Textbook Affordability Plan Retreat
Register now to attend an online retreat in support of the textbook affordability plan requirement in HB 2213, facilitated by Jeff Gallant, Program Director of Affordable Learning Georgia. Read more…
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Advice: Strategic planning teams
Now that HB 2213 passed, each institution needs to come up with a strategic plan for textbook affordability. The issue at our college is, how do you assemble a team that will buy into the planning process? Read more…
H5P for Assessment
Mick Davis, Sage Freeman, and Monica Marlo demonstrate how H5P can be used to create assessments as embeddable learning objects, in the learning management system, and in Pressbooks. Read more…
Four years and falling: Impact of statewide funding for textbook affordability
Over the four years that Oregon has invested statewide funding in textbook affordability, our community colleges have succeeded in reducing the cost of course materials for transfer degrees. 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…
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…
Statewide OER Symposium: Student Panel
Watch a recording of our student panelists discussing the impact of textbook costs at the May 2019 OER Symposium. 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…
Archived webinar: Not an Open Book: The Outsourcing of Oregon’s Community College Bookstores
Meggie Wright and Colleen Sanders share their experience with bookstore outsourcing negotiations at their colleges. Read more…