Open Education Initiative - Open Educational Resources - Subject Research Guides at University of Massachusetts Amherst

“In the spring semester of 2011, the Provost's Office and the University Libraries launched the Open Education Initiative at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. This initiative incentivizes the use of textbook alternatives through ten $1,000 grants to faculty. Using any combination of Open Educational Resources and proprietary Library resources, this initiative aims to bring about new ways of conceptualizing higher education tools, hopefully saving undergraduate students hundreds of dollars each year. Below is a copy of the Open Education Initiative announcement and guidelines.  We are currently accepting applications for the third round of Open Education Initiative grants. We will be giving out two grants of $2,500 each to two faculty members who are teaching a Gen Ed course with an enrollment of over 300 students. Please see the announcement below for further information... Additional literature on open educational resources is available at: http://guides.library.umass.edu/oer... Send your proposal by e-mail Carol Barr, Vice Provost for Undergraduate & Continuing Education at cbarr@isenberg.umass.edu. Faculty receiving grants are asked to deploy their alternative textbook option in the fall of 2012 or spring of 2013...”