LibGuides: Adopting Open Textbooks: Open Educational Resources: Assessment

Assessing Affectiveness

Anecdoatal evidence points to greater student engagement and increased success in courses taught using OER. However more than anecdotes are called for. Massachusetts Department of Education has developed a rubric of key performance indicators to help instructors create and maintain a template demonstrating the effect of their OER adoption.

Mass Department of Education KPI for OER Adoption
This document describes the steps and institution should take to report progress on student cost savings and OER adoption rates to the state.

SPARC: A New Method for Estimating OER Cost Savings
Describes the process by which Sparc has arrived at a mutually accepted average cost saving to students of $117, (in 2022-23) in courses where the NoLo approach is adopted.
COUP Framework
Cost
Outcomes
Usage
Perceptions