Since 2018, Minnesota State faculty have been participating in the OER Learning Circles program, where they collaborate with colleagues from across the system who are committed to redesigning courses around OER and/or creating OER ancillary materials to help eliminate course material costs for students.
OER are teaching, learning and research resources that make use of appropriate tools, such as open licensing, to permit their free reuse, continuous improvement, and repurposing by others for educational purposes (UNESDOC).
2025 OER Project Showcase
Learn how faculty from recent OER Learning Circle cohorts have been helping save students money by adapting their courses to OER or developing OER ancillary or primary materials at the OER Project Showcase. The showcase will be held virtually across six days in the spring with a handful of OER Learning Circle participants in each, presenting their work and answering questions.
| Faculty | Campus | Project Title | Project Type | Discipline | |
| Asenath Huether | Minnesota State Community and Technical College | Redesign: Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences | Redesigning a Course around OER | psychology | |
| Bradley Wolfe | Ridgewater College | Global Studies Redesign – LGBTQ+ Cultural Studies & Europe/America Cultural Studies | Redesigning a Course around OER | Global Studies | |
| Brian Lewis | Century College | “Creating a New Bridge to Composition I: Developing a New Developmental English Course Using OER” | Redesigning a Course around OER | English | |
| Gwen Oster | Northwest Technical College | Creating lab manuals for technical courses | Creating OER Ancillary Materials | Electrical Construction | |
| Kjrsten Holt | Minneapolis Community and Technical College | Web Coding Classes Redesign with OER at Minneapolis College | Redesigning a Course around OER | Web Design and Development | |
| Kristen Genet | Anoka-Ramsey Community College | Environmental Science Lecture (Course Redesign and Ancillaries) | Redesigning a Course around OER | Biology | |
| Nancyruth Leibold | Minnesota State University, Mankato | Nursing Innovations: Quality, Safety, and Informatics in Practice: An OER Textbook | Authoring a Primary Course Resource | Nursing | |
| Ricki Walters | Riverland Community College | Comp II OER Course Update | OER Course Update | English | |
| Sarah Kath | Central Lakes College | Philosophical Ethics D2L Course Update | Redesigning a Course around OER | Ethics/philosophy | |
| TL Jordan | Winona State University | Intro to LGBTQIA+ OER Annotated Bibliography | Creating OER Ancillary Materials | Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies |
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