OER Liaisons

• ASCCC OERI Regional Meeting – Introduction to Remixing and Open Homework Systems – South

  Friday, December 6, 2024, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm

  The OERI, in collaboration with Santa Ana College, is pleased to announce a professional development opportunity for faculty who intend to remix open educational resources in the LibreTexts platform and create openly-licensed assessments. Those who support this work at colleges are also invited to attend. Attendees of this in-person event at Santa Ana College will be introduced to – and actively interact with – LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System. Registration is now open for this December 6, 2024, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm in-person event. 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 December 6 OERI Regional at Santa Ana College

• Open Ethnic Studies Pedagogies

  Wednesday, December 4, 2024 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

  Join colleagues to explore how faculty can integrate open practices with Ethnic Studies pedagogical principles to create open resources and publish students’ projects, artwork, essays, and other creative works. This session invites faculty to reimagine the creation, adaptation, and sharing of culturally relevant materials to increase educational access and deepen student engagement.
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• OERL Conversation: XB Implementation Community of Practice

  Thursday, December 5, 2024 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

  Join your OERL colleagues in this conversation to share your experiences, successes, and challenges around implementing XB12.
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• Collaborating for Computer Science Success: Adopting/Adapting a Shared Open Educational Resource (OER) Canvas Course Shell

  Thursday, December 5, 2024 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

  Join us for a conversation on adopting and adapting a shared OER/ZTC Canvas course shell designed for Business Information Systems and Computer Information Systems (C-ID ITIS 120). This session will cover best practices and customization tips to enhance effectiveness and reduce frustrations. We’ll also explore future design considerations, including integrating new resources and selecting between Microsoft and Google products to best support course objectives and industry standards.
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• Trends in Open Educational Resources (OER) Awareness and Adoption: National and California-Specific Trends

  Friday, December 6, 2024 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am

  Digital classroom materials have become ubiquitous across higher education courses. Faculty regularly use digital versions of textbooks, homework, quizzes, and more, and the use levels are high even for fully in-person courses. OER have become a major source for many digital materials, especially textbooks. In this presentation Julia and Jeff Seaman of Bay View Analytics will examine the level of awareness of OER demonstrated by faculty and administrators based in the U.S., using data collected from national surveys conducted from 2012 through 2024. The presentation will review both the factors associated with the growth of OER awareness and the respondents’ sentiments. California specific results and trends on digital use and OER awareness will be presented for the most recent years. This ongoing tracking of OER awareness and adoption is supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The responses come from multiple years of nationally representative samples of higher Education administrators and faculty from all fifty states conducted by Bay View Analytics. More information and reports are available on the Bay View Analytics website.
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• Visualizing the Impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC)

  Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

  In May of 2024, the OERI began working with Chabot College to develop a model for sharing the impact of local ZTC and OER efforts on student success. This project was funded by a 2024 OER Michelson Spark Grant and has been a collaboration among faculty and institutional researchers at a small group of colleges. Three types of dashboard templates are presently under development with the expectation that they will be made broadly available for local adoption. In this webinar, the progress made to date will be shared. What do you want in dashboard? Join us to learn what is being developed and to provide your feedback.
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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