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OER Mini-Grant Program

2021-2022 Mini-Grant Recipients

OER Creation

The following two instructors each received a $1,000 grant to write an open textbook that they will use in a course in the 2022-23 academic year:

Rich Freese, Adjunct Instructor, Music

Rich wrote an open textbook for the following course through the UW-Independent Learning Program: U660-101: Appreciation and History of Music. People and Music: An Appreciation and History, available through a CC BY-SA 4.0 license, was written with Google Docs and replaced a $104 textbook.

                                                           Photo of Rich Freese

 

Lynn Goerdt, Associate Professor, HBJD

Lynn wrote an open textbook for the following course: SWK 366/PLI 366: Methods of Practice: Agency and Community MacroSkills. This course is a core course for both the Social Work major and Public Leadership and Innovation major, and the new text replaced a $100 textbook. Title and link forthcoming.

                                                                                Photo of Lynn Goerdt

OER Adoption

The following two instructors each received a $600 grant to adopt open materials that they will use in a course in the 2022-23 academic year:

Kate Nolin-Smith, Senior Lecturer, ESL/WLL

Kate adopted an open textbook for the following course: ESL 131: Reading Academic Texts, which replaced a $40 textbook.

                                                                                Photo of Kate Nolin-Smith

 

Lorena Rios Mendoza, Professor, Natural Sciences

Lorena adopted open materials for the following course: CHEM 102: Chemistry of Everyday Phenomena. These materials replaced a $160 textbook.

                                                                              Photo of Lorena Rios Mendoza