Grants are available to support the adaptation or creation of open educational resources in courses and programs. OER are openly licensed, freely available educational materials; their use expands pedagogical options while decreasing costs for students.
These seed grants support courses for which the impact of adapting or creating OER will significantly reduce student course material costs, reduce course equity gaps, or improve rates of student engagement and success by making course materials more relevant and accessible. These include courses with high-enrollment and/or currently high costs for textbooks or other learning materials. Individuals, teams, and departments may apply for up to $15,000 to implement OER in courses and programs. Grants are awarded at three levels:
- Level 1: Adapt, update, or combine existing OER for a course – $2,000
- Level 2: Author or create an original OER for a course – $5,000
- Level 3: Multi-section courses and program conversions – up to $15,000
Grantees will benefit from community and networking with other instructors implementing OER and open education practices in addition to support from experts in the Center for Transformative Teaching, University Libraries, and Information Technology Services. Information and consultation on topics such as finding relevant existing OER, pedagogy, instructional design, accessibility, copyright, and publishing, is offered by members of the Successful Teaching with Affordable Resources team.
Applications are due Feb. 1, and available through NuRamp. Information about previous OER seed grant recipients and projects is available online. Contact STAR@unl.edu or visit the seed grant webpage for additional information.
More details at: https://teaching.unl.edu/star-oer/