Global Healthy Living Foundation

The Global Healthy Living Foundation (GHLF) is a nonprofit organization with a research and education mission. With this renewal grant, GHLF would conduct annual surveys to track the level of OER awareness and adoption among higher education teaching faculty and senior academic administrators and to identify the primary drivers and barriers to such adoption. The resulting time-series data will be published annually to help the field better understand and plan for wider adoption of OER among U.S. institutions of higher education and will also be compiled to populate the Hewlett Foundation’s field-facing OER dashboard.

This proposal calls for a survey of U.S. colleges and universities to determine how well known the OER concept is among faculty. The findings will be distributed among leading higher education institutions in the United States and plugged into our OER monitoring dashboard.

This proposal calls for a survey of U.S. colleges and universities to determine how well known the OER concept is among faculty. The findings will be widely distributed in a report on the state of OER adoption among leading higher education institutions in the United States.