UTA colleagues classified as faculty are eligible to receive a $200 stipend from the libraries after completing a review of a textbook in the Open Textbook Library. Faculty must first attend an Open Textbook Workshop session or another approved OER Department workshop.
The OER Department invites UTA faculty, staff, and students to apply for funding to support attending and/or presenting at OER-related conferences.
Other funding for OER-related projects may be available. Read more about the Open Initiatives grant opportunities, or email the OER department at oer@uta.edu to discuss your project ideas.
Several external funding opportunities are available to instructors working on OER-related projects. Opportunities are shared regularly on the External Events, Conferences, and Opportunities channel in the Open Educational Resources Team.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) also provides grants to Texas public institutions of higher education to adopt, modify, redesign, or develop courses using only OER.
THECB will share more information about its upcoming 2022 Grant Cycle soon.
In 2023, applicants will be able to submit applications for projects in three categories:
The spring 2023 deadline for grant applications will be Monday, March 20 (extended to Wednesday, March 22). Applicants who plan to pilot their new course materials in fall 2023 must submit their applications before this deadline.
Applicants who plan to pilot their new course materials in spring 2024 or later may submit applications before the spring deadline or wait until the fall semester deadline (Monday, October 9).
Please email the OER Department with any questions about the grant program or application process.
Affordable Adoption Stipends provide support for instructors to redesign a course by incorporating low- or zero-cost course materials. Adoption projects focus not only on selection of appropriate affordable resources but also on modifying teaching materials--such as syllabi, assignments, and exams--to effectively use the selected resources. Affordable Adoption Stipend recipients can receive up to $300 in funding for a low-cost course or $800 in funding for a zero-cost course.
OER Modification Grants provide support for authors to customize existing resources to produce a new OER. The resulting resource will likely contain some original content but will primarily be a revision or reuse of an existing resource. Projects that fit this grant category may take many forms but could include producing a derivative of one existing OER by making significant revisions or producing a new OER by piecing together chapters from multiple resources. OER Modification Grant recipients can receive up to $5,000 in funding.
OER Creation Grants provide support for the production of an OER textbook or other teaching resource that consists of a majority of original content. Authors may or may not choose to incorporate existing OER content into their project. OER Creation Grant recipients can receive up to $10,000 in funding.
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