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OER Degree Initiative


Operator: 
  • Achieving the Dream

Funded by: 
  • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Tags: 
  • oer degree
  • oer degree initiative
  • oer
  • atd
  • achieving the dream

Description

The Open Educational Resources (OER) Degree Initiative seeks to boost college access and completion, particularly for underserved students, by engaging faculty in the redesign of courses and degree programs through the replacement of proprietary textbooks with open educational resources. Over the next three years, the Open Educational Resources Degree Initiative will lay the groundwork for nationwide adoption of OER Degrees.

The work of selected colleges and state systems will be supported by a robust technical assistance component that will help faculty and staff re-design courses using open educational resources; opportunities to engage in a community of practice with OER experts, peers, and other resources; and research and evaluation aimed at establishing the impact of open educational resources degrees on institutions and students. The initiative provides a unique support system for colleges and faculty as they adopt a pathways approach to improving teaching and learning and seek to align curriculum and pedagogy with updated student learning outcomes.

Achieving the Dream will oversee and manage the initiative, working in partnership with several national partner organizations and a growing consortium of funders. Partners include Lumen Learning, the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER), and SRI International.

Link

achievingthedream.org...


Tags

  • oer degree
  • oer degree initiative
  • oer
  • atd
  • achieving the dream

Primary educational sector

  • Higher Education

Funded by

  • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
    The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

    The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a private foundation, established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder William Redington Hewlett and his wife Flora Lamson Hewlett in 1966. It awards grants to a va...

Operator

  • Achieving the Dream
    Achieving the Dream

    Achieving the Dream is a national, nonprofit leader in championing evidence-based institutional improvement at America's community colleges. ATD leads and supports a national network of 200+ community...

Partner

  • SRI International
    SRI International

    SRI International (formerly Stanford Research Institute) is a pioneering research institute organized around broad disciplines and capabilities, from research and development divisions and labs to gro...

  • Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
    Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources

    The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) at the Open Education Consortium is composed of over 250 community and technical colleges representing individual, regional, an...

Affiliated Persons

  • Richard Sebastian
    Richard Sebastian

    I am currently the Director of Open and Digital Learning at Achieving the Dream. From 2016-2020 I managed ATD's OER Degree Initiative and currently oversee ATD's Teaching with OER grant, which is focu...

Publications

  • Launching OER Degree Pathways: An Early Snapshot of Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative and Emerging Lessons

    This report shares findings from initial surveys and interviews, and describes emerging implications for the initiative going forward. It is intended to provide formative feedback for the OER Degree I...

  • OER at Scale: The Academic and Economic Outcomes of Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative

    The research and evaluation of ATD’s OER Degree Initiative provided encouraging evidence regarding the academic outcomes of students who enrolled in multiple OER courses, the economic impacts for both...

  • Participant Experiences and Financial Impacts: Findings from Year 2 of Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative

    This report expands on last year’s (2017) report with updated course and enrollment data as well as new findings about students’ perceptions of their OER courses and the institutional costs and actual...

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OER Degree Initiative

Project type

Initiative

Location

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8585 Colesville Road, Suite 500
Silver Spring, 20910
Maryland
United States of America

Start

June 15, 2016 – September 1, 2019