Open Education Sprint Grants

Sponsored by the AVP, Educational Support and Innovation, the BCIT Open Education Working Group, the BCIT Library, and the Learning and Teaching Centre are providing small grants (up to $5,000) this fiscal year to fund “sprints” to develop open ancillary resources (test banks, case studies, slide decks, etc.) or to redesign courses to incorporate open educational practices and open course materials. The Open Education Working Group, the Library, and the LTC offers additional support to apply for the grants, set up and run the sprints, find and adapt high-quality open educational resources, apply a Creative Commons licence (CC BY or CC BY-SA), and add newly created OER to the BCIT Open Repository.

What is an open education sprint? It is when a group of people get together for one or more days to develop something that will be given a Creative Commons License like the Great Psychology Test Bank Sprint.

There is a possibility of receiving matching funding from BCcampus.

BCcampus is also offering $250 honorariums to faculty who review open textbooks from the BCcampus collection.

How to apply for an Open Educational Resources Grant

1. Review the information below, if you need more information, contact open@bcit.ca
2. Submit the completed application form to open@bcit.ca (or click the submit button on the form)

Eligibility

Full and part-time instructors at BCIT may receive an open education grant. The sprint can include colleagues from other post-secondary institutions.

Deadline

Apply anytime before December 31, 2016, complete the sprint by March 31, 2017

Application

Three grants of up to $5,000 will be provided in the 2016/17 fiscal year. The intent of the grants is to enable instructors teaching courses at BCIT to receive support to participate in a sprint to create open ancillary resources (test banks, case studies, slide decks, etc.), or to redesign a course to incorporate open educational resources and open educational practices. Institutional support will be provided by the Open Education Working Group, the Library, and the LTC.

Open Education Sprint Grant Application Form