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 have high student impacts including, but not limited to: cost savings, number of students enrolled in courses where the resources are used, and the enhancement of student learning supported by the use of open resources and pedagogies.
• Implementation of OER into multi-section courses or multiple courses.
• Development and implementation of open test/quiz/problem banks and other interactive content that can be used for assessment.
• Support for increasing awareness of OER.
• Student involvement in the development and/or implementation of the open educational resources.
• Incorporation and adaptation of existing high quality open educational resources.

• 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.