OERI Webinars and Events

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, March 19
Register for Physics OER Office Hours on Friday, March 27

Friday, March 20, 2026 from 9:00 am – 10:00 am

This session will be a guided conversation focused on the OER needs of ITIS programs.  We’ll discuss gaps in existing materials, challenges to adoption, and opportunities for creating, adapting, or sharing OER that better support ITIS courses and students. Participants will share experiences, identify priorities, and explore next steps for building sustainable, high-quality OER for the ITIS discipline.
Register for What Does ITIS Need in OER

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Wondering how OER can align with the new ENGL C1001 framework? This conversation offers Englishfaculty space to exchange perspectives, review available OER materials, and identify where additional resources may be needed. Come with questions, insights, or curiosities; your input will help shape next steps toward a sustainable zero-textbook-cost ENGL C1001.
Register for Exploring OER for ENGL C1001: A Conversation for English Faculty

Thursday, March 26, 2026 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

The OERI is pleased to announce the introduction of its Brown Bag Series. Each brown bag is a 30-minute mini-webinar where participants can drop in to learn about a focused topic. After the session ends, presenters and participants are welcome to stay and engage in further dialogue or ask questions about the topic.
This session will explore opportunities for AI to support Universal Design for Learning in the online and in person classroom. When faculty are using open educational resources, AI can be employed to create ancillary resources and other educational materials. Participants will leave with tools, prompts, and examples to support generating accessible handouts, organize complex instructions, and create alternative formats for multiple learning preferences, while also being mindful of student privacy, accuracy, and accommodation versus modification.
Register for AI Bytes: Boosting Accessibility, Not Workload

Thursday, March 26, 2026 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

The cost and accessibility of textbooks can serve as a barrier to student success. Yet in many lower-division engineering courses, instructors use textbooks not only as a reference and a guide for students, but also as a source of homework and exam problems. In this webinar, participants will explore several OER designed to support lower-division engineering coursework and discuss strategies to incorporate open materials into assignments and exams.
Register for Using OER to Design Unique Engineering Course Materials

Friday, March 27, 2026 from 10:00 am – 10:30 am

The OERI is expanding the IDEA Framework assessment process, a dedicated approach to reviewing new and revised OERI-supported materials to ensure they are inclusive, diverse, equity-minded, and anti-racist. Two exciting assessment sessions will be offered this summer. In the sessions, participants may either submit authored or adopted OER materials for expert review by specially trained IDEA Framework assessors or participate in a four-week guided IDEA Framework assessment alongside fellow OER adopters, learning collaboratively while evaluating authored or adopted OER materials. Join the upcoming information session to learn about the qualifications and expectations as well as obtain answers to any remaining questions.
Register for the IDEA Framework Summer 2026 Assessment Information Session

Friday, March 27, 2026 from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join us for a conversation about the ASL OER that are currently available or under development. Together we will explore how to use OER and other resources to get your courses to ZTC.
Register for ASL: ZTC and OER

Monday, March 30, 2026 from 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Effective OER work requires institutional alignment—and that begins with how we communicate impact to governing boards and executive leaders. This session focuses on translating OER outcomes into data-driven, mission-centered narratives that resonate at the administrative level. Participants will explore strategies for presenting student success data, fiscal stewardship, equity impact, workforce alignment, and community return on investment in ways that secure long-term support and sustainability.
While these events are intended for OERLs, please invite your colleagues to attend if you think they would be interested.
Register for Leading with Impact