1. 59 SUNY Campuses
using OER materials
NO COST
TO STUDENTS
for highly-effective OER
courses from Lumen and
Carnegie Mellon OLI
Support Services Impressive Impact Innovation Using OER
1000+ SUNY Faculty
teaching with OER
4,600+ Course Sections
using OER materials
$16 Million Cost Savings
for students using OER to
replace expensive textbooks
Professional development
opportunities, online
and on campus
Technology and support
for teaching and
learning with OER
Networking across faculty and
institutions to advance open
educational practices
Guidance for establishing
sustainable OER programs
Mentoring in effective
practices for faculty, staff,
and administration
Opportunities for recognition,
research, and publication
related to effective use of OER
SUNY’s Ready-to-Adopt OER
Catalog makes it simple to find
and adopt well-designed OER
Data-driven continuous
improvement (CI) makes OER
better at supporting learning
CI workshops engage faculty to
make OER more interactive and
effective for their students
Research commitment to
document impact on course
completion and student success
New course development,
building, and implementation
engaging SUNY faculty
Leading waves of change: SUNY
at the forefront of system-level
infrastructure supporting OER
Learn more, grow professionally, and discover great OER course materials
for you and your students: OER.SUNY.EDU
155,000+ Students
enrolled in courses using
open educational resources
What’s happening at SUNY to support effective
teaching and learning using open educational resources (OER)?
2. Monroe
Community College
Tori Matthews
Instructor
Grades Increased
Biology
using Lumen’s
Waymaker OER
Public Health
using open textbook
University at Buffalo
Jessica Kruger
Instructor
75 students helped
write the text
Created an open
course and textbook
$58,000
Student Cost Savings
$198,880
Student Cost Savings
$200,000+
Student Cost Savings
Tompkins Cortland
Community College
SUNY Erie
DecreaseDrop/Fail
Withdrawal Rates
DecreaseDrop/Fail
Withdrawal Rates
Passing rate prior to
using OER: 50%
Passing rate since
using OER: 71%
Amber Gilewski
Instructor
David Usinski
Instructor
Statistics
using Lumen’s
Waymaker OER
Psychology
using Carnegie Mellon’s
OLI Platform
In addition to
having materials
as soon as the
class started,
there was a lot
more active learning
and engagement
I started talking
to them about the
transferable skills
they were learning,
about how cool it
would be to be a
published author
and that they
could put this
on their CV.
Increased
Pass Rates
Open’
REPROFESSIONALIZES
faculty: you are the
experimenter;
you are the
innovator;
you’re in control!
When you can
provide the same
quality of education
and you can provide
it free or at low cost,
why shouldn’t
we do this?
Thanks to OER,
my students
now have all their
materials from day
one and I can see the
impact my teaching
has on them.
Tompkins Cortland
Community College
15% Increase
In Student Success Rate
Math
using Lumen’s OHM OER
$520,000
Student Cost Savings
Sophia Georgiakaki
Instructor
