At the culmination of a two-year, multi-institutional study that included almost 700,000 student records for analysis, AAC&U has added OER to its list of High Impact Practices (HIPs). HIPs are well-established practices that lead to positive student outcomes, namely for students historically underserved in higher education. It is our hope that in naming OER as a HIP, institutional leaders will pay attention to the positive impacts OER can bring to their campuses and organize to institutionalize OER in new and exciting ways. In this presentation, we will summarize the key findings of our study, focusing on course withdrawal rates, course grades, and time to completion. Additionally we will highlight findings from our instructor survey, representing the voices of almost 200 individual instructors that transitioned to OER over the course of the study period. We will also provide recommendations for leveraging OER as a HIP on your campuses to advance OER initiatives and programs.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Speak to the positive impacts OER has on student success, citing research that includes almost 700,000 records from 15 institutions across the country.
- Understand better the instructor experience of implementing OER.
- Reference OER as a High Impact Practice (HIP) with a list of findings and recommendations to support OER advocacy efforts on their campuses.
