Open Education Micro Grant Program (2024)

Six projects (one per faculty with undergraduate students) were granted at a value of $2,500 each to support an Open Education Student Assistant.

Project Lead: Luisa Guiles

Reviewed and updated the currently developed checklist for reviewing OER content. This was then used in the re-review of all chapters in the open textbook Human Nutrition. Textbook was updated for accessibility using Google Lighthouse. Developed a new chapter called “Health at Every Weight”, which considered equity in relation to body size. And more Indigenous content was integrated.

Project Lead: Gregory Schmaltz

Combining and developing open educational resources that enhance student access, experience, and outcome to transition the 4-credit online course, Biology 105: Human Biology, to open educational resources (OERs). We aim to replace the traditional textbook with OER sources (text, videos, visual aids). An openly licensed resource list was created.

Project Lead: Chelsea Klassen

Openly licensed compilation of development related case studies into one resource with at least one Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) has been highlighted in each case study, as well as associated discussion questions. These questions can be used by students to study for their GDS courses and faculty can use these questions to facilitate discussion on development related topics.

Project Lead: Leah Douglas

A scan and documentation of the existing open resources was completed. It includes a summary of available narratives, case studies, interactive activities, and other tools for instructors/professionals to use in teaching and learning. In total, 74 relevant resources are available

Project Lead: Jeff Chizma

The aim of this project was to begin to create a bank of openly licensed higher quality and locally relevant questions that could be used to supplement those provided in the Open Stax textbooks for PHYS 111 and 112.

Project Lead: Masud Khawaja

Openly licensed modules were created including instructions, activities and instruction materials related to workplace health and safety topics to be used by business courses as well as anyone who is an employee.