Five McMaster University faculty members are receiving grants to support four projects that will foster the creation and integration of free, high-quality online textbooks and other digital educational materials.
The McMaster Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant Program is a three-year pilot project jointly supported by the Office of the Provost, McMaster University Library, the Health Sciences Library and the MacPherson Institute. It provides successful applicants with funding to create or adapt and customize open educational resources, enabling new pedagogical approaches and costs savings for students. The program also offers an award for instructors to peer review an existing open textbook.
The 2022-23 grants will support four open content creation projects.
The following faculty members, and their corresponding projects, will be supported as they build and integrate OER into their teaching in the coming year:
- Christopher Anand, associate professor, Department of Computing and Software, Faculty of Engineering
Open Content Creation: Creating with Code: An Introduction to Functional Programming and User Interaction Using 2D Graphics in Elm
- Anthony Chibba and Sharonna Greenberg, assistant professors, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Faculty of Science
Open Content Creation: Developing an OER for organic chemistry and chemical biology for first-year chemistry students
- David Heidebrecht, advisor on special projects and sessional instructor, Office of the Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning, and manager, Office of Community Engagement, Faculty of Social Sciences
Open Content Creation: The Art of Change: Introduction to Individual, Systems, and Organizational Change
- Anne Holbrook, director, Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, and professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences
Open Content Creation: Development of a Canadian open textbook for medical students learning clinical pharmacology and prescribing skills
To learn more about the McMaster OER Grant Program and the McMaster OER Committee, visit the program’s website or email oer@mcmaster.ca.
