I'm not sure the idea is necessarily to get teachers up to speed on fair use before putting together a statement of best practices. I think it's more to have those educators who already have expertise and understand the issue to draft it and have it be recognized by a variety of educator advocacy groups. Once that's done it should be a much more manageable task for teachers and lecturers to get a clear understanding of what's acceptable and what isn't.
As for the relationship between fair use and OERs, I don't think there really is one when it comes to the materials themselves. Fair use is nothing more than a limited set of circumstances when closed content can be used without permission. However, we're all part of the free culture movement. Just as the OER movement has benefited from involvement from the Access to Knowledge crowd, hopefully as the movement to reclaim fair use grows among educators, those people will be interested in getting involved with OERs as well.
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