LibGuides: Getting Textbooks to Zero Student Cost: ZTC and OER: Professional Development

ZTC/OER Faculty Incentive Program

First created and launched by former MCCD faculty librarian Joey Merritt and current MCCD faculty librarian Lindsay Davis in Fall 2022, funds from the ZTC grant were used to finance the ZTC/OER Faculty Incentive Program again in late Spring and Summer 2025 with some modifications due to the grant parameters. The training in Canvas is comprised of five learning modules facilitated by faculty librarian Lindsay Davis.

Starting in Fall 2025, applicants will be able to choose between adopting OER/ZTC materials, adapting/curating OER, or creating their own OER text. For those creating new content, the new content must be licensed CC BY 4.0 and deposited into COOL4Ed, the state OER repository. While everyone who is selected for the program must first complete the training modules, the "final project" will be different depending on the project scope elected by the applicant (adoption, adaptation/curation, or authoring an original text). Previous participants will be able to apply for other projects without needing to complete the learning modules again, but there will be other activities to complete in order to support faculty projects.

Adoption: $1,000 stipend
Adaptation/curation: $2,000 stipend
Authoring an original OER: $5,000 stipend

For projects that may not neatly fit into these categories, Dr. Moran may approve projects for a stipend that may fall between $2000-$4000.

More information will be available in Fall 2025.

ASCCC OERI: Fall 2025 Webinars Coming

Every month, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative (ASCCC OERI) shares a newsletter to all of the college OER liaisons with webinars, office hours for disciplines, and other information.
Some of the webinars and information is discipline-specific, while others are more general.
- Faculty librarian Lindsay Davis, the ASCCC OERI liaison for MCCD, shares the general webinars with all of the full-time and part-time faculty.
- Lindsay sends discipline-specific information directly to faculty who teach in the discipline or to the designated faculty lead for larger departments
All webinars are recorded and archived on the ASCCC OERI website.

Other Conferences and Webinars

RECORDINGS: OpenEd24
The Open Education Conference is thrilled to announce the public release of the #OpenEd24 video recordings! Be sure to check out the presentations and celebrate the great work of the remarkable open education community.
VIRTUAL & $25: CAL OER 2025: August 6–8, 2025
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.

Organizations to Follow

ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative
"The mission of the ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) is to reduce the cost of educational resources for students by expanding the availability and adoption of high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER). OERI facilitates and coordinates the curation and development of OER texts, ancillaries, and support systems."
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)
"The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) promotes the awareness and adoption of open educational policies, practices, and resources...CCCOER is part of Open Education Global."
Creative Commons
"Creative Commons is an international nonprofit organization that empowers people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture we need to address the world's most pressing challenges and create a brighter future for all."
SPARC
"SPARC is a non-profit advocacy organization that supports open systems for research and education that enable everyone, everywhere to access, contribute to, and benefit from the knowledge that shapes our world."
Open Education Association Development Project
"The Open Education Association Development Project is a national initiative working to strengthen the open education field in the United States through collaborative action and strategic coordination. Guided by community input, the project will identify shared needs, build connections across existing efforts, and expand support for open education’s collective impact."