Upcoming OERI Webinars and Events
The ASCCC OERI provides professional development regarding OER via webinars, visits to colleges, events, and presentations. During the academic year, weekly webinars provide a forum to share discipline-based information as well as information on specific topics related to OER advocacy, adoption, and development. Live webinars provide an opportunity for the OERI to hear from faculty at the colleges and our archived webinars serve as a useful library of resources.
During Spring 2025, the OERI’s twice monthly webinars (Friday Forums) will be held on the 1st and 3rd Friday starting in February.
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 by e-mail at least 10 business days in advance.
Looking for CCCCO-hosted webinars related to ZTC, OER, and/or coding? Please see our OER and ZTC page. Access this page directly using tinyurl.com/OERI-Archives.
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- 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 - Physics Open Educational Resources (OER) Office Hours
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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.
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Register for Physics OER Office Hours in May - Mathematics and OER Office Hour – Spring 2025 Schedule
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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 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 - Engaging Students in Geography with Open Educational Resources (OER): Meet the “Backyard Geographer”, Jeremy Patrich
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
As described in a 2020 article, “Backyard Geographer” Professor Jeremy Patrich tries to liven things up for his students by incorporating his passions for geography, geology and Disney artifacts into YouTube videos that he hopes will help build interest and engagement in education. What resources has Jeremy developed that you can integrate into your teaching? Join us for a discussion of the development and use of OER for geography.
Register for Engaging Students in Geography with OER: Meet the “Backyard Geographer”, Jeremy Patrich - Psychology Open Educational Resources (OER): OpenStax and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Updates
Friday, April 4, 2025 from 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Psychology faculty have long been pioneers in the adoption and usage of openly licensed resources and are continuing to innovate with OER. Recently, OpenStax published two new resources while faculty continue to incorporate IDEA into discipline OER. Join us to hear about the latest resources available and discuss what more we can do with OER and IDEA.
Register for the Psychology OER: OpenStax and IDEA Updates - Ensuring Student Access to Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Pathways
Friday, April 4, 2025 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am
California’s investment in the ZTC Degree Program is intended to not merely increase the availability of ZTC course sections, but also to “ensure the development and implementation of the greatest number of degrees for the benefit of the greatest number of students” (California Education Code Section 78052). How do you maximize the number of students who truly complete a ZTC program? What’s the minimum every college should be doing? Join us to consider approaches to achieving this goal – both aspirational and practical.
Register for Ensuring Student Access to ZTC Pathways - How to Ethically Integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Sociology Courses
Monday, April 7, 2025 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
In this conversation, join us to discuss the growing landscape of AI and how it can be ethically integrated into sociology courses.
Register for How to Ethically Integrate AI into Sociology Courses - Converting Local Political Science (POLS) Courses to Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Using Open Educational Resource (OER)
Thursday, April 10, 2025 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
While all but one of the specified courses in the POLS Transfer Model Curriculum have available OER, a variety of local political science courses that are found in the Associate Degree for Transfer and/or in local degrees do not. What local courses are commonly found in political science degrees, and what OER are available – or needed – to make these courses ZTC? Join us to discuss what is needed for all political science courses to be ZTC.
Register for Converting Local POLS Courses to ZTC Using OER - Revolutionizing Language Teaching: Human-Artificial Intelligence (AI) Collaborations for Open Educational Resources (OER) Creation and Open Educational Practices
Friday, April 11, 2025 from 10:00 am – 11:00 am
In this webinar, we will investigate how OER authors can co-create content with AI to produce texts that adapt to students’ proficiency levels and areas of interest. We will also look at how students can learn to leverage AI to find inspiration, get feedback on their writing, and create conversation partners. All these features will be presented while exploring a new innovative text “Vida Sana” designed by the presenter for a course in Spanish for Health Professions.
Register for Revolutionizing Language Teaching: Human-AI Collaborations for OER Creation and Open Educational Practices - Integrating Indigenous Perspectives and Global Issues in Spanish Open Educational Resources (OER)
Friday, April 11, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
How can OER support the integration of Indigenous voices in higher education? This webinar explores the impact of an intercultural Spanish curriculum based on open educational resources, highlighting the potential of OER to elevate and integrate Indigenous epistemologies in higher education. The open nature of these resources is particularly important when engaging with Indigenous ways of knowing, ensuring that knowledge circulates freely without economic or institutional barriers, honoring its communal essence and safeguarding it from exclusive appropriation.
Register for Integrating Indigenous Perspectives and Global Issues in Spanish OER - LibreTexts’ ADAPT Homework Platform and the new Discuss-It
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Discover how ADAPT, the LibreTexts homework platform, empowers instructors to create interactive, engaging, and customizable open educational resources assessments. This powerful tool supports student learning with auto-graded assignments, a repository of more than 225,000 questions, and seamless LTI/API integration with Canvas. In this webinar, we’ll also introduce Discuss-It, an innovative tool within ADAPT that fosters asynchronous student interaction through text, audio, and video discussions. Learn how these free tools can enhance student engagement, streamline course management, and create a more inclusive and collaborative online learning environment.
Register for LibreText’s ADAPT Homework Platform and the new Discuss-IT - Approaches to Integrating No-Cost Marking and XB12 (Instructional-Material-Cost) Coding into the Textbook Adoption Process
Friday, April 18, 2025 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am
In January of 2018, the requirement that California community colleges mark their no-cost course sections went into effect [Senate Bill 1359 (Block, 2016)]. In the summer of 2022, all colleges were to have implemented the initial iteration of XB12, a section level data element that was intended to identify course sections that achieved no-cost by using Open Educational Resources (OER). Effective summer 2024, XB12 was modified to more effectively capture course costs and to identify how a section became no-cost. Unfortunately, most colleges have not designated a person(s) responsible for ensuring the effective implementation of no-cost marking and XB12 coding. Further, obtaining the information for both often require faculty to provide the data in addition to reporting standard textbook adoption information. Can a process be created to ensure that accurate course material information is available to students at the time of registration and all required coding and marking happen in a streamlined fashion? Join us for a discussion of the challenges and an array of approaches to inform your integrated – or more integrated – approach to the collection of these data.
Register for Approaches to Integrating No-Cost Marking and XB12 Coding into the Textbook Adoption Process - Integrating RNA-Seq Research into Biology for Majors Courses
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
This webinar will introduce faculty to an openly licensed curriculum that seamlessly integrates an RNA-seq research project into Biology for Majors courses. Participants will explore how to implement an authentic bioinformatics investigation using open educational resource tools to foster student engagement, scientific literacy, and hands-on experience in genomics. Designed for educators seeking to enhance their curriculum with research-driven learning, this session will provide practical strategies for incorporating real-world data analysis into undergraduate biology courses.
Register for Integrating RNA-Seq Research into Biology for Majors Courses - Mathematics Support Courses and Open Educational Resources (OER)
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Math faculty do their best to help students who may not be prepared for the math class that they enrolled in, but it can be challenging to meet the various needs of students with different levels of knowledge and skill. Join us in this conversation where we share what we are doing at our colleges using OER to support all math students. Bring your ideas, questions, and challenges.
Register for Mathematics Support Courses and OER - Developing Open Educational Resources (OER) for Journalism Courses
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Meet the faculty who are working on OER for courses in the Journalism Associate Degree for Transfer (AD-T). Journalism faculty Tara Cuslidge-Staiano and Erin Hiro will explain how they created their textbooks, A Guide to News Writing and Broccoli and Chocolate: A Beginner’s Guide to Journalism, which may be used when teaching Introduction to Mass Communications (C-ID JOUR 110) and Student Media Practicum I (C-ID JOUR 130). Then, journalism faculty Rachel Leibrock will discuss the plan to create new resources for Introduction to Photojournalism (C-ID JOUR 160). The webinar will end with an invitation to create new OER for the remaining journalism courses.
Register for Developing OER for Journalism Courses - Open Educational Resources (OER) for Kinesiology: Maximizing Impact
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Join us for a focused conversation on the future of OER in kinesiology, homing in on curriculum areas we can meaningfully direct our efforts, and possible collaboration to maximize impact. We will also address a critical need: solutions for creating and sharing high-quality, accessible lab videos. Please join us – your input is vital as we shape our OER strategies.
Register for OER for Kinesiology: Maximizing Impact - 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
Archived OERI Webinars
All formal OERI Webinars are archived. In the event that a webinar is repeated, one archive will typically be made available. If you are ever interested in the slides used for a webinar, please contact us.
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