OERI Events – OERI Friday Forums
During the Fall 2024 academic term, the OERI Friday Forums will be held from 10:30 am – 11:30 am on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month. OERI Friday Forums are intended for a diverse audience. Please share with your colleagues. We hope you all will join us!
All Friday Forum webinars are recorded and archived. The ASCCC OERI will provide automated captioning for all webinars.
Friday, November 15, 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Easier Strategies for Finding and Evaluating Open Educational Resource (OER) Materials - With and Without Generative AI
One of the biggest barriers to OER adoption, especially in disciplines with a wealth of OER textbooks, is the labor involved in identifying which materials best match our pedagogical approach. Generative-AI augmented search platforms like Perplexity can help when we tell them to draw on sites like LibreTexts. So can knowing which OER discovery platforms are easy to navigate and how to use Google search and chatbots to get the most out of faculty reviews of OER. Join us to hear some practical tips and share your own.
ASCCC OERI Events
The OERI is pleased to share that its IDEA Framework Lead, Tiffany Lanoix will be hosting an event and office hour for the month of November. Join us for these professional development opportunities and learn how you can become a better ally when exploring OER.
Wednesday, November 6, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Removing Ableist Language from your Vocabulary
Come learn more about one of the least recognized forms of discrimination: ableism. This workshop will specifically focus on the harmful effects of ableist language and provide tools for removing it from your vocabulary.
Register for Removing Ableist Language from your Vocabulary
Thursday, November 14, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism (IDEA) Framework Office Hour
Drop in to chat about ASCCC’s IDEA Framework. This space is for anyone using the framework to assess existing OER materials, to create new OER, or to discuss all things IDEA. Join your IDEA colleagues to ask questions, to get feedback, or to brainstorm.
Register for IDEA Framework Office Hour