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Midwestern Higher Education Compact releases course-marking roadmap to help institutions identify open and affordable classes

Midwestern Higher Education Compact · July 11, 2024
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Summary

The Midwestern Higher Education Compact released a Course Marking Roadmap in a webinar, offering a five-step guide—define goals, form a committee, set terms, document processes, and implement—to help institutions mark OER, no-cost and low-cost courses so students and researchers can track savings and outcomes.

The Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MEC) released a Course Marking Roadmap on a webinar presented by Jenny Parks, vice president for policy and research at MEC, Gina Johnson, principal and co-founder of Data Empowered Consulting, and Liliana Diaz Salutikin, senior policy analyst at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). The roadmap, produced under the National Consortium for Open Educational Resources (NCOER) with Hewlett Foundation support, aims to help institutions and systems mark courses so students know whether course materials are open, low cost or no cost and so researchers can reliably measure cost savings and impacts.

Why it matters: accurate course marking is…

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