Upcoming OER Liaison Webinars and Conversations
Beginning November 2020, the ASCCC OERI will provide automated captioning for all webinars and OER Liaison events (i.e., conversations, orientations, and webinars). If you would like to request a live human closed captioner for any of our offerings, please contact us at oeri@asccc.org at least 10 business days in advance.
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- 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 - Anthropology Open Educational Resources (OER): What’s New and What’s Needed
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
In this conversation, one of the co-editors of Traces (a new archaeology OER) will be joining us to discuss their work and final preparations for publication. In addition, we will discuss other new and forthcoming anthropology OER and identify gaps in the discipline collection.
Register for Anthropology OER: What’s New and What’s Needed - Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti- Racism (IDEA): Keeping the Faith and Advancing the Work
Friday, October 3, 2025 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Join us to discuss how we can move forward with equity and inclusion work in the changing landscape of higher education. This forum is a space for those interested in sharing, brainstorming and considering how we can continue our IDEA efforts with Open Educational Resources (OER) and at our colleges in general. This won’t be a session that has all the answers, but it will be a safe space to ask all the questions.
Register for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti- Racism (IDEA): Keeping the Faith and Advancing the Work - 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 Friday of October except for October 24th.
Register for the October 3, 10, 17 and 31 OER and AI Office Hours - Beyond Static PDFs: Making Open Educational Resources (OER) Interactive and Engaging in Canvas
Monday, October 6, 2025 from 10:00 am – 11:00 am
OER are more than just free digital textbooks in PDF. When used creatively, they can transform how students engage with course content. In this webinar, we will explore how to go beyond static OER PDFs and show how to bring OER to life inside Canvas.
Register for Beyond Static PDFs: Making Open Educational Resources (OER) Interactive and Engaging in Canvas - 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 Wednesday, October 8, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Register for Math OER Office Hours on Thursday, October 23, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Register for Math OER Office Hours on Friday, November 7, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
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 - Exploring Open Educational Resources (OER) in Hospitality Management: Best Practices and Needs
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Join colleagues for a discussion about the existing OER options for Hospitality Management, what is currently being used, and what key needs still exist. We will also discuss barriers that prevent the adoption of OER and what resources need to be developed. Please bring your questions and ideas to contribute to this important conversation.
Register for Exploring OER in Hospitality Management: Best Practices and Needs - Journalism and Newspaper Production Open Educational Resources (OER)
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
News production classes are an important component of the Journalism Associate Degree for Transfer, but the available OER may not be sufficient to support student success. Join journalism colleagues to discuss the OER that are currently used for news production classes and explore what resources may be needed to fill in any gaps. Bring your questions and suggestions and we will investigate the possibilities.
Register for Journalism and Newspaper Production Open Educational Resources (OER) - American Government and Open Educational Resources (OER): Next Steps
Thursday, October 9, 2025 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Please join us for a webinar on OER and American Government and Politics. We will explore what OER has been developed as well as discuss plans to develop additional OER, including modules on methods and congressional action.
Register for American Government and OER: Next Steps - Exploring Open Educational Resources (OER) for ENGL C1000
Thursday, October 9, 2025 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Curious about how OER can support the new ENGL C1000 template? This conversation will give English faculty space to share ideas, explore existing OER texts, and identify gaps. Together, we’ll consider how common course numbering shapes resource adoption and what tools might ease the transition. Bring your questions and experiences; your insights will help guide next steps in making ENGL C1000 truly zero-textbook-cost.
Register for Exploring Open Educational Resources (OER) for ENGL C1000 - Defining Return On Investment for Open Educational Resources (OER) Adoption: A Collaborative Conversation
Friday, October 10, 2025 from 10:00 am – 11:00 am
As OER adoption expands, the need for a consistent method of measuring return on investment (ROI) becomes increasingly important. But how exactly do we calculate the impact—financial, academic, and more—of something that is free and adaptable? Join us for an informal, interactive conversation exploring how we might define a standard approach to ROI for Zero Textbook Cost initiatives. This session isn’t about presenting a finished model but rather, it’s about opening the door to shared ideas, challenges, and practical insights.
Register for Defining Return On Investment for Open Educational Resources (OER) Adoption: A Collaborative Conversation - 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 October 10, 14, 24, and 28
Register for Physics OER Office Hours on November 7, 11, 21, and 25
Register for Physics OER Office Hours on December 5 and 9 - Exploring Alternatives to TestOut
Friday, October 10, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
TestOut provides a broad suite of resources in IT, networking, operating systems, and cybersecurity. However, its high cost and proprietary format can create barriers for both faculty and students. This conversation will focus on how colleges can develop robust alternatives. Can TestOut become an optional recommendation rather than a requirement? Let’s discuss!
Register for Exploring Alternatives to TestOut - 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.
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Register for the OERI Project Management Course Office Hours in December - Practices, Platforms, and Pitfalls: Video as Open Educational Resources (OER)
Friday, October 17, 2025 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Including instructional videos can be an important way to humanize online learning. Creating video to share as part of OER course materials is not the same as video for a specific context, however. In this discussion, we will discuss the challenges and choices creators of OER instructional video may face. Bring your questions and your wisdom!
Register for Practices, Platforms, and Pitfalls: Video as OER - Lifespan Human Development in Sociocultural Context: A Globally Inclusive Approach
Friday, October 17, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Andréa Pantoja Garvey will share her labor of love, Lifespan Human Development in Sociocultural Context: A Globally Inclusive Approach, a rare lifespan development textbook with a strong global and intercultural perspective. In our conversation with Andrea, we will discuss how she created an openly-licensed psychology text that focuses on addressing students’ needs and the challenges she encountered along the way. In our discussion, we’ll also explore platforms for hosting and updating, opportunities for collaboration, and finding resources to update existing OER.
Register for Lifespan Human Development in Sociocultural Context: A Globally Inclusive Approach - Open Educational Resources (OER) in Practice: Campus OER/Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) Program Spotlights from Across the Spectrum
Monday, October 20, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 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 - Sin Fronteras: Inclusive Open Educational Resources (OER) in Spanish
Friday, October 24, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Today more than ever there is an urgency to embrace language teaching practices that are both inclusive and equitable. This interactive presentation will examine the outcomes of our efforts to foster diverse pedagogical and curricular approaches to enhance student learning, encourage critical-thinking, and ultimately promote and celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion. More specifically, presenters will address the challenges and opportunities arising from fostering inclusivity in Spanish language instruction, offer strategies to include non-binary Spanish and voseo in the classroom, and share OER aimed at making Spanish language instruction affordable and accessible to effectively accommodate diverse learners and create equitable learning environments. This webinar is co-sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP).
Register for Sin Fronteras: Inclusive OER in Spanish - 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 - Re-examine ADAPT to Create Chemistry Problems
Thursday, October 30, 2025 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
In this webinar, we will demonstrate how to use ADAPT’s molecular sketcher tool to create chemistry problems where students can build and manipulate molecular structures directly within their assignments. Join us to learn more about this tool and bring your questions.
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ASCCC OER-Related Resolutions
Please access the ASCCC OER-Related Resolutions page for the complete list of all of the adopted resolutions related to OER – many of which were authored by OERI. If you have any questions, or if there is more that the OERI can to do support your local advocacy efforts, please let us know. (oeri@asccc.org)
At the ASCCC Fall 2018 Plenary Session, a resolution (17.02) was adopted that called on the ASCCC to “…urge local academic senates to identify a local OER point-person to act as a liaison to facilitate OER-related communication between the college and the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges.” The establishment of local OER Liaisons is an integral component of the OERI. As explained in the ASCCC proposal that secured five years of funding for the OERI, the OERI’s goal is to support local college OER efforts by creating a network of OER Liaisons that serve to connect local colleges to the OERI and centrally-hosted OER-related support systems, ensuring an effective means of communication between the OERI, available resources, and the system’s 116 accredited colleges.
It is the OERI’s goal to support OER Liaisons so that they may serve as advocates by taking an active role in increasing local OER awareness, adoption, and support. The ASCCC is pleased to provide a stipend to each college’s OER Liaison, provided the specified expectations have been met. OERLs are asked to use the OER Liaison Tracking Sheet to record their liaison activities and to share their OER-related wins, expertise, and needs. As an OERL, you have a designated Regional Lead who is your official point of contact for the OERI. If you are unsure who your regional lead is, please contact us.
OER Liaison Expectations
Access the documents below
- OER Liaison Expectations Document – Fall 2025
- OER Liaison Kick-off Presentation Slides
- OER Liaison Kick-off for New Liaisons Recording
All OER Liaisons are required to attend an OER Liaison Fall 2025 Kick-Off, live or archived. All will be delivered via Zoom. Attendance at a live session is highly encouraged for new OER Liaisons. Seasoned OER Liaisons are still welcome to join to provide extra experience and discussion. All Fall 2025 OER Liaison Kick-offs registrations will be listed below.
OERL Kick-Off for New Liaisons
During the course of the OERI’s 1st round of OER Liaison (OERL) Orientations, we received many suggestions for additional resources that the Liaisons were needing and we heard a pretty basic question from some of you – what should I be doing if I am an OERL? As our OERLs come to us with a range of experiences, we reasoned that we should develop or identify resources that honor that – and meet you where you are at. With that in mind, we offer the following resources tailored to our beginning, intermediate, and advanced OERLs.
OERL Beginner
Welcome! As someone who is newer to OER, your fresh perspective is especially valued and appreciated. Please remember that there are no bad questions – use the OERI team – and our resources – as needed. While there may be things that others have figured out and you’ll be the beneficiary of the lessons learned, there are sure to be instances where your challenge is a shared one – and your fresh perspective just might be what is needed to find a resolution. Sharing and problem-solving is part of the OER culture – embrace it.
As a new OERL, what should you do?
- 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. If you are not actively connected to the college governance system, consult with your local senate president to determine what connections you should be making.
- 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?
OERL Intermediate
As someone who is very familiar with OER, you’re in a unique position to formalize your role as an OER advocate and to impact local OER attitudes and adoption. As someone with an intermediate knowledge base, we look forward to having you share your expertise, as well as your local OER challenges. Nothing about the OERI is top-down – as a faculty-lead initiative, our focus is on leveraging the existing knowledge and experience in our system – please don’t ever be afraid to share. Please note that some of the tasks listed below may be things that you have done or that simply are not necessary given your OER background. We’ve included the steps we are encouraging our beginners to take as a starting point to ensure that there is some consistency, as appropriate, to your local OER advocacy efforts.
As an intermediate OERL, what should you be doing?
- 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.
OERL Advanced
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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Notices and FYIs
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