I'm Cheryl Casey from the University of Arizona. I help faculty and students navigate Creative Commons licenses and copyright, as well as OER adoptions, adaptations, and creations with our Pressbooks publishing platform.

Hello! My name is Carolyn Heath from Yavapai College. I have taken a few workshops on OER and attended a few conferences. I am an Academic Advisor and Success Coach for the TRIO SSS program and teach a PSY 101 class. I try to use as many OER materials as possible. I am in a rural area, and we work with many low-income students, so saving them money is a huge priority for me. I also do not have a teaching background, so I like having the support of teacher-created OER to supplement what I am teaching. Whether it be financial literacy, study skills, or Maslow, it's great to be able to have a place where I can find some resources. I am looking to learn a little bit more and become more confident about creating and licensing my own materials to add to the Commons. 

There are quite a few OER on student success:

• Dave Dillon, a professor at Grossmont College, recently released the Modern Blueprint for College and Career Success 

• From OpenStax

• From Open Textbook Library

• From the Pressbooks Directory

Thanks for the info Cheryl!

Greetings all!

my name is Cherrelle Hawkins and I'm from Yavapai College. I'm new to Arizona, Yavapai, and OER. I would like to learn all that I can so that I can create material, even if it's not in my department.

Warm Greetings Cherrelle...

My name is Ruth Butler, I'm currently an Communication Studies adjunct with Central Arizona College. I am also new to OER and have a big learning curve, so I'm looking forward to the training. I want to welcome you to Arizona and I wish you the best in your transition to Yavapai, and OER. 

Ruth

Hello everyone, 

My name is Elizabeth Sage but I go by Lisa. I am a program director for the new nurse assisting certificate program at Scottsdale Community College. I am new to OER but hope to gain information and knowledge on the use of OER in the classroom. 

Hello, 

My name is Susan Smith and I'm an Adjunct Instructor in the Allied Health Department at Yavapai College. Although I haven't had much experience with copyright and licensing prior I have learned about them in previous OER course and while working on an OER course. I have just completed creating an OER course in medical terminology, which, although it was a lot of work it was absolutely worth it. I hope to create more OER courses for the Allied Health Department, as I feel very strongly about the benefits and far reaching advantages of OER. Currently I'm in the graduate program for Anthropology at NAU, I would really enjoy exploring the use of OER from an anthropological perspective. I'm looking forward to this course. 

It was great to see that Open RN released the 2nd edition of its Medical Terminology book this summer.

Hi Cheryl, 

It is a nice resource. It is based on information from openstax, by Betts et al., Anatomy and Physiology. It has been remixed several times over the years. I think it is one of the best ones that I have seen so far for nursing students. A bit too advanced for basic Allied Health students (CNA, MA). 

Hello,

My name is Hilary Daley, and I teach in the ADN program at Gateway Community College. I spearheaded the adoption of an OER that we use in the second and third blocks. I am also taking over teaching and coordinating the RN refresher in January, and I see myself adopting OERs in that program. I have never interacted with copyright or licensing. 

Nice to 'meet' everyone! 

Hello all! My name is Adam Ekins and I teach Political Science at Arizona Western College (as well as the ocassional course at San Diego State University and Imperial Valley College where I live in Imperial, CA).

I've long been interested in, but never really pulled the trigger on, fully converting my courses to OER. Joining this group is my attempt to force myself to get serious. Let's hope it works!

Hello, 

My name is Shellece Kleinman and I currently teach Obstetrics, Newborn and Women's Health to Block 3 nursing students at Phoenix College. I have attended a few OER workshops and training sessions, but still feel like a novice in this area. I would love to create OER materials for use in my course and even district wide courses. Currently, there are limited OER resources in the area I primarily teach. 

Have you seen the new Maternal-Newborn Nursing textbook from OpenStax?

Yes, it is actually a pretty good resource. I haven't had the chance to fully explore this textbook, but would love to adopt it in my future courses. 

Hello Joanna and Colleagues!

My name is Tanya Mooney and I am a full time faculty at University of Arizona Global Campus. I used to be a principal of a school, and we had to gain permissions to use various resources at the K12 school. 

I also have been a subject matter expert in the design of courses. Years ago (2008-2012), I was part of a project to use OER materials in our online courses at a small community college in North Dakota. I was also a curriculum developer for another private university in Arizona, and they used OER in some of their courses.

As a current online instructor for UAGC, we are an intricate part of the course's revision and updates, and I am interested in exploring how this may be used in the course I currently teach.

Kindest regards,
Tanya

Hello! I'm Janelle Yoder, a librarian at Estrella Mountain Community College - part of the Maricopa County Community College District (Phoenix, AZ area). I'm new to academic libraries, having spent 17 years in K-8 school libraries and public libraries.  I'm also new to OER, but it fits with my desire to make educational opportunities more accessible to all.  I've taken some internal training here at my college, but as I'm slated to be the librarian "expert" here, I need to really dive in. The license/copyright knowledge is the most daunting to me. 

Coincidentally, my oldest child started college this fall, so I'm experiencing OER from the student side as well as I support him in acquiring textbooks.  He has one fully OER class, but others that required a range of textbooks at a range of prices and purchase options.

Hi Everyone! My name is Deidre Grafel and I teach at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. I currently use OER content in my courses but am looking forward to learning how to create OER content and to expand the use of more OER materials.

Hi Deidre,

I'm also looking forward to learning how to create more OER content that people will find useful. I especially want to expand my use of OER materials now that the amount of OER resources has increased exponentially. Learning to find and evaluate more OER resources that are useful for my classes has been a blessing. Good luck with your OER journey.

Tammy

Greetings! My name is Paulina Vega and serve as the department head for Administration of Justice Studies Program & Justice Professions for Pima Community College. I have used OER to find supplemetary resources to help provide supporting content for courses. Other than understanding how OER works, I would like to know more and find ways to integrate it with the program I currently oversee. I look forward to getting to know everyone and learn how OER is used (or planned to be used)! 

Hi, my name is Michael Biesiada. I work at Mesa Community College in Mesa AZ. I primarily teach computer information systems courses. I have an interest in learning more about open educational resources since many of the software systems that we use in my field are open source.

Hello! My name is Blake Krofchik and I am a Associate Professor of Biology at Eastern Arizona College. I still learning about OER and a little familiar with copyright and licensing. I am hoping that in the future there will be more OER tools that I can use in my Human Anatomy and Physiology classes and I am continuing to learn more about OER so I can implement it in my courses. 

Hi everyone, I'm Joe Ortiz, faculty @Scottsdale Community College. I've using an OER textbook right now w/ one of my online classes, and have used others in the past. My experience with Creative Commons licenses is average to good. I want to explore other OER models/resources as vehicles to developing materials for introductory communication courses.

Hi All!

I am Evgeniy Kulakov.

A geology faculty at Northland Pineer College. I have interracted with copyright and licensing before.

I am a big proponent of OERs. Actually, I am working and making my own OERs for my purposes.

Lab manuals, physical geology textbook

Hello Everyone!

My name is John Clegg from Eastern Arizona College.  I am newer to OER and have only learned about licensing and copyrights, but have no practical experience related to OER.  As a faculty member and program director I hope to use OER in my courses to improve content quaity and availability for my students. 

I look forward to working with all of you!

John

Hello, my name is Aubrei, and I'm residential faculty for history at Glendale Community College.  My courses are fully OER at this point, although I don't have them openly contribute to anything accessible beyond our course section. I'm familiar with copyright and licensing in regards to OER approved textbooks/materials, as well as those primary sources considered public domain.  I love the accessibility of OER, but don't think I'm really using it as well as I could be. I don't trust my understanding of copyright law well enough to branch into making my own materials to contribute to the Creative Commons. I'm excited to learn more about it and hopefully move that direction!

Hi! 

I'm Dawn Whinnery from Arizona Western College in sunny Yuma.

I haven't really interacted with copyright and licensing before.

I am currently using OER books in all of my classes but one, and I'm working on that!

Wow Dawn!! You're a rock star!! How did you find the appropriate OER books for your course. That's where I'm struggling...

Hello everyone;

I'm Dr. Kristen Jones, professor of physics at Arizona Western College. I've made it a priority to use OER textbooks for my courses--mostly Openstax books. This is especially the case for my Astro 100 classes, because students who take these are non-majors looking for a lab-based science course to round out their education, and are much less likely to find an astrophysics textbook useful in the long term. I'm hoping to find more ways to incorporate materials beyond the textbook, particularly for my online courses (since they are in such high demand but provide so few interaction opportunities).

Not sure how much I have interacted with copyrighting and licensing before--I've heard of creative commons licenses, but don't really understand them. Looking forward to learning with you all!

Hello everyone, my name is Graham Boorse, and I teach Microbiology at Mesa Community College. I have developed an open-access textbook for use in my Microbiology Lab and am now starting to create an OER textbook for my lecture. I'm eager to deepen my understanding of available resources to develop the most effective OER materials for my students.

Hello all! My name is Christina Goldsmith, and I am an instructional designer and adjunct English faculty member at Yavapai College. It is great to see some familiar names in this discussion, as well as such a variety of institutions represented! As an instructional designer I help faculty with the design and development of courses using OER materials.

Hi Christina!

Maybe I can meet you in person soon. I would love to pick your brain about a few things with design, development, and OER.

Hi All, My name is Elisabeth Kehrli and I'm from Phoenix College. I am fairly new to copyright and licensing, however, I participated in content creation/recreation for an OER project for students entering the nursing program. That experience sparked an interest and I found Pressbooks relatively simple to navigate. I am interested in providing more resources for my Anatomy and Physiology students.

Hi I'm Kathy Broneck from the University of Arizona.  I have used OER materials in the past as well as already built courses that used OER.  I currently use OER for readings in many courses, and see myself continuing to do this. 

Kathy,

That's awesome. I'd love to add you to the U o A Courses Using OER page! Could you please email me details at ccuillie@arizona.edu?

Hi Joanna,

I am Gita. I am a chemistry faculty member at South Mouth Community College. Currently, I am utilizing resources recommended by the ACS (American Chemical Society) in my CHM107 class. I also plan to work on developing an OER book for my class.

Thank you,

Gita

Hi, my name is Carol Beard.  I'm with Yavapai College in beautiful Prescott, AZ.  I'm a relative newby to OER, but the courses I teach are exclusively OER so I am learning quickly.  I also have utilized OER for our TRIO SSS program learning modules this year in an effort to help our program grow.

Hi, my name is Judy Aiello and I teach accounting at Yavapai College.  I have getting familar with OER resources but am unsure if it's viable beyond introductory accounting courses, especially for upper level accounting courses used to prepare for the CPA exam. 

Hi Judith,

Have you seen the intermediate accounting textbooks in the Open Textbook Library? There's Intermediate Financial Accounting Volume 1 and Intermediate Financial Accounting Volume 2. 

Yes, I have seen them but they come out of Canada, which uses international standards (IFRS), not GAAP.

I heard from another instructor that they're just not out there for upper division accounting classes.  Given this content is used for the CPA exam (and constantly changing) it makes sense that it wouldn't be OER.

The college wants everything OER and I'm taking this workshop as an effort to either locate or go back and reiterate to them that it doesn't exist. 

I've been looking at resources for a Fundamentals of Accounting course that I teach. I'm hoping to do this course after I finish a couple other general business courses that have more resources available. It's definitely been harder to find quality content for Accounting.

Hello!  My name is Laura Cline and I teach English and am the chair of the English department at Yavapai College.  I currently teach many of my classes OER and continue to develop no-cost and OER courses for my students.  I hope to start incorporating the creation of OER materials in some of my classes, perhaps starting with a Creative Nonfiction class that I am teaching in the Spring. 

Hello! I'm Megan Ashcraft, I am an MLIS student at the University of Arizona and an OER Intern at Pima Community College under the direction of Chelsea James. I am excited to expand my knowledge of OER through my internship and with these OER Fundamentals workshops!

Hi Megan, Chelsea's wonderful! She's a mentor of mine at Pima for the UNSDG Fellowship on Open Pedagogy and is a great resource. Glad to see the collaboration between UA and Pima continuing (I'm a UA grad)- 

Hello, I'm Jared Dinehart, residential faculty in Psychology at Chandler-Gilbert Community College.  Our department has a goal to have all our courses using OER.  I have used OER materials in all my classes.  My next area of interest is to re-mix textbooks and create new content for my courses.  

Hello! My name is Brittney Smith, and I am math faculty at Central Arizona College.  I have experienced teaching classes with and without OER. Having my students pay $80+ just to be able to complete their homework online was a huge barrier financially, and an even greater barrier for those whose first language is not English. With OER, it is one less barrier for my students and I am able to get students started on classwork assignments much faster and with greater success.  I look forward to continuing using OER in my classes and learning more about what OER can do for them.

Greetings All,

My name is Teresa Leary Handy, and I work for the University of Arizona Global Campus.  I have interacted with copyright and licensing through a course pilot I did as a research project. I am intentionally using OER materials and encouraging the development of OER in the program I am responsible for, and I am encouraging faculty to explore future adoption. 

Thanks,
Teresa 

Hello everyone,

My name is Maria Rodriguez. I am a full time professor of English at Chandler Gilbert Community College. When I was full time at Central AZ College, I helped create and revise and edit a textbook for our English courses. Right now at CGCC, we our exploring and using OER material for our department Canvas course shells. I see our Department in the future creating our own OER material at CGCC.

Hello, 

My name is Corinn Herrell, I work at MCCD Phoenix College in the nursing department. I try to use OER recourses as much as I can. My goal is to eventually have all of my online courses using OER, I have a  hard time having higher dallor rescoures for courses that are less than 10 weeks. 

It's great that OpenStax has released several new Nursing textbooks in the past year. Open RN also has some new content.

Hello! I'm Annette Torrey-Banks with GateWay Community College.  I have not interacted with copyright licensing, and am here to learn about OER to determine if I can use it in my position.

1. My name is John Ghost
2. I have used and attributed images for various blog posts for a travel blog.
3. I will provide and point to resources for educators and students as a librarian.

 My name is Victoria Fisher and I am at Central Arizona College.

Yes, I have used OER materials that were built inot course shells; however, I have not accessed OER materials or built courses using them. 

I am currently redesigning 2 course and need materials to support the rebuilds. 

Hello! I'm Marc Farrior and I teach as an adjunct at Pima Community College where all my classes are using OER materials.  I also teach at another institution outside of AZ and I hope to incorporate what I learn here about OER in other ways and at other places I teach. 

Hi! I am Gina Wilding. Maternal/Newborn Faculty with Gateway Community College. 

I have not interacted with copyright and licensing fgefore. I would like to use OER resources in my course instead of current text. 

Thank you for doing this. 

Have you seen the new Maternal-Newborn Nursing textbook from OpenStax?

Hi Cheryl,

Yes! Super excited to see this. Thank you for reaching out. 

Take care,

Gina

My name is Lou Libby, and I work at Pima Community College as a Library Services Specialist. I've interacted with copyright and licensing as I earned my bachelor's degree in Information Science and the Arts, as well as in personal creative projects in filmmaking. I see myself using OER to build relationships with faculty on campus, who may be in the process of implementing OER or are looking to get started. I want to be a good collaborative partner to them in the future.

Hello fellow teachers! I'm Amanda Potts, I teach at HRM at Central Arizona College. I am a published author and illustrator for children’s books on top of teacher. I’m a little familiar with Copyright, however not fully in the context of applying it to my courses. My goal is to fully rebuild my courses by Fall 2025 to be textbook free with the use of OER. I also expect I will be contributing own writing as resources for other HRM teachers.

Hello, 

My name is Atami De Main, Nursing Faculty at Gateway Community College. I do not have experience interacting with copyright and licensing. However, I am thrilled to be here to learn more about OER and how I can potentially use it in my current position. Nice to meet to you all.

I'm Sue Steele from Chandler-Gilbert Community College. I have several colleagues that have used and engaged deeply with copyright an licensing so I have some familiarity with copyright and licensing. I use one of the books for my calculus courses, but struggling to find Brief Calculus OER that aligns with conceptual/non traditional methods of teaching/learning.

I love how the American Institute of Mathematics' Open Textbook Initiative reviews OER and publishes a list of approved textbooks. I wish all professional societies would do this!

1.) Peter Shipman, Central Arizona College

2.) When building curriculum and sharing resources with students.

3.) Would love to find more materials to help make classes more accessible for all students. 

The BCcampus OER by Discipline Directory is a useful resource for finding OER in various subjects

Hi, I'm Kali Van Nimwegen from Phoenix College - I'm library faculty, and I teach information literacy and research sessions to teach student how to use library and web resources. I just joined our OER committee on campus, but I've been using OER resources and working with CC resources around the web for over a decade in both non-profit and for-profit education (which changes the rules some). I frequently have both students and faculty come to me to ask for help finding no-cost or low-cost resources, verify copyright or CC restrictions, and I sometimes teach a no-cost media literacy course where I'm finding those resources for myself as well. I'm hoping to gain a more thorough understanding of the platforms currently hosting and collecting OER content and see what instructors are using so I'm prepared when I get similar questions.

Hello I am Samuel Hickcox from University of Arizona

I have interacted with OER in my first semester of the MLIS program I am attending with a research project surrounding benefits of OER on students.

I see myself using OER in my position through marketing resources to students at PCC.

Do any MLIS courses at the U of A cover OER? That sounds like a great research project!

Hello Cheryl, throughout the MLIS program at the U of A, I found that there are two courses that reference OER, which are LIS 506 (Research Methods in the Library) where I did my project and LIS 584 (Intellectual Property/Copyright) where the Professor also explained Open Access sources. Both awesome classes with the potential to further explore OERs!

Thanks! That's great to hear.

Tammy Campbell, Eastern Arizona College Business Professor. I am new to OER. I am hoping to change my BUA 101 and BUA 210 courses to OER by next semester or maybe the summer session if Spring is too soon. Thank you for sharing your resources.

That's great, Tammy! Have you explored the OpenStax Business textbooks and free resources for students and instructors?

Yes. I have found a possible textbook there. I downloaded it and have set up shells for my courses so that I can try out the resources. Pretty exciting!

Hello! I am Elizabeth (Liz) Cantú at Estrella Mountain Community College (EMCC) in Avondale, AZ. I have participated in some sessions to learn more about copyrights and licensing before, though, still do not feel confident with my level of awareness and knowledge. I would like to use OER in the Communication courses I teach and in supporting faculty and staff through the EMCC Center for Teaching and Learning. I look forward to learning with you in my journey of OER and Open Pedagogy. 

1. Billy Gerchick, English faculty, Central Arizona College.

2. My M.A. thesis touched upon this, but of most note was me founding a 501(C)(3) in Young Authors of Arizona, then executive editing three Best Arizona Teen Writing anthologies; copyrighting & licensing with grade 7-12 authors was a challennge, but it was a labor of love. 

3. Exploring it during my doctoral studies and applying it to my teaching practices, notably by exploring use and development of CAC's ENG-RHET ENG 101-102 textbook, an OER endeavor by our department. 

Hello Everyone,

My name is Elyse Gayda, faculty for Clinical Lab Science at Pima Community College. I've always used textbooks and edited the slides that come in the instructor resources. We're being encouraged to move toward OER. Learning about copyright and licensing has been interesting! I'm a big fan of OER for students. I couldn't always afford textbooks as a student and I'm happy to compile free resources that my students might actually use!

Elyse

Maria Masci (Northland Pioneer College) Spanish Faculty

I have always used licensed material adopted by my department.

I have developed my own material for two of my courses, SPA 101 and 102, and I am planning to submit it to the OER community.

Warm greetings to all... my name is Ruth Butler. I'm a recently retired Communication Studies faculty, now adjunct Professor for Central Arizona College. Last year I assisted in converting a sixteen-week Interpersonal Communication course into an eight-week course using an OER etextbook. I'm currently teaching Intercultural Communication. My goal is to seach OER Commons for relevant material on intercultural communication that can replace a very expensive textbook. I'm trailing a bit behind, but I'm delighted to join you in the training.

All the best,

Ruth   

1. What is your name and institution? Northland Pioneer College

2. How have you interacted with copyright and licensing before? Yes. I am still learning the differences.

3. How do you see yourself using OER in your position? I want OER as textbook and supplemental materials.

Hi! My name is Josh Merced. I am an Adjunct Faculty at Northland Pioneer College and full-time faculty at Northern Arizona University. I have not interacted with copyright and licensing before, but hope to be well versed in those processes through this. As an instructor of primarily lower-level, large enrollment undergraduate Geography courses, I hope to create and use OERs to increase accessibility for students.

Lee Brown from Yavapai College.  Sorry it took me so long.  Fridays are the no class day here at YC.  It is my first semester teaching here. Previously I worked at Grand Canyon University.   I have been very impressed by the math faculty here at YC.

Greetings,

My name is Ashley Garneau and I am a nursing faculty member at GateWay Communtiy College. I have not had much exposure with copyright and licensing as it relates to OER, and I'm interested in using OER as a supplementary resource. 

Hi Everyone

My name is Sunjung Park, and I teach General Biology and Microbiology at Central Arizona College. Although I’ve heard a lot about copyright and licensing in the past, I hadn’t fully considered their significance because we’ve been using the OpenStax Biology textbook for about seven years. Additionally, we developed our own OER lab protocols around that time, creating our own images and tables. For the past seven years, our General Biology students at Central Arizona College have not had to pay for textbooks or lab protocols.

So great that students can take biology classes with no textbook fees for both lecture and lab.  As a fellow Microbiology instructor at Mesa Community College, I just wanted to comment so you knew there was another Micro instructor in this group.

Hi Graham

It is great to know that you are teaching Micro in Mesa community college. I was always wodering how our curriculm in microbiology is how different or similar with other school in micro class. Would you mind if I contact you when I have questions?  

My lab manual is open source through the Maricopa Open Digital Press (MOD press).  The web link is open.maricopa.edu/redmountainmicro

Graham

Dear Graham

Thank you so much for sharing the link to your microbiology lab OER. I hadn't heard of MOD press before and this is the most valuable information I got throughout the entire meeting. I wish our school, Central Arizoan College has similar kind of platform so that we can share. your lab manual looks really great! 

I am wonering if this lab protocols are also shared in OERcommon or OERizona.

Thank you for your response.

Sunjung,

MOD press is the Maricopa institutional respository for PressBooks.  So you may want to look into PressBooks too.  They have a variety books text and lab manuals for different topics.  Since the Maricopa Community colleges have a license I have the ability to create and publish into MOD press for free.  As an individual I do not know how that would work.

As of right now, I have not migrated content from my lab manual into the OER commons.  If there are particular lab activities from my manual, I can try to migrate it to OER.  I just don't know how easy that process would be.

Let me know if you have additional questions

Graham

Yes.  Feel free to reach out.  Graham.boorse@mesacc.edu

Graham

Hi everyone,

My name is Pippa and I'm an online UofA Masters student and an OER Intern at Pima Community College supervised by Chelsea James and working with other students to develop a strategic plan to increase use of OER at PCC by students and faculty. I live, learn and work in Canberra, Australia on the land of the Ngunnawal and Nambri people.

I have been working in the GLAM sector for fifteen years in museums and archives and have interacted with copyright and licencing to assist making collections accessible to many. This can be through online collections, published works, databases and exhibitions.

I want to learn more about OER through my internship and afterwards, to promote it's use to support inclusion, equity and social justice as a UofA student, in the US and Australia.

• My name is Shannon Dietz, adjunct faculty with Pima Community College in the Dental Hygiene Program.
• I am new to interacting with copyright and licensing.
• I would like to learn how to incorportate OER as I'm resigning the course I currently teach for Ethics and Practice Management. Also looking for more resources as I help prepare our students for employment in Dental Hygiene by assisting to design their portfolios, cover letters with resumes and the facilitation of mock interviews.

What is your name and institution?

My name is Michael Biesiada, and I teach data analytics at Mesa Community College.

How have you interacted with copyright and licensing before?

I ensure course materials comply with copyright laws and use Creative Commons licenses for sharing educational resources I’ve created.

How do you see yourself using OER in your position?

I’ll use OER to provide affordable, customizable resources, leveraging open-source content and contributing my own educational materials.

Hello:)!

My name is Elissa Abbott and I am with Yavapai College. I have not interacted with copyright and licensing before, but I do use OER courses through my institution. I plan to only use OER!

Blessings,

Elissa