More CMU MORE Request for Proposals:
Faculty are invited to submit proposals for incentive funding from the 2023-24 & 2024-25 Colorado Open Educational Resources (OER) CMU institutional grant titled More CMU MORE: More Colorado Mesa University Maverick Open Resource Educators.
Eligibility and incentives
All CMU and CMU Tech faculty members, including tenured/tenure-track professors, full-time instructors, and part-time adjunct lecturers, are eligible to submit a grant proposal. Levels of incentive funding are available to the faculty to encourage them to adopt, adapt, or create OER for their courses. Stipends are awarded through a competitive process, where individual faculty members will submit proposals outlining the work required to adopt, adapt, and/or create the OER materials to an OER Selection Committee.
View incentive info and levels
Selection process
The OER Selection Committee was formed with the purpose of evaluating the merit of the faculty grant proposals for incentive funding. The OER Selection Committee will complete the selection process near the middle of the spring 2025 semester by early-March so that the successful grantees can begin their work shortly thereafter.
Proposal application requirements
To apply for an individual grant, complete the More CMU MORE Individual Request for Proposals form. The completed form will include the following information:
- Project Title
- Applicant name(s) and rank
- Relevant course(s), and frequency of course offering, impacted by this grant proposal
- Current or previous textbook title and/or other course material and costs of current or previous textbook and/or materials
- The way the grant recipient will evaluate the use of the OER developed using this internal grant
- Identification of librarian or instructional designer trained in OER to support this OER initiative for which the grant is requested
Submit your proposal for this funding cycle by Friday, January 31, 2025 at 11:59 pm
Each proposal will need to include the projected number of students affected by the adoption of OER materials, based on enrollment data from prior semesters, and the total cost savings for the course(s) based on these projections.
Grantees will be required to submit a final report to the Office of Academic Affairs by July 1, 2025, which will include the actual total cost savings for the course(s) where OER materials have been implemented. Additionally, this report should include the DFW rates for the course(s), which should be compared to DFW rates from prior semesters, when possible. In Essential Learning courses that assess student learning outcomes, the relevant data should be included and compared to prior semesters, when possible.
OER expert assistance
Each proposal (for Levels 2-4) will include a librarian or instructional designer trained as an OER expert as part of the project, where they will oversee the licensing and publication of the adapted or created OER material. This OER trained librarian or instructional designer can assist the project faculty in facilitating best practices in course design, obtaining the correct Creative Commons open license and in publishing the adapted or created OER material at the completion of the project. These OER trained librarians and instructional designers will receive incentive funding for their efforts at a rate of $500 per project, which will be paid at the completion of the project and is in addition to the funding-levels previously referenced.