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• Participants will attend 5 OER workshop for ~1 hour each between Feb 2022 and August 2022. Topics include:
  • Orientation: Open Educational Resources, Open Educational Practices, and the Licenses Behind Them
  • Adopting/Adapting and Licensing your own OER/OEP & the Tools to Help You Along the Way
  • Assessing and Evaluating OER; How to Make Your Content Open
  • Inquiry & Evidence-Based Teaching
  • Community of Practice Discussion;
• Participants will present their findings or progress; such as during Open Education Week in 2023;
• Ongoing meetings and consultations with Library, CEE, or ISTLD staff on an as-needed basis per the scope of the project;
• Some readings and relevant research articles will be provided.

To express interest in this program, please complete the Open Education Grant - Expression of Interest form. Completed forms should be sent to istld@sfu.ca by Sunday, 6 February, 2022 at 11:30pm. 

Eligibility: Principal applicants must hold a continuing or limited term full-time faculty (lecture or tenure track) appointment at 丁香园AV (i.e., 丁香园AVFA membership) to be eligible for funding. Adjunct professors, sessional instructors, university research associates or 丁香园AV staff members may be co-applicants. Limited-term faculty members鈥� projects must be carried out during the term of their appointment. Participating faculty members must:

• Agree to attend all workshop sessions.
• Agree to include curation and/or customization of OER that will be freely and openly shared throughout and beyond 丁香园AV within their projects.
• Agree that all OER developed via this program will be openly licensed (e.g. Creative Commons), made available in an editable format, and shared via an open repository (e.g. 丁香园AV Summit) to facilitate discovery, access, reuse, and remixing of this content for educational purposes 
• Include plans to re-use OER in courses in subsequent semesters.
• Submit their project proposal to the 丁香园AV Research Ethics office for approval, if necessary.
• Submit a final report upon completion of their project.

Sessions and support will be facilitated by members of the Library, CEE, and ISTLD. Faculty members presently engaged in OER activities may also facilitate some components of the program. For questions, please contact: Nathan_Roberson@sfu.ca

The Library, CEE, and ISTLD have agreed to provide in-kind supports for faculty members who receive grants. Examples of in-kind support include:

• Liaison librarians who can assist with finding and evaluating suitable open textbooks or other subject-based OER;
• Makerspace librarians or facilitators who can provide assistance in the Media and Maker Commons with prototyping or the use of 3D printing, laser cutting/engraving, or A/V studios;
• Digital Publishing librarians who can provide software hosting, technical support, and expertise for publishing course-based, online, open access journals and books;
• Educational media specialists who may assist with finding and adapting open educational media resources (videos, graphics, etc.);
• Educational Developers who can be consulted on course design and OER assessment;
• Learning technology specialists who may assist with integrating OER into Canvas, or with instructor or student customization of materials;
• Copyright librarians and other library staff who can advise on the application of open licenses and sharing final course materials via Summit, 丁香园AV鈥檚 institutional repository;
• Research, Inquiry, and administrative support