Bay View Analytics Presentations

Bay View Analytics participates in multiple conferences focused on education research and online learning. Our presentations cover our most current research on distance learning and open educational resources in US K-12 and higher education, and offer an overview of trends over the last decade. The presentations reflect work with multiple partners, including the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Online Learning Consortium, Cengage, Pearson, and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE), among others.

Online Learning Consortium Innovate 24

Does Location Matter for OER? Regional and institutional differences in higher education OER awareness and adoption
Date: April 13, 2024
Awareness of Open Educational Resources (OER) continues to rise, but levels of awareness vary by type of institution, and tend to be higher in the Western United States. This presentation will review these differences, and discuss potential causes. Over the last decade, OER awareness has increased year-over-year: from 27% in 2014-15 to 64% in 2022-23. This growth in awareness has been matched by similar though lower rates in reported use of OER in the classroom – from 5% in 2015-16 to 29% in 2022-23. However, this growth has not been uniform across the country or between institutions.
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Online Learning Consortium Innovate 24

UNDERSTANDING THE "WHAT" AND "WHY" OF K-12 INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS TO SUPPORT STUDENT SUCCESS
Date: April 13, 2024
This research examines the spectrum of curricula materials employed in K-12 classrooms, differentiating between resources utilized by instructors and those intended for students. The presentation will focus on results from a national survey of K-12 teachers, investigating the differences between grade level and classroom subject as well as adoption and preferences for digital vs. print materials.

Overall, for student focused materials, student tablets or laptops and free online videos emerged as the most regularly used items. These are often utilized alongside self- or school-created quizzes/tests, additional reading, and homework assignments, available in both print and digital formats. While numerous materials see monthly use, daily materials are much less common.
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THECB OE Week

A Pivotal Moment for OER: Using Research to Inform Strategic Direction
Virtual
Date: March 5, 2024
This session will allow participants to learn about THECB-commissioned statewide OER research that provides the foundation for strategic resource development, program, and service delivery. Our partners from Bay View Analytics and ISKME will join us to provide insights on open educaton based on research at the national and state levels, including a look at the results of the 3rd statewide OER Landscape Survey. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in valuable conversations on the impact of open education.
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OpenEd

Trends in OER Adoption and Awareness in US K-12 Classrooms
Virtual
Date: November 17, 2023
The use of technology has become increasingly prevalent in K-12 education over the last decade, spurred in part by increased adoption of digital course materials. This presentation reviews how this trend has affected the level of awareness and adoption of open license educational resources (OER) demonstrated by teachers and academic administrators based in the US, using data collected from national surveys conducted from 2017 through 2023.
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ICDE World Conference 2023

A hopeful future? Preparedness and feelings of optimism-pessimism about the future of post-secondary education in Canada and the USA
San José, Costa Rica
Date: November 9, 2023
Findings from both Canada and the USA suggest that those working in post-secondary education expect the future to be different from the present and rate themselves as somewhat ready for these changes. Feelings of optimism and pessimism vary by country and may be explained by contextual factors unique to the differences between Canadian and US culture and policies. Despite the regional differences, results from both countries have found that there are more optimistic respondents than pessimistic ones.
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ICDE World Conference 2023

A growing market: OER trends over time in the USA and Canada
San José, Costa Rica
Date: November 7, 2023
This study examines a decade’s worth of data collected on open educational resources (OER) in Canada and the USA to identify changing trends over time. Considering the heightened integration of technology in teaching and learning over the past few years, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is reasonable to anticipate that OER use will continue to grow. The inherently shareable nature of OER provides strong support for multi-country research efforts to support the creation of OER that are useful on a global scale.
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OLC Accelerate

OER in 2023: Awareness, Adoption, and other Curricula Adoption Trends
Washington, DC
Date: October 27, 2023
Our 2022 higher education faculty survey found over 50% of faculty have heard of OER and 40% use OER: the highest levels we have reported. Does this growing awareness trend continue? In this presentation, we will review the results from our 2023 survey on OER and curricula adoption trends.
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Association of Community College Trustees Leadership Congress

Tracking changes, looking to the future: Results from the Digital Learning Pulse Survey
Las Vegas, NV
Date: October 10, 2023
The Digital Learning Pulse Survey has surveyed thousands of students, faculty, and administrators over its eight rounds. This presentation will review the key findings in the most recent results for two-year institutions, including institutional plans to deal with declining enrollments, student views of the barriers to their success, the growing use of technology, and concerns about the cost of education.
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OE Global

OER in higher education: Improving OER initiatives through international research collaborations
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Date: October 17, 2023
This presentation will highlight several key findings on OER practices in the United States and Canada. Although we will note some similarities and differences between the two countries, the focus of the presentation will be on the implications of the findings, and how we are able to gain a richer understanding when looking at multi-country data collected over time.
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Educause

The voice of faculty - what is the new "new normal" for teaching and learning?
Chicago, IL
Date: October 18, 2023
Faculty are embracing a new "normal" for teaching and learning, including greater use of technology and learning at a distance. Using results from a series of eight surveys conducted between Spring 2020 and Fall 2023, this session presents faculty views - what they believe is working, what is not, and what they think the future will hold.
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USDLA 2023 National Conference

The Student Perspective: Is distance learning worth the cost?
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics and Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: July 17, 2023
There is considerable agreement among faculty and administrators that the cost of an education is becoming financially out of reach for many students, and growing inflation will only exacerbate the issue. But what do students think? Do they believe that distance learning is worth the cost? To find out, we polled over 2,000 currently enrolled students from a variety of backgrounds and institutions, to gather their thoughts about the value of their education.
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USDLA 2023 National Conference

Tracking OER Awareness and Adoption in US K-12 and Higher Education — Results from our 2022-23 National Survey
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics and Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: July 19, 2023
This presentation reports the latest results from our national surveys tracking the awareness of open educational resources (OER) in US K-12 and higher education classrooms. Since 2009, Bay View Analytics has been tracking the growing awareness and adoption of OER through annual surveys of teachers, faculty, and administrators. The presentation show how OER trends vary by grade level, course discipline, and school demographics.
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OLC Innovate 2023 - Featured Presentation

Behind The Curtain For The Curricula Adoption Processes In OER And Non-OER Classrooms
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics and Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: April 21, 2023
How and why are specific courseware materials chosen to be used? The curricula adoption process varies across institutions and departments. This presentation uses large-scale national survey data to look at the curricula adoption process and examine differences for OER vs. non-OER classrooms, by course level, and institution type.
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OLC Innovate 2023

Post-Pandemic Trends In U.S. Higher Education Digital And OER Textbook Adoptions
Brian Murphy, Brian Murphy Group, Julia Seaman, Bay View Analytics and Jeff Seaman, Bay View Analytics
Date: April 20, 2023
The use of digital materials in higher education classrooms is on the rise. Join us for a closer look at this transition from physical, print materials to a digital-first future over the last decade. We’ll discuss how we got here, and what this might mean for the future of education.
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Digital Learning Annual Conference 2023

OER Awareness and Adoption Trends in US K-12 through the COVID-19 Pandemic (2017-2022)
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics and Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: February 2023
This presentation reviews the level of awareness of open license course materials demonstrated by teachers and administrators based in the US, using data collected from national surveys conducted from 2017 through 2022. The factors that are associated with the growth of open licensing awareness and sentiments of the respondents will be reviewed. The presentation will also share the pandemic impact on teacher acceptance of digital materials.
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OLC Accelerate 2022

What's in a name? Canvassing the terms we use for digital learning
Kathryn Kerensky, State Authorization Network, Nicole Johnson, Canadian Digital Learning Research Association, and Jeff Seaman, Bay View Analytics
Date: November 15, 2022
The terms used to describe forms of digital learning (e.g., online, blended, hyflex) in higher education have multiplied in recent years and have led to confusion among faculty, staff, and students. Several organizations partnered to survey how institutions, departments, or programs define these terms. What do you think we found?
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OLC Accelerate 2022

Is it time to say goodbye to bound textbooks?
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics and Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: November 3, 2022
There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed higher education. One such change has been the accelerated acceptance of (and even preference for) digital course materials. This presentation uses large-scale national survey data to examine this trend and speculate on what the next few years will show.
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Educause

The Student voice: Working Well, but changes are Needed
Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics and Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: November 3, 2022
Data from the Digital Learning Pulse Survey project examines higher education during a pandemic from the student's point of view. Students report on how well their education meets their needs, what barriers they are facing, how well their institutions are supporting them, and how they want their future educational experience to be different.
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Open Education Conference 2022

The Changing Future of OER in U.S. Higher Education
Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics and Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: October 18, 2022
We can no longer trust previous assumptions about what factors drive the awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education. Changes in teaching and learning brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the newly adopted strategies that emerged among higher education institutions, publishers, and teaching faculty as a result of the pandemic, have drastically altered the landscape. This presentation uses data from multiple large-scale national surveys of academic administrators and teaching faculty to examine these changes and speculate on what they mean for the future of OER adoption and use.
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Open Stax

Free the Future with OpenStax: Trends, predictions, and the evolving needs of the field
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: October 5, 2022
Recently, Bay View Analytics published a report on the use of open educational resources (OER) today. During this webinar, OpenStax’s Director of Higher Education Anthony Palmiotto and Dr. Jeff Seaman and Dr. Julia Seaman of Bay View Analytics will share and discuss the findings of this report. The webinar takes an engaging deep dive into OER and how it came to be, explores the growing role of OER in higher education, and examines what the future might hold in this pandemic landscape.
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WCET Webcast

Navigating the Confusing Array of Digital Learning Definitions
Cheryl Dowd, State Authorization Network & WCET Policy Innovations, Nicole Johnson, Canadian Digital Learning Research Association, and Jeff Seaman, Bay View Analytics
Date: September 21, 2022
As students sign up for courses, they are faced with course delivery options such as online, remote, hybrid, hyflex, synchronous, and asynchronous – but how these are defined is not always clear, and they vary even within an institution and, sometimes, within a department. To understand the scale and nuances of the issue, WCET collaborated with Nicole Johnson Research and Consulting and Bay View Analytics to conduct an survey of digital learning faculty and staff. The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), Quality Matters (QM), and the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) helped distribute the survey and disseminate the results.
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Cal OER Keynote

Crunching the OER Numbers
Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics and Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: August 5, 2022
The latest results from Bay View Analytics’ annual survey on higher education in the US show continued growth for OER awareness following the pandemic. For the first time, the majority of faculty (57%) reported awareness of OER. Faculty use of OER has also quadrupled since 2016, with more than one in five reporting adopting OER. We’ll discuss these findings during the keynote and show how faculty in California compare to their regional colleagues.
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Inside Higher Ed Webinar

Student, Faculty, and Administrator Perspectives on Evolving Digital Learning in the Community College
Jeff Seaman, Bay View Analytics, Karen Stout, Achieving the Dream, and Justin Dammeier, Ivy Tech Community College
Date: April 21, 2022
As higher education transitions to a new normal following the pandemic, one aspect community college students don’t want to give up is access to online courses. The research found that three-quarters of community college students (76%) want to take some courses fully online in the future, up from 68% in the Fall of 2021. Students are more positive about their learning experiences in Spring 2022 vs. Spring 2021. More two-year students (53%) gave their Spring 2022 learning experience an “A” compared to only 40% in Spring 2021.
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OLC Innovate 2022

The Three Projected Futures for Open Educations Resources
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics and Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: March 30, 2022
What is the future for Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education? This presentation examined three different scenarios, noting how the future trajectory for OER has been changed: first by actions of the commercial publishers, and most recently by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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OLC Open Ed Week - How is the Pandemic Affecting the Future of OER?

How is the Pandemic Affecting the Future of OER?
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics and Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: March 15, 2022
How is the Pandemic Affecting the Future of OER? looked at the pandemic influence on classroom materials, from the shift to virtual learning, exposure to digital materials, and impact on student learning. The panel discussion featured a student voice from Collin-Kazu Lewis (student at Portland State University) and perspective from OER publisher from Daniel Williamson (Managing Director at OpenStax).
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OLC Open Ed Week - OER Initiatives

The Ease of Growing OER Adoption
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics and Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: March 8, 2022
Bay View Analytics research has shown that faculty members who are aware of an Open Education Resources (OER) initiative are 300%+ more likely to adopt OER than are the general population of faculty. This webinar examines the data behind this finding and introduces several individuals who have made this difference a reality.Attendees will leave with an understanding of successful strategies and the next steps that they can apply at their institution.
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Dream 2022

Student, Faculty, and Administrator Perspectives on Impactful Digital Learning in the Community College
Emily Froimson, Achieving the Dream, Jeff Seaman, Bay View Analytics, and Emily Stuckenbruck, Northcentral Technical College
Date: February 17, 2022
Eighteen months after the pandemic drove a hurried shift to online learning, what do students, faculty, and administrators at community colleges think about teaching and learning with technology today? In the fifth of the Digital Learning Pulse Survey series launched in spring of 2020, Bay View Analytics, ATD, and Cengage seek to understand the changing landscape of digital learning throughout the pandemic.
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MBC BioLabs

Workshop: How to avoid disastrous clinical trial design decisions
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics and I. Elaine Allen
Date: December 15, 2021
This workshop will review how decisions you make in initial proof of concept and first-in-human trials can have long term impact on your product’s development. Thinking early about this impact can give statistical, regulatory, commercial, and competitive advantages for your product.
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Inside Higher Ed

Student, Faculty, and Administrator Perspectives on Impactful Digital Learning in the Community College
Sarah Gido, Community College of Beaver County, Jane Holwerda, Dodge City Community College, Jee Hang Lee, Association of Community College Trustees, and Jeff Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: November 30, 2021
Eighteen months after the pandemic drove a hurried shift to online learning, what do students, faculty and administrators at community colleges think about teaching and learning with technology today? In the fifth of the Digital Learning Pulse Survey series, Bay View Analytics, OLC and Cengage seek to understand the changing landscape of digital learning throughout the pandemic. The program features research, association and higher ed leaders and students sharing what they’ve learned from listening to the voices across the country as well as their own lived experiences in this transformative time.
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USDLA National Distance Learning Week

Pandemic-Forced Improvement on Perceptions of Digital Learning and Future Expectations: Higher Ed Faculty, Admin, and Student Experiences during 2020
Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics and Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: November 8, 2021
The world of higher education has been irreversibly changed by the experiences of teaching during the pandemic. This study examines these changes through the eyes of higher education faculty, academic administrators, and students. What do they think higher education will look like post-pandemic? How has their pandemic experience changed their opinions and desires? Which changes will stick, and which will not?
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AAC&U Conference: Transforming STEM Higher Education

STEM Education in the time of COVID - Responses from a National Survey of 869 Faculty
Dr. Isabel Elaine Allen, Professor of Biostatistics at University of California San Francisco; Dr. Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: November 5, 2021
The poster presentation shares new analysis of results from our October 2020 survey of 869 U.S. STEM faculty on the impact of the pandemic. This presentation covers the barriers to successfully implementing STEM courses online and the perceived effectiveness of online labs. Additionally, the survey results show an exacerbation of equity issues during the forced move to digital remote instruction.
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ICDE 2021

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on OER awareness and adoption in US K-12 and higher education
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: October 25, 2021
At ICDE, we will present on how the involuntary shift to online education during the pandemic impacted OER awareness and adoption, through annual national surveys of U.S. K-12 and higher education administrators and teachers over the last nine years. The 2020 survey results show growth for OER, though the rates varied between K-12 and higher education and by type of institution. Initial results from the 2021 survey will also be presented.
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Inside Higher Ed Webinar

Student, Faculty, and Administrator Perspectives on Impactful Digital Learning in the Community College
Sarah Gido, Community College of Beaver County, Jane Holwerda, Dodge City Community College, Jee Hang Lee, Association of Community College Trustees, and Jeff Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: October 25, 2021
Community colleges serve a higher number of marginalized student populations, making it particularly concerning that enrollment at community colleges has dropped by nearly 15% since the pandemic began. The research found that the majority of community college students today are taking online or hybrid courses and the majority give their learning experience good marks. When it comes to how community college students want to learn in the future, most say they want more digital options and at least some courses fully online.
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Open Education 2021

OER Awareness and Adoption Trends in US Higher Education through the COVID-19 Pandemic (2019-2021)
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: October 18, 2021
This presentation will examine the changing nature of factors impacting OER awareness and adoption across US Higher Education, using data collected in Bay View Analytics surveys conducted in 2019, 2020, and 2021. The surveys include those conducted as part of our William and Flora Hewlett Foundation project tracking OER awareness and adoption, as well as several additional research efforts exploring changes to teaching and learning arising from the pandemic.
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OLC Accelerate

The Growing Role of OER In Higher Education: Past, Present, And Future
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: September 24, 2021
At OLC Accelerate, we will examine the factors driving growth in awareness and adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER), how teaching during the pandemic changed these factors, and speculate on the immediate future of OER based on results from a decade of annual surveys of Higher Educational academic administrators and teaching faculty.
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Creative Commons Summit

Tracking awareness of "open" licensing and adoption in US K-12 and higher education
Julia Seaman, Research Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: September 22, 2021
This presentation will review the level of awareness of open license course materials demonstrated by faculty and academic administrators based in the US, using data collected from national surveys conducted from 2012 through 2020. The factors that are associated with the growth of open licensing awareness and sentiments of the respondents will be reviewed.
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Inside Higher Ed Webinar

One Year Later – Higher Education Students, Faculty, and Institutions Reflect on Digital Learning
Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics
Date: April 28, 2021
As students, faculty and administrators reflect on the 2020-21 school year, the majority actually give pandemic learning a decent grade. Students, faculty and administrators all agreed that “stress,” “level of motivation,” and “having time to do coursework” were students’ top challenges. The majority of students are more optimistic in Spring 2021 than pre-pandemic about online learning (57%) and digital materials (52%). Nearly half of students (48%) are more optimistic about hybrid courses.
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Inside Higher Ed Webinar

Higher Ed’s Responsive Strategies to COVID
Jeff Seaman, Director, Bay View Analytics, Nicole Johnson, Research Director, Canadian Digital Learning Research Association, Jennifer Mathes, CEO, Online Learning Consortium, and Ryan Tipton, Provost, University of the Southwest
Date: September 22, 2020
U.S. higher education faculty and administrators agree that they are prepared to teach online for the Fall 202 term, and while questions remain, they are optimistic about the future of higher education. The overwhelming majority of faculty (84%) and administrators (96%) agree that they are prepared to teach online for the Fall 2020 term. Faculty and administrators at all types of institutions had access to multiple types of professional development – webinars, self-paced trainings, online resources, and more – and found them to be effective.
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Inside Higher Ed Webinar

The Great (Forced) Shift to Remote Learning
Jeff Seaman, Director of Bay View Analytics, Jennifer Mathes, CEO of the Online Learning Consortium, and Will Austin, President of Warren County Community College
Date: April 24, 2020
U.S. higher education leaders and practitioners reported that nearly all (90%) higher education institutions used some form of emergency distance education to complete the Spring 2020 term. The research also indicated emergency online instruction differs from a pre-planned fully online course. Even experienced online instructors had to improvise as they went along, with more than one-half using new teaching methods for these newly online courses.
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The Bay View Analytics reports supporting presentations on open educational resources are available on our OER page, and those covering distance learning on the Faculty page.