Equity and Open Education Faculty Cohort Model designed by Jen Klaudinyi at Portland Community College and offered statewide in Oregon is helping faculty make high-impact changes in their teaching practices. Read more…
Oregon State University surveyed students and found that 61% of the respondents do not purchase their textbooks because of cost. Read more…
This post summarizes an article by by Liz Pearce, Silvia Lin Hanick, Amy Hofer, Lori Townsend, and Michaela Willi Hooper about the affective dimensions of open pedagogy. It includes a visual model showing how open educators can raise or lower the stakes of an open pedagogy assignment. Read more…
When we talk about the cost of textbooks at Oregon’s universities, how much money are we really talking about? Read more…
During the six years that Oregon has invested statewide funding in textbook affordability, our community colleges have significantly reduced the cost of course materials for two-year transfer degrees. 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…
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…
Oregon college and university representatives attended and presented at the 2020 Open Education Conference. Read more…
HB 2871, passed in 2015, requires Oregon’s public community colleges and universities to add no-cost/low-cost designations to their course schedules. HB 2213, passed in 2019, requires Oregon’s public community colleges and universities to develop textbook affordability plans. Read more…