Open Textbook Grant deadline is March 30

The NC State Open Textbook Grants are a faculty incentive initiative encouraging the use of open textbooks while maintaining high-quality course design and instruction. Through this granting program, we've worked with nineteen different instructors from sixteen different courses to adapt OER into their courses since 2019, saving students hundreds of thousands of dollars in textbook costs.

We invite proposals from individual faculty and departmental groups for projects to explore and adopt open textbooks. The application deadline for the 2021 cycle of grants is Tuesday, March 30. The full Call for Proposals and online application form are on the Libraries website.

Grants are available in three categories that support instructors in different ways. Faculty can receive a grant to Review an Open Textbook that would be appropriate for their class or a class in their department, posting the review on the Open Textbook Library. They can get support in Adapting/Adopting an Open Textbook, redesigning their course to incorporate an open textbook. And they can request a grant for Department/Group Adoption, choosing open textbooks for three or more classes and adopting them as the assigned textbook for the classes. Visit the Open Textbook Grant page for details and requirements for these categories.

The Open Textbook Grant at NC State is a collaboration between the Libraries, DELTA, and Wolfpack Outfitters. NC State University has partnered with Rice University’s OpenStax as a member of its Institutional Partner Program. OpenStax is the largest provider of no-cost Open Educational Resources (OER) in the U.S. The OpenStax Institutional Partner Program is for institutions ready to make an impact on campus by dedicating the necessary time and resources to work alongside faculty and utilize OER to drive student success, retention, and completion. OER course materials are available at no cost to faculty, and they allow you to adapt and redistribute the content with no or limited restrictions so that you can modify and disseminate the resources in ways that fit your and your student’s needs.