Exploring How Open Educational Resources Can Strengthen Dual Enrollment
As dual enrollment continues to expand as a key strategy for increasing college access and accelerating student progress, the cost of textbooks and course materials remains a persistent barrier for many students and institutions.
Open Educational Resources (OER) offer a powerful solution, with the potential to reduce costs, improve day-one access to learning materials, and support more relevant and flexible instruction across K–12 and higher education contexts.
Two new reports from MHEC and the Southern Regional Education Board examine how OER can strengthen dual enrollment programs and what it will take to move from isolated adoption to sustainable, system-level impact.
Using Open Educational Resources (OER) in Dual Enrollment: Stakeholder Perspectives
This report from MHEC and the Southern Regional Education Board draws on interviews with educators, administrators, and policy leaders across the Midwest and South to explore how OER is currently being used in dual enrollment settings, the benefits institutions and students are experiencing, and the practical challenges that limit broader adoption.
Dual Enrollment and Open Educational Resources: Intersections and Opportunities in State Policy
Complementing this field-based perspective in the report above, Dual Enrollment and Open Education Resources: Intersections and Opportunities in State Policy examines the state policy landscape, highlighting where dual enrollment and OER policies intersect and where they remain disconnected, and outlines concrete policy levers states can use to bring these two innovations to scale in a complimentary manner.