Grant project update: Student Nursing Curriculum Review
25 Portland Community College nursing students gathered to kick off a year-long curriculum review by students, in order to lower the cost of required course materials in the program. Read more…
Grant Project Update: A Different Road to College adapted at Chemeketa
A Different Road to College by Alise Lamoreaux, Lane Community College, has been adapted into a Chemeketa Community College Edition by Grecia E. García Pérez and Ashley C. Duran-Fajardo. Read more…
Oregonians at Open Ed 19
Oregon college and university representatives attended and presented at the 2019 Open Education Conference. Read more…
Grant project update: Writing for Robo-Graders
Understanding the different expectations of artificial intelligence grading can be important to overall student success and placement into college courses. 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…
2019-21 OER Grants Awarded
The 2019-21 Open Oregon Educational Resources grants have been awarded. Congratulations to our new cohort of grantees! Read more…
HB 2871 Grant Projects
The HB 2871 grant program saved 10,041 students an estimated total of $1,544,200.60 in four years, representing $4.80 in student savings per program dollar spent. Read more…
Continuing Savings from Past OER Grants
In the two OER grant programs for which prior data is available, the estimated cumulative student savings is $4,658,871.75, or about $14 in student savings per program dollar spent. Read more…
2018-19 Grant Projects Complete
The 68 OER grant projects in the 2018-19 cohort represent 19 institutions and saved nearly 8,000 Oregon students an estimated $1.2 million in the pilot year of the program, approximately $2.50 in student savings for each $1 of grant money spent. Read more…
2019 Legislative Update
Oregon passed two new bills that went into effect on July 1, 2019, supporting the use of open educational resources in higher education. Read more…