More CMU MORE Individual/Small Group Request for Proposals:
Faculty are invited to submit proposals for incentive funding from the 2023-24 Colorado 开放教育资源 (OER) CMU institutional grant entitled More CMU MORE: More pp电子极速糖果 Maverick Open Resource Educators.
资格和激励措施
All CMU and 卡pp电子极速糖果的科技 faculty members, including tenured/tenure-track professors, full-time 0.8 instructors, and part-time adjunct lecturers, are eligible to submit a grant proposal. Levels of incentive funding are available to the faculty to encourage them to adopt, 适应, 或者为他们的课程创建OER. Stipends are awarded through a competitive process, where individual and small groups of faculty members will submit proposals outlining the work required to adopt, 适应, and/or create the OER materials to an OER Selection Committee.
选择过程
The OER Selection Committee was formed with the purpose of evaluating the merit of the faculty grant proposals for incentive funding. The OER Selection Committee will complete the selection process near the end of the spring 2024 semester in early-May so that the successful grantees can begin their work shortly after the summer break begins.
提案申请要求
To apply for an individual/small group grant, complete the More CMU MORE Individual/Small Group Request for Proposals form. The completed form will include the following information:
- 项目标题
- 申请人姓名及职级
- Relevant course(s), and frequency of course offering, impacted by this grant proposal
- Current or previous textbook title and/or other course material and 成本 of current or previous textbook and/or materials
- 要求的支持级别
- Plan for how the applicant(s) expects to use the grant money to adopt, 适应, or develop OER to replace the current or previous textbooks and/or other course materials
- List of materials that will be developed or produced should this grant proposal be funded
- The way the grant recipient will evaluate the use of the OER developed using this internal grant
- Identification of librarian or instructional designer trained in OER to support this OER initiative for which the grant is requested
Submit your proposal for this funding cycle by Fri2024年4月12日晚上11点59分
每个提案都需要 include the projected number of students affected by the adoption, 适应, 或创建OER材料, based on enrollment data from prior semesters, and the total cost savings for the course(s) based on these projections.
受助人须 submit a final report to the 教务处 by July 1, 2025, which will include the actual total cost savings for the course(s) where OER materials have been implemented. 另外, this report should include the DFW rates for the course(s), which should be compared to DFW rates from prior semesters, 在可能的情况下. In Essential Learning courses that assess student learning outcomes, the relevant data should be included and compared to prior semesters, 在可能的情况下.
OER专家协助
Each proposal (for Levels 2-4) will include a librarian or instructional designer trained as an OER expert as part of the project, where they will oversee the licensing and publication of the 适应ed or created OER material. This OER trained librarian or instructional designer can assist the project faculty in facilitating best practices in course design, obtaining the correct Creative Commons open license and in publishing the 适应ed or created OER material at the completion of the project. These OER trained librarians and instructional designers will receive incentive funding for their efforts at a rate of $500 per project, which will be paid at the completion of the project and is in addition to the funding-levels previously referenced.