OER Liaisons

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

  Monday, April 21, 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 Integrated AI into Sociology Courses

• 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

• 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

• 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 29, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
  Register for Math OER Office Hours on Wednesday, May 14, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

• 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.

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• Chemistry OER survey
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• 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