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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- Rock and Mineral Collections for Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) Geology Lab Courses: Help Determine our Strategy
Thursday, March 14, 2024 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Register for Rock and Mineral Collections for ZTC Geology Lab Courses
Physical geology lab courses generally include robust rock and mineral identification components, requiring an alignment between the content of the lab manual and the resources the college has available to teach the lab. How do we ensure that available ZTC lab manuals meet the needs of all the colleges? Please join us to help determine how to achieve this. We will investigate pertinent questions such as: Are images of rocks and minerals sufficient? Do we all already own the same resources, such as Ward’s Washington School rock and mineral box? We will also introduce the Geology OER collection and discuss OERs currently in development.
- True Access: Ensuring Student Access to Course Resources on Day 1
Friday, March 15, 2024 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am
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There are some students who can’t access course resources because of delays in financial aid or other funding sources. What if you could provide students with the time they need to purchase your commercial text? While adopting open educational resources (OER) may not be an option for all courses or may simply not be something you’re ready to do, the value of removing cost-barriers to first-day access to course resources is obvious. Join us for a discussion of sustainable approaches to ensuring equitable access to course materials on the first day.
- OERL Conversation: Tracking Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Projects
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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How is your college tracking OER and ZTC projects? Are you using a tracking tool, spreadsheet, or other way of documenting the work? In this conversation, please bring your questions or suggestions about how to organize and track ZTC and OER projects. Crowdsource ideas and offer up suggestions with colleagues!
- 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 Hours on Tuesday, March 19, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Register for Math OER Office Hours on Tuesday, April 2, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Register for Math OER Office Hours on Monday, April 15, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Register for Math OER Office Hours on Thursday, May 2, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Register for Math OER Office Hours on Wednesday, May 15, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
- Hospitality Management and Open Educational Resources (OER)
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Register for Hospitality Management and OER
While hospitality management programs across the California Community Colleges vary widely, the existence of C-ID descriptors for hospitality management associate degrees for transfer (ADT) provides a mechanism for identifying comparable courses across the colleges – and assists in the development of resources that meet statewide needs. Join this conversation to learn about the available OER and share your own OER needs.
- Student Participation in Local Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Efforts
Thursday, March 21, 2024 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
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It’s important that we don’t forget to include the student voice in our ZTC efforts. In this panel discussion, students who are involved in their college’s ZTC efforts will share the work they do and provide suggestions for enhancing student involvement that you can incorporate into your local ZTC efforts.
- Biotechnology and Open Educational Resources (OER): Collecting Material for Curation and Creation
Friday, March 22, 2024 from 9:30 am – 10:30 am
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Join us in this conversation to explore curated examples of expanded and developed material in biotechnology. Our goals for our time together are to share ideas and materials and set up collaborations with colleagues.
- Anti-Racism in Action: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Framework Basics Training
Friday, March 22, 2024 from 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
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Using Open Educational Resources (OER) is an important element of student equity efforts at all of our colleges. Join us for a hands-on training to learn how you can use the OERI IDEA Framework to ensure your course materials reflect anti-racist and culturally-relevant pedagogy. In this training, we will review the IDEA Framework and explore how it can be used as an assessment tool for OER. Remember, equity is a journey and not a destination. Let’s keep going!
- Open Educational Resources (OER) for Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiology
Thursday, March 28, 2024 from 10:00 am – 11:00 am
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An analysis of zero-textbook-cost (ZTC) data obtained from California Community Colleges (CCC) reveals that the biology courses that commonly are needed for allied health pathways are being taught with OER at some colleges and that others have found the available resources lacking. What resources are CCC faculty using – and how have they addressed common complaints about the available OER? Join us to consider the available resources and discuss potential approaches to increasing OER adoption across the CCCs.
- Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) Labs – Lab-Specific Challenges and Solutions
Thursday, March 28, 2024 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
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Labs are commonly reported to be one of the most challenging types of courses to get to ZTC. While openly-licensed lab manuals may be available, what do you do when printing is a must? Are the images in that open educational resource (OER) lab manual of sufficient quality? What is needed to make your homegrown lab manual OER? Join us for an interdisciplinary discussion of the unique barriers to establishing ZTC lab sections and approaches to overcoming them.
- Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC), Open Educational Resources (OER), and Political Science Cohort: What Can I Expect?
Thursday, March 28, 2024 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
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The ZTC Acceleration Grant Collaboration Cohorts established by the ASCCC OERI will increase the use of OER by ensuring an awareness of openly-licensed texts and ancillaries as well as, hopefully, lead to the development new resources. This webinar will provide an opportunity to share the resources and needs identified through the gathering of ZTC data from the cohort members – and a place to discuss potential collaborations.
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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
- OER Liaison Expectations – Fall 2023
- OER Liaison Expectations – Spring 2024
- New OER Liaison Orientation – Spring 2024
- Spring 2024 OERL Kick-off Archive, Recording and Slides
All OER Liaisons are required to attend an OER Liaison Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 Kick-Off, live or archived. All will be delivered via Zoom. Attendance at a live session is encouraged. See dates and times below or in the Upcoming “Webinars and Conversations” dropdown.
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.
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