Global Healthy Living Foundation

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.

The Global Healthy Living Foundation is a nonprofit organization with a research and education mission. With this renewal grant, the organization will conduct annual surveys to track the level of OER awareness and adoption among K-12 school district decision makers, as well as higher education teaching faculty and decision makers. Surveys also will 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 K-12 school districts and U.S. institutions of higher education.