Save the date for the annual Cal OER Conference, held virtually on August 6 – 8, 2025. This event is open to everyone, so we hope you will attend and consider presenting. The theme for the 2025 conference is Beyond the Horizon: Challenges and Opportunities in Scaling Open Education.
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.
You can view the Cal OER 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 conference keynotes on the Cal OER YouTube Channel.
The ASCCC OERI provides live and archived professional development webinars regarding OER, ZTC and related initiatives. 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 archived webinars serve as a useful library of resources.
If you are new to OER and interested in learning more about the planned ZTC Degree Pathways, consider participating in El Camino's self-paced Canvas course "Demystifying OER, ZTC Degrees & the Equity Connection"
This course explores the fundamental connections between Open Educational Resources (OER), Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) degree programs and statewide Equity and Guided Pathways initiatives. You will employ an equity cognitive frame to examine the impact of textbook costs on student success, and the disproportionate impact on historically underserved students. You will also dig into the growing research on OER efficacy, explore OER repositories, learn how to remix and create OER and review case studies on successful ZTC pathways, across the state and beyond. You will leave this course understanding how OER and ZTC pathways promote student success and reduce equity gaps, supporting the Vision for Success of the California Community Colleges.
ECC faculty are eligible for up to 8 hours of Flex Credit (2 hours per completed module) or a $500 stipend sponsored by the statewide ZTC Degree Program grant (while funds are available).
Register using this this form and you will be automatically enrolled into the Canvas course.
See the schedules of the following organizations below for more regular learning opportunities, including the archived recordings of numerous OER/ZTC related webinars: