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Cengage Learning, a Boston-based global; provider of textbooks, educational services and technology, has published a White Paper on open educational resources in higher education.
Cengage interviewed industry experts and surveyed OER primary adopters, supplemental adopters and non-adopters. Overall, just 4% of the higher education respondents use OER as primary materials. The subjects of mathematics (13%) and computing (11%) had the highest usage, while English (2%) and psychology (1%) had the lowest, according to the survey. For supplemental materials, OER is used by 5% of the respondents overall: 18% in computing, 13% in mathematics, 8% in English and 4% in psychology. Of the academic who are not yet using OER, more than 75% said they expected they would do so or at least consider it in the next 3 years. Still, about 75% of academics had never used or (39%) never heard of it. Among faculty members who are not current users of OER, more than 77 percent said they either expected to use OER or would consider using OER.