The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in the U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $1.08 million grant to the University of Illinois System/CARLI for Illinois SCOERs (Support for Creation of Open Educational Resources). Illinois SCOERs activities begin September 1, 2021 and extend to August 31, 2024.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Open Textbooks Pilot Program is a competitive grant program based on U.S. Senate Majority Whip and Illinois Senator Richard Durbin’s Affordable College Textbook Act. Through this grant funding, Illinois SCOERs will provide access to open textbooks and personalized learning tools for entry-level courses in high-demand health care and human development career paths.
Illinois SCOERs is a true statewide enterprise that will fundamentally change the open educational resources landscape in Illinois by providing a new holistic support model that will promote student success through OER awareness, implementation, growth, and adoption.
Read thepress release available from Senator Durbin’s web site.
Illinois SCOERs (Support for Creation of Open Educational Resources) will develop, improve, and expand open educational resources by focusing on “The Human Condition: Care, Development, and Lifespan.” Project participants will create a minimum of eight open textbooks paired with ancillary materials for teachers and students.
These OER will be created by work teams funded through competitive sub-grants in the focus subjects including health, health information management, nutrition, microbiology, immunobiology, genetics, laboratory skills, audiology, radiology, dental, child development, developmental psychology (and disorders), personality, nursing, sport, therapy (massage, physical, occupational), occupational safety, social work, counseling, speech/communication development and pathology, EMT, human sexuality, social psychology, and biochemistry.
Illinois SCOERs will provision the creation of a new holistic support model for OER creation and use in Illinois. The value of Illinois SCOERs can best be articulated by its motto: “Student success through OER awareness, implementation, growth, and adoption.
Other 2018–2021 Open Textbooks Pilot Program Grantees
Includes Eligibility, Requirements for Applications (includes application and supporting documents, Requirements for Sub-Grant Recipients, Information on Proposal Evaluation, and Dates & Deadlines.
CARLI recommends that interested parties fill out the Illinois SCOERs Intent to Apply form prior to March 1, 2022.
Completed applications, including all requested documentation, are due April 1, 2022.
Subscribe to the Illinois SCOERs email list for project news and updates.
Institutions applying as part of a project team will be encouraged to contribute local funds in order to maximize savings to students.
Engage CARLI member institutions in Illinois SCOERs through participation in professional development
The Open Illinois Project Director will work closely with the CARLI Senior Director and CARLI member library staff to identify, create, adapt, and adopt open and affordable course content at the course and program level to accommodate the evolving learning, teaching, and research needs of the diverse CARLI community. The director will coordinate the sub-grant program to member libraries. In collaboration with the CARLI membership and CARLI staff, the Open Illinois Senior Coordinator will contribute actively to the consortium's efforts around open educational resources, author rights, scholarly publishing, data management, and repositories.
Other resources and support include training faculty and librarians at member organizations CARLI’s Open Illinois Initiative site (resources and support) CARLI’s emerging OER Commons Hub, and the Illinois Library Association legislative initiative.
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