Our key finding regarding student outcomes is that students benefit from affordable, high-quality course materials implemented with the support of an instructional designer. Read more…
Our key finding regarding student savings is that we almost doubled our projected student savings estimate! Read more…
The 2025-27 Open Oregon Educational Resources grants have been awarded. Congratulations to our new cohort of grantees! Read more…
This presentation explores two high school teachers’ experiences with creating and sharing OER, the challenges they’ve faced, and what they wished they learned as pre-service teachers. Read more…
Openly licensed course materials can help alleviate the burden of textbook costs for students and provide faculty with content that can be customized for their course. Register for one of Open Oregon Educational Resource’s three Fall 2025 Virtual OER Review Workshops, learn more about OER in your field, and find out how to complete a review of OER that pays a $200 or $300 stipend.
Preservice faculty attended the second of 2 virtual summer convenings in order to build community, reach a shared understanding of high-quality course redesign goals, and share grant work from the past year’s cohort. Read more…
Courses with the no-cost and low-cost designation in the schedule at 20 institutions are estimated to have saved 1 million students (by headcount) in 57,000 course sections $80M in two academic years. Read more…
In the OER grant programs for which past data is available, the estimated cumulative student savings is over $33M since 2015, or about $15 in student savings per program dollar spent. Read more…
The 24 OER grant projects in the 2023-25 cohort represent 58 instructors and saved 10,000 Oregon students $1.6M in 61 courses, approximately $6.59 in student savings for each $1 of grant money spent. Read more…
OER review workshops have resulted in close to $22M in student savings since 2015, representing $71.19 in student savings per program dollar spent. Read more…