From ASCCC:

Greetings!

During Spring 2017, the ASCCC established the ASCCC Open Educational Resources Task Force. Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials freely available in the public domain. A definition of OER from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is: “OER are teaching, learning and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-purposing by others.”

The ASCCC will be formally launching its OER Initiative (OERI) in the spring 2019 term. The ASCCC OERI received funding via a trailer bill during the last budget cycle and proposed that the ASCCC would create an initiative that serves to:

●   coordinate OER activities in the CCCs, including content curation, review, modification, and development;

●   engage in ancillary resource curation and development; and

●   provide support to address copyright, accessibility, technical, and other related issues (e.g., print on demand).

 In an effort to prioritize the OER work, there is a need to determine what OER is currently in use in our system and what the perceived needs are. In order to approach this in a manageable way, we are piloting information collection from select disciplines. It is our goal to gather as much general and specific information from faculty in the identified disciplines as possible. If you are in any of these disciplines, we look forward to your participation. If you are not, please share this with all appropriate faculty. At the present time, we are gathering information from faculty teaching courses in the following disciplines:

1. Child Development (Early Childhood Education)

2. Communication Studies

3. Computer Science

4. Cybersecurity

5. English

6. Math

7. Psychology

8. Sociology

 The ASCCC OER Task Force would appreciate if you would spent 10-15 minutes of your time completing this survey designed to inform our work. 

OER Discipline Survey

Thank you for your time, it is greatly appreciated.  

—

Miguel Rother 

C-ID/OER Program Manager

Academic Senate for California Community Colleges

One Capitol Mall, Suite 340

Sacramento | CA | 95814

916 445 4753 | ph

916 323 9867 | fx

www.c-id.net

www.asccc.org  

NameCoach is excited to announce their partnership with the Foundation for the California Community College System and the Online Education Initiative! NameCoach is a new tool provided by the OEI to California Community Colleges that nurtures inclusion campus-wide. It is now available to all OEI consortiums colleges at no cost and available to all CCCs at a discount.

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 Friday – October 26 – 12 PM Pacific

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 NameCoach provides students with a simple way to record a pronunciation of their name and convey their gender that is easily shared with their instructor and student peers. In this webinar, you will see NameCoach in action and hear how Foothill College has used it in Canvas and for commencement to foster belonging and address equity gaps.

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The California Virtual Campus – Online Education Initiative invites you and members of your College Implementation Team to attend an upcoming Notebowl Implementation Webinar to introduce the service, explain the benefits for student success, and review the implementation process for your college, and provide an important service to your students with the support of the CVC-OEI.  All are welcome!   

Notebowl Implementation Webinar

The webinar will be held on Wednesday, November 7 from 1:00PM – 2:00PM.  

Please use the following link to join us:  https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/971431177

The webinar will be recorded and sent to participants with captions after the live session. For real-time captioning services, please contact Karen Oeh (koeh@ccconlineed.org) at least 7 business days prior to the meeting.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at koeh@ccconlineed.org.

Best,

Karen

Karen Oeh, M.A.

Program Coordinator – College Support Representative

California Virtual Campus Online Education Initiative (CVC-OEI)

(650) 949-7814

koeh@ccconlineed.org

Visit us online at http://cccOnlineEd.org

The OEI is funded by a grant from the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office

I’ve been attending these every Friday and learning something new each time. If you or someone you know are interested in Open Educational Resources these webinars from the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges are an excellent place to start.
-Cyrus

Register Today!

Open Educational Resources Webinar

 In preparation for launching its own statewide OER initiative, the ASCCC is hosting weekly OER webinars on Fridays at 9:30am. Each of November’s webinars will focus on the available OER resources for a specific discipline, with faculty sharing their OER-adoption experience. Each webinar is designed to provide information, share resources, and hear from you. All will be recorded for later viewing or use and posted on the ASCCC website.

Click the link below to register for one or all of the upcoming webinars.  

Register HERE!                                                                                                

English – Friday, November 2, 9:30 – 10:30 am                               

Child Development/Early Childhood Education – Friday, November 9, 9:30 – 10:30 am                                                                                       

Counseling – College Success/Personal Growth/Career Counseling – Friday, November 16, 9:30 – 10:30 am                                                       

Biology – Friday, November 30, 9:30 – 10:30 am                            

Communication Studies – Friday, December 7, 9:30 – 10:30 am

Please forward this message on to all interested parties.

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