Are you an instructor who is concerned about the impact of high textbook costs on your students? Attend the Virtual OER Review Workshop and learn more about OER in your field. After the workshop, you’ll receive a stipend if you write a short review of an OER. Read more…
Alise Lamoreaux, OER champion at Lane Community College, died unexpectedly this September. Read more…
Open Oregon Educational Resources is the recipient of a $712,829 grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education. Read more…
Open Oregon Educational Resources has a new Open Education Instructional Designer! Read more…
In the four OER grant programs for which prior data is available, the estimated cumulative student savings is $14,108,853 since 2015, or about $12 in student savings per program dollar spent. Read more…
The 71 OER grant projects in the 2019-21 cohort represent 17 institutions and saved nearly 20,000 Oregon students over $2.4 million in 143 courses during the 2019-21 biennium, approximately $5.24 in student savings for each $1 of grant money spent. Read more…
OER review workshops have resulted in an estimated $7,896,900 in student savings since 2015, representing $36.33 in student savings per program dollar spent. Read more…
132 faculty who participated in the course redesign sprint since 2019 have saved 7,570 students an estimated $853,977. Read more…
The 2021-23 Open Oregon Educational Resources grants have been awarded. Congratulations to our new cohort of grantees! Read more…
Courses with the no-cost and low-cost designation in the schedule at 18 institutions are estimated to have saved over 600,000 students (by headcount) in 32,000 course sections almost $50 million in two academic years. Read more…