The document summarizes the work of the Open Educational Resources Special Interest Group (OER SIG). It discusses the group's past work promoting OER adoption among Minnesota educators. It outlines the group's current project conducting research on OER efficacy. The document solicits input on future directions and strategies to increase OER awareness in Minnesota. It also invites new members to get involved.

1. OER SIG
Roundtable
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2019 Minnesota
Summit on Learning
and Technology

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Welcome!
Talking points for today’s
roundtable:
● Looking back: recap of previous group’s work
● Work of current group
● Looking ahead: focus on next year
● Group discussion - we welcome your input,
ideas, and suggestions

3. What led
to this
point?
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4. Work of previous OER SIG
The goal of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) is twofold:
● Illuminate the current practices happening at our institutions
● Leverage collaborative opportunities between the partner institutions (K-
12 MDE, U of MN, MN State)
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5. 1) Use of digital curriculum in general: incorporating OER’s into courses (30 currently available).
Training for K-12 faculty about OER’s: awareness, adoption, course redesign, authoring of
materials.
2) Ideas and support for including Concurrent Enrollment Faculty in adopting OER’s for their college courses.
Collaboration between college faculty and high school faculty.
3) Communication about OER’s in terms of outreach and publicity, current work being done with entities of
MnLC successes, challenges, perhaps needs.
4) Collaboration between K-12 and Higher Ed on OER’s. Training and support with an end goal of OER
adoption, course or curriculum redesign, and perhaps authoring new materials or adapting currently
available materials to fit faculty and student needs.
5) Legislative funding: Seek funding/raise legislative awareness of the need for financial support for
continued OER work.
6) Sustainability:
How do we sustain and build on current OER efforts with institutions and districts all at different levels of
awareness, and adoption?
How do we support each other, and come together to build on the work completed by last year’s OER SIG
group?
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Themes that emerged...

6. OER SIG 2017-2018 Project
Spring webinar to introduce OER to K-12 audiences,
as a coordinated effort between MNLC higher ed
and K-12 institutions.
Webinar PPT: K-12 OER in Minnesota:
https://z.umn.edu/3ly5
Recorded webinar OER in Minnesota:
https://z.umn.edu/3ly6
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7. What
happened
this year?
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Gather research > write literature
review
Fall
2018
Spring
2019
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Fall
201
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Spring
2019
Gather research > write literature
review
Images: difficult by Arthur Shlain, Navigation Location by Thomas Helbig from the Noun Project

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Is ‘efficacy’ the same as ‘student
performance’?
Is ‘efficacy’ the same as ‘equivalence of
open resources to publisher resources’?
Is ‘efficacy’ the same as ‘the ability of
teachers’ use of OER effectively’?

11. What’s
ahead for
the OER
SIG?
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12. 12Images: report, connect, resources, replace from the Noun Project

13. Over to
you...
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14. How did you become aware
of OER?
What OER projects are you
currently working on or
have been involved with in
the past?
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15. What challenges and
opportunities have you
encountered with OER?
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16. How might we collaborate to
increase awareness of OER?
Stakeholders:
K-12
Higher Education
Community members
Businesses
Non-profit organizations
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17. What strategies should
be developed to
increase awareness and
use of OER in Minnesota?
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18. Is our future direction still
important to the group?
Is there a perspective or
direction that is more
important?
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19. We are looking for new
members for the OER
SIG!
In what ways could the
group best serve you as
a member?
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20. Resources
● K-12 OER in Minnesota
￮ Recorded webinar
￮ Presentation slides
● Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project
● Minnesota Partnership for Collaborative
Curriculum
● OpenStax
● Open Textbook Library
● SMSU’s open online textbook
￮ (This textbook is for a 200-level research
writing course.)
● UMN Libraries Partnership for Affordable
Content
● UMN Libraries’ Publishing Services
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21. OER SIG members
Karen Pikula, Chair
karen.pikula@minnstate.edu
Lisa Lucas Hurst
lisa.lucas@smsu.edu
Dan McGuire
dan@sabier.org
Matt Lee leems001@umn.edu
Jennifer Englund englu061@umn.edu
Christopher Larson cal@umn.edu
Mark Kayser kayse007@umn.edu
Stan Pride spride@umn.edu
Mike Weimerskirch weim0024@umn.edu
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22. Find out more about
our group at
openedmn.org
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