Professional Development Opportunities

Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative

The ASCCC OERI offers free, public webinars throughout the academic year. These sessions provide professional development on OER adoption, advocacy, and development, as well as discipline‑specific conversations.

Upcoming Webinars and Archives

Explore upcoming sessions and access the full archive of past webinars.

  • Friday Forums are held on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month from 10:30 –11:30 a.m. during the fall and spring terms.
  • All webinars are recorded and archived, creating a rich library of resources for faculty and staff.

Synchronous Courses
  • Beyond Boundaries: OER and Universal Design for Learning
  • Teaching with OER and Open Pedagogy for Equity
  • Navigating the Future: Open Education with Generative AI
  • Building a Team: Implementing ZTC Pathways
  • Making the Case for ZTC: Pathways to Equity

Accessibility Basics (Self - Paced)

 The SLOs for this course reflect the accessibility knowledge that all faculty should have. At the end of the class, you should be able to create and review digital content.

OER Basics
(Self - Paced)

At the end of this course successful participants will be able to:

  • Properly identify the Creative Commons (CC) license on a resource.
  • Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of open resources
  • Effectively search for open resources and post reviews in an OER repository.
  • Create an open resource by remixing multiple existing resources and designate a license to this new resource based on the licenses of multiple resources use.

CREATIVE COMMONS CERTIFICATE FOR EDUCATORS 

This program introduces educators to the foundations of open education, including Open Educational Resources (OER) and open pedagogy, while connecting them to a global community of peers dedicated to advancing open education practices. 

Visit the Creative Commons Program

Affordable Learning Georgia

A chapter-by-chapter informational tutorial for faculty and staff interested in creating or adapting open educational resources. By the end of this tutorial, participants should have the knowledge necessary to:

  • Identify and create adaptable OER
  • Use multiple hosting and creation platforms to create new OER
  • Apply an appropriate open license to a newly-adapted or newly-created resources
  • Optimize the discoverability of newly-created OER


Learn How to Create and Modify OERs