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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 Spring 2025
Call for proposals: Course development stipend of $500 
Applications OPEN (Deadline Extended: March 14, 2025). 

 

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 Spring 2025. 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 March 14, 2025. Open the OER Adoption Mini-Grant Application. Applicants will be informed of grant award decisions by Friday April 4, 2025.

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