UHCC OER INCENTIVE PROGRAM
2022-2023 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The University of Hawai‘i Community Colleges (UHCC) are a part of the global Open Educational Resources (OER) movement to reduce textbook and learning material costs for students and to provide quality education. Research shows that students do better when taught with OER. Information about UHCC's work is found at the UHCC OER website.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
OER 101
This professional development gives you the basics for understanding what OER are and how to use them as teaching materials. It will give you basic copyright, fair use, and licensing information and open your world to the more than one billion open educational resources online. You will receive the foundation you need to add OER to your class, to adopt and modify OER, or create new OER. This knowledge is essential if you want to move your course to Textbook Cost: $0 (TXT0).
You can sign up for an asynchronous, 6-module course in Laulima at any time and take until April 30, 2023 to complete*. Estimated time for work: 15-20 hours.
UHCC participants will be compensated $300** for completing the requirements of the course and will receive an official UHCC OER 101 certificate or badge. Forty seats have been set aside for OER 101.
Sign up for the asynchronous Laulima OER course.
If you plan to apply for the Modification Award (OERMA) or Creation Award (OERCA) (see below), you will need to complete OER 101 by November 30. The OERMA is for modifying a textbook or course and the OERCA is for creating a textbook or course to OER or Textbook Cost: $0.
* If you plan to apply for the Modification (OERMA) or Creation (OERCA) Awards (see below), you will need to complete the Async OER 101 by November 30.
** All incentive payments will be processed as overload, subject to participant eligibility.
OER Office Hours
Beginning Friday, September 9 from 11am to 12pm there will be once-a-month office hours open for any questions on OER and TXT0 that people may have. There will be a ten-minute focus on a topic and the remaining time is open for questions, learning, and engagement.
The topic for the Sept. 9th office hours will be the OER Modification and Creation Awards incentive program.
Here is the Zoom link for Sept. 9th, 11am-12pm: go.hawaii.edu/VPZ
Starting October, OER Office Hours will be on the First Fridays of each month at 11am-12pm at a new Zoom location. Check the UHCC OER website for updates.
Open Textbook Library Reviewer Training
Attend a one-hour workshop that covers the basics of OER and what you need to know about becoming an open textbook reviewer. We need experts who would like to review an Open Textbook Library textbook in their field of expertise.
Workshop attendees agreeing to serve as open textbook reviewers will provide a concise review based on the Open Education Network textbook rubric. The review will be posted on the Open Textbook Library website under an open license where it can help other instructors decide if adopting open educational resources is right for their course. Sample textbook with textbook reviews.
If you are interested in serving as a reviewer, register for this training. Up to 60 seats are available for those who complete this training. A $200 award* will be available to each UHCC attendee submitting a textbook review. The allocated money is available on a first come, first served basis. Completed reviews must be submitted within six weeks of the training to receive the incentive payment.
- The fall workshop will be Friday, October 28th at 11am-12pm and the registration information is on the UHCC OER website training page. The registration deadline is October 7.
* All incentive payments will be processed as overload, subject to participant eligibility.
OER MODIFICATION OR CREATION AWARDS
OER Modification
We are looking for subject matter experts who are committed to using an open textbook and want to either modify the textbook with customized, updated, and/or localized content OR subject matter experts who wish to create ancillary support materials for an existing open textbook or course. Projects can be proposed by a single author or teams of up to four. Ancillary materials could include:
Test banks of questions based on an existing open textbook
Presentations (PowerPoint, Google Slides, etc) to accompany an open textbook
Multimedia such as audio or video content that could further enhance the open textbook
Instructor and/or student manuals accompanying an open textbook
Assignments and other additional learning activities including open pedagogical practices
The award amounts are as follows:
$500-$1,500* for one UHCC author (amount based on project proposal)
$1,000-$3,000* total for a team (maximum of four UHCC authors)
If approved, a project timeline will be created and agreed upon with checkpoints and deliverables. All checkpoints and deliverables must be submitted no later than May 1, 2023.
The goal of this award is to support you in creating and sharing your open educational materials, making them available for other instructors who are adopting, modifying, and creating materials for their students. Authors are expected to publish their textbooks on an approved public platform, for example UH Pressbooks, LibreTexts, or UH OER Commons, and share ancillaries in the UH OER repository or UH OER Commons. If in Laulima, a copy of the course must be provided to UHCC OER that will serve as a template available for others to copy and use. We will help with training and support.
Deliverables:
By May 1, 2023, authors are expected to have, in draft, eight weeks of coursework or eight textbook chapters modified. They should be ready to teach with the final material in fall 2023 or spring 2024, depending on when the course is offered.
Depending on the scope of the project, final course deliverables are due in AY 2023-2024.
The course must be marked TXT0 for the AY 2023-2024 semesters and summer sessions that it is offered.
The textbook or course must be published on an approved public platform for sharing or, if in Laulima, a copy of the course must be provided to UHCC OER that will serve as a template available for others to copy and use.
Authors must license their textbooks and courses with a Creative Commons license. The textbook must not be for-profit or created with the purpose of selling to a publisher. The OER textbook must be openly licensed and freely shareable according to one of the following licenses: CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA.
Award payments will be disbursed by the end of Summer 2023.
To apply, fill out this Modification Proposal form. The deadline HAS BEEN EXTENDED to October 3, 2022.
OER Creation
We welcome subject matter experts who would like to convert a 2023-2024 course requiring a single (for-cost) textbook to a Textbook-cost: $0 course through the creation or authorship of new, openly-licensed educational resources. Projects can be proposed by a single author or teams of up to four.
The award amounts are as follows:
Up to $2,000* for one author (amount based on project proposal)
Up to $4,000* total for a team (maximum of four UHCC authors)
If approved, a project timeline will be created and agreed upon with checkpoints and deliverables. All checkpoints and deliverables must be submitted no later than May 1, 2023.
The goal of this award is to support you in creating and sharing your open educational materials, making them available for other instructors who are adopting, modifying, and creating materials for their students. Authors are expected to publish their textbooks on an approved public platform, for example UH Pressbooks, LibreTexts, or UH OER Commons. If in Laulima, a copy of the course must be provided to UHCC OER that will serve as a template available for others to copy and use. We will help with training and support.
Deliverables:
By May 1, 2023, authors are expected to have, in draft, eight weeks of coursework or eight textbook chapters and be ready to teach with the final material in fall 2023 or spring 2024, depending on when the course is offered.
Depending on the scope of the project, final course deliverables are due in AY 2023-2024.
The course must be marked TXT0 for the AY 2023-2024 semesters and summer sessions that it is offered.
The textbook or course must be published on an approved public platform for sharing or, if in Laulima, a copy of the course must be provided to UHCC OER that will serve as a template available for others to copy and use.
Authors must license their textbooks and courses with a Creative Commons license. The textbook must not be for-profit or created with the purpose of selling to a publisher. The OER textbook must be openly licensed and freely shareable according to one of the following licenses: CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA.
Award payments will be disbursed by the end of Summer 2023.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Who will own the copyright for resources I produce?
As an open educational resource, copyright will remain with the content author(s). However, to be eligible for funding, the new resources must be openly licensed and freely shareable according to one of the following Creative Commons licenses:
Can work be done collaboratively?
Yes, for OER modification or creation projects. There needs to be a project lead, but teams up to 4 people can submit a proposal. At minimum, the project lead must be a subject matter expert that is committed to implement the created resource(s). A staff (APT) member might be eligible for a team if they will play a major role in the development of the resources.
Is this for faculty only or can lecturers and APT apply?
- Lecturers and staff (APT) members can apply for the Open Textbook Reviewer Training.
- Lecturers can apply for a OER modification or creation project individually or as part of a team, but compensation eligibility may not be approved until employment in spring 2023 is verified.
- A staff (APT) member might be eligible for a OER modification or creation project team if they will play a major role in the development of the resources and obtain supervisor approval.
Can I review any Open Textbook?
No. At this time, we are only providing funding for reviews of open textbooks from the Open Textbook Library. The review will be posted on the Open Textbook Library under an open license, where it can also help other instructors to decide if adopting open educational resources is right for their course.
QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions, please contact your campus UHCC OER Grant Program lead or email uhccoer@hawaii.edu.
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