Are you interested in bringing down the cost of textbooks
for your students? The high cost of
commercial textbooks (print and electronic) is a major concern for both
students and their parents. A new
program at UNCG encourages you to do something about that concern.
The Office of the Provost and the University Libraries are
joining together to support UNCG’s Open Education “Mini-Grants” initiative to encourage
instructors to use low-cost or free alternatives to expensive course materials;
these can include open-access scholarly resources, library-licensed and owned
resources, and learning objects and texts that faculty create themselves.
Fifteen $1000 “mini-grants” will be available this spring, and
are meant to offer an incentive for the time it will take faculty to identify
new resources, adjust syllabi, and modify assignments and can also be used to
cover any actual expenses you incur.
If you are interested in applying for these “mini-grants”, you
are encouraged to attend one of the Open Education Initiative information
sessions to be held February 21 or 22nd from 12 pm to 1 pm in Jackson
Library Room 216. Please RSVP prior to
the workshop or direct your questions to Beth Bernhardt at brbernha@uncg.edu.
Additional literature on open educational resources is
available at http://uncg.libguides.com/oer
The deadline to apply for the “mini-grants” is March 10th. You can apply at http://tinyurl.com/o2xck9j.
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