Project Details
Description
This competitive grant was awarded by the State Library of Illinois, in collaboration of Consortia of Academic Libraries in Illinois. Dr. Michael Gillespie, Director of the EIU, FDIC, and I are co-PI’s. The total award is $103,759.
Sixteen projects from Eastern were funded, each representing a course where faculty will develop and implement OER, replacing traditional commercial copyrighted textbooks and/or ancillaries. In total, this will benefit an average of 43.3 sections per year. We estimate 1,079 EIU students will be impacted per year. The retail cost of the replaced commercial content would have been, on average, $102,994 per year.
OER@EIU participants will receive supports from Booth Library and the FDIC.
In the academic year 2024-2025, faculty will develop and implement the OER. These materials will be evaluated and refined based on classroom experiences, instructional design consultations, and peer evaluations. When finalized in Summer 2025 and posted openly online, these materials will add to the international OER corpus and achieve broader learning and affordability impacts.
For each course, the author will receive two stipends totaling $5,000. The first, for $4,000, will be received in Summer 2024 as an assignment to develop the OER materials for inclusion in their course in the coming year. The second stipend, for $1,000, will be received upon finalizing, licensing and posting of the OER materials.
Sixteen projects from Eastern were funded, each representing a course where faculty will develop and implement OER, replacing traditional commercial copyrighted textbooks and/or ancillaries. In total, this will benefit an average of 43.3 sections per year. We estimate 1,079 EIU students will be impacted per year. The retail cost of the replaced commercial content would have been, on average, $102,994 per year.
OER@EIU participants will receive supports from Booth Library and the FDIC.
In the academic year 2024-2025, faculty will develop and implement the OER. These materials will be evaluated and refined based on classroom experiences, instructional design consultations, and peer evaluations. When finalized in Summer 2025 and posted openly online, these materials will add to the international OER corpus and achieve broader learning and affordability impacts.
For each course, the author will receive two stipends totaling $5,000. The first, for $4,000, will be received in Summer 2024 as an assignment to develop the OER materials for inclusion in their course in the coming year. The second stipend, for $1,000, will be received upon finalizing, licensing and posting of the OER materials.
| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 7/1/24 → 6/30/26 |
Funding
- Illinois State Library: $103,759.00