--- title: Talking About ... Course Fees to Support Open Content description: "Round Table Discussion: Share ideas and strategies for funding OER courses and OER adoption using course fees and other funding approaches." image: https://blog.lumenlearning.com/hubfs/Flickr_spring_growth.jpg --- - - - - - - [![Smaller .5 LumenLearning_PrimaryLogo_RGB_Blackboard@2x](https://blog.lumenlearning.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Smaller%20.5%20LumenLearning_PrimaryLogo_RGB_Blackboard@2x.png?width=257&height=77&name=Smaller%20.5%20LumenLearning_PrimaryLogo_RGB_Blackboard@2x.png)](http://lumenlearning.com/)   ## [Talking About ... Course Fees to Support Open Content](https://blog.lumenlearning.com/talking-about-course-fees-to-support-open-content) It is that time of year. Trees are blossoming, chicks are hatching, and a whole new batch of OER champions are looking ahead to fall courses asking, "Should we apply a student fee to support our OER courses?"   ![Flickr_spring_growth.jpg](https://blog.lumenlearning.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Flickr_spring_growth.jpg?width=320&name=Flickr_spring_growth.jpg "Flickr_spring_growth.jpg")We field many questions about common practices and creative approaches to funding the use of open educational resources (OER). We don't have all the answers, but we have seen some great approaches. Rather than trying to represent the thinking and experience of others, we would love to facilitate a chance for members of the open education community to talk with each other. Given the tight timelines that many are facing, we propose a virtual meet-up early next week   **Join Us:** **Round Table Discussion: Course Fees & Funding OER** **When: Monday, April 4, from 3-4 pm ET / 12-1 pm PT** Please join us for this round-table discussion. If you have already been down this road, others would love your guidance. If you have yet to take this on or are considering an approach and would like feedback, please bring your ideas. For those who can't make this day and time, we are happy to record the discussion or to share anything that you send in advance with the team. Use the link below to let us know if you're interested in joining us, and we'll get the meeting access information to you.  [![Reserve Your Seat](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/1885735/02fa8de2-71f9-49c7-bbc7-9089bbe1cf6d.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/1885735/02fa8de2-71f9-49c7-bbc7-9089bbe1cf6d)  Photo: [Seyyed Mostafa Zamani / Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/seyyed_mostafa_zamani/4570761442) By [Kim Thanos](https://blog.lumenlearning.com/author/kim-thanos) | March 31, 2016 | [oer](https://blog.lumenlearning.com/topic/oer), [open educational resources](https://blog.lumenlearning.com/topic/open-educational-resources), [round-table](https://blog.lumenlearning.com/topic/round-table), [discussion](https://blog.lumenlearning.com/topic/discussion), [course fees](https://blog.lumenlearning.com/topic/course-fees), [community](https://blog.lumenlearning.com/topic/community) | [1 Comment ](https://blog.lumenlearning.com/talking-about-course-fees-to-support-open-content#comments-listing) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) Search ... Search - Recent - Popular ### About Us Lumen Learning provides high quality open courseware and support for educational institutions to help them eliminate textbook costs, broaden access to educational materials and improve student success through the effective use of open-educational resources (OER). ![](https://blog.lumenlearning.com/hubfs/Lumen-Mar2016_Theme/img/shuttleworth.png) ### Lumen Learning 600 NW 14th Ave, Suite 200, Portland, OR 97209 Email: [info@lumenlearning.com](mailto:info@lumenlearning.com) Web: [www.lumenlearning.com](http://www.lumenlearning.com/) - [RSS](https://lumenlearning-1885735.hs-sites.com/blog/rss.xml) RSS - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/lumenlearning) Facebook - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/LumenLearning) Twitter - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/2979672) LinkedIn - [Blogger](http://opencontent.org/blog/) Blogger - [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/user/LumenLearning) Youtube [© 2014 Lumen Learning, LLC](http://lumenlearning.com/copyright/). Lumen Learning, Candela and the Lumen logo are trademarks of Lumen Learning, LLC. Unless otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). [Attributions](http://lumenlearning.com/attributions/).