The “Massachusetts Open Education (MOE): Achieving Access for All” consortium PIF grant’s major goal was to advance the Commonwealth’s “Big Three” goals (access & affordability, closing achievement gaps, and boosting graduation ratesby attracting and graduating more students from underserved populations) by building capacity and launching an effective strategy for utilizing open educational resources (OER) in the 28 public undergraduate higher education institutions in Massachusetts.

The principle objectives of the grant were:

National studies have shown that students who have access to curriculum materials from day one of classes maintain a higher grade point average, are more likely to complete their course of study, and graduate with less debt load when the faculty use OER materials. The MOE team worked closely with the DHE and the statewide OER Working Group that the DHE established in late fall 2018 to accomplish these objectives.