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The study by the Babson Survey Research Group, Freeing the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2018, was supported by a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and is based on responses from more than 4,000 faculty and department chairs. The study shows improvements in OER awareness, and growing concern among faculty regarding the cost of course materials. 
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When Coursera, Udacity, and edX started up within four months of one another, in 2012, The New York Times declared it the year of the MOOC. Now that the clamor is dying down, researchers are gauging what actually has developed in terms of massive open online courses. Via EDTECH@UTRGV, Elizabeth E Charles
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Faculty aren't using OER—or they are, but just don’t know it, says a new industry report; leading to concerns about definition and copyright understanding. This data comes from a new Babson Survey Research report that aimed to determine whether or not faculty (who chief academic officers, and faculty themselves, say are the main adopters of classroom materials) are using OER.
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The LangOER project has released a report with the findings of its first study of Open Educational Resources (OER) in less used languages.It includes a separate
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What do societies really think about Open Access? A recent survey, though small, provides some initial answers...
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Around late October 2013, I had posted an invitation to participate in a survey circulated by the OER Research Hub (OERRH) in collaboration with the Community of Practice for Information Literacy O...
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Most people who take massive open online courses already hold a degree from a traditional institution, according to a new paper from the University of Pennsylvania.
The paper is based on a survey of 34,779 students worldwide who took 24 courses offered by Penn professors on the Coursera platform. The findings—among the first from outside researchers, rather than MOOC providers—reinforce the truism that most people who take MOOCs are already well educated.
Elizabeth E Charles's insight:
Survey results confirms impression that many participants of MOOCs have : that most already hold a first degree, so MOOCs not at this moment in time closing the inequality to access education....
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The number of colleges running efforts to help professors shift from published textbooks to low-cost online materials known as OER is growing rapidly. That was one key finding in the latest Campus Computing Survey, one of the largest annual surveys of college technology leaders in the U.S., which was released today.
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In 2013 the Hewlett-funded OER Research Hub Project created a bank of survey questions to test eleven hypotheses related to the impact of OER use on teaching and learning. Via Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
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For years we have heard anecdotes and case studies about OER adoption based on one (or a handful) of institutions. There are many items we think we know, but we have lacked hard data on the adoption process to back up … Continue reading →
Survey at: http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html
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Supporting school staff, promoting digital literacy, transforming learning.
Leicester City Council have released four guidance documents and a range of practical information to support school staff in understanding, finding, creating, and sharing Open Educational Resources (OER).
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According to a new report, a combination of factors have converged to make the use of open resources integral to campuses across the country.
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What do librarians think about OER? If they create OER, do they share it? What awareness is there of CC and open licensing? What challenges do librarians face when using OER? What kind of policies ...
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Higher education should tread carefully. That is one of the main findings in the first public opinion survey in the United States comparing five key audiences affected by massive open online courses …
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