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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Happy #OEWeek!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On behalf of the MI OER Summit Planning Committee, we are pleased to announce that the
<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfM29kQ7r8KgPQv2B67J247c0qB_iAATubyPHcowuIUh-JRDg/viewform">
call for proposals</a> for the 4<sup>th</sup> Annual MI OER Summit, <a href="http://www.mioersummit.org/">
http://www.mioersummit.org/</a>, is now open. This event will be at the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center, Michigan State University (MSU) on August 28, 2020. This year, we are fortunate to have two keynote speakers who are pillars in open education: Dr. Rajiv
Jhangiani, <span style="color:black;background:white">Associate Vice Provost, Open Education at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, British Columbia, and Dr. Lisa Petrides,
</span>founder, and CEO of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white">This year's theme is "Building Bridges to Open Up Education," so we invite you to submit proposals that speak to the connections,
collaborations, and partnerships that promote openness in the K-12 and postsecondary education. Together, let's celebrate our success, share our challenges, and reinvent the future where all have access and opportunity to create knowledge for the public good.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.15pt;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The deadline for submitting proposals is
<b>April 13, 2020</b>. Please save the date and stay tuned for our announcement when registration opens in a few weeks.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Lastly, for those of you from out-of-state but within driving distance, we hope you could join us.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Regina<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Regina Gong<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Open Educational Resources (OER) & Student Success Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Michigan State University Libraries<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">366 W. Circle Drive, W225 (DB9)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">East Lansing, MI 48824<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Phone: 517-884-6396<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:gongregi@msu.edu">gongregi@msu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">* Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg–Three
Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. The University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw. – Land Acknowledgement development by </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faisp.msu.edu%2Fabout%2Fland%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cwhites29%40michigan.gov%7Cb0f16fc37afe4155264708d7beb19db3%7Cd5fb7087377742ad966a892ef47225d1%7C0%7C1%7C637187542372374169&sdata=BfmF6vFbPXJOdrFzl8ycMpnpnACJcrvHv20rbJKlGC4%3D&reserved=0" title="http://aisp.msu.edu/about/land/"><span lang="EN">AIIS</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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