OER Liaisons

• Fall 2025 Open Educational Resources Liaison (OERL) Survey Results

  Friday, February 6, 2026 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am

  Since its inception, the Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) has gathered data from local OERLs on a yearly basis. While the focus of the survey has shifted over time, many of the questions have been repeated to track changes in the field. Join us to explore what has and hasn’t changed – and to learn about the various ways OER and cost-transparency efforts are being implemented across the state.
  Register for Fall 2025 OERL Survey Results

• Mathematics and Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours

  The OERI is pleased to offer a series of math and OER office hours throughout the 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 Thursday, February 5, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  Register for Math OER Office Hours on Wednesday, February 18, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
  Register for Math OER Office Hours on Monday, March 2, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
  Register for Math OER Office Hours on Tuesday, March 17, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

• Spring 2026 OER Liaison (OERL) Kick-offs

  Welcome back! OERL Kick-Offs are designed to prepare OERLs for their roles, especially those who are newer to the role. This space provides an opportunity for the OERI to update OER Liaisons and for the OERI to hear from Liaisons. We will be going over expectations and important updates.
  Register for Monday, February 9, 10:00 am – 11:00 am Spring 2026 OERL Kick-off
  Register for Friday, February 27, 10:00 am – 11:00 am Spring 2026 OERL Kick-off

• Why Open Educational Resources (OER) Marketing Matters (and How to Start)

  Tuesday, February 10, 2026 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  Creating or curating OER is only part of the work of a local OER lead — helping others find and understand OER it is just as important. This webinar introduces the importance of marketing OER on campus and how it supports awareness, buy-in, and sustainability. Participants will gain a foundation for thinking strategically about OER messaging, even with limited time or resources.
  Register for Why OER Marketing Matters

• Introduction to ZTC Leadership

  Wednesday, February 11, 2026 from 12:00 pm –1:30 pm

  This training is for individuals who have recently assumed a leadership role with their college’s Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Degree Program grants, designed to quickly get you up-to-speed on OER and ZTC basics. This webinar is intended to ensure that faculty leads/coordinators, deans, directors, and others in management roles related to their college’s ZTC efforts have the knowledge and resources needed to be successful. Are you responsible for ZTC grant reporting and tracking but not sure how to spell OER and ZTC? This session is for you! – Topics will include OER and ZTC basics, including open licensing; making the case with faculty; and creating a local ZTC support team and workflow.
  Register for Introduction to ZTC Leadership

• OER and Distance Education (DE) Office Hours

  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 on Wednesday, February 11, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
  Register for OER and DE Office Hour on Monday, February 23, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

• Measuring Effort and Analytics with The Forge

  Friday, February 20, 2026 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am

  In the Artificial Intelligence (AI) era, educators are increasingly challenged by writing assignments and the need to distinguish between student-generated work and AI-leveraged content. The Forge offers a solution by shifting the focus from the final product to the writing process itself. This webinar will explore how instructors across various disciplines – from composition, world languages, and linguistics to chemistry and statistics – can use analytic maps to gain deeper insights into how students construct their work and visualize the writing process. With The Forge’s new integration with the LibreTexts ADAPT homework system, students can access The Forge with a single click while providing instructors with analytical tracking and rubric abilities, aligning with equitable grading practices such as mastery grading, contract-based grading, and ungrading by empowering students to show their critical thinking and revision history.
  Register for Measuring Effort and Analytics with The Forge

• Finding the Human Connection in a Digital World: Using Discuss-It to Build Community, Promote Critical Thinking, and Shift the Focus of Assessment

  Friday, March 6, 2026 10:30 am – 11:30 am

  In an age of automation, how do you ensure that student work remains a reflection of genuine learning? Join us to learn about Discuss-It, an openly-licensed tool within the LibreTexts platform. Discuss-It 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 Finding the Human Connection in a Digital World

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 2025 OERL Survey Questions
• Fall 2025 OERL Survey
• 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