UMass Amherst Libraries Releases Results of Open Education Survey

• Seven faculty were awarded grants of $1,000 to $2,500 in the spring of 2016
• Four hundred fifty eight students from courses in Physics, Kinesiology, Astronomy, French, German, and Human Development

In addition to the cost benefit, other students said the OER materials made their class experience more enjoyable

• “The readings that were presented catered more to a student attempting to understand the material in a way that is more learning-friendly.”
• “I was able to better understand the content we were learning, because the best reading possible was selected [by the professor] to explain a concept, as opposed to just following a textbook where some content may be explained more clearly than others.”

See the original press release at Results of Open Education Initiative survey announced