About Membership
The Open Education Network is a collective of people who work at institutions, consortia, and systems to 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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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 our 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. -
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. Access to Manifold is a $10,000 value. -
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 infrastructure to support our members.
Professional Development for Faculty and Staff
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.
Pub101 & Pub101 for Authors
Online Experiences for Building OER Publishing Capacity
These synchronous experiences support two key stakeholders in OER publishing: librarians and authors. Pub101 supports librarians who want to build publishing programs and institutional capacity. Pub101 for Authors walks through open textbook creation in a community-building environment.
These synchronous experiences support two key stakeholders in OER publishing: librarians and authors. Pub101 supports librarians who want to build publishing programs and institutional capacity. Pub101 for Authors walks through open textbook creation in a community-building environment.
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.
OEN Engage! Annual Event
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.
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 continuously evolving to serve the needs of our members. Membership also unlocks the ability to host customized professional development opportunities for your campus or organization. Details here. (PDF).
Connection by Demissing Rabbet, Open Book by Tamzid Hasan,
and Idea by Numero Uno are licensed CC BY 3.0 by Noun Project.
Peer-to-Peer Support from Community Practitioners
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Google Group Community of Practice: A Vibrant Space to Interact, Exchange, and Support One Another
Our 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. -
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. -
Open Pedagogy Community of Practice: A Dedicated Environment to Brainstorm and Share
Open education practitioners meet monthly in an informal and collegial space to discuss open pedagogy and open education. It’s a dedicated environment to share teaching innovations, brainstorm solutions, and find mutual support and inspiration among peers. -
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. -
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 dedicated to finding creative ways to share and connect.
Member Savings and Discounts
Publishing Platform Discounts
Pressbooks offers institutional members a complimentary one-year subscription to their "Collaboration" plan. Pressbooks also offers institutional members 20 percent off single-institution Pressbooks enterprise networks. For more information about this discount, go to Pressbooks.
LibreTexts offers members LibreNet affiliate membership for one year at no cost. For more information about this discount, go to LibreTexts.
Pressbooks offers institutional members a complimentary one-year subscription to their "Collaboration" plan. Pressbooks also offers institutional members 20 percent off single-institution Pressbooks enterprise networks. For more information about this discount, go to Pressbooks.
LibreTexts offers members LibreNet affiliate membership for one year at no cost. For more information about this discount, go to LibreTexts.
Certificate Program Savings
Members save up to $580 on our signature certificate programs, including the Certificate in Open Education Librarianship and the Certificate in Open Pedagogy.
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 programs, 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 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.
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:
- Assign local Data Dashboard and Manifold platform administrators.
- Designate up to four delegates to the OEN Google Group community of practice, who 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 discounted certificate programs.
* Reduced Rate on Institutional Membership
Is your institution part of a consortium or regional system that is a member of the OEN? If so, you can purchase
your own Institutional membership for $657 annually, one-third the price of the full fee! Check this list of
more than 1,400 institutions to see if you qualify!
your own Institutional membership for $657 annually, one-third the price of the full fee! Check this list of
more than 1,400 institutions to see if you qualify!
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"Thanks to the OEN's resources and community, our OER program has saved students over $130,000 in five years."
Emily Moran
University of Wisconsin - Superior
Institutional Member
Consortial Membership | $4,601 per year
Partner with the OEN to support the diverse needs of your member institutions:
- Assign Data Dashboard and Manifold administrators who manage and utilize 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 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 their own direct access to tools like the Google Group community of practice, Data Dashboard, and Manifold, your Consortial membership qualifies them to upgrade and receive the Reduced Rate on Institutional Membership. (See above.)
"In a profession that is often siloed, I appreciate the connections created by the OEN. Being able to talk to others who are asking the same questions means we can find solutions together."
Jessica Kirschner
VIVA
Consortial Member
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