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This report expands on last year’s report with updated course and enrollment data as well as new findings about students’ perceptions of their OER courses and the institutional costs and actual student savings of OER degree pathways. A final report in September 2019 will include findings on student and course
Open resources offer many potential benefits to students, but the institutional costs are real, too. One college offers a look into the math.
Driven by student government advocacy, one university’s change to its promotion and tenure guide highlights an important way institutions can incentiv
It's positive and substantial.
Berkeley Electronic Press Selected Works
How the new federal funds could help.
OER Basics Presentation for Students This presentation by Amy Hofer for Open Oregon Educational Resources is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 international license. Some materials used have more restrictive licenses. Please note those licenses when you use my presentation.
Legislators rewrite bill that originally required use of freely accessible educational materials, amid criticism that legislation would have infringed academic freedom and harmed, not helped, the
SILVER SPRING, MD (June 22, 2017) Preliminary results from a national effort to expand community college degree programs that use open educational resources (OER) nationwide found high levels of faculty interest and engagement in OER. OER are freely available learning materials that users can download, edit and share.
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts that “higher education shall be equally accessible to all.” Yet, even in North America in 2017, “the likelihood of earning a college degree is tied to family income” (Goldrick-Rab). For those of us who work in Higher Ed, it’s likely
The investment by one of the US's largest textbook distributors in an OER company portends a larger shift in the curricular materials markets.
OER implementation gets a major investor with a lot of leverage in the market.
Academic librarians are pleased with the progress they’ve made in leading their campuses to recognize the value of Open Educational Resources (OER). Now publishers are responding to OER with new learning platforms. It may be time for a new strategy.
While OER marketplaces tend to tout the amount and types of content on offer, we must remind ourselves that content is not curriculum — and it is curriculum that teachers actually want. We go on to describe the life-cycle of a digital lesson — and argue that support for all the life cycle phases is only just beginning to be provided.