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Seaman, Ph. D.  \nResearch Director, Bay View Analytics  \nJeff Seaman, Ph. D.  \nDirector, Bay View Analytics  \n2025  \nCONTENTS  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................................. 3  \nEXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................. 4  \nSTUDY RESULTS ..................................................................................................................... 5  \nTeaching Modalities .................................................................................................................. 5  \nTextbook Formats ..................................................................................................................... 9  \nPerspectives on Digital versus Print ......................................................................................... 12  \nCurricula Satisfaction .............................................................................................................. 16  \nOER Awareness....................................................................................................................... 21  \nOER Use.................................................................................................................................. 25  \nSUMMARY.......................................................................................................................... 27  \nMETHODOLOGY ................................................................................................................... 28  \nDEFINITIONS ....................................................................................................................... 30  \nAPPENDIX TABLES ................................................................................................................ 32  \nThe cover design is by Mark Favazza.  \nDeeply Digital  \nis released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4 .0) .  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  \nThe ongoing support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation makes these reports possible, and we are thankful for their continuing guidance. We're also grateful to the Online Learning Consortium, who has served as administrator for our grant and provided invaluable feedback.  \nThis project would not be possible without the faculty and administrators—over 3,000 respondents—who completed our survey. We review every response and read every submitted comment and have included some in this report with permission. Each quote is as close to the original as possible; modifications were made only to remove personally identifying information or correct obvious typos.  \nThe project also received great support from the open education community, who offered feedback and advice throughout the course of this project. Particularly, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) and Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) helped with dissemination and communication of the surveys to their members. We thank them for helping to improve the final version.  \nThis report would not have been possible without support from our colleagues. We thank Nate Ralph for his extensive copy editing, I. Elaine Allen for feedback throughout the process, and Mark Favazza for designing the report cover.  \nFinally, we also want to thank everyone who reads this report. Your comments and feedback help shape the future of this project and are always appreciated.  \nJulia E. Seaman Jeff Seaman Bay View Analytics 2025  \nEXECUTIVE SUMMARY  \nThis is the 14th report in a series of surveys tracking curricula discovery, selection, and adoption processes in U.S. higher education. The surveys have tracked the growth of digital materials and open educational resources (OER) in higher education classrooms since 2009, providing trendson adoption and sentiments. 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