Generous funding from Women Investing in Nebraska, the NU Provost’s Office, and UNL’s Center for Transformative Teaching has expanded UNL’s commitment to the adoption of open educational resources.
OER expands pedagogical and course design options while decreasing costs for students. Past grant recipients have used OER to enhance course content and student engagement, as well as solve a variety of challenges.
Grants are provided to support the adoption, adaptation, or creation of OER materials, including textbook alternatives, assessment tools, and ancillary materials. Grant recipients are expected to work with or provide data to an inter-campus faculty research team analyzing the impact of OER and low-cost digital course materials at NU.
The OER Seed Grant 2021 application is available in NuRamp through May 3. Grants will be awarded in May for fall 2021 and spring 2022 courses.
The STAR team, which includes librarians, instructional designers, and instructional technologists available to consult and assist with integrating OER, will be administering these grants.
Contact Brad Severa at bsevera@nebraska.edu with questions, for a consultation, or information on submitting a proposal.
Learn more about the STAR initiative and open educational resources.
More details at: https://teaching.unl.edu/star-initiative/