Events & Professional Development
Calendar of Events
MAY 1
2026 ZTC Summit
9:00 AM-2:30 pm
College of the Canyons (Santa Clarita, CA)
ZTC funding available for faculty to cover mileage, lodging, registration, and food/incidental
per diems.
Contact the ZTC Grant Coordinator, James Coon if you are interested in attending (james.coon@hancockcollege.edu)
May 15
Advancing Open Education Together: An Intersegmental OER Summit
8:30 am-3:00 pm
UC Irvine, Irvine, CA.
Registration Fee: $25.00
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.
Contact the ZTC Coordinator, James Coon, if you are interested in attending!
jULY 13-17
LibreFest Workshop
Join the LibreTexts Team the week of July 13–17, 2026 for our annual LibreFest workshop, where educators come together to learn, build, and share open educational resources.
Over four and a half days, you'll get hands-on time with the tools and workflows that make LibreTexts tick:
- Creating OER from scratch — building open content that's free, flexible, and yours to share
- Editing and remixing existing OER — adapting materials to build textbooks and learning resources tailored to your students
- Conductor and Workbench — our project management platform designed to streamline your workflow
- ADAPT — our open homework and assessment system
- Forge -- open pedagogy in practice
- And more!
Full schedule and registration coming soon.
July 29-31
CAL OER Virtual Conference
Registration Fee: $25.00
Cal OER will focus on OER efforts and impact, broadly defined, across the state of
California and especially across the state’s three public higher education systems,
the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University
of California. The theme for the 2026 conference is Exploring the Open Frontier: AI and Emerging Technologies in OER.
Contact the ZTC Coordinator, James Coon, if you are interested in attending!
August 14
Introduction to Remixing and Open Homework Systems Regional Meeting-South
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
G-106 A & B
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.
FREE FOR AHC FACULTY! SIGN UP TODAY!