Anna Mills, College of Marin

The open education movement builds on the human desire to collaborate, to share, to guide other humans. Educators have harnessed those impulses to grapple with AI in education through open educational practices and OER about AI.  And AI has begun to help us with OER discovery, curation, review, fact-checking, and dissemination. It helps us customize and offer more modes of learning. Dialogue with AI can stimulate fact-checking and revision. But at the same time, when we let AI do too much, we risk alienating students and abandoning the social strengths of open. This talk will explore how we can develop shared norms for limits and transparency around AI use in OER. Guidelines can encourage us to convey core concepts primarily through human words and ideas. Templates for disclosure and process history can help us build trust, hold ourselves accountable, and model wiser choices around AI use. We will examine gray areas within case studies and share perspectives on where to draw the line and how to communicate to students our commitment to education as human guidance.

Jennifer Faux-Campbell, Palo Verde College

Laura Kramer, Palo Verde College

Rene Lopez-Roedel, Palo Verde College

Julien Sperling, Palo Verde College

Interdisciplinary panel explores how faculty use equitable pedagogy and Open Educational Resources (OER) to support justice-impacted students by reducing educational barriers, increasing accessibility, and fostering meaningful learning opportunities within correctional education.

Norma Jones, Antelope Valley College

OER goes stale. Sources age, curricula shift, and updates pile up. This practical workshop demonstrates how one faculty member used AI as a research and editorial partner to systematically refresh an existing OER textbook and how attendees can do the same, chapter by chapter.

Sophia Fernandez, Diablo Valley College

As AI reshapes teaching and Open Educational Resources, openness alone does not guarantee equity. Drawing on Indigenous relational theory, CARE Principles, and AI ethics, this session explores practical strategies for designing OER that preserve context, support consent, and promote responsible knowledge sharing.

Leah Wiitablake, Modesto Junior College

Many instructors need support beyond AI tool demonstrations or prompt lists. This interactive session introduces a repeatable, human-centered workflow for using AI responsibly with OER/ZTC course materials. Participants will see a brief demonstration, practice with sample materials, and consider adaptations for faculty development or program support.

Rachel Fleming, Irvine Valley College

Cheryl Bailey, MLIS Systems and Instruction Librarian

Heather Evans, MLIS

This presentation shares preliminary mixed-methods findings showing that students strongly want ZTC degrees, but most cannot intentionally find, trust, or navigate them. It examines how weak discoverability, inaccurate labels, and reliance on insider knowledge turn ZTC from an equity promise into a potentially uneven student benefit.

Cailyn Nagle, Michelson 20MM

Ria Babaria, Michelson 20MM alumni

In 2023, California made a commitment to course material price transparency at public colleges by requiring textbook and other course materials costs to be displayed on the online course schedule so students could accurately plan for their education. Existing California law already required Zero Textbook Costs courses to be marked on the online schedule. Colleges are now expected to be in full compliance with the new and existing legislation. Join Cailyn Nagle, 20MM Senior OER Program Manager, and Ria Babaria, a UCLA senior and alumni of the 20MM Textbook Affordability Fellowship, as they share original research exploring rates of compliance with course material transparency legislation across all three public California systems of higher education.  Michelson 20MM looked at 13 colleges to understand how campuses have been displaying their course material costs and what accessing that information is like for today’s student. This presentation will share the data gathered from assessing the accessibility of course material listing & pricing across systems and share highlights of effective course marking practices gathered from the project.

Amanda Taintor, Reedley College

Trevor Autry, Reedley College

Lights, camera, livestock! Animal Science students flipped the script — literally — by writing, filming, and narrating OER videos for a brand-new showmanship textbook. One open pedagogy project, four species, and students who went from learners to authors.

Delmar Larsen, UC Davis

Learning Outcomes. Participants will be able to:

• Describe how AI can enhance OER platforms to support adaptive and personalized learning 

• Identify strategies for integrating AI tools into teaching, assessment, and content creation

• Evaluate approaches for scaling AI-enabled education while maintaining equity and openness 

• Apply best practices for faculty adoption and student engagement with AI-enhanced resources

Ryan Edwards, West Los Angeles College

This presentation outlines an innovative AI-driven course mapper that assists students in finding no-cost course sections using a conversational chatbot. Efforts are underway to scale this open-source technology to other institutions using a replicable, automated data pipeline. Ultimately, the initiative seeks to shift academic planning toward a model where financial accessibility is integrated into every student's personalized degree path. https://www.wlac.edu/academics/zero-cost-textbooks

Grace Skalinder, San José State University

Jing Han, UC Riverside

This session presents an experimental approach to open educational resource (OER) development that applies AI-assisted prototyping to produce a research support book. The project invites attendees to consider AI not as a shortcut text generator but as a prototyping partner, offering a transferable framework for responsible OER production.

Michaela Bettez, Cal State Fullerton

Leilani Acosta Salgado, Cal State Fullerton

Fatima Zubair, Cal State Fullerton

Our presentation combines the perspectives of student workers and faculty members as they navigate educating students and advocating for OER campus-wide. Through a collaborative effort, the presenters bridge the gap between the student and the institution as they discuss student-centered initiatives and projects for the upcoming year.

Samuel Addington, San Bernardino Valley College

This session presents a practical privacy-aware framework for using AI to create and improve OER in community college courses. Participants will learn how to protect student data, avoid risky prompts, review AI-generated materials, and design accessible open learning activities for emerging technology, AI, and cybersecurity education.

Joel Gladd, College of Western Idaho

Pockets of open ed spent the first wave of generative AI learning to prompt carefully and evaluate outputs, while also asking how generative OER might extend the older work of adopting and adapting around the 5Rs. Agentic AI, or GenAI 2.0, shifts the focus from generating content in a chatbot interface to delegating work across a broader OER ecosystem. That ecosystem may include textbook material, companion websites, GitHub repositories, source collections, APIs, and local materials an OER creator wants to connect through agent platforms like Claude Code. We are already seeing experiments with new OER bundles. Some pair traditional textbook content with websites, code, data, update scripts, and maintenance practices the creator may only partly understand. Will these workflows quietly erode attribution and flood the commons with yet more AI slop? How can they be designed around stewardship and the open ethos that brought us here? This talk explores the new OER possibilities opened by agentic AI and offers a practical framework for navigating them in ways that refocus attention on human judgment and creativity. Paradoxically, the agentic moment may make original, human-authored OER more valuable, because agents are most useful when they extend and sustain work of an individual or community that remains deeply invested in it. 

Claudia Sanchez-Gutierre, UC Davis

Angélica González Bastidas, UC Davis

Ana Ortega Pérez, UC Davis

What happens when language learners are asked to read stories about detectives in Spain when they live in Davis, California? This session shares how a team of graduate students and a program director created a series of graded readers (i.e., short novels written with simplified vocabulary so beginning language learners can actually read them) set at UC Davis. The characters look like our students, live in places they recognize, and deal with things they actually face. The books are free on LibreTexts and have been used for five years running. Importantly, because they are OER, instructors at other institutions can adapt them for their own campuses, which is already happening.

Josh Franco, Cuyamaca College

Interested in the nexus of AI and CC-licensed and public domain materials? This presentation will demonstrate IntroPols.com, a mobile device friendly and accessible website of existing CC-licensed materials, and SimCapitol.org, a platform to generate printable packets for use in face-to-face classes using congressional bills, executive orders, and Supreme Court cases. Both use cases can be generalized and applied in other disciplines where faculty see a need for such tools (i.e. mobile friendly web app or printable packets).

Michelle Pilati, ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initative

Co-Presenters TBD

Experimentation with the use of AI to develop textbooks and associated ancillaries is a growing practice, despite the attribution-related issues when AI is used and the necessity for human review. In this presentation we will share our efforts to employ AI to facilitate the improvement of existing OER, from identifying elements in need of updates and addressing accessibility issues, to surfacing opportunities for making  OER more diverse, equitable, and antiracist. Join us to explore the potential of AI to address the quality of OER.

Representatives from California's three segments of public higher education, the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California, will provide updates on their systems' OER, zero-textbook-cost, and textbook affordability efforts. Legislation and state goals will be addressed, as appropriate. Time will be allotted for questions and answers.

Aley Razook, Antelope Valley College

Norma Jones, Antelope Valley College

Alex A Parisky, Antelope Valley College

James L Gend, Antelope Valley College

Three faculty and an instructional support director share how they've woven AI tools into every stage of the OER lifecycle: creation, adaptation, accessibility, and ongoing updates. AI is positioned not as a replacement for faculty expertise, but as infrastructure that makes open education faster, more equitable, and more sustainable.

Karna Younger, Loyola Marymount University

John Jackson, Loyola Marymount University

Jessea Young, Loyola Marymount University

Is your OER program tired, run-down, listless? Do you poop out at outreach events? Is your OER program unpopular? The answer to all your problems is in this little Canva account. It contains templates for stickers, posters, flyers, and more. Spoon your way OER program to health.  It’s so pretty too!

Melanie Nakaji, San Diego City College

This session examines how an American Sign Language (ASL) program leveraged ZTC and digital OER to create interactive, equity-focused learning experiences. Through multimedia design, embedded video, and adaptive tools, participants will explore strategies for building accessible, student-centered courses that enhance engagement, reduce costs, and support continuous instructional improvement.

Tamara Perkins, College of San Mateo

Together we’ll explore how AI tools like Google Gemini and NotebookLM can make culturally responsive, Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) courses sustainable. Learn how to transform OER texts into rich, "turnkey" Canvas ecosystems equipped with hyper-aligned study aids—without the risk of AI hallucinations.

Annie Draeger, University of Oregon

This presentation explores how integrating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Open Educational Resources (OER) from the syllabus through evaluation can increase access and engagement for all learners. It highlights practical strategies for designing flexible, inclusive, and student-centered learning environments in higher education.

Mandy Kronbeck, East Los Angeles College

Maria Betancourt, East Los Angeles College

Managing ZTC pathway programs can be quite an undertaking. East Los Angeles College’s OER Coordinators will share their multi-year process, emphasizing interactive rubrics used during course conversion. Attendees, especially OER Coordinators, will gain a framework to support faculty in creating equitable, high-quality open educational resources and ZTC courses.

Ariana Varela, California State University, Los Angeles

Jayati Chaudhuri, 

Lanyi Peng, 

Shilpa Balan, 

This presentation highlights strategies for faculty-librarian collaboration and approaches to AI-assisted OER development. Emphasis is placed on creating resources that are accessible, reusable, and instructionally effective for diverse learners. By combining librarian expertise in information literacy with faculty disciplinary knowledge, institutions can expand inclusive access to educational resources across disciplines.

Elaine Correa, CSU Bakersfield

Dr. Alexander Reid, CSU Bakersfield

Dr. Rebecca Roth, Taft College

Dr. Bernadette Towns, Bakersfield College

Prof. Mary Jo Jordan, Porterville College

Prof. Kim Barker, Antelope Valley College

Ms. Nathalie Alvarado, CSU Bakersfield

Mr. Andrew McKinney, CSU Bakersfield

Our OER collaborative pipeline from CCC to CSU establishes pathways of possibilities for transforming higher education. We address the use of OER adoptions for our 8 Curriculum Alignment Project courses, highlighting challenges and successes with this intersegmental project for underrepresented and underserved student populations in our local region.

Norma Jones, Antelope Valley College

Candice I Fulgencio, Antelope Valley College

Aley N Razook, Antelope Valley College

When faculty mentor students as researchers of their own AI learning experiences, something unexpected emerges. This presentation shares an autoethnographic study from Antelope Valley College tracing how a faculty-student research partnership evolved into students becoming AI tool creators and peer learning leaders in their own academic community.

Jacob Vazquez, Butte College

University extension systems, public outreach programs housed at land-grant universities, produce thousands of free publications that translate university research into practical knowledge for stakeholders. Some of these resources carry open licenses, while others are publicly available for educational use. Despite their quality and accessibility, they are often overlooked in course design. This session explores how educators can leverage extension publications within open educational practices and develop creative new approaches to open pedagogy. Attendees will leave with practical strategies for incorporating these resources into their own courses and open education initiatives.

Lindsay Josephs, OpenStax, Rice University

We’ll share practical strategies for customizing OER to support skill development, respond to emerging technologies, and meet local and industry-specific workforce needs. Participants will leave with an AI prompt template to create five ready-to-implement, skills-based assignments that align with emerging workforce needs, meet course objectives, and incorporate OER content.

Ying Liu, University of Southampton

Ikrah Shah, University of Southampton

This interactive workshop showcases a student–staff co-creation project using generative AI and H5P to develop interactive immunology OER. Attendees will explore practical workflows, example activities, and strategies for creating scalable, student-centered learning resources that combine AI-supported design with pedagogical and academic oversight. The session will highlight approaches for creating adaptable, openly shareable interactive content that can be implemented across learning platforms.