OERI Webinars and Events

The OERI is pleased to offer a series of math and OER office hours throughout the term. These office hours will serve as a conversational 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 14, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
Register for Math OER Office Hours on Thursday, April 30, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Register for Math OER Office Hours on Friday, May 15, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

This conversation will introduce the expansion of the OERI’s Open Educational Resources and Geology collection to include marine and planetary sciences, earth system science, and atmospheric sciences within the existing geology (geosciences) collection.
Register for Geology and the Earth Sciences: A Multidisciplinary OER Expansion

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 from 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Ready to build your own open textbook, or make an existing one truly yours? This webinar walks you through the entire process, from first idea to finished product.
We’ll start with the essentials: how to plan your textbook and find the right resources before you dive in. Then we’ll explore LibreTexts one-of-a-kind Remixer tool, where you can shape your table of contents and pull in existing LibreTexts materials without needing to start from scratch. From there, we’ll cover basic editing tools, auto-numbering features to keep your content organized, and how to use our built-in AI co-author and accessibility tools to make your textbook clearer, more polished, and more inclusive. If you’ve ever wanted to create course materials that are free, flexible, and built around your students’ needs, this is the session for you.
Register for Introduction to Constructing and Remixing Textbooks with LibreTexts

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Implementing OER and developing ZTC pathways can be particularly challenging in CTE programs. This webinar will investigate why CTE programs often face unique barriers when pursuing ZTC goals and explore strategies for addressing those barriers.
Register for OER and ZTC in CTE

Thursday, April 16, 2026 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Come learn about a wonderful project by one of our very own political science faculty, Brian Barrick, from Los Angeles Harbor College. Brian has created free, high-quality audio resources for students and educators.
Register for OpenAudio: Political Science and the Audiobook Project Science

The OERI is pleased to offer a series of Physics Open Educational Resources (OER) office hours throughout the term. These office hours will serve as a conversational 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. All the following sessions will be from 9:00 am – 10:00 am.
Register for Physics OER Office Hours on Thursday, April 17
Register for Physics OER Office Hours on Thursday, April 21

Friday, April 17, 2026 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am

The updating of OER can be inconsistent or reactive, which may result in it not being informed by current research, disciplinary practice, and student needs. And when updates are made, ancillary materials such as quizzes, assignments, study guides, and instructional supports can become misaligned. How can AI as act as research and editorial support for OER updates? This session outlines a repeatable process faculty can adapt within their own courses and disciplines. Rather than treating AI as a content generator, the process centers on faculty judgment and disciplinary expertise. Faculty determine when review is needed, use AI to assist with scanning and synthesizing emerging scholarship, and then make informed decisions about revising core content, ancillaries, and related instructional materials. The focus is not on fixed timelines, but on an intentional workflow that supports academic accuracy, consistency, and sustainability across both primary materials and supporting assets. The approach emphasizes transparency, human-in-the-loop decision making, and responsible AI use, ensuring that updates strengthen rather than dilute the academic quality of the OER. Participants will leave with a practical framework for using AI to reduce the labor of updating OER and aligned instructional materials while maintaining faculty voice, pedagogical integrity, and curricular control. The session positions OER updating as an ongoing academic responsibility and a key component of sustainable ZTC efforts, rather than a one-time task completed at adoption.
Register for AI as Research and Editorial Support

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 from 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Canvas Commons provides an easy way for faculty creators to share their work openly, but how can others effectively adapt and use that work? If you create a Canvas shell using ZTC funds, what must you share? What should you share? What guidance could you provide to help adopters make the most of your work? And for those interested in adopting openly shared Canvas courses, what are the benefits and challenges? Join us for a discussion of recommended practices, obligations, and opportunities when sharing and reusing Canvas courses.
Register for Sharing OER and ZTC Courses through Canvas Commons

Thursday, April 23, 2026 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join us for a chat about available OER for the humanities discipline and what humanities faculty would like to see in OER texts for general introductory and survey courses.
Register for Humanities Open Educational Resources (OER) for Introductory and Survey Courses

Saturday, April 25, 2026 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm at Cañada College

This workshop will showcase LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System.
The OERI, in collaboration with Cañada College, is pleased to announce a professional development opportunity for those who intend to remix open educational resources in the LibreTexts platform and create openly-licensed assessments – and those who support such work. Attendees of this in-person event at Cañada College in Redwood City will be introduced to – and actively interact with – LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System. A light breakfast will be served and lunch will be provided. In order to defray costs, a registration fee of $25 will be charged. Space is limited.
Register for Saturday, April 25, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm OERI Regional at Cañada College

Monday, April 27, 2026 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Join us to get a preliminary look at findings from the Irvine Valley College ZTC Degree Feasibility Study. In this webinar, we will share the preliminary data including charts, early triangulated themes, and powerful student quotes. The study is still underway, so it’s not too late to participate and colleges that distribute the survey will receive the full dataset when the study is complete.
Register for Hear It First: Early Findings from the Ongoing ZTC Degree Feasibility Study

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Your journalism program likely produces a publication, but do you have the necessary curriculum and educational resources to support it? And are those resources free to students? In this conversation, we will share a list of existing journalism OER and explore what resources we may need to create that are relevant, free, and accessible. Bring your suggestions and challenges and together we can find the answers.
Register for Let’s Talk About Developing Journalism OER for Publication Classes

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Dual enrollment can be a student’s first college experience. Ensuring that this significant  opportunity is clearly communicated is essential to expanding access. This webinar focuses on how colleges can highlight ZTC and OER options as a key benefit of their dual enrollment programs.
Register for Making Affordability Visible

Wednesday, April 29, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

In this webinar, we will discuss how faculty are leveraging OER and AI to expand access, reduce costs, and support innovative teaching in business classes. We will also explore practical strategies faculty are using to integrate OER and AI tools to enhance course design, improve student engagement, and promote more equitable learning experiences.
Register for Business OER and Leveraging AI

Thursday, April 30, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Establishing zero textbook cost sections of economics courses may require the use of resources that are freely available for student use, but may not be OER. What free resources are available to address homework system, graphing technology, and specialized and/or real-world economics module needs? Join us to learn more.
Register for Using Free Resources to Fill the OER Gaps in Economics

Saturday, May 2, 2026 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm at Saddleback College

This workshop will showcase LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System.
The OERI, in collaboration with Saddleback College, is pleased to announce a professional development opportunity for those who intend to remix open educational resources in the LibreTexts platform and create openly-licensed assessments – and those who support such work. Attendees of this in-person event at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, CA will be introduced to – and actively interact with – LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System. A light breakfast will be served and lunch will be provided. In order to defray costs, a registration fee of $25 will be charged. Space is limited.
Register for Saturday, May 2, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm OERI Regional at Saddleback College

Join regional colleagues from across California’s higher education systems for a day-long convening focused on advancing open educational resources (OER) through collaboration, shared learning, and strategic dialogue. Participants from the University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges will come together to hear system-level updates, highlight local successes and ongoing challenges, and explore emerging issues shaping the future of open education. The event will also examine the evolving intersection of OER and artificial intelligence and provide space for discussion around regional partnerships and cross-system collaboration. Through conversation and knowledge-sharing, this gathering aims to strengthen the statewide open education community and identify opportunities to expand equitable access to learning materials for students.

Register for May 15^th Intersegmental OER Summit
Register for May 16^th Intersegmental OER Summit

Friday, August 14, 2026 from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm at Allan Hancock

This workshop will showcase LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System.
The OERI, in collaboration with Allan Hancock College, is pleased to announce a professional development opportunity for those who intend to remix open educational resources in the LibreTexts platform and create openly-licensed assessments – and those who support such work. Attendees of this in-person event at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, CA will be introduced to – and actively interact with – LibreTexts, the LibreTexts Remixer, and the ADAPT Open Homework System. A light breakfast will be served and lunch will be provided. In order to defray costs, a registration fee of $25 will be charged. Space is limited.
Register for Friday, August 14, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm OERI Regional at Allan Hancock