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Open Educational Resources (OER)

An everevolving guide to assist faculty in finding and using OER

About the Mini-Grants

Texas Wesleyan University has been awarded a grant from the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, a portion of this grant will be used for faculty and instructors wanting to adopt an existing OER, modify/remix an existing OER, and/or create support materials for adopted or modified OER into their course. Below are the award types and amounts for the 2025 cohort:

2025 Expedited OER Mini Grants
Award Type Amount Requirements
Adoption $1,000 Use an existing open resource (textbook, library licensed material, workbook, quiz, etc.) for a course with no editing and minimal course adaptation required.  
Modifying/Remixing $2,500 Adapt, update, combine, or improve existing OER to replace currently used course materials. OER will be added to the TXWES’s Pressbooks catalog and Pressbooks directory. 
Support Materials $1,000

Develop test bank questions, teaching support materials, quizzes, interactive learning aid, videos, or other support materials for existing OER or library licensed material. All support materials developed should be openly licensed.

This is a stackable option for faculty who would like to adopt or modify an OER Textbook and also create support materials.

*These totals do not reflect FICA deduction.

Grant Eligibility

To be considered for a grant, proposals must:

  • Be submitted by a Texas Wesleyan University employee with teaching responsibilities
  • Be used by an instructor in a course which they have not previously used OER or, if OER is used, significant changes to the material must occur.

Grant Requirements

2025 Application Requirements

  • Complete and submit the application linked here by December 11, 2024.
  • Identify the OER that you will use as a starting point. This guide provides many options on finding OER, or speak with your librarian for more information. Below are the options for implementation for this 2025 cohort:
    • Adoption
    • Modifying/Remixing
    • Support Materials
  • Describe your project plan including steps necessary to incorporate OER into your course. This could include all or some of the following in addition to items not listed:
    • Syllabus revision
    • Creation of ancillary/support materials
    • Cursory timeline of completion
  • Provide a short narrative of assessment of your project plan including who will benefit from the OER you've selected, what qualitative and quantitative data do you plan to use to assess the effectiveness of the OER in your course, and what steps you intend to do ensure continued effectiveness or ways to reassess if effectiveness is not achieved.

Requirements for Grant Recipients

Grant recipients are required to:

  • Attend a Grant Recipient Meeting in January

  • Complete Memorandum of Understanding

  • Meet with librarian for individualized consultation to discuss working plan

  • Showcase outcomes on the TXWES Textbook Hero page

  • Depending on award applying for, publish modified OER material to Texas Wesleyan University Pressbooks catalog and Pressbooks Directory or have supplemental materials held in TXWES OER Hub in Canvas and published to Canvas Commons.

  • Submit a benchmark project assessment by May 2025 discussing project progress.

  • Incorporate OER Materials by Fall 2025

  • Continue to use resource(es) in course(es) and update as needed, providing updated data to OER Committee:

    • Adapt: minimum 2 years

    • Adopt: minimum 2 years

  • Submit a final project assessment  in Spring 2026 and share on experiences that include student impact, student feedback, challenges, lessons learned, and future plans in using OER