Thanks so much for this @connieb. I am thrilled that this is going to be live streamed in Beaver (S12) and so I’ll be able to listen in from afar 
. I watched your lovely interdisciplinary animated OER on form and function, design and natural selection.
Natural selection is such a helpful way to think about evolving and continuously improving things for the better, as that is of course what it is! It really helps when we are thinking about a ‘process’ and ‘becoming’ approach to research where we understand reality as a continuously unfolding and emergent process. During my interdisciplinary PhD, I became increasingly engaged with American Pragmatism and was fascinated to learn how much it was directly inspired by the dynamic and processual approach of evolution!! (Lorino, 2018). I posted the interdisciplinary flower for our collaborative action research at the UK Open University in my session topic.
So I think my question / contribution for the panel is to embrace thinking about process approaches to research, and facilitating interdisciplinary collaborative, equitable and unfolding inquiries into challenging real-world problem situations. This is not then OER as conceived for educational teaching and learning content, but also OER to facilitate learning about complex problems, collaboratively experimenting, taking action and evaluating to achieve improved outcomes, in a continuously unfolding improvement process, just like natural selection. The complex problems could embrace distributed teaching and learning challenges or wider societal or design challenges as examples.
It might be helpful to share at this point that I am not an educator, or directly from the education discipline 
. My academic background before the PhD is a systems thinking masters at a business school in the UK, and I have spent most of my career working independently in collaborative quality improvement in both commercial and (higher) education sectors.
I hope this makes some sense as I seek to draw these braids together, and to share and learn with you all knowing that I cannot be with you in person. I have just released an OER to go with my conference session (unpresentation), and will also share this soon.