OER Liaisons

• Open Educational Resources Liaison (OERL) Kick-Off for New Liaisons

  Tuesday, September 2, 2025 from 9:00 am – 10:00 am

  OERL Kick-Offs are designed to prepare OERLs for their roles, especially those who are new or newer the role, as well as to provide important updates. New OERLs are strongly encouraged to attend an in-person Kick-Off.
  Register for the OERL Kick-off for New Liaisons – Sept 2

• Open Educational Resources Liaison (OERL) Conversation: Goal Setting for Fall 2025

  Thursday, September 4, 2025, 10:00 am – 11:00 am

  Interested in discussing the new OERL goal-setting expectation? This OERL conversation will be a space to chat about what makes a productive goal and how to set goals that are both measurable and achievable—or how to set a worthy goal but maybe not achieve it (and that’s ok!). Bring your ideas for possible goals and we’ll workshop them together.
  Register for OER Liaison Conversation: Goal Setting for Fall 2025

• Open Educational Resources (OER) for Public Speaking – Filling Potential Gaps

  Thursday, September 4, 2025, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  During the summer of 2025, a group of communication studies faculty met to identify OER that could be used to address required elements in the public speaking course due to recent statewide curriculum changes. Join us to learn about the summer work, the currently available resources, and the work that is in progress.
  Register for OER for Public Speaking – Filling Potential Gaps

• Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) by Design: The OERI Project Management Course Tour

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

  What does it take to effectively guide faculty through an Open Educational Resources (OER) project? Whether you are leading an OER project or participating in one, having the knowledge needed to be successful – and understanding the work involved – can prepare you for success. Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the OERI Project Management course – your new go-to playbook for leading ZTC pathways and OER initiatives. Packed with ready-to-use tools, smart templates, and strategic insights, this course is built to help you achieve real impact at your college.
  Register for ZTC by Design: The OERI Project Management Course Tour

• Open Educational Resources (OER) and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA): Leveraging OER to Support IDEA

  Friday, September 5, 2025 from 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

  By using OER, faculty can customize course materials to reflect their distinctive approach to the curriculum. Additionally, the ASCCC OERI IDEA Framework can help faculty in adapting those materials to reflect the diversity of their unique students. The recently developed IDEA Framework Assessment Process is designed to assist faculty who wish to improve their resources with IDEA principles in mind. Join us to learn about the intersection of OER and IDEA – and OERI’s IDEA plans for the future.
  Register for OER and IDEA: Leveraging OER to Support IDEA

• Open Educational Resources (OER) and Academic Senate California Community Colleges (ASCCC) Resolutions for Fall 2025 Plenary

  Monday, September 8, 2025 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

  What OER positions (or OER-related positions) would you like to see the statewide Academic Senate take? Should the ASCCC provide a recommended approach to calculating the savings associated with OER adoption? Are there measures that the ASCCC might recommend to local senates as they consider course cost transparency and faculty awareness of textbook costs? In light of the new title 5 regulation focused on ensuring first-day burden-free access to instructional materials, what policies might the ASCCC recommend that local boards of trustees could adopt? Join us to learn about the ASCCC and the resolutions the OERI is developing – and to share your ideas with us.
  Register for OER and ASCCC Resolutions for Fall 2025 Plenary

• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Office Hour

  Friday, September 12, 2025 from 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

  Drop in to chat about ASCCC’s IDEA Framework. This space is for anyone using the framework to assess existing OER materials, to create new OER, or to discuss all things IDEA. Join your IDEA colleagues to ask questions, to get feedback, or to brainstorm.
  Register for the IDEA Office Hour

• Approaches to Open Educational Resources (OER) Sustainability

  Monday, September 15, 2025 from 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

  The OERI’s vision for sustaining OER in the California Community Colleges has always been focused on growing the OER movement and supporting OER advocates who are integrating OER into their local culture, policies, and practices. How do we make OER the norm, as opposed to the exception? Our local academic senates have input into planning and budgetary processes, providing faculty with the ability to influence the integration of OER into college structures and demonstrating the impact of OER, thereby making dedicated funding more likely. Join us to discuss strategies to increase institutional sustainability when implementing OER at your college or district.
  Register for Approaches to OER Sustainability

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Open Educational Resources (OER) Table: How Much is Too Much?

  Friday, September 19, 2025 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am

  AI has joined the conversation of developing and improving existing OER — but how much should we allow it to contribute? What are the ethical considerations and where are the technical red lines? In this session, we’ll examine the benefits, boundaries, and potential pitfalls of integrating AI into OER creation. The conversation will balance useful tips with guidance on responsible practice. 
  Register for AI at the OER Table: How Much is Too Much?

• Open Educational Resources Liaison (OERL) Kick-Off for New Liaisons

  Monday, September 29, 2025 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

  OERL Kick-Offs are designed to prepare OERLs for their roles, especially those who are new or newer the role, as well as to provide important updates. New OERLs are strongly encouraged to attend an in-person Kick-Off.
  Register for the OERL Kick-off for New Liaisons – Sept 29

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.

• Fall 2024 OERL Survey Questions
• Fall 2024 OERL Survey
• Fall 2023 OERL Survey Questions
• Fall 2023 OERL Survey
• Spring 2023 OERL Survey
• Fall 2022 OERL Survey Questions
• Fall 2022 OERL Survey
• Fall 2021 OERL Survey Questions
• Fall 2021 OERL Survey

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• Biotechnology OER survey
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• Geology OER survey
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