Oregonians at Open Ed 25
Oregon college and university representatives attended and presented at the 2025 Open Education Conference. Read more…
Strong Design, Strong Outcomes: Instructional Design Support Makes a Difference
Our key finding regarding student outcomes is that students benefit from affordable, high-quality course materials implemented with the support of an instructional designer. Read more…
More Bang for No Bucks: Students Save Big with Federal Grant Courses
Our key finding regarding student savings is that we almost doubled our projected student savings estimate! Read more…
2025-27 OER Grants Awarded
The 2025-27 Open Oregon Educational Resources grants have been awarded. Congratulations to our new cohort of grantees! Read more…
Archived Webinar: Early Career Educators Use of OER in High School Language Classes
This presentation explores two high school teachers’ experiences with creating and sharing OER, the challenges they’ve faced, and what they wished they learned as pre-service teachers. Read more…
Fall 2025 Virtual OER Review Workshops
Openly licensed course materials can help alleviate the burden of textbook costs for students and provide faculty with content that can be customized for their course. Register for one of Open Oregon Educational Resource’s three Fall 2025 Virtual OER Review Workshops, learn more about OER in your field, and find out how to complete a review of OER that pays a $200 or $300 stipend.
2025 Preservice Faculty Convening Materials
Preservice faculty attended the second of 2 virtual summer convenings in order to build community, reach a shared understanding of high-quality course redesign goals, and share grant work from the past year’s cohort. Read more…
Estimated 2023-25 Student Savings in No-Cost/Low-Cost Courses
Courses with the no-cost and low-cost designation in the schedule at 20 institutions are estimated to have saved 1 million students (by headcount) in 57,000 course sections $80M in two academic years. Read more…
Continuing Savings from Past OER Grants (Fourth Report)
In the OER grant programs for which past data is available, the estimated cumulative student savings is over $33M since 2015, or about $15 in student savings per program dollar spent. Read more…
2023-25 Grant Projects Complete
The 24 OER grant projects in the 2023-25 cohort represent 58 instructors and saved 10,000 Oregon students $1.6M in 61 courses, approximately $6.59 in student savings for each $1 of grant money spent. Read more…