Category Archives: Research

Oregonians at Open Ed 19

Oregon college and university representatives attended and presented at the 2019 Open Education Conference. Read more…

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…

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…