Since 2023, Open Oregon Educational Resources has offered four Modifying and Creating OER Workshops. This professional development model is adapted from a presentation by Ariana Santiago, Workshop Demo: Modifying & Creating Open Educational Resources, and includes elements of the Open Education Network’s OER Review Workshop. Here’s how it works: Participants attend a 1-hour workshop in order to… Read More »
Preservice faculty prepare future K12 teachers to be open educators who can leverage open practices to customize their curriculum and better represent and support the students in the classroom while aligning with Oregon standards. Read more…
Join Oregon’s higher education community in the global celebration of Open Education Week! Read more…
Oregon college and university representatives attended and presented at the 2025 Open Education Conference. Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Open Oregon Educational Resources piloted mini-grants of $300 for very small open education projects that take approximately 6 hours of work, and the projects are complete. Read more…
The 2023-25 OER grant cohort is under way and has saved about 1900 students an estimated $290,000 since July 2023. Read more…