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Supporting Faculty In Learning, Adopting, And Embracing Oers, Kimberly Johnson, Carrie Lewis Miller, Karen Pikula Oct 2017

Supporting Faculty In Learning, Adopting, And Embracing Oers, Kimberly Johnson, Carrie Lewis Miller, Karen Pikula

IT Solutions Publications

Minnesota State, a public system of 7 universities and 30 colleges serving nearly 400,000 students, has partnered with the Open Textbook Network (OTN) since 2014 to deliver training to nearly 300 faculty to OTN and the need, purpose, and possibilities of OER use in the classroom. Many of these faculty have gone on to peer review one or more texts housed in the Open Textbook Library. While there is still need for these basics, there is also growing interest in aiding faculty to move beyond reviewing existing OERs to adopting, redesigning courses, and even authoring their own open texts. To …


Transforming The Preparation Of Leaders Into A True Partnership Model, Mary Devin Sep 2016

Transforming The Preparation Of Leaders Into A True Partnership Model, Mary Devin

Educational Considerations

In the early 2000s, as public education moved into the accountability era spawned by passage of No Child Left Behind in 2001, landmark research produced convincing evidence of the importance of leadership.