36 All Grants
Learning Objectives
- Understand deliverables, student cost, licensing requirements, and award ranges for all Adopt a Free Textbook grant tiers
Grant Tiers
| Grant | Outcome | Student Cost | Licensing Requirement | Individual Award Range | Group Award Range |
| No Cost | Adoption of a library e-book or other no cost learning materials | No cost | Open licensing not required. | $500 | $1,000-2,000 |
| OER | Adoption of existing open educational resources | Free | Creative Commons | $1,000 | $1,500-3,000 |
| Design | Modification, remixing, or authoring of original OER | Free | Creative Commons | $3,500-5,000 | $5,000-$10,000 |
*3 applicants required for group grants; we encourage department-wide applications for higher impact.
Deliverables: All Grants
All Adopt a Free Textbook Grant Recipients must deliver the following. The next chapters provide a more detailed breakdown of deliverables by grant type.
- Collaborate with a librarian to find free textbooks
- Replace the primary textbook(s) with free textbook(s)
- For No Cost and Adoption: teach with the free textbooks 4 semesters
- Design author commitment is 6-12 months; teaching commitment is 2 semesters
- For No Cost Grants: Mark course as Low Cost Textbook course in the UTSA course search
- For OER Adoption and OER Design grants: Mark course as a Free Textbook course in the UTSA Course Search
- Complete a Certification Course for OER Adoption (2 hours)
- Serve as an OER advocate: share your experience with other faculty
- Complete a final report that includes:
- Student evaluations of the textbook
- Anonymized final grades, including drop, fail, and withdraw rates
- Final syllabus and future plans
For Design Grants Only:
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- Share OER in Runner Research and national and Texas repositories
- Complete a Design Certification course (4 hours)
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OER and No Cost grants provided by the UTSA Libraries to advance OER at UTSA.
Adoption of library e-book(s) or other learning materials in the course(s) that are completely free for students that may not be openly licensed.
Adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) as course learning materials that are completely free for students and Creative Commons licensed.
Teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or that have been released under an intellectual property license that allows for free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others, including full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. OER textbooks from OpenStax and Open Textbook Library are examples: they are free and have Creative Commons licenses.
This grant tier is for extensive modification of existing Open Educational Resources (OER) that may involve creation of new OER to be used as the primary course learning materials in the course. The final OER created as a deliverable must be completely free for students and Creative Commons licensed.
Completely asynchronous UTSA Blackboard course for UTSA faculty awarded an OER Adoption grant. OER Certificate Courses are a collaboration between UTSA Libraries and UTSA Academic Innovation.
Runner Research Press is an online repository of scholarly and creative work produced at UTSA that stimulates research, discovery and learning with the goal of engaging and transforming our diverse communities through open, inclusive access. Runner Research is administered and maintained by the Scholarly Communication Librarian at UTSA Libraries.
Completely asynchronous UTSA Blackboard course for UTSA faculty awarded an OER Design grant. OER Certificate Courses are a collaboration between UTSA Libraries and UTSA Academic Innovation.
