The iOER Handbook

Leading the Educational Transformation Towards Open Una Daly Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) Open Education Consortium

"Serving Social Justice & Pedagogical Innovation with Open Educational Practices"

"Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 52 different sources and contains 155,375 records."

"There are multiple indicators which suggest that completion, quality, and affordability are the three greatest challenges for higher education today in terms of students, student learning, and student success. Many colleges, universities, and state systems are seeking to adopt a portfolio of solutions that address these challenges. This article reports the results of a large-scale study (21,822 students) regarding the impact of course-level faculty adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER). Results indicate that OER adoption does much more than simply save students money and address student debt concerns. OER improve end-of-course grades and decrease DFW (D, F, and Withdrawal letter grades) rates for all students. They also improve course grades at greater rates and decrease DFW rates at greater rates for Pell recipient students, part-time students, and populations historically undeserved by higher education. OER address affordability, completion, attainment gap concerns, and learning. These findings contribute to a broadening perception of the value of OERs
and their relevance to the great challenges facing higher education today."

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,

The movement is also aiming to reimagine and democratize learning technologies.

"Quality and the cost of course materials for students emerge as the key factors that drive the decisions of college faculty about textbooks and other course materials. And although the movement to digital course content seems inevitable and a majority of the surveyed faculty express interest in adaptive technologies for their courses, it is also clear that college and university faculty have real concerns about some of the proclaimed instructional benefits of going digital."

"The Northeast Regional OER Conference Committee, along with Lumen Learning, is excited to announce the upcoming Northeast Regional OER Summit, a multi-state collaborative event for new and experienced OER advocates offering the opportunity to learn and share effective practices in awareness building, implementation, collaboration, strategy, and research."

The following book review was sent to the Journal of College Student Retention for consideration: Shank, J. D. (2014). Interactive open educational resources: A guide to finding, choosing, and using what’s out there to transform college teaching.

Oregon State University created infographics from the data collected in a 2012 survey of Florida students. OER could benefit a large number of students with providing greater access & affordability.

Here are the slides from my presentation for the Maskwacis Cultural College focused on how the "digital shift" has made it increasingly difficult to capture ou…