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ATD’s OER Degree Initiative comprises teams from 38 colleges from across the U.S. who are part of one of the most ambitious OER projects to date: to build OER degree pathways using openly licensed course materials in place of proprietary textbooks. Our approach is unique, but it makes this work challenging. Most OER efforts are single-faculty, single-course efforts that are not connected. By requiring colleges to build full and aligned OER degree pathways, connection and scale are built-in from the start, an ingredient we learned must be part of any reform design to move the completion needle. We see the enormous potential of OER when we strategically design efforts with students at the center and intentionally connect them to our organizational strategies or strategic plans to improve access and completion.

This report is the result of a parallel research and evaluation study of the initiative, led by SRI Education and rpk GROUP, that over the course of the project is intended to answer the following questions:

• How do colleges best implement OER degree paths? • What are the real costs of implementation? • How much money do students actually save? • And importantly, what are the academic outcomes for students who enroll in these courses?

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