We’re excited to announce the 2017 UHM OER project awards!
Each project will receive funding up to $5,000 to create an OER textbook or course, or develop instructional tools to support existing OER adoptions on campus. The selected projects come from a broad group of colleges and departments at UHM, representing diverse interests and applications for OER at the Mānoa campus. Several of the courses moving to OER are offered at other campuses throughout the UH System, providing a unique opportunity to collectively improve learning content.
The projects will develop their OER this beginning this month, with plans to share the outputs to the UH System OER Repository by the end of fall semester. These materials will be shared with a Creative Commons (CC) license for faculty and instructors throughout the UH System to reuse in whole or in part. All supporting software for the OER projects will licensed as free software and shared via Github as applicable.
A list of the projects (in no order):
- College Physics
- Contemporary Online Instruction Simplified
- Human Nutrition*
- Math 111 + 112
- Musubi: A New Approach to Japanese Language and Culture
- Message Processing: The Science of Creating Understanding
- Practical Meteorology
- Principles of Microeconomics
- Siblaw Taraw: Tales of Enchantment from Barlig
- The Animator’s Companion – Essentials
- The Open Constitution
We’ve started a page on this site for each project, with more details about what’s being built:
Be sure to subscribe to the UH OER blog to keep up with the progress!
A link to the original call for proposals can be found here.
*The Human Nutrition OER project began as a pilot in December 2016)
By the way
You may also notice some changes in the style and construction of oer.hawaii.edu, including a new landing page. We’re working to make our resources as usable as possible, so please get in touch if you notice anything our of the ordinary. Mahalo!
