OER Liaisons

• Mathematics and OER Office Hour – Spring 2025 Schedule

  See dates below to sign up

  The OERI is pleased to offer a series of Math OER office hours throughout the term. These office hours will serve as a questions and answers 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 Tuesday, April 1, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
  Register for Math OER Office Hours on Wednesday, April 16, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
  Register for Math OER Office Hours on Tuesday, April 29, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
  Register for Math OER Office Hours on Wednesday, May 14, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

• Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Aesthetically Enhance your Open Educational Resources (OER) in Canvas

  Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

  Discover how AI can elevate the visual appeal and accessibility of your OER in Canvas. This webinar will explore AI-powered tools that can be used to design engaging course materials, improve readability, and enhance student interaction. Learn practical strategies to create visually compelling, user-friendly OER that support diverse learners.
  Register for Using AI to Aesthetically Enhance your OER in Canvas

• Engaging Students in Geography with Open Educational Resources (OER): Meet the “Backyard Geographer”, Jeremy Patrich

  Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  As described in a 2020 article, “Backyard Geographer” Professor Jeremy Patrich tries to liven things up for his students by incorporating his passions for geography, geology and Disney artifacts into YouTube videos that he hopes will help build interest and engagement in education. What resources has Jeremy developed that you can integrate into your teaching? Join us for a discussion of the development and use of OER for geography.
  Register for Engaging Students in Geography with OER: Meet the “Backyard Geographer”, Jeremy Patrich

• Psychology Open Educational Resources (OER): OpenStax and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Updates

  Friday, April 4, 2025 from 9:00 am – 10:00 am

  Psychology faculty have long been pioneers in the adoption and usage of openly licensed resources and are continuing to innovate with OER. Recently, OpenStax published two new resources while faculty continue to incorporate IDEA into discipline OER. Join us to hear about the latest resources available and discuss what more we can do with OER and IDEA.
  Register for the Psychology OER: OpenStax and IDEA Updates

• Ensuring Student Access to Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Pathways

  Friday, April 4, 2025 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am

  California’s investment in the ZTC Degree Program is intended to not merely increase the availability of ZTC course sections, but also to “ensure the development and implementation of the greatest number of degrees for the benefit of the greatest number of students” (California Education Code Section 78052). How do you maximize the number of students who truly complete a ZTC program? What’s the minimum every college should be doing? Join us to consider approaches to achieving this goal – both aspirational and practical.
  Register for Ensuring Student Access to ZTC Pathways

• How to Ethically Integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Sociology Courses

  Monday, April 7, 2025 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

  In this conversation, join us to discuss the growing landscape of AI and how it can be ethically integrated into sociology courses.
  Register for How to Ethically Integrate AI into Sociology Courses

• Converting Local Political Science (POLS) Courses to Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Using Open Educational Resource (OER)

  Thursday, April 10, 2025 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

  While all but one of the specified courses in the POLS Transfer Model Curriculum have available OER, a variety of local political science courses that are found in the Associate Degree for Transfer and/or in local degrees do not. What local courses are commonly found in political science degrees, and what OER are available – or needed – to make these courses ZTC? Join us to discuss what is needed for all political science courses to be ZTC.
  Register for Converting Local POLS Courses to ZTC Using OER

• Physics Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours

  See dates below to sign up

  The OERI is pleased to offer a series of Physics Open Educational Resources (OER) office hours throughout the term. These office hours will be held on Fridays from 9:00 am – 10:00 am for the Spring 2025 semester. The space serves as a Q&A 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 for STEM disciplines. Please see the registration links below.
  Register for Physics OER Office Hours in April
  Register for Physics OER Office Hours in May

• Revolutionizing Language Teaching: Human-Artificial Intelligence (AI) Collaborations for Open Educational Resources (OER) Creation and Open Educational Practices

  Friday, April 11, 2025 from 10:00 am – 11:00 am

  In this webinar, we will investigate how OER authors can co-create content with AI to produce texts that adapt to students’ proficiency levels and areas of interest.  We will also look at how students can learn to leverage AI to find inspiration, get feedback on their writing, and create conversation partners. All these features will be presented while exploring a new innovative text “Vida Sana” designed by the presenter for a course in Spanish for Health Professions.
  Register for Revolutionizing Language Teaching: Human-AI Collaborations for OER Creation and Open Educational Practices

• Integrating Indigenous Perspectives and Global Issues in Spanish Open Educational Resources (OER)

  Friday, April 11, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

  How can OER support the integration of Indigenous voices in higher education? This webinar explores the impact of an intercultural Spanish curriculum based on open educational resources, highlighting the potential of OER to elevate and integrate Indigenous epistemologies in higher education. The open nature of these resources is particularly important when engaging with Indigenous ways of knowing, ensuring that knowledge circulates freely without economic or institutional barriers, honoring its communal essence and safeguarding it from exclusive appropriation.
  Register for Integrating Indigenous Perspectives and Global Issues in Spanish OER

• LibreTexts’ ADAPT Homework Platform and the new Discuss-It

  Wednesday, April 16, 2025 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

  Discover how ADAPT, the LibreTexts homework platform, empowers instructors to create interactive, engaging, and customizable open educational resources assessments. This powerful tool supports student learning with auto-graded assignments, a repository of more than 225,000 questions, and seamless LTI/API integration with Canvas. In this webinar, we’ll also introduce Discuss-It, an innovative tool within ADAPT that fosters asynchronous student interaction through text, audio, and video discussions. Learn how these free tools can enhance student engagement, streamline course management, and create a more inclusive and collaborative online learning environment.
  Register for LibreText’s ADAPT Homework Platform and the new Discuss-IT

• Administrative Procedures (APs) and Board Policies (BPs): Creating and Implementing APs and BPs for Open Educational Resources (OER) Sustainability

  Thursday, April 17, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

  Demystify APs and BPs in this webinar created specifically for OERLs. Presenters will discuss the difference and provide concrete strategies for creating and implementing OER and ZTC supportive AP and BP at your college.
  Register for APs and BPs: Creating and Implementing Administrative Procedures and Board Policies for OER Sustainability

• Approaches to Integrating No-Cost Marking and XB12 (Instructional-Material-Cost) Coding into the Textbook Adoption Process

  Friday, April 18, 2025 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am

  In January of 2018, the requirement that California community colleges mark their no-cost course sections went into effect [Senate Bill 1359 (Block, 2016)]. In the summer of 2022, all colleges were to have implemented the initial iteration of XB12, a section level data element that was intended to identify course sections that achieved no-cost by using Open Educational Resources (OER). Effective summer 2024, XB12 was modified to more effectively capture course costs and to identify how a section became no-cost. Unfortunately, most colleges have not designated a person(s) responsible for ensuring the effective implementation of no-cost marking and XB12 coding. Further, obtaining the information for both often require faculty to provide the data in addition to reporting standard textbook adoption information. Can a process be created to ensure that accurate course material information is available to students at the time of registration and all required coding and marking happen in a streamlined fashion? Join us for a discussion of the challenges and an array of approaches to inform your integrated – or more integrated – approach to the collection of these data.
  Register for Approaches to Integrating No-Cost Marking and XB12 Coding into the Textbook Adoption Process

• Project Management Basics: Planning your Open Educational Resources (OER) Project

  Friday, April 18, 2025 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

  Completing an OER project is a big task! In this webinar we will share resources and strategies for creating a plan and completing a successful project. These resources can help both the OER creator and anyone who is overseeing OER projects for others.
  Register for Project Management Basics: Planning your Open Educational Resources Project

• Building Community with Open Educational Resources (OER): Collaborative Course Design and Faculty Partnerships

  Tuesday, April 22, 2025 from 9:00 am – 10:00 am

  Discover how OER can foster collaboration among faculty to create high-quality, shared course materials that benefit both educators and students. This webinar will explore strategies for co-developing OER, building cross-institutional partnerships, and streamlining resource-sharing efforts. Learn how working together can enhance course design, reduce workload, and improve student access to engaging, affordable learning materials.
  Register for Building Community with OER: Collaborative Course Design and Faculty Partnerships

• Integrating RNA-Seq Research into Biology for Majors Courses

  Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

  This webinar will introduce faculty to an openly licensed curriculum that seamlessly integrates an RNA-seq research project into Biology for Majors courses. Participants will explore how to implement an authentic bioinformatics investigation using open educational resource tools to foster student engagement, scientific literacy, and hands-on experience in genomics. Designed for educators seeking to enhance their curriculum with research-driven learning, this session will provide practical strategies for incorporating real-world data analysis into undergraduate biology courses.
  Register for Integrating RNA-Seq Research into Biology for Majors Courses

• Mathematics Support Courses and Open Educational Resources (OER)

  Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

  Math faculty do their best to help students who may not be prepared for the math class that they enrolled in, but it can be challenging to meet the various needs of students with different levels of knowledge and skill. Join us in this conversation where we share what we are doing at our colleges using OER to support all math students. Bring your ideas, questions, and challenges.
  Register for Mathematics Support Courses and OER

• Developing Open Educational Resources (OER) for Journalism Courses

  Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  Meet the faculty who are working on OER for courses in the Journalism Associate Degree for Transfer (AD-T). Journalism faculty Tara Cuslidge-Staiano and Erin Hiro will explain how they created their textbooks, A Guide to News Writing and Broccoli and Chocolate: A Beginner’s Guide to Journalism, which may be used when teaching Introduction to Mass Communications (C-ID JOUR 110) and Student Media Practicum I (C-ID JOUR 130). Then, journalism faculty Rachel Leibrock will discuss the plan to create new resources for Introduction to Photojournalism (C-ID JOUR 160). The webinar will end with an invitation to create new OER for the remaining journalism courses.
  Register for Developing OER for Journalism Courses

• Open Educational Resources (OER) for Kinesiology: Maximizing Impact

  Tuesday, April 29, 2025 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

  Join us for a focused conversation on the future of OER in kinesiology, homing in on curriculum areas we can meaningfully direct our efforts, and possible collaboration to maximize impact. We will also address a critical need: solutions for creating and sharing high-quality, accessible lab videos. Please join us – your input is vital as we shape our OER strategies.
  Register for OER for Kinesiology: Maximizing Impact

• ASCCC OERI Regional Meeting at De Anza College – Introduction to Remixing and Open Homework Systems

  Friday, May 16, 2025 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm

  The OERI, in collaboration with De Anza College and East Los Angeles College is pleased to announce regional professional development opportunities for those who intend to remix open educational resources in the LibreTexts platform and create openly-licensed assessments. Those who support this work are also invited to attend.

  Attendees of these in-person events will be introduced to – and actively interact with – LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System.

  Registration is now open. A light breakfast will be served and lunch will be provided. To defray costs, a registration fee of $25 will be charged. Space is limited.

  Register for Friday, May 16, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm OERI Regional at De Anza College

• ASCCC OERI Regional Meeting at East Los Angeles College – Introduction to Remixing and Open Homework Systems

  Saturday, May 17, 2025 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm

  The OERI, in collaboration with De Anza College and East Los Angeles College is pleased to announce regional professional development opportunities for those who intend to remix open educational resources in the LibreTexts platform and create openly-licensed assessments. Those who support this work are also invited to attend.

  Attendees of these in-person events will be introduced to – and actively interact with – LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System.

  Registration is now open. A light breakfast will be served and lunch will be provided. To defray costs, a registration fee of $25 will be charged. Space is limited.

  Register for Saturday, May 17, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm OERI Regional at East Los Angeles 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.

• 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