OER Liaisons

• Project Leadership Webinar Series, Part 5: Deployment and Sustainability – Publishing, Maintenance, and Scaling

  Thursday, May 29, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  In the Project Leadership Webinar Series, resources and strategies for facilitating an Open Educational Resource (OER) project will be shared. Part 5 focuses on publishing, maintenance, and building sustainability through funding, staffing, and long-term planning. Participants will learn how to share their work, manage version control, and embed OER into institutional structures for lasting impact.
  Register for Project Leadership Webinar Series, Part 5

• Project Leadership Webinar Series. Part 6: Training, Collaboration, and Support Systems

  Thursday, June 5, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  In the Project Leadership Webinar Series, resources and strategies for facilitating an Open Educational Resource (OER) project will be shared. Part 6 centers on building institutional capacity through training, collaboration, and support systems. Participants will explore how to sustain OER growth through professional development, accessibility, and campus advocacy.
  Register for Project Leadership Webinar Series, Part 6

• Introduction to the LibreTexts Remixer

  Monday, June 9, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

  In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to create a project in the LibreTexts Conductor. Once a project has been created, participants will create a new text and then experiment with the OER Remixer, adding and moving content.
  
  A LibreTexts instructor account is required for full participation. Don’t have an account yet? Register with LibreOne. Be sure to register as soon as possible – verification of your status as an instructor is required to provide you with editing capabilities.
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• Introduction to Editing Pages in LibreTexts

  Tuesday, June 10, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

  In this hands-on workshop, participants will practice editing a page in LibreTexts. We will demonstrate the elements of the content editor, how to add figures and images, and how to add content boxes.

  A LibreTexts instructor account is required for full participation. Don’t have an account yet? Register with LibreOne. Be sure to register as soon as possible – verification of your status as an instructor is required to provide you with editing capabilities.
  Register for the Introduction to Editing Pages in LibreTexts

• ADAPT Level 1 – Accessing ADAPT and Finding Existing Assessments

  Friday, June 13, 2025 from 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

  What is ADAPT and what resources currently exist for the courses you teach? In this webinar you will learn how to navigate ADAPT, search for existing resources, and modify resources created by others. All attendees will need to register for a free LibreOne instructor account to fully participate in these webinars.
  Register for ADAPT Level 1

• ADAPT Level 2 – Creating in ADAPT

  Friday, June 20, 2025 from 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

  In this webinar, you will learn how to create auto-graded activities in ADAPT, featuring various question types like fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, select choice, highlight text, and matching that are accessible and adaptable. All attendees will need to register for a free LibreOne instructor account to fully participate in these webinars.
  Register for ADAPT Level 2

• ADAPT Level 3 – Fostering Oral Interaction with ADAPT’s Discuss-It Question Type

  Monday, June 30, 2025 from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

  In this webinar, you will learn how to create oral and listening assessments through threaded student-to-student interaction using text, audio, and video. The Discuss-It question type also offers auto-captioning, transcription, rubric-based grading, and seamless Canvas integration. Discover how Discuss-It fosters accessibility, engagement, and meaningful communication in multiple languages. All attendees will need to register for a free LibreOne instructor account to fully participate in these webinars.
  Register for ADAPT Level 3

• ADAPT Level 4 – Question Banks and ADAPT Canvas Integration

  Monday, July 7, 2025 from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

  In this webinar, you’ll learn how to organize your activities into question banks for randomized assessments and explore how to seamlessly integrate your ADAPT content into Canvas with automatic grade syncing. All attendees will need to register for a free LibreOne instructor account to fully participate in these webinars.
  Register for ADAPT Level 4

• Cal OER 2025

  

  August 6-8, 2025

  Cal OER will focus on OER efforts and impact, broadly defined, across the state of California and especially across the state’s three public higher education systems, the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California. The theme for the 2025 conference is Beyond the Horizon: Challenges and Opportunities in Scaling Open Education.

  Please visit the Cal OER website for information.

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

• Chemistry OER survey
• Physics OER survey
• Spanish OER survey
• ASL OER survey
• Biotechnology OER survey
• Hospitality Management OER survey
• EMS/Fire Technology/Paramedic OER survey
• Education OER survey
• Psychology OER survey
• Geology OER survey
• Public Health Science OER survey
• Kinesiology OER survey