The document discusses how openness will benefit the University of Minnesota through open education initiatives like open textbooks and open access policies. It provides information on upcoming resolutions to support these initiatives, creating an open education task group, and advocating for more open policies on campus through related projects involving open ideas, innovation, government, and courses. The document encourages organizing professors and raising public awareness to pass cost-saving open policies following examples from other states.

1. Why Openness Will Benefit the
University of Minnesota?
Visit the Open Education Conference 2012
http://openedconference.org/2012/

2. “Openness”

6. https://www.lib.umn.edu/scholcom

26. “Thanks to the
CALPIRG, ConnPIRG, MaryPIRG, MASSPIRG, WashPIRG, and WISPIRG
students who took action to pass this bill, professors now have all the
information they need to consider cost on behalf of students”

27. Campaign Strategies
Organize Professors
Public Awareness
Policies
Saving Money

28. In the Works!
Passing of Resolutions – Supporting Open Textbooks
(http://z.umn.edu/otres) and Open Access
(http://z.umn.edu/oares)
Create an Open Education Task Group
(Sign Up Sheet) – http://z.umn.edu/openedtaskforce
Work with Administrators and Legislators to Increase Support
Pursue Open Policies Following The Example of Washington
State and California
Advocate for a More Open Campus

31. Related GAPSA Projects
Open Ideas (http://z.umn.edu/oires)
Open Innovation (Collaborating with CIL)
Open Government (Modifications to
Administrative Procedures)
Open Courses