关于OER补助金

2018年春天, 众议院法案18-1331 created a grant program to fund open educational resource (OER) initiatives at public universities and colleges in Colorado. 密歇根州立大学丹佛 has been fortunate to receive five years of grant funding, totaling $338,000.

These funds have been used to increase faculty awareness of OER and increase OER use at 密歇根州立大学丹佛.

密歇根州立大学丹佛分校的OER进展

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2015-2016

密歇根州立大学丹佛 had fewer than 100 students in OER courses.

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2022-2023

In 2022-23 students filled 16,230 seats in OER courses.

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现在

In 2022-23, 学生最多可节省2美元,348,000 through OER adoption and other use of low-cost materials across a wide range of courses.

State of Colorado Continues OER 支持

2021年春天, 参议院法案21-215 continued the state support of OER for another five years. We look forward to sharing additional grant funded OER work in the future.

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Additional detail about outcomes from each of the years of funding are available below.

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密歇根州立大学丹佛 received a $60,000 grant in Spring 2019 to start our 开放 Roadrunners program

The 19/20 OER grant funding supported faculty incentives in three categories related to OER awareness and adoption.

  • A total of 70 faculty attended open textbook review workshops and earned $200 after writing a review of an open textbook.
  • 皇冠官网网站举办了四个学期 faculty learning communities (FLCs) with a total of 31 faculty participants who received $500 stipends.
  • 皇冠官网网站提供了三轮 OER采用津贴. Three faculty earned $500 in our Summer 2019 pilot phase, 27 faculty received $750 OER adoption awards in Fall 2019, and another 21 received $750 awards in Spring 2020.

这些努力产生了2,335 students taking grant-supported OER courses in Summer 2019-Spring 2020, 最多可节省284美元,500美元.

密歇根州立大学丹佛 received a $76,000 OER grant in Spring 2020

OER use in summer 2020-spring 2021 at 密歇根州立大学丹佛, directly supported by the two years of grant support from the state, 最高可达819美元,000 in student savings with an additional $182,000 in savings from OER implemented without grant support. While in some cases students wouldn’t have purchased an expensive text, with OER they now had continuous access to the resource during the course and beyond with no cost barrier.

  • From summer 2020-spring 2021 we awarded 48 $750 OER adoption grants spanning courses from aerospace to Spanish
  • Thirty six faculty attended one of five open textbook review workshops and 27 wrote a public review for a book in the 开放 Education Network library ($200 stipend).
  • OER-themed faculty learning communities (FLCs) were attended by 19 faculty members.

密歇根州立大学丹佛 received a $60,000 OER grant in Spring 2021

This grant funds projects currently ongoing. A more complete description will be available at the end of the funding period. 一些亮点包括:

  • Funded three separate OER faculty learning communities with 28 faculty participants
  • 支持ed a team of English faculty to adapt OER for use across all sections of ENG 1010 starting in Spring 2022
  • 支持ed a team of Psychology faculty to adopt OER for use in online sections of PSY 1001 starting in Fall 2022

Interested in implementing OER in your courses?

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