Funding OER Work
As we have discussed throughout our community sessions, OER work is time-consuming and, regardless of whether you intend to adopt, adapt, or create your own content, both time and funds to complete this work is crucial.
The University of Virginia Library was fortunate to receive Jefferson Trust funding to create the Affordability and Equity Grant. As of November of 2023, we awarded our last funded project; however, we continue to seek on-going resources to continue this valuable program.
Arts & Sciences Learning Design and Technology offers the Learning Technology Incubator (LTi) Grant Program that poses possibility for OER-inspired projects.
Arts & Sciences Institute of World Languages offers faculty grants including an Open Educational Resources for Language Learning (OERLL) grant.
The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) offers a variety of grants.
The VIVA Open Grants Program provides grants based on the following specifications.
Details for each grant are listed in accordance with VIVA’s description as follows.
Funding: $2,000
Timeline: Call for proposals announced each fall semester.
VIVA Open Adopt Grants provide awards of $2,000 to individual instructors to support the time it takes to integrate existing open or no-cost materials into a syllabus, and to ensure that the results of those efforts are widely available to Virginia educators. While the committee has a stated preference for funding the adoption of OER funded by VIVA, they recognize that those projects are limited in number and applications for the adoption of other materials are welcomed.
Funding: $5,000-$50,000 depending on category
Timeline: Call for proposals announced each December
The goal of the VIVA Open Course Grants is to make textbook and course materials free to students by empowering faculty with the resources and time they need to develop their curricula using open, library, or no cost resources. Awards will be made in the following categories: Content Creation, Open Pedagogy, Open Ancillary, and Large Scale Adoption.
VIVA Open Grants for Libraries: COMING SOON
Funding: $2,000-$20,000
Timeline: COMING SOON
VIVA Open Grants for Libraries are awarded to VIVA libraries to support their on-going work in Open Education. These grants are intended to support the work libraries do to work with faculty to adopt, adapt or create projects that will reduce the cost of course materials. Particularly of interest are projects, such as text bank sprints, that produces teaching materials that can be adapted at other institutions.
Funding: $50,000-$100,000
Timeline: VIVA-assembled team opportunity
On the recommendation of the VIVA Grant Review Committee and VIVA’s Open and Affordable Course Content Committee, VIVA Open Publishing awards grants to multi-institutional, VIVA-assembled teams to address a gap in OER in an area that is of high-need in the state of Virginia. These teams are made up of faculty, librarians, and a publishing team that works to produce high-quality OER with the potential for wide-adoption. Support for outreach and adoption in the form of adopt grants is provided once the VIVA Open Publishing Project is complete. Interested applicants should apply for VIVA Open Course Grants in the Content Creation category.
