Grants
Submission Deadline (OER Grant & OER Sprint Grant): Closed for 2023
Note: For this funding cycle, grants will be awarded solely for textbooks and ancillary materials hosted on a Pressbooks Network. Preference will be given to textbooks or ancillary materials for undergraduate courses, for larger classes, in faculties with generally higher course costs, and in faculties underserviced by OERs.
Five grants of up to $2,000 each to be awarded annually. These grants are intended for individuals, departments, groups, and institutions (e.g., educators, teaching and learning centres, libraries, and OER working groups) in the Atlantic Provinces to help achieve the following objectives:
Who Can Apply?
At least one applicant must be currently employed by a CAAL-CBPA member institution and either be engaged in or proposing the adaptation or creation of the OER for a credit-bearing course at a CAAL-CBPA member institution. At least one applicant must be able to assign readings for the credit bearing course for which the OER is intended. Single, joint, or team applications are all encouraged.
Eligible Expenses
Support
Support for student research assistants; Support for persons with a particular expertise/skill set not found at the applicant’s institution.
Development
Development of ancillary material i.e. test banks of questions to support open materials, simulations, instructor, lab and studio manuals, presentations, multimedia content, data collection instruments and support for data collection and analysis.
Events/sprints
Events such as “sprints” where content is being created for an OER
Resources
Including, but not limited to, resources for hosting a sprint event (food, office supplies, facility fees, consultation fees, etc.), software, etc.
Proposals will be adjudicated by the CAAL-CBPA OER Committee. This Committee is composed of the six (6) CAAL-CBPA members plus one CAAL-CBPA Board member. In addition, the Committee shall have at least one representative from each member stakeholder group, such as, but not limited to, educators, students, and instructional designers. The CAAL-CBPA Executive Director will sit ex-officio. Members will serve two-year terms.
The Committee will assess all proposals using a single-blind approach. This means that the CAAL-CBPA Executive Director will know the identities of individuals submitting proposals, but during the review process, the members of the Committee will not. It will be the responsibility of the Executive Director to verify that the proposers meet the requirements outlined under “Eligibility Criteria” and have submitted the proper documentation specified under “Submission of Proposals”.
Proposals for funding are judged on:
The Committee will assess all proposals using a single-blind approach. This means that the CAAL-CBPA Executive Director will know the identities of individuals submitting proposals, but during the review process, the members of the Committee will not. It will be the responsibility of the Executive Director to verify that the proposers meet the requirements outlined under “Eligibility Criteria” and have submitted the proper documentation specified under “Submission of Proposals”.
Proposals for funding are judged on: