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March 16

Pathways to Zero: Partnering With Counselors to Promote the Visibility of ZTC and OER
10-11 a.m.
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Counselors are key influencers in how students discover courses, build schedules, and understand degree pathways. This session explores how to collaborate with counseling teams to increase the visibility of ZTC programs, highlight OER-designated sections, and embed cost transparency into guided pathways conversations. Going beyond just marketing, we’ll examine how OER messaging can support equity goals, student completion, onboarding processes, and institutional enrollment strategies.

March 17

Agriculture Business and OER
8-9 a.m.
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Join your agriculture business colleagues to connect and explore how OER can support teaching and learning.

Respondus 4 and the Test Bank Network: Quickly Create Online Exams
10-11 a.m.
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Find out how Respondus 4 allows you to create and manage exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to your LMS, and how the Test Bank Network enables instructors to create online tests from official publisher test banks.

Mathematics and OER Office Hour
11-12 p.m.
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Pre-registration Required
The OERI is pleased to offer a series of math and OER office hours throughout the term. These office hours will serve as a question-and-answer session where attendees bring in their math OER needs, requests, and questions. Attendees can also use this space to receive guidance and ask questions pertaining to MyOpenMath.

Finding Your Core in the Chaos
12-1 p.m.
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No pre-registration required
In times of chaos, we often learn to see our strengths and values in new ways. As we continue to navigate moments of chaos this academic year, we’d like to invite you to join us for an hour to talk about the core values we’re seeing rise up to meet this present moment. Join us to discuss the ways we’re finding new strength and new resolve. You can share a story or just listen and help celebrate our colleagues and friends.

Accessibility Apps: So, You’re Suddenly Expected to be an Accessibility Expert
12:30-1:30 p.m.
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New to accessibility review? This webinar introduces the OERI Accessibility Checklist. Focusing on practical strategies, the checklist can help you to confidently provide feedback to your OER authors.

March 18

Mental Health, Gratitude, and Real Life
Presented by Calm Health
11-12 p.m.
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Pre-registration required
Practicing gratitude is often touted as an easy way to boost our mood and brighten our day, but research shows its benefits are deeper and more powerful than we might realize. A gratitude practice can help lower blood pressure, strengthen our immune system, even support heart health–and it doesn’t end there. In addition to helping to build resilience and foster empathy, showing gratitude for employees can stimulate commitment, motivation, and extra-role behaviors; promote a sense of unity; and support the morale of employees when their work is demanding.

But what happens when real life gets in the way and being grateful feels like an impossible task?

Adapting OER For Education Courses: How Can I Add or Change Content? Or Can I?
11-12 p.m.
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Want to include, or update education OER content in your course but don’t understand what you are allowed to do legally, or how to begin? Bring your questions about specific content in an education OER and the licenses associated with it and let us help you clarify the multi-dimensional aspects of creative commons licensing. You will walk away with a list of do’s and don’ts for the content that matters most to you.

LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor: Protect the Integrity of Online Tests
11-12 p.m.
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This comprehensive training webinar is intended for instructors who plan to use LockDown Browser and/or Respondus Monitor with online exams. The session provides a detailed demonstration of both applications, including enhancements that make Respondus Monitor even more effective and easy to use.

March 19

Turnitin Clarity: Expanding the Horizons of Written Essays in the Age of AI
7-8 a.m.
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This webinar introduces Turnitin Clarity – a new add-on to Feedback Studio and a substantial step forward when it comes to guaranteeing academic integrity and enabling students to deliver their best, original work! With Clarity's Composition Space, instructors gain insight into the writing process of each student in detail, and the 'guardrails' of the in-built AI Assistant teach students about the ethical use of AI - as a support, not a shortcut. Join us to explore this new horizon in academic writing!

The Role of the ADA Coordinator
Presented by the CCC Accessibility Center
11-12 p.m.
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Please join the California Community Colleges Accessibility Center and the Pacific ADA Center for a training, "The Role of the ADA Coordinator," from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm on Thursday, March 19. Title II of the ADA addresses what State and local government agencies must do to avoid discrimination against people with disabilities in their programs, services, and activities. This 1-hour session will explore the critical role ADA Coordinators play in helping their agencies navigate the complex Title II requirements.

Credit vs. Noncredit: What Education Leaders Should Consider
11-12 p.m.
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As institutions expand workforce aligned healthcare programs, leaders are reevaluating where medical coding education belongs: within degree pathways, noncredit workforce models, or a strategic combination of both. This webinar offers a practical comparison of credit and noncredit coding programs, exploring how each structure impacts certification readiness, employer expectations, financial accessibility, and long term career mobility.

Building Online Community and Connections Through Regular and Substantive Interaction
Presented by CCC@ONE 
11-12 p.m.
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Pre-registration required
Building community and connections are the cornerstones of RSI. These deep connections make teaching and learning so much more fruitful, personal, and engaging! We will learn about different methods of creating these bonds and how they work to allow students to be their whole selves. We will also learn how to support and facilitate our students' learning in this growing digital landscape through the lens of RSI and community. Come prepared to see examples and ask questions as we gather together and build our own community!

Using Gen AI in Advising 
Presented by the Chronicle of Higher Education
11-12 p.m.
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Advisers are at the forefront of student success, yet heavy caseloads and rote administrative tasks cut into valuable personal interactions with students. Is generative AI an effective solution to this problem? Get perspectives and insights from student-affairs leaders in this virtual forum. 

March 20

What Does Information Technology and Information Systems (ITIS) Need in OER Resources?
9-10 a.m.
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This session will be a guided conversation focused on the OER needs of ITIS programs.  We’ll discuss gaps in existing materials, challenges to adoption, and opportunities for creating, adapting, or sharing OER that better support ITIS courses and students. Participants will share experiences, identify priorities, and explore next steps for building sustainable, high-quality OER for the ITIS discipline.

CalSTRS Presents: My Retirement System
3-4 p.m.
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Pre-registration required
This online workshop provides an overview of the CalSTRS hybrid retirement system, your survivor and disability benefits, how your benefit will be calculated, ways you can increase your benefit and other CalSTRS resources available to you. Learn more about this first step in your life journey with CalSTRS.

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