Transform Your University's OER Strategy with Data-Driven Faculty Insights

Open Educational Resources (OER) represent a significant opportunity for universities to reduce student costs while maintaining or improving educational quality. However, successful OER adoption requires understanding faculty experiences, challenges, and outcomes. This University Course Open Educational Resources (OER) Adoption Faculty Survey template helps higher education institutions gather comprehensive feedback from instructors about their OER implementation journey.

Why This Survey Template Works for Higher Education

Built specifically for academic administrators, instructional designers, and faculty development teams, this survey captures the full spectrum of OER adoption—from initial awareness and decision-making through implementation challenges and measurable outcomes. Whether you're running a campus-wide OER initiative or evaluating pilot programs, this template helps you collect actionable data about cost savings, content quality, student access improvements, and adoption barriers.

Key Features for OER Program Assessment

The survey systematically evaluates:

• Cost Savings Impact: Quantify financial benefits to students and calculate aggregate savings across courses
• Content Quality Assessment: Gather faculty perspectives on OER materials compared to traditional textbooks
• Customization Experience: Understand how easily faculty can adapt OER to their specific course needs
• Student Access Improvements: Measure how OER affects student preparedness and equity
• Barrier Identification: Pinpoint technical, institutional, and pedagogical challenges preventing broader adoption

Streamline Your OER Assessment with Paperform

Using Paperform's conditional logic, this survey automatically tailors questions based on whether faculty have adopted OER, are considering it, or face specific barriers. This ensures every respondent answers only relevant questions, improving completion rates and data quality.

The doc-style editor makes it simple to customize the survey for your institution's specific OER goals, add your branding, and embed it directly into faculty portals or email communications. With AI Insights, you can quickly analyze open-ended responses to identify common themes, success stories, and systemic challenges across departments.

For institutions managing comprehensive OER initiatives, connect this survey to Stepper to automatically route responses to appropriate teams—flag concerns to instructional design, share success stories with communications, and compile cost savings data for reporting to administration or grant funders.

Whether you're a provost's office evaluating institutional impact, a library team supporting OER discovery, or a faculty development coordinator identifying training needs, this template helps you gather the evidence needed to expand OER adoption and demonstrate measurable student benefits.