Participants commit to:
Convert your course: If you currently use a commercial textbook in the course, you can be paid $4000 to find OER that fit your course SLOs, revise the resources if necessary, and adopt them into your course for Fall 2024.
Convert all sections: If you want to help your department transition all the sections of a course to use OER, and your department agrees to this goal, you can be paid $5000 to find, revise, and adopt OER for all sections of the course. We will need a letter from your department chair that commits the department to switching all course sections to OER based on your recommendations.
"Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium - digital or otherwise - that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions." (From the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation)
All FLC faculty, regardless of status, are eligible to participate. Note that the stipends count toward FTE for full time faculty, so if you have maxed out overload this semester you may not be eligible.
Applications will be accepted through January 12th. (We will accept as many valid applications as we can support with the funding available.) All project work must be completed by May 3, 2024.
Not in a single semester. We want to include as many participants as we can, so we’re limiting to one course per participant. (You will have access to the self-paced Canvas course after the project period has ended, and are welcome to use those resources to help you transform additional courses on your own.) If we continue to have funding, you may apply again in the future, but faculty who have never applied before will be prioritized.
No. While decreasing course costs is generally a good goal, this funding is meant specifically for work related to OER. OER has better potential for long-term sustainability, and its open nature provides opportunities for equity-minded revisions of courses and course materials.
No. This project is focused on OER, so your goal should be to increase your use of OER. That being said, there are a variety of ways you might provide course materials at no cost to students, and those are also valid for your project.
Please contact Megan Ozeran at ozeranm@flc.losrios.edu.