Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Faculty Awareness of OER Has Increased for 5 Years Straight, Yet Adoption Is Flat - Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology

 In higher education, faculty awareness of open educational resources — course materials that are freely available for use, reuse, adaptation and sharing — has grown for the fifth straight year, according to a study by Bay View Analytics. The research firm, supported by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, surveyed 3,200 faculty and department chairs across the United States about how they selected and used their course materials during the 2019-2020 academic year.