Grants

The UBC OER Fund is guided by the following principles, developed in consultation with student and faculty leadership at the UBCV campus:

• Increase the creation, adaptation, adoption, and integration of high-quality OER, including assessment materials, in UBC credit courses.
• Reduce student costs for learning materials and assessments.
• Enable instructors to modify, edit, or adapt high-quality OER to fit their unique specifications and goals in order to help provide meaningful, contextualized learning materials for UBC students.
• Engage with the UBC community to increase awareness of OER.
• Grow capacity at UBC to support and sustain OER activities.

During this round of funding, we particularly welcome proposals that focus on the following areas:

• Projects that use OER to address the affordability of course materials and result in cost savings for students. 
• Projects that increase the accessibility of course materials through the use of OER. 
• Projects that enhance student learning through the innovative use of open pedagogies and open resources. 
• Projects that have student involvement in the development and/or implementation of the OER.
• Projects that develop open test/quiz/problem banks and other interactive content that can be used for assessments.  
• Projects that have high student impacts as indicated by student enrolment in courses where the resources will be used (as appropriate for the field of study). 
• Projects that use OER in multi-section courses or multiple courses.

• OER Affordability Grants: Large grants of up to $25,000 for UBCV faculty who wish to incorporate OER as required materials into their UBCV credit courses.
• OER Rapid Rapid Innovation Grants: Small grants of up to $2,000, which are available to the UBCV community for innovative activities that increase OER development, awareness, and capacity building.