Advance Open Ed

• Full-time tenure track/tenured faculty
• Continuing/probationary instructors
• Librarians

Individuals interested in applying for the grant should first discuss their proposal with their dean/director before submission.

Completed applications should be forwarded to their dean/director for approval and prioritization from their faculty.

Project scope and impact - The application clearly outlines the project's scope, beneficiaries, and potential impact. It aligns with the UM OER Grant purpose and objectives.

Feasibility (organization and timeline) - The application provides timelines and milestones appropriate to the project and makes allowances for unforeseen challenges.

Budget and resources - The application presents a budget and identifies needed resources appropriately. It also demonstrates a cost-effective use of grant funding.

Inclusivity and accessibility - The application outlines plans for creating OER that are inclusive and accessible to a diverse range of learners.

The grant may be used to cover expenditures such as:

• UM student research/teaching assistants to help create, adapt, and/or adopt OER in a course.
• Honoraria for external consultants, such as artists, editors, proofreaders, inclusivity and accessibility reviewers, and peer reviewers not covered by the OER Lab.
• Equipment, such as computers, for student research/teaching assistants may be considered. (Computers will remain the property of the UM Libraries and will be returned to the Libraries after completion of the project.)

The grant may not be used for:

• Material costs (e.g., books, etc.)
• Infrastructure upgrades
• Travel
• Memberships to organizations
• Stipends for salaried UM employees

Successful applicants will be expected to:

• Submit a final report.
• Share information about the project with the university community in at least one venue of your preference (e.g., by being interviewed for an article in UM Today or by participating in a panel discussion).
• Share any applicable resulting OER adaptations or new creations with a Creative Commons or equivalent license (CC BY or CC BY-NC preferred) on a relevant website or repository of your choosing. For text-based content, Pressbooks or MSpace are preferred but not required.
  Note: Criteria relating to Creative Commons or equivalent licensing may not be applicable to OER or portions of OER containing Indigenous Knowledge.

• Enhancing Learning through Educational Videos - Jackie Elliott, Athletic Therapy ($7,130)
• Endoscopy Curriculum - Eric Hyun, Surgery ($10,000)
• Curriculum for Teaching Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine - Katherine Kearns, Family Medicine; Meghan Azad, Pediatrics and Child Health; Joanne Hamilton, Office of Innovation and Scholarship in Medical Education; and Christina Raimondi, Family Medicine ($10,000)
• EmFATically Inclusive: Identifying and Redressing Anti-Fat Stigma in Medical Education - Deborah McPhail, Community Health Sciences; Joanne Hamilton, Office of Innovation and Scholarship in Medical Education; Chelsea Jalloh, Office of Innovation and Scholarship in Medical Education; and Valerie Williams, Office of Equity, Access and Participation ($10,000)
• Teaching with Images: An AI Resource for Understanding Urban Animals - Mark Meagher, Environmental Design ($8,470)
• Telling the Stories of Indigenous Business Leaders in Canada - Katherine Davis, Asper School of Business ($10,000)
• Management: Financial, Social, and Ecological Well-Being - Bruno Dyck, Asper School of Business ($10,000)
• The Linguistic Analysis of Word and Sentence Structures - Julie Doner, Linguistics ($4,000). View publication.
• Programming for Psychologists: Online Data Collection with jsPsych - Nick Brosowsky, Psychology ($9,687)
• Active Learning Activities Workbook for Programming II Course - Celine Latulipe, Computer Science ($10,000). View publication.
• Textbook for Elementary Discrete Mathematics - Karen Gunderson, Michelle Davidson, and Robert Craigen, Mathematics ($10,000)