To support the development of open education resources (OER), the Office of the Provost is providing funding for faculty to adapt, adopt and/or create OER for an existing course. Proposals will be due Wednesday, March 20, 2019.
To learn how faculty at Pitt are using OER, plan to attend the Open Education Resources Panel Discussion on March 4, 2019, from 4-5:30 p.m. in the Gold Room, University Club. A panel of four Pitt faculty members will describe their experiences with adapting, adopting and/or creating OER for one of their courses.
OER is defined as high-quality curricular materials — textbooks, lab notebooks, videos — that are free to students at Pitt and other institutions and allow legal permission for open use and adaptation. Open use means that anyone is free to retain, reuse, revise, remix and redistribute these educational materials as long as attribution is made to the original creator/author.
This past fall, the provost provided funding for 11 projects. For information on funding range, eligibility and more, view the OER funding application.