Remembering Alise Lamoreaux
Alise Lamoreaux, OER champion at Lane Community College, died unexpectedly this September. Read more…
FIPSE Awards New Grant to Open Oregon Educational Resources
Open Oregon Educational Resources is the recipient of a $712,829 grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education. Read more…
Meet Our Open Education Instructional Designer
Open Oregon Educational Resources has a new Open Education Instructional Designer! Read more…
Continuing Savings from Past OER Grants (Second Report)
In the four OER grant programs for which prior data is available, the estimated cumulative student savings is $14,108,853 since 2015, or about $12 in student savings per program dollar spent. Read more…
2019-21 Grant Projects Complete
The 71 OER grant projects in the 2019-21 cohort represent 17 institutions and saved nearly 20,000 Oregon students over $2.4 million in 143 courses during the 2019-21 biennium, approximately $5.24 in student savings for each $1 of grant money spent. Read more…
2021 OER Review Workshop Report
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…
2021 Course Redesign Sprint Report
132 faculty who participated in the course redesign sprint since 2019 have saved 7,570 students an estimated $853,977. Read more…
2021-23 OER Grants Awarded
The 2021-23 Open Oregon Educational Resources grants have been awarded. Congratulations to our new cohort of grantees! Read more…
Estimated 2019-21 Student Savings in No-Cost/Low-Cost Courses
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…
Review and Translation of “Blueprint for Success in College and Career”
Open Oregon Educational Resources is translating Dave Dillon’s award-winning, openly licensed textbook, Blueprint for Success in College and Career, into Spanish in order to provide an affordable resource to meet the needs of North American college students who are native Spanish speakers. Read more…