Monday, October 5, 2026 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
An introductory session for faculty new to open education. This session will help
you understand OER, open pedagogy, zero textbook costs, and other foundational topics.
Bring your curiosity – and your questions.
Register for Back to Basics: OER/ZTC 101
Monday, October 5, 2026 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Open educational resources save students money, but they can create a practical problem
that colleges don’t always plan for: What happens when a student wants a printed copy?
Faculty may be faced with requests they can’t fulfill, and business offices may be
asked to handle transactions without an established process. In this session, the
Reedley College Business Office manager and an ESL faculty member explain how Reedley
College solved this problem using Marketplace, both the setup phase (building the storefront, pricing, handling funds and fulfillment)
and the classroom aspect (preparing materials, walking students through ordering,
and what it’s meant for access in an ESL context). We’ll cover what worked, what we’d
do differently, and the questions worth asking before your college implements an OER
printing solution.
Register for Who Prints the Free Books?
The OERI is pleased to offer a series of math OER office hours throughout the term.
These office hours will serve as a question-and-answer 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 and OER Office Hours on Tuesday, October 6, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Register for Math and OER Office Hours on Monday, October 19, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Register for Math and OER Office Hours on Thursday, November 5, 10:00 – 11:00 am
Register for Math and OER Office Hours on Friday, November 20, 9:30 am – 10:30 am
Thursday, October 8, 2026 from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Wondering how OER can align with the new ENGL C1002: Introduction to Literature template?
This conversation offers English faculty space to exchange perspectives, review available
OER, 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 C1002.
Register for Exploring OER for ENGL C1002: A Conversation for English Faculty
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
As of Fall 2026, most new pathways funded with Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Degree Program
dollars are required to be implemented and many colleges have added new resources
to COOL4Ed as required by the ZTC legislation. Join us for an overview of newly available
art history OER, to share what OER you’re working on, and/or to discuss your unmet
OER needs.
Register for OER for Art History – New Resources and the State of the Discipline
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 from 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Curious about OER and you don’t know where to start? Join us to start your OER discovery
journey. Where can you find existing OER for your discipline? Join us to learn how
to find OER – and options to consider when you can’t find anything.
Register for Back to Basics: Finding OER
Thursday, October 15, 2026 from 10:00 am – 11:00 am
As of Fall 2026, most new pathways funded with Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Degree Program
dollars are required to be implemented and many colleges have added new resources
to COOL4Ed as required by the ZTC legislation. Join us for an overview of newly available
communication studies OER, to share what OER you’re working on, and/or to discuss
your unmet OER needs.
Register for OER for Communication Studies – New Resources and the State of the Discipline
Thursday, October 15, 2026 from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
How can you turn your passion for OER into a sabbatical project? In this conversation,
liaisons who have received sabbaticals for OER-related projects and those who plan
to apply for a sabbatical are invited come together and swap tips. We will share ideas
about how to write a strong application and how to structure your time on sabbatical
as you focus on a project outside of your daily activities.
Register for Apply for a Sabbatical
Monday, October 19, 2026 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Faculty are often OER-curious but turning that curiosity into action takes support
at every level. This session offers tools to motivate and guide instructors toward
adopting open materials, strategies for gaining administrator buy-in that helps build
campus-wide traction, and how to bring student voices into the conversation to show
faculty firsthand why the shift from commercial textbooks to OER matters.
Register for Gaining Traction
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 from 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Understanding Creative Commons licensing is critical when working with open educational
resources. In this interactive webinar, we’ll explore the nuances of the various Creative
Commons licenses for when a resource is used, adapted, or created.
Register for Introduction to Creative Commons Licensing
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
How do you remix and attribute content with different open licenses? How are collections
and remixes different and why does it matter? This interactive session is intended
for those who are familiar with the Creative Commons licenses and would like to expand
their understanding. Bring your questions and licensing challenges.
Register for Curation and Advanced Licensing
Thursday, October 22, 2026 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Join this interactive office hour focused on accessibility questions and concerns
when using generative AI to create, adapt, and share OER. Engage in discussion around
reviewing AI-generated text, images, alt text, documents, and other course materials
for accessibility prior to publishing or adopting. Bring your questions and draft
materials as this office hour will provide practical guidance, peer support, and strategies
for ways to use AI-enabled technology responsible to keep accessibility in the forefront
of our OER work.
Register for AI Office Hour: Accessibility for OER
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
What happens when your original ZTC plan falls through and the grant deadline is getting
closer? This practical webinar will explore ways colleges can pivot ZTC grant funds
toward meaningful, achievable work that still advances a ZTC pathway. We will share
last minute strategies and ideas for using remaining funds including various activities
that can strengthen other ZTC pathways or help find other possible pathways.
Register for Your ZTC Plan Fell Through – Now What?
Thursday, October 29, 2026 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
How do we create OER that meet the needs of our diverse student body? UDL helps us
build resources that maximize student access, engagement, and learning. Focusing on
UDL also places accessibility guidelines in a context that aids us in achieving those
goals. From describing complex graphics to providing multiple modalities for content,
UDL offers a framework that supports us in creating resources which best serve our
students. Open Educational Pedagogy (OEP) can take us to the next level by empowering
students to participate in content creation that solidifies their learning and critical
thinking – and it also improves our OER for future students.
Register for Beyond Compliance to UDL of OER
Find it fast, use it easily. This introductory, hands-on session covers navigation
and the smart search in LibreTexts, along with practical ways to bring materials into
Canvas or assign them for direct online access. Designed to streamline your workflow
while expanding equitable, low-cost course materials for students.
Access other levels from the series:
Level 2: LibreTexts Remixer Lab: Creating, Curating, Customizing
Level 3: Quick Start: Editing Pages in LibreTexts
Level 4: Designing with Media: Images and Video in LibreTexts
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.
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.
