The Network for Educational Development (NED) provides educational development opportunities that are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff. These opportunities help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.
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OER Community Conversations: February

Facilitators
Anthony Collins
English instructor at Inver Hills Community College
Anthony Collins was a latecomer to OER but has since become a true believer thanks to
Karen Pikula! He will present on his favorite parts of OERs:
- The moment I discovered that I really could develop an OER
- Hearing “My text reads to me in an accent” and “Hey, a crossword!” as well as other
delights from students - Never hearing: “I haven’t bought my book”
- A key thing about Creative Commons
LoriBeth Larsen
English, Reading, and Global Studies instructor at Central Lakes College
OER offered LoriBeth the opportunity to incorporate Critical Pedagogy into her courses. LoriBeth will be sharing how she revised Introduction to Humanities to include diverse perspectives and Critical Literacy to offer students strategies for academic literacy skills using Pressbooks and incorporating H5P.
Danielle Sullivan
Associate professor of English and Program Leader of English Education at Bemidji State University
Danielle researches culturally sustaining, trauma-informed English Language Arts pedagogy. Her recent scholarship has been published in Teaching English in the Two-Year College and is forthcoming in the book Teaching Black American Speculative Fiction: Equity, Justice, and Antiracism. She is passionate about educational equity and advancing antiracism in education, and these passions were carried into her OER work as she developed a freshman composition course.
Open Educational Resource (OER) Community Conversations are open forum conversations for all to share, discuss, and learn from colleagues in the Minnesota State OER community. Hosted by Karen Pikula, the OER Faculty Development Coordinator, these conversations are virtual, hour-long meetings held twice per semester and feature a guest speaker on a topic of interest.
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Contact Karen Pikula.


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