Project Grant 2439801
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) project grant award of $1,650,000.00 aims to transform STEM education nationwide through the development and large-scale deployment of open educational resources (OER) and integrated social annotation technologies. The project will enhance and deploy the Nota Bene (NB) web-based annotation platform, enabling students and instructors to engage in collaborative content improvement by annotating digital textbook materials. By...
- This $1,000,892 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to improve the capacity for developing high-quality, free, online, interactive mathematics textbooks that facilitate student learning in calculus and linear algebra. The project, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PRETEXT-RUNESTONE: OPEN TEXTBOOKS ENGAGING UNDERGRADUATES IN STEM", seeks to study how groups of textbook users (students, teachers, authors, and...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $778,131 project grant under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of Nebraska from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2026. The grant will support research to evaluate how open educational resources facilitate implementation of Vision and Change core concepts and competencies across diverse higher education institutions. As the lead awardee, the University of Nebraska will collaborate with other institutions to study how open...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $295,050 Project Grant through its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program to Runestone Academy LTD. The funding supports the "PRETEXT-RUNESTONE: OPEN TEXTBOOKS ENGAGING UNDERGRADUATES IN STEM" project, which aims to develop and integrate interactive textbook questions into open-source PreTeXt mathematics textbooks hosted on the Runestone Academy learning platform. Over three design-based research cycles, the project will engage...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education awarded a $131,173 Project Grant to Middle Tennessee State University to "Increase Science Literacy in Microbiology Through the Use of Open Education Resources". This 2-year project, funded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to develop free, high-quality, and accessible learning materials based on the "This Week in Microbiology" podcast. Key components include: Training faculty...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation provides $267,268 to the University of South Alabama to scope the creation of an open-source ecosystem (OSE) consisting of the Pretext and Runestone software applications. The goal is to support accessible science, technology, engineering, and mathematics open educational resources (STEM OER) through an infrastructure exceeding alternatives. Key products include curating methods for multifaceted, accessible, interactive STEM content...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) aims to improve science literacy in microbiology through the use of open educational resources. The $163,541 award to Iowa State University will fund the development of a free electronic book called "Podcast Annotation Resources: Microbiology." This project trains teachers and students to use a collaborative workflow to annotate and contextualize a popular science podcast on microbiology,...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $362,761 project grant to the University of Maine System under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to support the collaborative research project "From Community to Practice: Evaluating How Open Educational Resources Facilitate Implementation of Vision and Change Principles Across Diverse Institutions" from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2026. The University of Maine, operating as the Research & Sponsored Program division of the...
- This $400,000 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) aims to serve the national interest by increasing the quality and effectiveness of undergraduate STEM education through improved understanding and instructor use of active learning instructional strategies. The two-year project will systematically review and synthesize current research literature to identify and describe the full range of active learning strategies and instructional tactics used...
- This Project Grant award of $199,912.00 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a multi-faceted project aimed at improving learning outcomes and increasing passing rates in introductory biology courses at the recipient institution. The key activities include: Developing interactive 3D-printed learning materials to enhance conceptual understanding in introductory biology courses. Integrating project-based research experiences into newly created open...
This $350,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to transform STEM education nationwide through the development and large-scale deployment of open educational resources (OER) and integrated social annotation technologies. The core of the project is the enhancement and integration of the Nota Bene (NB) web-based annotation platform into the LibreTexts OER repository. This will enable students and instructors to engage in collaborative content improvement through contextual conversations directly alongside digital textbook content. The project goals are to establish social annotation as a core STEM education practice, create scalable infrastructure for collaborative OER development, and generate actionable knowledge on how learner-instructor interactions through annotation drive content improvement and learning outcomes. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the lead awardee for this 5-year project, with work taking place in Cambridge, MA.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $350.0k | 8/22/25 |