OER Learning Circles Application Questions

• Name:
• Institution:
• Discipline:
• Course and course number:
• Current textbook title(s) and author(s):
• Are you Developmental Education faculty?
• Are you Career and Technical Education (CTE) faculty?
• Are you Fine Arts and Sciences Faculty?
• Project type: ( Course Redesign, Authoring, Authoring of Ancillary Resources)
• If course redesign / Course to be redesigned with OER: (please include prefix, number, and name of the course)
• If Ancillary / What type of ancillaries?/ Identify the open textbook to which authored ancillary materials will correspond./
• If Authoring / What textbook / Resources/ Identify the course that corresponds with the primary course resource you will develop: (please include prefix, number, and name of the course)/ What type of primary course resource will you author? (textbook, lab manual, etc.)
• Is this a Developmental Education course?
• Cost of current textbook(s) at college or university bookstore:
• What is the annual enrollment in the course?
• How will the course you redesign benefit or ancillary materials you create or text you author benefit students?
• How will the course you redesign benefit or ancillary materials you create or text you author benefit other Minnesota State faculty?
• I understand that to participate in OER Learning Circles, I will need to:
  • Attend a minimum of 80% of the scheduled Learning Circle meetings. Five (5) virtual meetings will be held weekly at a day and time as determined by participants.
  • Complete assigned activities in the OER Learning Circle D2L Brightspace course room.
  • Plan to spend approximately eight (8) hours per week on this project.
  • Agree that all original materials will be made available through a Creative Commons license; this CC license will not include a ND (no derivatives) condition.
  • Write a reflective summary on the redesign process (a Pay it Forward Guide) to be shared with faculty across the system.
  • Present your OER Learning Circle project at one of the four virtual OER Project Showcase Events scheduled in April .
  • Select which April Showcase Event you wish to present at; (Dates)

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