Current OER Grants at USU

College of Engineering Grant: Due February 11, 2019

Overview

The College of Engineering, in partnership with USU Libraries and Academic & Instructional Services, is offering a grant opportunity for Utah State faculty and instructors in adopting, adapting, and creating Open Educational Resources (OER) to support their teaching. OER are resources for teaching, learning, and research materials that are either in the public domain or released under an open license, permitting others to use, revise, remix, keep, and redistribute the content. OER can range from full textbooks to instructional videos, images, course modules, lectures, assignments, activities, simulations, and other resources.

More information on this currently available grant can be found on the AIS website.

College of Science Grant: Due February 25, 2019

Overview

The College of Science, in partnership with USU Libraries and Academic & Instructional Services, is offering a grant opportunity for Utah State faculty and instructors in adopting, adapting, and creating Open Educational Resources (OER) to support their teaching. OER are resources for teaching, learning, and research materials that are either in the public domain or released under an open license, permitting others to use, revise, remix, keep, and distribute the content. OER can range from full textbooks to instructional videos, images, course modules, lectures, assignments, activities, simulations, and other resources.

More information on this currently available grant can be found on the AIS website.

Past Grants

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

In 2017, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences partnered with USU Libraries and Academic & Instructional Services to create a grant opportunity for the creation, adaptation, and adoption of OER within the college. Below is a snapshot of the grant's impact.

An infographic detailing the CHaSS grant. 970 students affected, $77,000 saved from a $20,000 grant investment, and 8 faculty involved.

Previously Awarded Projects

Projects that received grant funding can be found below, along with links to the OER created, adapted, or adopted.

2017

Awardee	Course	Type	OER
Dr. Nolan Weil	IELI 2470/2475	Creation	Speaking of Culture
Dr. Susan O. Shapiro and Jessica Mellenthin	HIST/CLAS/RELS 3210	Creation	Mythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology
Brian Champagne	JCOM 3200	Creation	Writing for Electronic Media
Dr. Li Guo	CHIN 3540	Adaption	Translating from and into Chinese
Dr. Avery Edenfield	ENGL 3400	Adoption	Technical Writing
Dr. Gabriele Ciciurkaite	SOC 3330	Adoption	Individualized Medical Sociology: Placing Sociology in Medical Practice
Dr. Julia Gossard	HIST 1110	Adoption	Fordham University's Internet Modern Sourcebook
Dr. Stephen Van Geem	SOC 2120	Adoption	Introduction to Statistics