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Open Educational Resources: Grant Opportunities for Faculty

A guide for faculty to assist with finding and adopting quality Open Educational Resources that help reduce the cost of course materials for students

GRANT OPPORTUNITIES AY 2024-2025

1. OER Adoption Mini-Grants Summer/Fall 2024
Call for proposals: Course development stipend of $500 
Applications OPEN (Deadline: November 1, 2024). 

 

Salem State's Viking OER & Textbook Affordability Initiative is seeking applications from faculty who are teaching with or are planning to teach with Open Educational Resources and/or library-licensed content in Summer/Fall 2024.

Grants of $500 each are available for up to 15 faculty who are teaching "no-cost" courses, where the total cost of course materials for students is $0 or "low-cost" courses, where the total cost of course materials for students is $50 or less.

Eligibility: All full-time and part-time (adjunct) faculty who are teaching in Summer/Fall 2023 or Spring 2024. Faculty who have not received a mini-grant in the past may receive priority. Courses for which a faculty member has received an OER grant in the past are not eligible. 

Deadline: Applications are due Friday, November 1, 2024. Open the OER Adoption Mini-Grant Application. Applicants will be informed of grant award decisions by Friday, November 22, 2024.

Questions: Contact Annette Chapman-Adisho, Faculty Fellow for OER & Textbook Affordability and Professor of History or Cathy Fahey, OER Librarian.

 

 

2. OER Creation Support Grant AY 2024
Call for proposals: Financial support for an OER creation project of up to $3,000 
Applications OPEN (Deadline: November 1, 2024). 

 

Salem State's Viking OER & Textbook Affordability Initiative is seeking applications from full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty who are currently working on creation of an Open Educational Resource (OER). 

Grants of up to $3,000 are available for one project. 

Eligibility: Full-time tenured or tenure track faculty. Priority will be given to faculty members who have not received an OER  creation grant in the past. 

Deadline: Applications are due Friday, November 1, 2024. Open the OER Creation Support Grant Application. Applicants will be informed of grant award decisions by Friday, November 22, 2024.

 

Questions: Contact Annette Chapman-Adisho, Faculty Fellow for OER & Textbook Affordability and Professor of History or Cathy Fahey, OER Librarian.