Internal Grants
Grant opportunities are only available to current Maricopa County Community College faculty.
“Open” by Jessica Duensing is licenced CC-BY-SA
OER Development Grants
The 2023-2024 OER Development Grant is an opportunity to develop digital course materials, including faculty-authored and -remixed open educational resources (OER). Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching materials published under an open intellectual property license that permits certain kinds of reuse, revision, and remixing. In addition to the benefit of customization, students benefit directly from free, immediate, and permanent access to high-quality educational materials.
Grant Proposal Information
Proposals will:
Describe new or existing OER materials to be developed.
Describe how the prospective grantee is qualified to develop OER materials.
Explain how the new or existing OER materials are necessary for student success.
Describe how the new or existing OER materials support one or more elements of the CARE Framework.
Identify a funding tier appropriate for proposed OER development; funding (in part or in full) for the proposed project will be based on the tier awarded by determination of the OER Steering Committee.
Guidelines:
Applicants can only receive one OER Development Grant per academic year.
Project check-in meetings are scheduled with the grant recipients and at least one of the Open Maricopa tri-chairs
Payment will be disbursed in late June/early July, after the final project has been submitted. Payment will be processed after the project is turned in, and payment is forfeited if the project is not received.
For temporary and adjunct faculty, Open Maricopa contracts must be completed during current employment and do not imply future employment with the college.
Failure to successfully complete your project by the deadline will result in the forfeiting of all funds.
Load limits apply. Exceeding your load limits will result in forfeiture of payment.
Expectations for Final Grant Deliverables
Resources developed through the OER Development Grant must be:
licensed using Creative Commons licenses which allow for adaptation
published in the platform that is most appropriate for the resource, such as:
MOER
Google Docs
Canvas
Other platform? Let us know what you want to use.
include one or more of the following:
MCCCD Course Competency and Outcome Alignment
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Diversity and Inclusion (D/I) Alignments
shared with Open Maricopa for further distribution
include an executive summary that can be published and shared
2023-2024 OER Development Grant Application Form
Proposal by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free
Deadlines
Proposals DUE October 9, 2023
Project check-in meeting scheduled with the grant recipients
Week of January 22, 2024
Week of April 29, 2024
Final Products are DUE June 3, 2024
Proposals may be submitted at any time prior to the final application due date below. You may submit (or be listed on) only one proposal per academic year.
There will be a kickoff meeting for everyone receiving a grant. The kickoff meeting is designed to inform awardees of the required paperwork, available OER resources, training opportunities, and expectations for submitting the final project.
Resources
Project & Funding Tiers
The 2023-2024 OER Development Grants Proposal Tiers provide detailed information about each of the tier options. The maximum award for a Open Maricopa OER Development grant is $3000 for an individual or $2,500 per person on a team, up to $7500 for a team of three. You only need to submit one proposal per team.
Application Worksheet
The 2023-2024 OER Development Grant Application Worksheet is provided for applicants to develop and refine the application prior to submission. Please make a copy of the 2023-2024 OER Development Grant Application Worksheet to plan your grant proposal.
Scoring Rubric
The 2023-2024 OER Development Grant Application Scoring Rubric provides more information about the application expectations.
A minimum score of 80% of the points possible is necessary to be considered for this grant.
Preference is given to applicants who can demonstrate basic OER knowledge, for example by having taken Open Maricopa/Maricopa Millions OER workshops or received equivalent certifications; for materials that will be used in multiple course sections; for teams of up to three individuals, preference is given to cross-college, cross-functional, and/or cross-disciplinary projects.
[Under Construction] Prior Grant Projects and Recipients
This section and the Open Maricopa OER Grant Final Products book in Maricopa Open Digital (MOD) Press are in development. Please see some of the previous year's grant recipients and their projects below:
2022-2023
IPAD VIDEO SERIES: IBELONG STUDENT SUCCESS INITIATIVE (IPAD 1:1) Beth Alsen; Roxanne Klassen; and Patricia Herrera
BUSINESS STATISTICS OER COURSE DEVELOPMENT Adam Zingg
INTRO TO THE INTERNET, THE WORLD WIDE WEB, AND IT’S LANGUAGES Juliet Crocco
COMPUTER USAGE AND APPLICATIONS Abigail Rusu
HTML & CSS SIMPLY EXPLAINED Brad Olsen
PROBLEM-BASED CHALLENGES FOR MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, AND HEALING Amaranth Weiss
FILM-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL GENIALLY SLIDES FOR THE TEACHING OF ONLINE ENG 102 Martin Etchart