The Minnesota State Network for Educational Development (NED) has a variety of educational development opportunities dedicated to open educational resources (OER).
We invite Minnesota State faculty and staff to learn more about OER this year by joining any (or all) of our 2024-2025 OER events hosted on the NED Events Calendar. See a summary of the events below or view the flyer for a quick look.
OER Community Conversations
Join these virtual conversations to share, discuss, and learn from colleagues in the Minnesota State OER community, focused on a topic of interest with a guest speaker.
OER Learning Circles
Collaborate via facilitated weekly meetings and a D2L Brightspace Course with other Minnesota State faculty who are committed to redesigning courses around OER or creating OER materials to help eliminate textbook costs. Participants receive compensation in the form of release credit equivalency (RCE) of $1750 in combined salary and fringe.
Spring 2025
Feb. 10 – April 27
Summer 2025
May 5 – June 15
OER Project Showcase
Join the virtual showcase events to learn about projects from the upcoming 2024-2025 OER Learning Circle cohorts. How have been helping save students money? How did they adapt their courses to OER or develop OER ancillary or primary materials? The showcase will be held virtually across six days in the spring of 2025 with a handful of OER Learning Circle participants in each, presenting their work and answering questions.
Open Education Network Webinars
Open Education Network Webinars introduce OER, creative commons licensing, and the work with the Open Textbook Library. Minnesota State faculty and staff participating in these webinars may review an open textbook in the Open Textbook Library and receive a $200 stipend once the review is completed.
September 11
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
January 22
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
March 17
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
OER FAQ
In these webinars, host Karen Pikula and a panel from the system office will answer questions about open educational resources, intellectual property, Creative Commons licenses, Z-degrees, and more!
September 18, 2024
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
January 29, 2025
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
April 1, 2025
9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
OER/No Cost Resources Librarian Workday
Join us for an afternoon of virtual presentations and panels from Minnesota librarians working on open or no cost resource issues. Librarians will find useful information and community whether just starting or well into the OER journey.
September 26, 2024
1:00 – 3:30 p.m.
OER Librarian CoP
Join the OER Librarian Community of Practice to discuss with librarian colleagues OER basics and planned actions to support no-cost classes for the 2024-25 academic year.
October 10, 2024
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
January 23, 2025
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
April 8, 2025
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Additional OER Webinars and Short Courses
Visit the NED Event Calendar to browse for additional webinars added throughout the term – use the list view and filter options to narrow results to OER events.
Short Courses
This fall, the NED is offering the 3-week short course Using Pressbooks to Enhance OER Delivery that starts November 4.
Join the OER Community Site to get weekly NED Upcoming Events emails.
Visit MinnState.edu/OER to learn more about OER at Minnesota State.
Questions?
Contact Karen Pikula, OER Faculty Development Coordinator.
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