Project Grant P116T200028

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education awarded a $1,366,666 Project Grant under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program to establish the Open Dental Education Consortium (ODEC). This multi-year grant, with an award date of October 1, 2024, supports the development of open-source textbooks for six dental hygiene courses at Marquette University and its partner institutions, Chippewa Valley Technical College and Milwaukee Area...

West Chester University of Pennsylvania was awarded a $918,270 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) federal grant program. Through this three-year award beginning September 1, 2021, West Chester University will lead the Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA-ADOPT) initiative. PA-ADOPT aims to support institutional reforms and innovative strategies to improve...

The Board of Trustees of Community College District #508 Inc., doing business as Harold Washington College, received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education program. The three-year award beginning June 1, 2023 supports the development of open education resources and an OER taskforce to secure low- or no-cost educational materials for students. As a Hispanic-serving...

The University of New Mexico (UNM) was awarded a $2,124,223 Project Grant under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program by the Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education. The grant, titled "NEW MEXICO OER CONSORTIUM PILOT PROJECT", has a performance period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026. The objectives of this grant are to: 1) Develop and transition 20-25 courses at UNM and sub-awardee Central New Mexico Community College...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program provides $299,626 to support the development of an open-source ecosystem around the Physics Education Technology Model-View-Controller framework. The University of Colorado Boulder will conduct research and community engagement activities to transition the PHET MVC codebase into an open-source platform that can support a broad range of interactive media for teaching science and math...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in generating and evaluating culturally relevant computing resources for Latine students in undergraduate computer science programs. Specifically, UCSD will create a culturally relevant textbook for introductory programming and conduct controlled experiments to compare its effectiveness...

This $276,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships grant funds Objective ED, Inc. to develop a computer-based co-reading prototype for students with reading disabilities. The prototype will use cloud infrastructure and a user application to perform co-reading with students, validating reading accuracy and offering remediation for mistakes. It will allow teachers to customize lessons and monitor student progress using engaging book content. Data captured will...

This two-year, $149,259 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program will fund the development of an open homework repository by the Virtual Library of Virginia consortium. Working with partner organizations including Galileo, the Louisiana Library Network, and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the consortium will plan and create a proof-of-concept repository to store and share open educational...

Manchester Community College will create an academic art history reader focused on traditionally marginalized communities, titled "Not Your Grandfather's Art History." Funded through a $145,258 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under its Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program, the reader aims to provide increased representation of voices and images in the classroom. It will feature analytical...

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...