LAVC faculty and students discuss the benefits of Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) classes.
Funded by grants from the California Community College's Chancellor's Office (CCCCO), LAVC's ZTC Award Program seeks to establish several new ZTC degree pathways by 2027. Further, our program prioritizes strengthening our General Education ZTC pathway, which is critical to the sustainability of any ZTC degree.
We invite faculty across disciplines to apply for our ZTC Award Program. Faculty will be compensated for the professional development and curriculum development required to adopt, adapt, create, remix, and/or revise Open Educational Resources (OER) to replace their current texts.
Are you seeking to make your teaching practices and instructional materials more antiracist? Do you wish that your course materials incorporated and supported the voices and experiences of all your students? Are you concerned about the cost of commercial course materials that don’t support all student learning and success?
Open Education Global's Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) invites teams of 4-6 faculty from California Community Colleges (CCC) wishing to make their teaching and instructional materials antiracist to join a statewide Open for Antiracism (OFAR) Faculty Cohort running from October 2025 through June 2026. Several LAVC faculty members are OFAR alumni, including Magda Walsh, Vic Fusilero, Susana Marcelo, Keidra Morris, and Brandi Payne.
If selected, LAVC's 2025-26 team will complete a 6-week, facilitated online, asynchronous course from October through November 2025, introducing you to these major topics in the context of developing an antiracist action plan: What Is Antiracism? What Are Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Pedagogy? How Can They Support Antiracist Pedagogy?
Team applications due: Tuesday, September 2, 2025, by 5pm Pacific
This virtual workshop will provide four and a half days of teaching and working sessions covering: how to create Open Education Resources (OER); how to edit/modify existing OER to build textbooks and other learning resources; how to use our Conductor project management platform with our new Workbench; and our ADAPT open homework and assessment system. We will also hear Success Stories from LibreTexts super users each day.
Sessions will begin at 9:00 am PST on Monday, July 7. Office hours will be held every day from 8:00 – 9:00 am. There will be time for questions and reflections at the close of each day's sessions from 3:00 – 4:00 pm.
If you do not already have a LibreTexts account, you will be prompted to create one during the LibreFest Registration process.
The LibreFest Registration fee for this workshop is $50 and includes a LibreTexts shirt and other small swag. Please use the payment link at the end of the LibreFest Registration form to pay. Fee waivers are available for current LibreNet members; please note no swag will be offered when using the fee waiver option. Please email Jennifer Rogers, LibreTexts Outreach Coordinator for the fee waiver code.
The LibreFest Registration will close no later than July 5, 2025. However, capacity is limited, so the registration may close sooner.
Join us for the fifth annual Cal OER Conference, held virtually on August 6 – 8, 2025. This event is open to everyone, so please consider attending 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.
Faculty may be compensated for attending ASCCC OERI Webinars and events. Please forward your registration to casonmg@lavc.edu. Here are the latest opportunities from the ASCCC OERI:
Monday June 9, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Introduction to the LibreTexts Remixer
In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to create a project in the LibreTexts Conductor. Once a project has been created, participants will create a new text and then experiment with the OER Remixer, adding and moving content. (A LibreTexts instructor account is required for full participation. Don’t have an account yet? Register with LibreOne. Be sure to register as soon as possible – verification of your status as an instructor is required to provide you with editing capabilities.)
Register for the Introduction to the LibreTexts Remixer
Tuesday, June 10, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Introduction to Editing Pages in LibreTexts
In this hands-on workshop, participants will practice editing a page in LibreTexts. We will demonstrate the elements of the content editor, how to add figures and images, and how to add content boxes. (A LibreTexts instructor account is required for full participation. Don’t have an account yet? Register with LibreOne. Be sure to register as soon as possible – verification of your status as an instructor is required to provide you with editing capabilities.)
Register for the Introduction to Editing Pages in LibreTexts
ADAPT is a comprehensive online assessment/homework infrastructure that provides faculty the ability to create assessments that include auto-graded and non-auto-graded activities from different platforms such as H5P, MyOpenMath, WeBWorK, and its own native ADAPT questions. Faculty are continually developing and sharing new questions and activity types, so the ways to assess students’ learning are limitless. ADAPT can be integrated into Canvas with full grade integration or it can be run independently.
This series of webinars is intended to introduce users to ADAPT. Each hands-on one-hour webinar is followed by 30 minutes for questions and answers.
How do you access ADAPT?
Register for a LibreOne Account (https://one.libretexts.org/)
Friday, June 13, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
ADAPT Level 1 – Accessing ADAPT and Finding Existing Assessments
What is ADAPT and what resources currently exist for the courses you teach? In this webinar you will learn how to navigate ADAPT, search for existing resources, and modify resources created by others. All attendees will need to register for a free LibreOne instructor account to fully participate in these webinars.
Friday, June 20, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
ADAPT Level 2 – Creating in ADAPT
In this webinar, you will learn how to create auto-graded activities in ADAPT, featuring various question types like fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, select choice, highlight text, and matching that are accessible and adaptable. All attendees will need to register for a free LibreOne instructor account to fully participate in these webinars.
Monday, June 30, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
ADAPT Level 3 – Fostering Oral Interaction with ADAPT’s Discuss-It Question Type
In this webinar, you will learn how to create oral and listening assessments through threaded student-to-student interaction using text, audio, and video. The Discuss-It question type also offers auto-captioning, transcription, rubric-based grading, and seamless Canvas integration. Discover how Discuss-It fosters accessibility, engagement, and meaningful communication in multiple languages. All attendees will need to register for a free LibreOne instructor account to fully participate in these webinars.
Monday, July 7, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
ADAPT Level 4 – Question Banks and ADAPT Canvas Integration
In this webinar, you'll learn how to organize your activities into question banks for randomized assessments and explore how to seamlessly integrate your ADAPT content into Canvas with automatic grade syncing. All attendees will need to register for a free LibreOne instructor account to fully participate in these webinars.
