Open Educational Resources (OER) can dramatically and positively impact access to education and equity for a larger pool of students, as well as deliver on the tenets of open pedagogy, affordability, and student engagement. However, awareness of OER among faculty is still relatively low, as evidenced by the 2017 Babson survey results and institutional reporting on OER usage.
Open Educational Resources (OER) can dramatically and positively impact access to education and equity for a larger pool of students, as well as deliver on the tenets of open pedagogy, affordability, and student engagement. However, awareness of OER among faculty is still relatively low, as evidenced by the 2017 Babson survey results and institutional reporting on OER usage.
Institutional staff and OER champions have done an excellent job of educating faculty on OER, its benefits, and advocating usage. But to truly accelerate OER across campus, institutions and instructors need more transparency into what content is available, what is most used, and most importantly, what is effective. Even before launching an OER initiative, institutions could benefit from greater transparency into what content is being used today (including commercial, OER, and library materials) to better gauge faculty readiness for an OER initiative and identify potential faculty leaders on campus--using data.
In this presentation, we share how Macmillan Learning and Intellus Learning have helped institutions analyze how content is being used (both commercial and OER), how students are engaging with content, and how to find the most relevant and effective content to drive student learning. We will share insights from data gathered from select institutions and how those insights have helped institutions shape and evolve their OER initiatives. We’ll also explore how data and insights can help institutions and foundations reveal gaps in OER coverage, commission new OER content, and identify the highest-quality, most pedagogically-sound open educational resources.