Impact Data

Institutional Affordable Learning Programs

USG institutions are joining the effort to make educational resources more affordable. The following programs, which also support affordable educational resources implementation and creation, are funded and managed by one USG institution:

University of Georgia: Affordable Course Materials Grants

• Savage, J. C., Nathanson, E., Park, S. & Shahbaz, R., (2025) “Pedagogical Transformation in Precalculus Using Active Approach”, Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education 3(1), 37-58.
• Remler, N. L. & Smith, J. J., (2023). “KEYS to Teaching Success: OER Supports Georgia’s Preservice Teachers”, Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education 2(1), 1-6. 
• Tijerina, T. & Arnett, E. J. (2023). “Perspectives from a Departmental Adoption of an Open Technical Communication Textbook.” Programmatic Perspectives. 
• Angelopoulou, A., Hodhod, R., & Perez, A. J. (2022). “Factors affecting student educational choices regarding OER material in Computer Science.” Journal of Computers in Education.
• Sargent, E., Shaikh, A., Karla Sue Marriott, Porter, T., Cannon-Rech, D. N., & Landge, S. M. (2022). “Introducing the Remote Mentoring of Undergraduate Research Students (ReMentURS) Workshop Series: Initial Evaluation and Plans for Wider Implementation.” International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
• Nagashima, T. and Hrach, S. (2021). “Motivating Factors among University Faculty for Adopting Open Educational Resources: Incentives Matter.” Journal of Interactive Media in Education.
• Zheng, J., Li, Z., Li, L., & Rutherfoord, R. (2020). Transformation at Scale: A Departmental Effort to Adopt and Develop IT Open Educational Resources. In M. Khosrow-Pour D.B.A. (Ed.), Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy and Practices (pp. 42-66). IGI Global.
• Grissett, J. and Huffman, C. (2019). “An Open versus Traditional Psychology Textbook: Student Performance, Perceptions, and Use.” Psychology Teaching and Learning.
• Colvard, N., Watson, E., and Park, H. (2018). “The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics.” International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
• Lawrence, C. and Lester, J. (2018). “Evaluating the effectiveness of adopting Open Educational Resources in an Introductory American Government course.” Journal of Political Science Education.
• Watson, E. Domizi, D., and Clouser, S. (2017). “Student and faculty perceptions of OpenStax in high enrollment courses.” International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(5).
• Vojtech, G. and Grissett, J. (2017). “Student perceptions of college faculty who use OER.” International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4).
• Chiorescu, M. (2017). “Exploring open educational resources for college algebra.” International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(4).
• Croteau, E. (2017). “Measures of student success with textbook transformations: The Affordable Learning Georgia Initiative.” Open Praxis, 9(1).