace or circumvent AI tools? Join fellow discipline faculty to brainstorm, share ideas, and strategize!
  Register for AI, OER, and Art History: A Conversation

• English as a Second Language (ESL) and Open Educational Resources (OER) Today

  Wednesday, November 5, 2025 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

  Faculty in both credit and noncredit programs are invited to join this conversation about OER for ESL. What OER have you adopted?  What OER would you like to write? What do you think the discipline needs? Please join us to learn about OER, ask questions, and share your experiences to build our ESL OER community.
  Register for ESL and OER Today

• Fall 2025 Roundup of Open Educational Resources (OER)/Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) Developments for Early Childhood Education (ECE)

  Thursday, November 6, 2025 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am

  The field of ECE is rapidly expanding with new OER and ZTC materials. This webinar will provide an overview of resources developed over the last year and highlight upcoming developments. Join is to explore new OER, revised OER, and new ancillaries for the discipline.
  Register for Fall 2025 Roundup of OER/ZTC Developments

• Open Educational Resources (OER) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Office Hours

  Drop in to chat and ask questions about OER and AI. Topics can include attribution and citation questions, ethical considerations, hypothetical and practical scenarios, or discipline specific issues – nothing is too small or too large! Join colleagues to ask questions, get feedback, or brainstorm ways that AI can be a helpful tool in your OER work. These office hours will be held from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm on every Thursday of November except for November 27^th.
  Register for the November 6, 13, and 20 OER and AI Office Hours

• Physics and Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours

  The OERI is pleased to offer a series of Physics Open Educational Resources (OER) office hours throughout the term. These office hours will serve as a question-and-answer session where attendees bring in their Physics OER needs, requests, and questions. Attendees can also use this space to receive guidance and ask questions pertaining to MyOpenMath.
  Meetings will occur on select Tuesdays from 10-11am and Fridays from 9-10am
  Register for Physics OER Office Hours on November 7, 11, 21, and 25
  Register for Physics OER Office Hours on December 5 and 9

• Open Educational Resources and Burden-Free Access to Instructional Materials Policy Development

  Friday, November 7, 2025 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am

  What does Title 5 §54221, Burden-Free Access to Instructional Materials, really mean? What do “policies that ensure student access to textbooks and supplemental materials that are needed on the first day of class” look like and how might they “maintain an instructor’s responsibility and academic freedom to choose instructional materials”? Join us for a discussion of what your local implementation of this regulation should – and should not consist of.
  Register for OER and Burden-Free Access to Instructional Materials Policy Development

• Mathematics and Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours

  The OERI is pleased to offer a series of Math and OER office hours throughout the Fall term. These office hours will serve as a question-and-answer session where attendees bring in their math OER needs, requests, and questions. Attendees can also use this space to receive guidance and ask questions pertaining to MyOpenMath.
  Register for Math OER Office Hours on Friday, November 7, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
  Register for Math OER Office Hours on Tuesday, November 18, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  Register for Math OER Office Hours on Monday, December 8, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

• Agriculture Business and Open Educational Resources (OER) Updates

  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.
  Register for Agriculture Business and OER Updates

• Music Theory and Musicianship Open Educational Resources (OER): An Overview

  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.
  Register for Music Theory and Musicianship OER: An Overview

• Open Educational Resources (OER) and Biotechnology

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am

  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. The intention of the project is to provide students a way to reflect on their experiences to understand how to leverage them in interviews. Faculty will be provided with open access to an AI tool that has been constructed to act as an ‘Employment Counselor/Coach’. The structure of the AI “Employment Coach” will be presented as model to build other AI resources for biotechnology curriculum. Faculty will be solicited for ideas.
  Register for OER and Biotechnology

• Open Educational Resources (OER) and Distance Education (DE) Office Hour

  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!
  Register for OER and DE Office Hour

• Beyond the Discussion Board: Reimagining Online Conversations with Discuss-It

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  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 integrating voice and video responses can boost engagement, build community, and bring human presence back to your courses regardless of your discipline.
  Register for Beyond the Discussion Board: Reimagining Online Conversations with Discuss-It

• Geography Study Afield: Sharing Our Favorite Field Study Locations

  Wednesday, November 12, 2025 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

  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 favorite field study locations and resources for teaching about them? In this presentation, we will discuss creating open educational resources for sharing field study resources. Come and learn and be prepared to share!
  Register for Geography Study Afield: Sharing Our Favorite Field Study Locations

• Integrating Open Educational Resources (OER) into Program Review and Resource Allocation Processes

  Thursday, November 13, 2025 from 9:00 am – 10:00 am

  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 arguments for institutional investment and support for departmental goals.
  Register for the Integrating OER into the Program Review and Resource Allocation Processes

• Teaching with Artificial Intelligence (AI): Practical Tools for Biology Instructors

  Friday, November 14, 2025 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am

  As AI rapidly expands into education, biology instructors have new opportunities to create engaging, accessible, and cost-free resources for their students. This session introduces practical AI tools that help faculty enhance teaching and learning in biology courses, with a special focus on open educational resources. Participants will explore how AI can generate visuals, customize examples, and develop instructional materials that support complex biological concepts.
  Register for Teaching with AI: Practical Tools for Biology Instructors

• Open Educational Resources (OER) in Practice: College OER/Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) Program Spotlights from Across the Spectrum

  Friday, November 14, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

  Join us for a candid and practical monthly webinar series that illustrates how colleges are building, adapting, and sustaining their OER and ZTC programs. Rather than focusing solely on “best practices,” this series will explore actual practices and program building. Each session will feature 2-4 colleges sharing how their OER/ZTC efforts are structured – from formal committees and taskforces to grassroots faculty-led initiatives. We’ll hear directly from OER leads and practitioners about what’s working, what’s evolving, and how they’re navigating the challenges and opportunities on their campuses.
  Register for OER in Practice: College OER/ZTC Program Spotlights from Across the Spectrum

• American Sign Language (ASL): Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC), and Open Educational Resources (OERs)

  Friday, November 14, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

  Join us for a conversation about the ASL OER that are currently available or under development. Together we will explore how to use OER and other resources to get your courses to ZTC.
  Register for ASL: ZTC and OER

• OERI Project Management Course

  The OERI Project Management Course begins on Monday, September 29 and end on Friday, October 31. For those of you enrolled in the course, join the office hours on select Fridays from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm to learn and bring your questions regarding the OERI Project Management Course.
  Register for the OERI Project Management Course Office Hours in November
  Register for the OERI Project Management Course Office Hours in December

• Open Educational Resources (OER) and Geology: Expansion to all Earth Sciences

  Tuesday, November 18, 2025 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

  Join us to explore the development of a set of earth science “sub-discipline” OER. We will discuss using the drop-down menu selections on the geology site to include current geology resources as well as oceanography/marine sciences, meteorology/atmospheric sciences, and planetary/earth system sciences OER.
  Register for OER and Geology: Expansion to all Earth Sciences

• Applying the Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Framework to Open Educational Resources (OER): Economics

  Wednesday, November 19, 2025 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

  The IDEA Framework was created to inform the development of new OER and to review and improve existing OER. What does an IDEA review mean for an economics text? What does an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and anti-racist economics OER look like? Join us to consider the applicability of the IDEA Framework in a discipline-specific context to learn how to use and apply it to any OER.
  Register for the Applying the IDEA Framework to OER: Economics

• Envisioning Open Educational Resources (OER) throughout the Associate in Arts -Transfer (AA-T) Elementary Teacher Education: Integrated Programs

  Wednesday, November 19, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  Calling all education faculty! What do we want to see on our OERI discipline page? Truth: We teach one, maybe two, courses in the entire program of study. Let’s identify which courses in the AA-T Elementary Teacher Education: Integrated Programs degree that we believe should be on our discipline page. Please add your voice to this important conversation and join us for a lively session that will shape the future for our students.
  Register for Envisioning OER throughout the AA-T Elementary Teacher Education: Integrated Programs

• Philosophy Open Educational Resources (OER) for Logic, Critical Thinking, and Writing

  Friday, November 21, 2025 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am

  The introduction of Cal-GETC as the only general education pattern for transfer students has impacted logic courses. Previously at least two different courses would be offered: one covering introduction to logic (including symbolic logic) and one covering critical thinking through writing. One approach to these changes has been to offer a single course that meets the needs of all students, including philosophy majors. This webinar will cover OER that can be helpful in crafting an appropriate set of readings for such a course.
  Register for Philosophy OER for Logic, Critical Thinking, and Writing

• Making Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Data Available With Data Dashboards

  Friday, November 21, 2025 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am

  In collaboration with the OERI, the Michelson Foundation, and practitioners from a number of colleges, Chabot College built a data dashboard template to help make ZTC section data easily accessible locally. The dashboard’s display includes: (1) the percent of sections within a college that are ZTC, Low Textbook Cost (LTC), or have not yet been converted to ZTC/LTC; (2) the percent of students that utilize these ZTC sections; (3) success rates by textbook cost; and (4) the persistence rates of  students that enroll in at least one ZTC section compared to students that do not. In addition, the integration of XB12 data into the dashboards would enable users to answer questions related specifically to the use of open educational resources. In this webinar, we’ll discuss how to use the dashboards, what questions you could potentially answer, and how to set them up at your own college.
  Register for Making ZTC Data Available With Data Dashboards

• Introduction to Remixing and Open Homework Systems Regional Meeting – North

  The OERI, in collaboration with Cosumnes River College, is pleased to announce a professional development opportunity for those who intend to remix open educational resources in the LibreTexts platform and create openly-licensed assessments – and those who support such work. Attendees of this in-person event at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento will be introduced to – and actively interact with – LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System. A light breakfast will be served and lunch will be provided. In order to defray costs, a registration fee of $25 will be charged. Space is limited.
  Register for Friday, December 5, 8:30 am – 2:45 pm OERI Regional at Cosumnes River College
  

• Making Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Data Available With Data Dashboards – Data Requirements and Template Implementation

  Friday, December 5, 2025 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am

  In collaboration with the OERI, the Michelson Foundation, and college practitioners, Chabot College built a data dashboard template to help make ZTC section data easily accessible locally.  In addition, the integration of XB12 data into the dashboards would enable users to answer questions related specifically to the use of open educational resources. In this webinar, we’ll discuss what data are necessary to import into the dashboard template for Tableau and Power BI softwares. We will also discuss in what ways institutions can change the template to match data that is most pertinent to their individual college.
  Register for Making ZTC Data Available With Data Dashboards

• Introduction to Remixing and Open Homework Systems Regional Meeting – South

  The OERI, in collaboration with Rio Hondo College, is pleased to announce a professional development opportunity for those who intend to remix open educational resources in the LibreTexts platform and create openly-licensed assessments – and those who support such work. Attendees of this in-person event at Rio Hondo College in Whittier will be introduced to – and actively interact with – LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System. A light breakfast will be served and lunch will be provided. In order to defray costs, a registration fee of $25 will be charged. Space is limited.
  Register for Saturday, December 6, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm OERI Regional at Rio Hondo College

Welcome! If you’ve identified yourself as being “advanced”, you already are the person that your colleagues approach with their OER questions. Steps #1 – #6 (our to-do list for those with less OER experience) may be things you have already tackled.

• Complete your tasks as delineated in the term’s expectancies document.
• Introduce yourself locally. Share with your faculty colleagues, part-time and full-time, that you are the college’s OERL and that your role is to share resources with them – as well as communicate their needs to the OERI. An e-mail to your colleagues would be appropriate, as would a visit to your local senate and other relevant committees.
• Determine the status of OER at your college.
  • If no one has provided the OERI with information regarding the number of courses and sections at your college using the no-cost designation (as required by SB 1359) during the fall term of the current academic year, provide that information to the OERI. If you are not sure what to do, please ask for assistance.
  • If information regarding the use of the no-cost designation has been provided, explore the criteria used for making this determination and determine whether or not these course sections tend to be using OER or not. In other words, educate yourself regarding the use of this designation as an initial exploration into the status of OER at your college.
• Engage faculty in one or more disciplines about their use of OER – why or why not are they using OER?
• Explore the following:
  • Printing OER. Has a process for making printed OER available been established? If not, what are the barriers?
  • Informing students of OER. What information does your course schedule provide to students regarding the OER being employed in a given course? Are students provided with information for accessing or obtaining OER resources in advance of a course’s start? Is there room for improvement in how this communication is handled?
  • Has your local senate formally indicated it’s support for the use of OER?
• Identify next steps related to the items in #5 – and take them.
• Conduct a local OER needs assessment similar to what the OERI is trying to do at the system level. Most importantly, what discipline faculty are most interested – and willing – to use OER and what is stopping them from doing so?
• Establish a web presence to showcase your local OER work and to direct your faculty to resources. Consider the websites and pages of other colleges before you get started.

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