Open Education refers to a movement that is taking advantage of the Internet to provide anyone access to learning for free. This is made possible through Open Educational Resources or OER, which are education materials that are shared at no cost with legal permissions for the public to freely use, share, and build upon the content. These resources are possible today because the Internet makes it easy to store, copy, and distribute digital resources. They are also possible because they are openly licensed through Creative Commons licenses. You can learn more about OER from this guide from the Jim Dan Hill Library.
Creative Commons has descriptions of their licenses, as well as a license selector to help you decide which license would work best.
The proposals will be reviewed by the CLIC's OER Committee. Evaluations of the applications will be based upon the criteria of the OER Mini-Grant Rubric
Adopting an OER means you're taking an existing OER and using it as your main classroom instructional material. In addition to adopting the material, you may decide you wish to modify it to better fit your class, which is also allowed under the grant and encouraged.
Creating an OER involves producing the majority of the content for your OER and making it available to the public under a Creative Commons license.
You can apply for the Creation grant if you intend on creating an OER (or modifying the used OER to the point that it becomes a new OER), but unfortunately will not be eligible for the Adoption grant.
Should a team of instructors apply for a grant, the award will be split amongst the team. Only one award will be given to each team.
While we are prioritize courses in the upcoming year, some leeway may be given depending on the applications received.