The Future of Learning Materials
This post responds to a controversy that began when the Open Education Conference invited commercial publisher representatives to join a keynote panel on the future of learning materials. Read more…
Category Archives: Research
2019 Open Textbook Workshop Report
Open Textbook Review Workshops have resulted in an estimated $2,383,200 in student savings to date. Read more…
Estimated 2017-19 Student Savings in No-Cost/Low-Cost Courses
Courses with the no-cost and low-cost designation in the schedule at 19 institutions are estimated to have saved over 375,000 students (by headcount) in 21,000 course sections approximately $34 million in two academic years. Read more…
Support for a Local Approach to Statewide OER Data Collection
There isn’t an agreed-upon method for calculating student savings resulting from the use of no-cost or low-cost course materials. How, then, to answer the question: What is the estimated student savings represented by the statewide no-cost/low-cost schedule designation? Read more…
Oregonians at Cascadia Open Ed Summit
Oregon college and university representatives showed up in force for the 2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit. Read more…
Small Dollar Amounts Are Significant
Here are three reasons why seemingly small dollar amounts are significant. Taken together, they confirm that lowering textbook prices makes a big difference for students and that support for open educational resources is an effective use of public funding. Read more…
Archived webinar: Using Student Outcomes Data in OER Courses
Jennifer Lantrip and Quill West discuss how they have approached faculty with student outcomes data. Read more…
Estimated 2017-18 Student Savings in No-Cost/Low-Cost Courses
What is the estimated student savings represented by the statewide no-cost/low-cost schedule designation? Read more…
Archived Webinar: Estimating student savings from no-cost/low-cost course materials
This presentation shared tracking methods and spreadsheet templates for estimating student savings data as a result of your textbook affordability program. Read more…
Grant Project Update: ENVS 171 at Oregon Coast Community College
Matthew R. Fisher discusses his work to adapt a open textbook for environmental science at Oregon Coast Community College. His recently published research finds that students saved money and liked the book, while he enjoyed the ability to customize. Read more…