Category Archives: Policy

Evaluating Oregon’s Open Educational Resources Designation Requirement

No-cost/low-cost schedule designations are an important way for students to make informed choices at the point of registration. Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission requested a research report evaluating the effectiveness of different implementations at Oregon’s colleges and universities, as required by HB 2871, passed in 2015. The report was completed in June 2018 by Brooke Freed, Amber Friedman, Sarah… Read More »

Archived webinar: OER Designations in the Schedule: System Considerations

Staff from three community colleges share how they used Jenzabar and Banner student information systems to add OER course designations to their schedules. Read more…

How to Pay for Open

Is there an economic model that keeps funding flowing from the right sources, to the right people, to reliably continue this important work? Read more…

“But is it sustainable?”

This post explores whether ROI is an appropriate yardstick to measure whether OER initiatives are sustainable. Read more…

HB2871 Update

Last year the Oregon legislature passed HB2871, a bill to support greater use of open educational resources in higher education across the state. This post provides an update on activities relating to the bill. Read more…

The Intersection of Accessibility and Open Educational Resources

The practice of adopting inaccessible, expensive curricular materials is bad for our students, and especially bad for our students with disabilities. We need to ensure access to our programs a whole rather than relying on the individual accommodation process and we can do this in partnership with the open education movement. Read more…

Open Oregon Calls on White House to Open Up Access to Federally Funded Educational Resources

Open Oregon joined a broad coalition calling on the White House to take administrative action ensuring that federally funded educational materials are made available as Open Educational Resources (OER) that are free to use, share, and improve. Read more…

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