Campus Entities Most Active in Efforts Advancing OER:

• Academic/Information Technology
• Campus Store
• E-Learning/Distance Education
• Faculty Champions(s)
• Library
• Senior Administration
• Teaching and Learning Center

Library Departments Active in Efforts Advancing OER:

• Scholarly Communication

Academic Subjects With Greatest OER Traction:

• Chemistry
• Languages
• Mathematics and statistics
• Physics
• Social and behavioral sciences

Mechanisms to Support OER Included in the Following:

• Library Services

OER Staff Location:

• Library

The goal of the OER Grant Program is to encourage instructor experimentation and innovation in finding new, better, and less costly ways to deliver learning materials to their students through open educational resources in KU classrooms. There are 3 models through which OER may be implemented: adopt an existing open resource or textbook, adapt existing resources to local needs, and create new resources to fill a gap in suitable materials. Each model requires an investment in time and effort to identify materials and adjust the course to new material. The third model, creation of new resources, can be quite time consuming, and represents the highest hanging fruit. The KU Libraries’ OER Grant Initiative seeks to support and incentivize OER adoption, adaptation, and creation through small grants to participating instructors.

The Initiative will fund grants between $1,000 and $5,000, depending on the needs of the proposed project, and the reach/impact of the outcomes for KU students locally, and globally.

Program Type:

• Grant Program

Duration: 01/2017 - Present

Program Webpage: https://lib.ku.edu/services/oer/grant

Scope: OER (open course content)

Primary OER Strategy: OER Adoption

Secondary OER Strategies: OER Adaptation, OER Awareness, OER Curation, OER Pedagogy, OER Publication, OER Review/Assessment

Unit Housing the Program:

Library

Source of Program Funding:

• Library’s special project fund
• President, Chancellor, or Provost’s budget
• Student Government Fund

Total Program Funding to Date: $ 100,000

Incentives Offered by the Program:

• Financial incentives (grants, stipends)

Conditions: Recipients are required to openly license and freely share resources created or adapted

Total amount of incentive grants awarded to date: $ 90,000

Total number of incentive grants awarded to date: 26

Typical amount of each grant: $ 3,000