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…
Celebrate Open Ed Week with three faculty testimonial videos shared by Central Oregon Community College. Read more…
Oregon college and university representatives attended and presented at the 2020 Open Education Conference. Read more…
Do you have a reflection on teaching with OER during this time? Please reply in the comments! Read more…
Five good suggestions to handle situations where you’re trying to remix materials with incompatible open licenses. Read more…
34 faculty who participated in the 2019 course redesign sprint reported that a total of 1523 students saved $141,274.91 in the past year. Read more…
The 2019-21 Open Oregon Educational Resources grants have been awarded. Congratulations to our new cohort of grantees! Read more…
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…
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…
Too often, faculty assume that the “O” in “OER” stands for “online” rather than “open.” Petting zoo collections are a fun and practical way to show that OER are available in many formats. Read more…