About Membership
The Open Education Network is a collective of institutions, consortia, and systems that drive transformational change in higher education. We support educators in launching and maintaining initiatives that make learning more affordable, equitable, and engaging for students. We believe that we are stronger when we network together, leveraging our resources, expertise, and ideas to help build colleges and universities that deliver on their promises.
Member Benefits
Infrastructure for OER Initiatives
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Manifold: An OER Publishing Platform
Build your publishing program using our Manifold instance. Your institution will have a dedicated collection so that you can showcase your open textbooks with one URL. -
The Data Dashboard: A Tool that Tracks Cost-Savings and Impact
This tool helps you plan, administer, and track your adoption workshops and other local cost-savings and engagement programs. Use it to easily generate your annual impact reports. -
The Open Textbook Library: A Tool for Faculty to Discover and Review OER
Use your data dashboard to invite faculty to find and review a textbook in the Open Textbook Library as part of our proven workshop strategy to encourage faculty to convert to OER. -
Community Hub: A Collection of Resources to Support Your OER Initiative
This collection supports you in conducting workshops and supporting OER initiatives at your institution. The Hub also includes an Events calendar listing upcoming events hosted by the OEN and our members. -
And More!
We are always testing and adding new infrastructure to support our members!
Professional Development for Faculty and Staff
Pub101 & Pub101 for Authors
Online Experiences for Building OER Publishing Capacity
Two separate synchronous experiences that support librarians in building publishing programs and institutional capacity, and faculty authors in creating open learning materials.
Two separate synchronous experiences that support librarians in building publishing programs and institutional capacity, and faculty authors in creating open learning materials.
Open Pedagogy Learning Circles
An Interactive Opportunity for Higher Education Practitioners
This seven-week virtual experience inspires faculty and faculty partners to create renewable assignments and digital learning objects they can implement to increase affordability, accessibility, engagement, and learner agency.
This seven-week virtual experience inspires faculty and faculty partners to create renewable assignments and digital learning objects they can implement to increase affordability, accessibility, engagement, and learner agency.
Monthly Community Events
Ongoing Engagement for Faculty and Staff
Monthly events, including Community Conversations, offer meaningful ways for fellow members to engage with one another and feel the support of our community as we work together to advance open education.
Monthly events, including Community Conversations, offer meaningful ways for fellow members to engage with one another and feel the support of our community as we work together to advance open education.
OEN Engage! Annual Conference
A Community Gathering for Education and Celebration
A virtual event that serves as an opportunity for members to boost their open ed strategies and skills, and get updated on OEN resources while connecting with colleagues and friends.
And more! Our educational pathways are always evolving to serve the needs of our members!
A virtual event that serves as an opportunity for members to boost their open ed strategies and skills, and get updated on OEN resources while connecting with colleagues and friends.
And more! Our educational pathways are always evolving to serve the needs of our members!
Peer-to-Peer Support from Community Practitioners
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Colleague Connector Program: Mutual Support
This program pairs members who have similar goals and/or face similar challenges, as an opportunity to collaborate, exchange ideas, expand their professional network, and support one another in their open education work. -
OEN Listserv: A Robust Platform for Community Engagement
Our Google Group listserv is a robust, welcoming environment where members ask questions, share challenges and successes, and explore ways to build and sustain their programs. It is also where our team posts updates and information about events, new tools, and programs. -
NICE Forum: A Monthly Group for Leaders of Large-Scale Open Initiatives
For consortium and regional system leaders to connect with each other about recommended practices, the Nourishing Inter-Consortial Collaborative Excellence (NICE) Forum is a monthly drop-in meeting that explores ideas about how to best scale and sustain open education initiatives. -
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Members meet monthly to discuss open pedagogy, open education work, and life in general. -
OEN Leadership and Governance: Opportunities for You to Lead
Members join our team to lead our organization, develop new opportunities, and contribute to higher education’s open future. It’s an opportunity to earn service credit while working with a fun and dedicated group of colleagues. - And more! Our community is always developing new ways to share and connect!
Discounts for Members
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Certificate Program Discounts
Members receive substantial discounts on our certificate program, a comprehensive professional development opportunity
offering foundational knowledge in open education with speciality pathways in librarianship, open
pedagogy, OER publishing, and more. Coming soon! -
Publishing Platform Discounts
In addition to free access to the OEN’s Manifold publishing platform (a $10,000 value), enjoy special OEN discounts from both
Pressbooks ($2,000) and Libretexts (TBD). Learn more. -
Save on Additional OEN Workshops
If you want to host a workshop, learning cohort, or custom offering for your own institution, we offer a suite of options
at affordable rates. Learn more.
Annual Community Fee
Your membership is sustained by an annual Community Fee, effective July 1-June 30 of the membership year. Please note that the community has planned for 5% annual increases through 2025-26 to build a more sustainable organization.
Our current membership cycle is July 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026. Membership type, correlating annual fee, and benefits are as follows:
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Institutional Members |
Consortial Members |
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Cost: 2025-2026 |
$1,914/yr ($638/yr Reduced Rate*) |
$4,467/yr |
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Data Dashboard |
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Community of Practice |
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Community Hub |
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OEN Engage! |
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Publishing Cooperative |
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One Year of Pressbooks Collaboration Plan** |
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Up to 5 Projects |
Pressbooks 20% Discount |
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Manifold Publishing Platform Access |
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* Institutions that are a part of OEN member consortia or regional systems are eligible to join our community as an institutional member at the reduced rate.
** Note: Pressbooks offers preferential pricing at their discretion.
** Note: Pressbooks offers preferential pricing at their discretion.