Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
For Supporting Collaboration Among Regional Compacts On OER Initiatives
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Amount$108,598
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Program
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Date Awarded10/8/2019
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
The WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies will collaborate with the four regional higher education compacts to increase access, affordability, and equity through the use of OER. The planning period supported by this grant serves the long-term purpose of scaling the adoption of high-quality OER using sustainable models and materials appropriate for regions of the country and individual states. This effort will lead to evidence-based frameworks, guidelines, and structures for efficiently and effectively leveraging the compacts’ existing relationships with states and institutions.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.wiche.edu/wcet
Address
3035 Center Green Drive P.O. Box 9752, Boulder, CO, 80301-9752, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for supporting leadership coaching and communication
The four regional higher education compacts (MHEC, NEBHE, SREB, and WICHE) comprise the National Collaboration for Open Educational Resources (NCOER). Working in partnership, the regional compacts provide policy and practice support, enable substantial research efforts, develop OER solutions that promote equity, and coordinate efforts to scale and sustain the use of high-quality OER nationally. With this organizational effectiveness grant, the compacts plan to develop an internal and external communications strategy to support their collaborative work and to further enable the scaling and adoption of OER across the country. (Substrategy: Sustainable Systems)
for increasing access, affordability, and equity using OER
In partnership, the four higher education regional compacts — Midwestern Higher Education Compact, New England Board of Higher Education, Southern Regional Education Board, and Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education — aim to increase access, affordability, and equity using OER. The compacts have formed the National Consortium of Open Education Resources to advance OER across their member states. With this grant, WICHE (as a member of the consortium) will build capacity for policy and effective practice, enable substantial research, and develop open education solutions that promote equitable learning across the country. (Substrategy: Sustainable Systems)
