Reviving the old 'syllabus of the month' as an occasional series, these are really excellent. spinweaveandcut.com/education-ho...

OER is maintaining its momentum in 2024, growing quickly but from a low baseline. OA monograph adoption, in contrast, is largely static. These are generally specialized scholarship: they occupy smaller course niches and aren't substitutes for commercial titles. The top OA monographs (more or less):

Here's another way to look at it: keyword searches for OER and Openstax -- a large OER publisher.

Pick a field with lots of OER titles and a longer history of using them and the numbers jump. Here's Math at CA 2-Years. 2024 may be a spike in our data (for now), but figure adoption at around 3-4x the average of other fields.

Once again, California 2-years lead the way. Around 5% of all CA 2yr classes are taught with an OER textbook. Best, but still not a lot. Some of this is a function of the stickiness of faculty textbook choices. Some follows from the spotty availability of OER titles in many fields.

Zoom in on 2-years and it's steeper -- over 2x since 2020. The use of Open Access monographs basically vanishes, since courses at 2-year schools are overwhelmingly textbook driven.

New Open Syllabus OER data just dropped! Another year of impressive growth for OER textbooks in US .edus -- up around 13% in 2024 or roughly 2x since 2020.

Open Syllabus is proud to launch the Course Matcher, which will make it easier for the roughly 1 million US college students who transfer schools every year to receive credit for their classes. coursematcher.opensyllabus.org