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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- OERI Office Hours – Thursdays
Thursday, September 28, 2023 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Looking for a place to discuss your OER and ZTC experiences and challenges? Interesting in learning about how your colleagues are mapping their ZTC data and prioritizing their work? Curious to learn how others are making ZTC plans that avoid duplication and ensure sustainability? Join the OERI and your OERL colleagues to explore the topics that are on your mind.
- OER Liaison Kick Off – September 29
Friday, September 29, 2023 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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- Exploring a Medical Anthropology Open Educational Resources (OER)
Monday, October 2, 2023 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
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Join us to explore the creation of a new OER for medical anthropology/global health. We encourage you to contribute your objectives and ideas.
- Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) Office Hours
Tuesdays, October 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31, 2023 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am
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Looking for a place to discuss your Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) experiences and challenges? Interested in how your colleagues are mapping their ZTC data and prioritizing their work? Curious to learn how others are creating ZTC plans that avoid duplication and ensure sustainability? Join the OERI and your OER Liaison colleagues to explore the topics that are top of mind.
- Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) Office Hours
Wednesdays, October 4, 11, 18, and 25, 2023 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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Looking for a place to discuss your Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) experiences and challenges? Interested in how your colleagues are mapping their ZTC data and prioritizing their work? Curious to learn how others are creating ZTC plans that avoid duplication and ensure sustainability? Join the OERI and your OER Liaison colleagues to explore the topics that are top of mind.
- Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Framework Office Hours
Thursday. October 5, 12, and 26, 2023 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
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Drop in to chat about ASCCC’s IDEA Framework. This space is for anyone using the framework to assess existing OER materials, to create new OER, or to discuss all things IDEA. Join your IDEA colleagues to ask questions, to get feedback, or to brainstorm.
- Economics Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours
Thursday, October 12, 19, 26, 2023 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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The OERI is pleased to offer Economics OER office hours throughout the term. These office hours will be open to discuss any questions or ideas about economics and OER.
- Accelerating and Implementing Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) Pathways
Friday, October 6, 2023 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am
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How many colleges applied for ZTC Acceleration Grants by September 15 and how many intend to apply by November 15? What pathways were funded – and how did colleges address duplication and sustainability? Join us for a discussion of what has happened – and what can happen – as the California Community Colleges strive to achieve the intent of California Education Code 78052.
- Math OER Office Hours
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The OERI is pleased to offer a series of Math open educational resources (OER) office hours throughout the term. These office hours will serve as a Q&A 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 Hour on Friday, October 6, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Register for Math OER Office Hour on Wednesday, October 18, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Register for Math OER Office Hour on Thursday, November 2, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Register for Math OER Office Hour on Friday, November 17, 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Register for Math OER Office Hour on Tuesday, November 28, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Register for Math OER Office Hour on Wednesday, December 13, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm - Zero Textbook Course (ZTC) Mapping: High- and Low-Tech Solutions
Thursday, October 12, 2023 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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Many OER Liaisons and local ZTC leads are working to identify and map their ZTC pathways. This webinar will showcase three different approaches to mapping pathways from four different colleges. From Airtable to Excel to Tableau, come to learn how you can map and track ZTC courses at your college.
- Psychology Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours
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The OERI is pleased to offer Psychology OER office hours. These office hours will be a space to discuss any questions or ideas about psychology and OER.
Register for Psychology OER Office hour on Wednesday, October 18, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Register for Psychology OER Office hour on Monday, October 30, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Register for Psychology OER Office hour on Monday, November 13, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Register for Psychology OER Office hour on Wednesday, November 29, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Register for Psychology OER Office hour on Tuesday, December 12, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm - The Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Framework Assessment Process
Friday, October 20, 2023 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am
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Join us in exploring the complete IDEA Framework assessment process including the IDEA principles, assessment categories, and rubrics. Also in this session, an OER textbook editor will share their experience going through the assessment process and offer considerations for other textbook editors.
- Getting Spanish to Zero – An Openly-Licensed Homework Option for Spanish
Friday, October 20, 2023 from 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
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Are you tired of having students pay for expensive licenses to access a homework platform? Say goodbye to costly licenses for homework! Discover a more inclusive and affordable approach for your language students with LibreTexts ADAPT. Plus, learn how to seamlessly integrate homework grades into your Canvas grade book. Join us and hear from our Spanish colleagues who have already embraced ADAPT for their courses. Unlock a new era of accessible education with LibreTexts ADAPT!
- Communicating Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) and Low Textbook Cost (LTC) to Students and Colleagues
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 from 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
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Join us as a panel of OER Liaisons discuss their colleges’ successes and challenges in helping colleagues and students understand ZTC and LTC. Our panelists will address such topics as: the process for defining ZTC and LTC, advocacy and outreach to students and faculty, designating courses as ZTC and LTC, and communicating to students in both the online schedule and bookstore.
- Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) Degrees for Communication Studies: Where are the gaps?
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
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Are you interested the ZTC degree options and paths that are being developed with the Chancellor’s Office Acceleration grants? What is your college doing? Where do you need support? Join us to share your ideas, aspirations, and challenges.
- Spanish Open Educational Resources (OER) Hackathon: Let’s create a HW Collection
Friday, October 27, 2023 from 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
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Do you want to help us create Spanish OER homework activities in ADAPT? During our OER Hackathon, we will create a collection of activities using LibreTexts ADAPT homework system. Come and join the fun and share the newly created resources with the world!
- Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) Resolutions: The What, How, and Why
Monday, October 30, 2023 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
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As part of the ASCCC, the Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) uses ASCCC’s resolution process to establish positions, encourage actions, and propose solutions to identified issues and challenges. What are ASCCC resolutions? How does the resolution process work? How are ASCCC resolutions used? Why are ASCCC resolutions used in this manner? What resolutions related to Open Educational Resources and Zero Textbook Cost Program will be considered at the upcoming ASCCC Fall 2023 Plenary? And what resolutions would you like to see? Come with your questions and ideas.
- Existing and Pipeline Geology Open Educational Resources (OER)
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
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Join us as we briefly review existing geology OER and learn about an exciting forthcoming text! There will also be time to discuss and share our best practices.
- American Sign Language (ASL) and Open Education Resources (OER)—Updates and Open Discussion about OER and Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC)
Friday, November 3, 2023 from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Register for American Sign Language (ASL) and Open Education Resources (OER)—Updates and Open Discussion about OER and Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC)
Join us for an opportunity to share ASL OER updates. We will also provide a space to discuss OER development and the relationship between OER and the statewide push for ZTC (zero-textbook-cost) development. Our conversation will be facilitated in ASL, with interpreters available to support those who need spoken English.
- Economics OER Office Hours – November
Thursday, November 2, 9, and 30, 2023 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
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The OERI is pleased to offer Economics OER office hours throughout the term. These office hours will be open to discuss any questions or ideas about economics and OER.
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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 – Fall 2023
All OER Liaisons are required to attend an OER Liaison Spring 2023 Kick-Off, live or archived. All will be delivered via Zoom. Attendance at a live session is encouraged.
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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Have you checked out our OER by TMC resources?
Thinking ahead to summer? Consider the “Promoting OER Summer Action Plan Checklist.“
Have you added OER-related language to your SEA plan? Here are some ideas for what language to add – and where.
This page last updated on September 29, 2023.