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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- 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.
- 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.
Register for Open Ethnic Studies Pedagogies - 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.
Register for OERL Conversation: XB Implementation Community of Practice - 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.
Register for Collaborating for Computer Science Success: Adopting/Adapting a Shared OER Canvas Course Shell - 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.
Register for Trends in OER Awareness and Adoption - 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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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
All OER Liaisons are required to attend an OER Liaison Fall 2024 Kick-Off, live or archived. All will be delivered via Zoom. Attendance at a live session is encouraged. Live sessions to be determined.
- OER Liaison Expectations Document – Fall 2024
- Fall 2024 OER Liaison Kick-off recording
- Fall 2024 OER Liaison presentation slides
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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Notices and FYIs
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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