The Connecticut College Open Educational Resources Grant is now open for applications. The grant provides funding and staff support to faculty who wish to create or integrate OER into a course. Funding is generously supported by the Office of the Dean of Faculty, Academic Resource Center, Office of the Dean of Students, and Information Services and is a testament to the importance of OER for student academic success and cost-saving strategies.
Grants are administered in two categories – adoption and creation:
Adoption: $500
- Integrate an existing open textbook or OER material into a course
- Funds awarded for creating supplemental material such as quizzes, presentations, etc
- Five adoption grants are available
Creation: $5000
- Create a new OER or adapt an existing open textbook
- Adapting an OER must include significant revision, rewriting and creation of additional chapters. See the adaptation guide from BC Campus for more details.
- Search for current open textbooks to adapt at OpenStax, OASIS or the Mason OER Metafinder
- Involve your students in the OER adaptation process. See the example of Robin DeRosa’s The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature and learn about her process on her blog post, My Open Textbook.
- Adapting an OER must include significant revision, rewriting and creation of additional chapters. See the adaptation guide from BC Campus for more details.
For more information and a discussion with past grant recipients, please join us on Thursday October 29, noon-1:30, for the CTL’s Talking Teaching:
Open Educational Resources (OER): Strategies for Using Free, Adaptable & Open Textbooks
Examples of Connecticut College OER courses and material are listed here:
- Derek Turner, Philosophy, wrote Form and Content: An Introduction to Formal Logic published in 2019 under a Creative Commons license.
- Maria Rosa, Biology, adopted and revised content for Invertebrate Biology: BIO 215
- Kathy McKeon and Warren Johnson, Mathematics and Statistics, adopted OpenStax Calculus for 100-level Calculus 3-course sequence
- Rachel Black, Anthropology, adopted material for Power and Inequality in a Globalized World: ANT 114
- Emily Kuder, Hispanic Studies, adopted and revised material for Spanish for the Professions: SPA202
- Yongjin Park, Economics, adopted a free textbook for ECO407: The Economics of Conflict and Cooperation