IUB OER Programs Save Students $2M+ | Indiana University Libraries

"A recent report shows that students at Indiana University- Bloomington have saved over $2 million dollars on course materials through Open Education Resources (OER).  

Each year, the Course Materials Fellowship Program (CMFP) and Summer Sprint for Zero Textbook Costs selects faculty from a pool of highly competitive applications to fund and develop their course materials into open, accessible, and publicly available materials online. The CMFP offers funding to faculty to develop a larger scale OER Project. Meanwhile, Summer Sprint offers support over the summer to develop on-going OER projects.  

Since 2020 there have been 23 CMFP Fellows and since 2023 there have been 20 Summer Sprint fellows. In total, the estimated student savings from these programs add up to just over $2.3 million dollars."