Get Involved in OER
What can students do?
- Join or form a student body organization to advocate for course resource affordability solutions.
- Ask your professors if they know about or would be willing to use OER.
- Learn more about Z-degrees and if your degree qualifies on your campus.
- If your campus is participating in the Z-degree Project, take advantage of the advanced course search option when registering to filter courses that have "no cost" course materials.
Resources for students
- Student Guide to OER (pdf)
- Student Quick Guide to OER (pdf)
Faculty and Staff
A dozen ways to get involved in OER as 亚洲无码 faculty and staff (PDF)
- Join the , providing 亚洲无码 employees a place to start and join discussions, find helpful resources, collaborate on files, locate Creative Commons licensing experts, and find quickstart guides for common disciplines.
- Join OER faculty development events including webinars and learning communities on the .
These events provide an avenue for faculty at all stages of their OER journey:
- - get introduced to OER, Creative Commons licensing, and the work with the Open Education Network (OEN). Review an open textbook and receive a $200 stipend.
- - Get answers to frequently asked OER questions.
- - Share, discuss, and learn from colleagues in the 亚洲无码 OER community, focused on a topic of interest.
- - Collaborate with colleagues from around the system in ten-week (five-week in the summer) cohort to develop OER ancillary materials or to redesign your course around OER.
- Complete the course and get reimbursed. 亚洲无码 supports up to 10 seats each year.
- Search for open textbooks, ancillary materials, or D2L course shells in , the digital OER repository for 亚洲无码 faculty and librarians to load, access, and share licensed OER.
Librarians
If required, log in using your StarID@MinnState.edu.
Support lowering the cost of course resources for students by creating a culture of OER on your campus.
- Support faculty in their OER development efforts
- Send an OER Learning Circle participant to an OER Learning Circle Leader cohort
- Engage in communities of practice
- Promote faculty participation in OER faculty development events
- Engage with campus librarians to discover how they can help
- Start a dialogue with students
- Consider faculty and staff recognition processes for work around OER and Textbook Affordability
- Learn more about Z-degrees and how you can bring them to your campus
- Consider ways OER can help support your campuses strategic goals
Contact
Catherine Ford, EdD
Program Director for Educational Development
Catherine.Ford@MinnState.edu
Karen Pikula, PhD
OER Faculty Development Coordinator
Karen.Pikula@MinnState.edu
Randi Madisen
OER Librarian
Randi.Mandisen@Century.edu