OER: Making Education Affordable
Open Educational Resources combined with empowered teaching and confident learning can lower student costs and elevate performance. But with millions of OER to choose from, how do we make sure these resources are selected and used effectively?
Simple. Combine OER with powerful technology.
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Did you know 1 in 5 college students has skipped or deferred a class due to cost? OER may be the solution.
OER and the Online Learner
As Open Educational Resource (OER) initiatives become more and more prevalent in online programs, quality and accessibility remain top of mind for an inclusive, engaging teaching and learning experience.
This webinar highlights resources available to keep OER front and center in digital learning environments and features leading OER practitioners and subject matter experts including: Dr. Barbara Illowsky, OER & Innovation Fellow, The Michelson 20MM Foundation, Dr. Jeff Seaman, Director at Babson Survey Research Group, and Lisa Heller Boragine, Professor at Cape Cod Community College.
The OER Moment
1 in 5 college students has skipped or deferred a class due to cost of course materials. Luckily, the world of OER is propelling affordable options for institutions and subsequently their students. However, learners and instructors alike want more than PDF content; they want a blended, personalized experience.
In partnership with Inside Higher Ed, this publication explores how institutions are going beyond OER, while still achieving affordability. With the right combination of open resources, technology and learning design expertise, the OER Moment is NOW.
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Journey to OER: Panel Discussion
Hear our panel discuss how they’re implementing Open Education Resources within their different roles across Higher Education, including Professor, Dean, Library Researcher, Vice President of Content Strategy and Chief Academic Affairs Officer.
OER 360°
Stay up to date with the most recent information about OER in Higher Education—and come back for more!
Journey to OER Podcast Series
Throughout this series, we chatted with instructors about their personal journeys with Open Educational Resources. From these podcasts, you’ll come out with a great sense of how they learned about OER, what it took to build an OER course and how it’s impacted their students – and more!
Why is OER gaining momentum and where does it go from here? In our final episode, former US Congressman George Miller of California joins us to share his thoughts on why OER is gaining momentum, where OER goes from here and the role education and technology companies play in the future of OER.
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Does OER actually work? Hear what the instructors have to say in this episode that debates whether certain courses are better for OER than others.
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OER rocks! But do your students agree? This week, our instructors share what their students think about OER and how it’s impacted their learning.
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Change can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be! In this week’s episode, find out how these instructors adjusted to using OER with their personal teaching style.
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So, you want to start using OER. Where to start? This episode tells you how instructors developed their own OER courses to their liking as well as how they found the best content for their class.
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Of the many definitions of OER, which one’s correct? Hear what OER means—straight from instructors—and learn what’s driving the interest in OER across higher ed.
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Episode 6: Former US Rep George Miller on OER
Why is OER gaining momentum and where does it go from here? In our final episode, former US Congressman George Miller of California joins us to share his thoughts on why OER is gaining momentum, where OER goes from here and the role education and technology companies play in the future of OER.
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Bringing Value to OER
The rise of OER and digital learning tools, paired together, can create powerful and
affordable options for students and instructors. Cengage adds value to OER by complementing it with:
Curated content
Instructor resources
Assessment
Proven technology
If you are interested in OER, also explore these options:
OpenNow provides an affordable option for accessing high-quality OER content in an easy-to-use, ADA-compliant, digital platform. Complete with CC-BY narrative and assessment content aligned to learning objectives, OpenNow drives student success from the very first day of class.
WebAssign is an online instructional solution for mathematics, statistics, physics and chemistry. Through our partnership with OpenStax, WebAssign supports free peer-reviewed, high-quality academic content across multiple disciplines. Each OpenStax course features a complete digital textbook, a bank of text-specific questions, additional open education resources and the ability for instructors to create and add their own content.
Beginning in January 2019, we're excited to include the addition of our suite of technology-enhanced OER courses, OpenNow, to Cengage Unlimited subscriptions. Cengage Unlimited is the first-of-its-kind digital subscription offering students all-you-can-learn access to course materials—for one affordable price—regardless of course load, ensuring students have their materials on day one. Students can access our entire library of over 20,000 digital learning assets across 675 courses, including ebooks, digital learning platforms and study tools.
With WebAssign and OpenNow included in Cengage Unlimited, we’re breaking the mold to provide faculty and students with choices that remove obstacles.
Collaborating Partners
Cengage is an OpenStax Partner. We join OpenStax in the mission to improve access to affordable educational materials by providing additional resources for OpenStax books. OpenStax is committed to providing free, peer-reviewed textbook content and offering multiple options for faculty who need additional resources for their course.