Open Educational Resources Grant Program

CT OER Grant Program is accepting applications now! The grant program focuses on OER in “high impact” areas – courses with high enrollment and high textbook costs for which high-quality

1. Review – Evaluate an openly licensed textbook or other open content related to your course(s)/ discipline and write a review for public display.
2. Adoption – Adopt existing open course content with little to no changes made to the content (for an individual faculty member).
3. Supplemental – Develop missing ancillaries for currently adopted OER such as quiz question banks, lecture slides, or lab manuals (for individual faculty members).
4. Impact – For collaborative, larger-scale proposals not covered by the categories above that demonstrate a high impact on student success through the use of OER. Examples include (but are not limited to) Collaborative and Course-wide Adoptions, Collaborative Supplemental Creations, and Creation/Significant Revision of stand-alone instructional materials.