The 2021-23 and 2022-23 OER grant cohorts have saved over 7200 students an estimated $1M since July 2021. The cohort represents 48 different projects to adopt, adapt, and create OER for courses at 27 institutions. Read more…
Over 70 instructors from 15 different institutions are collaborating with Open Oregon Educational Resources to develop and pilot 12 new open textbooks for Human Development & Family Studies, Sociology, and Criminal Justice. Read more…
Open Oregon Educational Resources has a new Program Assistant! 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…
How do we manifest equity in our classrooms? Does anyone know how to do this? Is anyone talking about it? Jess Mitchell starts that conversation in this webinar. Read more…
Liz Teoli, Research & Instruction Librarian at Umpqua Community College, shares openly licensed comics she created for a 3-credit Library & Internet Research course. Read more…
The OER work being done by our faculty needs to be recognized if faculty are going to continue to make the effort to create and adopt OER. Learn about frameworks and resources for include OER in promotion and tenure documents. Read more…
This post summarizes an article 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…
The 2022-23 Open Oregon Educational Resources grants have been awarded, and the 2021-23 OER grant cohort has saved over $500,000 and shared their work. Congratulations to all of our OER grantees! Read more…
Jenny Ceciliano was invited to give a keynote at the faculty retreat for the Institute of World Languages at the University of Virginia and also led a workshop. Read more…