What is institutional debt, and how does it shape the institutions we work in? How does it affect the educational experiences that instructors and academic staff offer, and that students experience? Read more…
Oregon’s House Committee On Higher Education held a public hearing yesterday on a bill that would increase funding for Open Oregon Educational Resources. Read more…
Join PSU students Kassidy Fegles-Jones and Elizabeth Braatz for an overview of their takeaways from the summer Regional Leaders of Open Education conference. Read more…
Peeking around the corner into 2023, the barriers preventing faculty from more widespread adoption of OER are the usual ones: time and money. Beyond these obvious constraints, though, here are four big challenges we’re thinking about right now. Read more…
Dylan DeLoe, Library and Learning Support Assistant, Blue Mountain Community College, shares ideas about how the OER movement can advance beyond its foundational ideas in order to achieve its foundational principles. Read more…
Michaela Willi Hooper, Research Consultant, shares resources and processes she uses to support complex statewide OER development projects. Read more…
Get an update on Oregon’s textbook affordability policies as of March 3, 2021, and celebrate the winning entry in the student badge design competition. Read more…
Learn about textbook affordability plans and drafts underway in Oregon! Read more…
Current events make the need for open education greater than ever, but there are fewer resources available to support this work. Part 3 of 3 looks at balancing two claims – not too big, not too small – to shift the conversation about open education. Read more…
Current events make the need for open education greater than ever, but there are fewer resources available to support this work. Part 2 of 3 looks at causal loop diagrams to shift the conversation about open education. Read more…