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FIPSE Awards Second OER Grant to Oregon

Oregon has received a $1.7 million federal grant to expand its ongoing work to develop open educational resources (OER) that reduce the cost of college textbooks and materials. Read more…

2026 Preservice Faculty Convening Materials

Preservice faculty attended a virtual summer convening 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…

Archived Webinar: A Showcase of the Strategic Digital Accessibility Training in Oregon

Rob Carr, WebAIM Strategic Accessibility Coordinator, and Veronica Vold, Open Education Instructional Designer, joined colleagues from Oregon’s public colleges and universities to showcase their campus accessibility initiatives. Read more…

2023-25 OER Grants Awarded

The 2023-25 Open Oregon Educational Resources grants have been awarded. Congratulations to our new cohort of grantees! Read more…

Continuing Savings from Past OER Grants (Third Report)

In the five OER grant programs for which past data is available, the estimated cumulative student savings is $23,080,669 since 2015, or about $14 in student savings per program dollar spent. Read more…