Save the Date: USM Events on Open Education Resources
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Mark your calendar to attend one of FOUR upcoming events across Maryland on the topic of open educational resources (OER) in higher education, hosted by the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Initiative.
Three Regional OER Forums will provide attendees with an introduction to openly licensed materials, resources to support OER adoption, and discussions on OER accessibility, quality, and impact on student success.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
Eastern Maryland
9:45 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Princess Anne, MD
Friday, April 26, 2019
Western Maryland
9:45 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Garrett College
McHenry, MD
August, 2019 (Date TBA)
Central Maryland
9:45 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Maritime Conference Center
Linthicum Heights, MD
These day-long regional forums will bring together Maryland higher education faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and administrators interested in exploring the potential of OER. Attendees will have an opportunity to network, learn, and collaborate with colleagues from across Maryland’s 2- and 4-year higher education institutions.
The second Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) State Summit will focus on building capacity within and across institutions to make OER adoptions strategic, sustainable, and impactful.
May 28, 2019
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Maritime Conference Center
Linthicum Heights, MD
Sessions will include topics such as:
- Communicating about the affordances of OER and the potential of OER to positively impact affordability, access, and achievement.
- Strategies to support course redesign, pedagogical innovation, and continuous quality improvement.
- Creating support structures for digital rights and accessibility compliance, OER curation and discoverability, and OER quality review processes.
- Measuring the return on investment of OER initiatives for students and institutions.
- Understanding how various policies and contracts impact OER adoptions.
Registration will open in mid-February 2019 for all events. Please visit www.usmd.edu/cai/most for more information and to register.
The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the 2019 High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program to strategically support Maryland public higher education institutions’ efforts to increase access, affordability, and achievement for students through the incorporation of open educational resources (OER) into teaching practice. This year, the Mini-Grant Program will support projects in the following categories:
- Adopt/Adapt OER ($500 - $1,500): Targets OER adoption in a high enrollment course for which high-quality OER content already exists.
- Scale OER ($1,500 - $2,500): Targets projects with a vision, plan, and commitment to develop an OER pathway.
- NEW for 2019! Create OER ($1,500 - $2,500): Targets OER creation in a high-need discipline/meta-discipline to fill gaps in existing OER content.
Grants will be distributed by the end of FY18-19 for Spring 2019 project planning and development and Fall 2019 OER implementation. Proposals must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, March 15, 2019.
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Kirwan Center to Submit Proposal for Federal OER Grant
Seeking Groups/Individuals from Institutions to Participate
The USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation is planning to submit a proposal to the Department of Education’s Applications for New Awards; Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education – Open Textbooks Pilot Program as part of the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative http://www.usmd.edu/cai/MOST.
As the Request for Proposals states, the Open Textbooks Pilot program “supports projects at institutions of higher education (IHEs) that create new open textbooks or expand their use of open textbooks while maintaining or improving instruction and student learning outcomes.” The RFP outlines three absolute priorities:- Improving collaboration and dissemination through consortia arrangements;
- Addressing gaps in the open textbook marketplace and bringing solutions to scale; and
- Promoting degree completion by creating OERs across multiple courses in a program sequence.
A competitive preference priority involves using technology-based strategies for personalized learning and continuous improvement, which the Kirwan Center plans to address as well.
The Kirwan Center's initial aim through this proposal will be to identify and organize partners—two-year and four-year institutions of higher education as well as relevant industry and non-profit partners—to contribute to the curation, creation, and vetting of openly licensed, fully accessible instructional materials for healthcare programs (such as pharmacy, nursing, and the like)
where little OER exists currently and, by so doing, also stand up a more systematic and sustainable development process for other high-demand, low-OER fields.
Watch a recording of the High-impact OER Mini-Grant informational webinar to learn more about the program.
The Kirwan Center is excited to pursue this opportunity. If there are individuals or groups that might be interested in the proposed project, or if you have any concerns, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Dr. MJ Bishop, Director of the Kirwan Center, at mjbishop@usmd.edu.
NOTE: Per the federal registry for this grant, the deadline for proposals is August 29, 2019.
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William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation is pleased to announce the
High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program, a new funding program designed to strategically support Maryland public institutions’ efforts to adopt and scale Open Educational Resource (OER) adoption.
Building upon the prior success of the MOST initiative, this new program will support individual faculty adoption of OER and OER scaling initiatives within institutions in “high-impact,” high enrollment courses for which high-quality OER already exists.
Two types of mini-grants will be awarded:
- Adopt/Adapt OER ($500 - $1,500)
- Scaling OER ($1,500 - $2,500)
In addition to grant funding for their OER adoption or scaling project, selected grantees will also receive training and technical support in Spring 2017 to assist in the implementation of their OER plans.
- Adopt/Adapt OER Mini-Grants ($500 - $1,500)
- Faculty commitment to teach at least one section of a “high-impact” course using OER during the Fall 2017 semester. Adoption in more than one section is encouraged.
- Targeting OER adoption in an eligible high enrollment course with existing high-quality OER content.
- Reducing students’ course materials costs to $40 or less
- Scaling OER Mini-Grants ($1,500 - $2,500)
- Scaling of OER to at least four sections of a “high impact” course during the Fall 2017 semester to reduce students’ cost of course materials to $40 or less.
- Targeting OER adoption in an eligible high enrollment course with existing high-quality OER content.
- Institutional and/or departmental support and collaboration with multiple instructors, instructional designers, librarians, and support staff preferred.
Informational webinars will be conducted February 13 - 22, 2017, to provide more details about the program and the application process.
To apply for a mini-grant, applicants must complete a High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program Application and submit it to cai@usmd.edu by 5 PM on Wednesday, March 8, 2017. The Mini-Grant Planning Document and the application, which provides additional information and details about the program, is attached to this announcement. Faculty may indicate their intent to apply or register for an informational webinar on the Center's website.
Questions about the High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program may be directed to Dr. M.J. Bishop, Director of the Center for Academic Innovation, via
cai@usmd.edu.