Faculty in No Rush to Adopt Digital or OER Curriculum -- Campus Technology

"Even as the transition to digital course content 'seems inevitable' on campus, not everybody is so sure. Nearly a fourth of faculty (24 percent) in a recent survey said that curricula they use in their classes will never be primarily digital. A slightly higher proportion (27 percent) said the digital movement wouldn't happen in their courses until at least fall 2018; and 17 percent reported that it could take until fall 2020. A subset of digital content, open educational resources (OER), doesn't even show up on the radar of most educators. A full three quarters said they'd either never heard of OER or knew a little but had never used it or reviewed it for use in their classes. Another 10 percent said they'd reviewed it but decided against its use. Only 15 percent had used OER in courses ..."