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 Fall 2022, OERI weekly webinars will be replaced by our Friday Forums, which are twice-monthly webinars that typically happen on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of every month. The OERI webinars will begin September 9 from 10:30 am – 11:30 am.
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.
Show Upcoming OERI Webinars and Events
- LibreTexts Workshop at San Diego City College
December 2nd, 2022 from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Register for LibreTexts Workshop at San Diego City College – December 2, 2022
In partnership with LibreTexts, the ASCCC OERI is pleased to announce the Fall 2022 regional LibreTexts Workshops. The workshops will showcase the ADAPT and LibreStudio platforms sponsored by the California Education Learning Lab as free homework assessment platforms for all California instructors and students. We will demonstrate how instructors can use ADAPT to augment existing and newly constructed OER textbooks with summative exercises and embed them in Canvas and LibreTexts textbooks. Discussions will demonstrate how the ADAPT homework system empowers faculty to build and use existing questions in multiple modalities: (1) formative vs. summative, (2) autograded vs. open-ended grading, and (3) embedded in Canvas or textbooks. Workshop participants will learn how to build autograded questions based on four technologies – H5P, WebWork, IMathAS, and native (QTI) – that can be used interchangeably to allow for maximal impact. We will introduce the LibreStudio platform for construction, storage and distribution of H5P assessments. Participants will be able to join LibreStudio to create and share H5P assessments, review the H5P of other authors, and build/join a community within Studio.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please go to the event page
- Becoming a Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) College
Friday, December 2, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Register for Becoming a Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) College
What does it mean to be a “ZTC college”? Cosumnes River College (CRC) is answering that question by setting a goal of becoming a ZTC college and dedicating significant resources to make it happen. In this webinar, you will learn how CRC has expanded the use of open educational resources and how to support the disciplines that can’t get to ZTC. Join us for a report on CRC’s ZTC progress and learn how CRC’s work can inform your local ZTC efforts.
- Creating Summative Assessments with H5P and ADAPT
Friday, December 2, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Register for Creating Summative Assessments with H5P and ADAPT
This webinar will explore the use of H5P in LibreStudio and the LibreTexts Adaptive Learning Assessment System (ADAPT) to enhance open educational resources for students. Join us to learn how to use these systems to improve your own courses.
- Kinesiology Open Educational Resources (OER) – Let’s get moving!
Friday, December 2, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Register for Kinesiology Open Educational Resources (OER) – Let’s get moving!
Join your colleagues from across the state to discuss the OER that is available as well as what OER is needed for kinesiology. We will also explore the challenges that faculty may encounter when using OER in our discipline.
- LibreTexts Workshop at College of the Canyons
December 3rd, 2022 from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Register for LibreTexts Workshop at College of the Canyons – December 3, 2022
In partnership with LibreTexts, the ASCCC OERI is pleased to announce the Fall 2022 regional LibreTexts Workshops. The workshops will showcase the ADAPT and LibreStudio platforms sponsored by the California Education Learning Lab as free homework assessment platforms for all California instructors and students. We will demonstrate how instructors can use ADAPT to augment existing and newly constructed OER textbooks with summative exercises and embed them in Canvas and LibreTexts textbooks. Discussions will demonstrate how the ADAPT homework system empowers faculty to build and use existing questions in multiple modalities: (1) formative vs. summative, (2) autograded vs. open-ended grading, and (3) embedded in Canvas or textbooks. Workshop participants will learn how to build autograded questions based on four technologies – H5P, WebWork, IMathAS, and native (QTI) – that can be used interchangeably to allow for maximal impact. We will introduce the LibreStudio platform for construction, storage and distribution of H5P assessments. Participants will be able to join LibreStudio to create and share H5P assessments, review the H5P of other authors, and build/join a community within Studio.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please go to the event page
- Overcoming Barriers to Utilizing Open Educational Resources (OER) in the Biological Sciences
Monday, December 5, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Register for Overcoming Barriers to Utilizing Open Educational Resources (OER) in the Biological Sciences
Join your colleagues to discuss the status of OER in the biological sciences and identify barriers to and support for using OER materials. To begin, the host will share their own OER journey, and how they approached issues with OER adoption and creation. Next, we will engage in discussion so that OER veterans can share their success stories and those new to OER can describe their needs to ensure OER success. Finally, participants will be encouraged to network and establish connections and collaborations.
- Open Educational Resources (OER) for Interpersonal Communication
Tuesday, December 6, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Register for Open Educational Resources (OER) for Interpersonal Communication
In the summer of 2022, a team of Communication Studies faculty collaborated to develop an interpersonal text specifically for students in the California Community Colleges. Please join us to explore this new text and discuss next steps.
- American Sign Language (ASL) and Open Educational Resources (OER) – Survey Findings and Needs Assessment
Tuesday, December 6, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Register for American Sign Language (ASL) and Open Educational Resources (OER) – Survey Findings and Needs Assessment
ASL faculty and other interested parties are invited to learn about the findings obtained from a survey conducted in spring of 2022 to assess the interest in and availability of OER for the ASL discipline. Join us to learn – and to share your OER interest and experience. An ASL interpreter will be present.
- Open Educational Resources (OER) and Psychology – Where we are and where we are headed
Friday, December 9, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Register for Open Educational Resources (OER) and Psychology – Where we are and where we are headed
Join us to consider data from a survey regarding OER use by psychology faculty and explore the new additions to the psychology curated OER collection. Following this information-sharing, we will discuss the remaining needs of the discipline and how OER can make the use of open pedagogy possible.
- Addiction Studies (ADS) and Open Educational Resources (OER)
Monday, December 12, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Register for Addiction Studies (ADS) and Open Educational Resources (OER)
Are OER available for addiction studies? Faculty who teach addiction studies courses (such as ADS 110X Introduction to Addiction Studies, ADS 120X Basic Counseling Skills, ADS 150X Prevention, Intervention, and Recovery, and other courses that are required in programs that prepare students to work in the addiction field) are invited to join this webinar to discuss what resources are available and what resources are needed. If you are currently using an OER or other free resource to teach an ADS course, we want to hear from you. What do ADS faculty need – and are there ADS faculty interested in using OER?
- Integrating MyOpenMath in Science, Technology, and Engineering Courses
Wednesday, December 14, 1:00 pm – 2:00 am
Register for Integrating MyOpenMath in Science, Technology, and Engineering Courses
MyOpenMath is not just for math. This openly licensed homework system can used for other STEM disciplines. How can MyOpenMath be used in the courses you teach? Join us to learn more about MyOpenMath and to discuss STEM-specific needs that can be addressed with MyOpenMath.
- Finding and Sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) for Physics
Friday, December 16, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Register for Finding and Sharing Open Educational Resources (OER) for Physics
Join your physics colleagues to share the various OER available for the discipline and discuss how they might be integrated into our courses. All questions and comments are welcome.
- Writing Math Questions Using MyOpenMath and Other MyOpenMath Features
Friday, January 20, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Register for Writing Math Questions Using MyOpenMath and Other MyOpenMath Features
This will be a Q&A session where attendees bring in their math questions that they would like to see how to code and we will work them out together. We will take already developed MyOpenMath exercises and adjust them to fit the users needs. Other MyOpenMath questions will be addressed if the attendees have questions.
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.