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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…

2021-23 Grant Projects Complete

The 71 OER grant projects in the 2021-23 cohort represent 27 institutions and saved 9,160 Oregon students over $1.2 million in 78 courses, approximately $2.89 in student savings for each $1 of grant money spent. Read more…

Estimated 2021-23 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 900,000 students (by headcount) in 50,000 course sections $70 million in two academic years. Read more…

Oregon adaptation of Matrix for OER in Tenure and Promotion

The OER work being done by our faculty needs to be recognized if faculty are going to continue to make the effort to create and adopt OER. Learn about frameworks and resources for include OER in promotion and tenure documents. Read more…