OER Liaisons

• 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 March
  Register for Physics OER Office Hours in April
  Register for Physics OER Office Hours in May

• OER Liaison Kick-off Dates

  See below for the dates and registration

  Welcome back from the Holiday break, OER Liaisons! We kick-off the Spring 2025 term with a webinar to update you about all things OER. We look forward to seeing you at one of our Spring 2025 OERL Kickoff webinars. “Kickoffs” provide an opportunity for the OERI to update OER Liaisons and for the OERI to hear from Liaisons. Bring your questions and/or concerns.
  Register for Friday, March 14, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Kickoff

• Anatomy and Physiology Courses: Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Getting to Zero

  Friday, March 14, 2025 from 10:00 am – 11:00 am

  During the 2020-2021 academic year, OpenStax indicated that at least one faculty member at 61 California community colleges reported adopting OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology. At about the same time, the OERI funded a team of faculty to separate out the anatomy components of the text to better meet the needs of discipline faculty [Human Anatomy (OERI)]. More recently, a team of faculty made additional updates to this text with a focus on creating or modifying images to better align to their courses [General Human Anatomy (Lange et al.)]. What further modifications would support the faculty at your college who are teaching anatomy and/or physiology? Join us to learn about the work in progress and potential solutions to collective challenges and, more importantly, to share your needs.
  Register for Anatomy and Physiology Courses – Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Zero

• 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 Thursday, March 17, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
  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

• What’s Still Missing? Filling the Gaps of Early Childhood Education (ECE) Open Educational Resources (OER)

  Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

  We will begin this webinar by briefly exploring existing OER and then turn our attention to focusing on identifying key gaps and sharing strategies for developing accessible, high-quality materials that align with ECE needs.
  Register for What’s Still Missing? Filling the Gaps of ECE OER

• Addressing the Homework Needs of Economics: Adaptive Homework Assignments and Graphing Technology

  Tuesday, March 18, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  Discussions with economics faculty have identified two barriers to establishing zero-textbook-cost (ZTC) sections of microeconomics and macroeconomics: the lack of no-cost openly-licensed adaptive homework assignments and freely available but inadequate graphing technology. What is presently being done to address the adaptive homework assignment need? And what could be done to address the graphing technology need? Join us to learn what resources are being developed, share your unmet needs, and discover how you can contribute to addressing the remaining barriers to establishing ZTC sections of economics courses.
  Register for Addressing the Homework Needs of Economics – Adaptive Homework Assignments and Graphing Technology

• Applying the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Framework to Open Educational Resources (OER): Human Anatomy

  Thursday, March 20, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  The IDEA Framework was created to inform the development of new OER and the review and improvement of existing OER. What does an IDEA review mean for a human anatomy text? What does an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and anti-racist biology OER look like? Join us to consider the applicability of the IDEA Framework in a discipline-specific context to learn how to use and apply it to any OER.
  Register for Applying the IDEA Framework to OER: Human Anatomy

• Identifying Open Homework Needs and Challenges: What Do Chemistry Faculty Need to Make ZTC a Success?

  Thursday, March 20, 2025 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

  As we strive to offer more ZTC courses and pathways, chemistry faculty often face challenges in finding open homework solutions that meet their instructional needs. Let’s have a conversation where faculty can share their experiences, identify key barriers, and discuss what resources or support would encourage broader adoption of open homework solutions in chemistry. Join us to help shape the future of OER in chemistry and ensure that homework solutions align with faculty and student needs.
  Register for Identifying Open Homework Needs and Challenges: What Chemistry Faculty Need to Make ZTC a Success?

• Integrating, Advancing, and Sustaining Open Educational Resources (OER) for Access and Equity: Exemplary Program Showcase

  Friday, March 21, 2025 from 10:30 am – 12:00 pm

  The 2024 – 2025 Exemplary Program Award recognized OER programs at four colleges and their outstanding achievements in advancing the use of OER to break barriers and promote academic equity. Representatives from each of the four colleges will provide an overview of their program emphasizing how it could inform the work of others and sharing lessons learned. Read more about the 2024 – 2025 Exemplary Program Award Winners.
  Register for the Integrating, Advancing, and Sustaining OER for Access and Equity: Exemplary Program Showcase

• Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Framework Office Hour

  Thursday, March 27, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  Drop in to chat about ASCCC’s IDEA Framework. This space is for anyone using the framework to assess existing Open Educational Resources, to create new OER materials, or to discuss all things IDEA. Join your IDEA colleagues to ask questions, to get feedback, or to brainstorm.
  Register for the IDEA Framework Office Hour

• 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