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Hawaii Legislators Abandon Plan for Faculty Mandate on OER

March 02, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

Inside Higher Ed
By Lindsay McKenzie
February 27, 2018

Hawaii legislators last month backtracked on a bill that would have forced faculty members in the University of Hawaii system to use open educational resources -- freely accessible and openly licensed teaching materials.

The legislation, proposed as a way to reduce high textbook and other costs for students, was reportedly inspired by the early success of existing OER initiatives in the university system, which are collectively saving students hundreds of thousands of dollars a semester.

Read the full article at the Inside Higher Ed website here.