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
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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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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
Certificate Program Savings: 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.
Affordable 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.
Special Offer for New Members: When you join the OEN as a new institutional member in 2026-27, you will receive one free enrollment in one of our Certificate courses, to be used within the first year of membership.
Community Fee
Our funding philosophy is that the work of education, including efforts to improve it, demands investment, and that this investment should be made at a systemic level, by institutions tasked with serving learners and by the funding structures that support these institutions. We also believe that if our educational systems and structures collaborate rather than compete, we can minimize the financial burden on all of us while simultaneously providing the infrastructure and support we all need to do great things.
By charging reasonable membership fees and providing significant benefits, the OEN can help you sustain your current open education programs, build new initiatives that deliver tangible returns for your learning community, and enter into fresh partnerships as you lead your institution into a thriving future.
Institutional Membership | $1,971 per year
Team up for your open ed journey with the OEN at your side:
Hit the ground running by assigning your Manifold and Data Dashboard administrators.
Designate up to four delegates to the OEN Google Group community of practice, who will serve as liaisons between the OEN and your campus community.
Invite an unlimited number of colleagues from across your campus to participate in OEN programs, events, and the discounted certificate program.
Consortial Membership | $4,601 per year
Partner with the OEN to support the diverse needs of your member institutions:
Assign Manifold and Data Dashboard administrators who manage the platforms on behalf of your member institutions.
Designate your staff and/or elevate up to nine open education leaders to serve as delegates to join our Google Group community of practice, acting as liaisons between the OEN and your member institutions.
Invite an unlimited number of colleagues from across your member institutions to participate in OEN programs, events, and discounted certificate programs.
Should any of your members wish to gain direct access to tools like the Google Group community of practice, Manifold, and the Data Dashboard, your membership qualifies them to receive an upgrade to Institutional membership at the Reduced Rate.
Reduced Rate Institutional Membership, for Consortial Members | $657 per year
If your institution is part of a consortium that is a member of the OEN, you can purchase your own institutional membership for one-third of the full fee! Check this list [link] of more than [#] institutions to see if you qualify!
