Report: OER Continues Moderate Growth Track - By Dian Schaffhauser, Campus Technology

While open educational resources (OER) are making headway in higher education classrooms, it's slow going. That's what a recent survey by the Babson Survey Research Group found when it queried 2,711 teaching faculty members within U.S. colleges and universities. On the positive side, awareness and adoption have grown from previous years. Use of open-licensed textbooks has risen from 5 percent in 2015-2016 to 9 percent the following year. Also, awareness of OER is up by a third in 2016-2017 compared to 2014-2015. In the latest year of the survey, 30 percent of respondents said they were "aware" or "very aware" of OER; two years prior only 20 percent said the same. https://campustechnology.com/articles/2018/01/16/report-oer-continues-moderate-growth-track.aspx