OER report summarized in Inside Higher Ed

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Jul 26, 2016, 11:21:04 AM7/26/16

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This might be useful to some of you:

An Inside Higher Ed article on survey finding of OER use.

One key take away, growth is growing in larger courses, where estimates are that OER has reached 10% of students.

Full survey findings are at

A quick snippet from the report's executive summary on challenges that remain:

Barriers to OER Adoption

• The barriers to adopting OER most often cited by faculty are that “there are

not enough resources for my subject” (49%), it is “too hard to find what I

need” (48%) and “there is no comprehensive catalog of resources” (45%).

• There has been a decrease in faculty concerns about permission to use or

change OER materials, and increases in concerns about the quality of OER

and that it is timely and up-to-date.

• Most faculty do not have experience searching for OER materials and cannot

compare the ease of finding OER with traditional materials. Only 2.5%

thought that it was easier to search for OER.

Future

• The number of faculty claiming that they would use OER in the future (6.9%) is