{"id":19025,"date":"2026-01-27T18:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/?p=19025"},"modified":"2026-02-11T15:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:01:20","slug":"open-and-affordable-teaching-materials-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/2026\/01\/27\/open-and-affordable-teaching-materials-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Open and Affordable Teaching Materials Grant Applications Now Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty and instructors can submit a proposal now through April 24, 2026<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty and instructors teaching an upcoming course at the University of Delaware are invited to apply for the Open and Affordable Teaching Materials grant, offered by the UD Library, Museums and Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The program supports course material affordability while empowering instructors to enhance and transform their courses using open, free or existing Library-licensed materials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The grants are designed to reduce the cost of course materials for students and to encourage innovative teaching practices through the adoption, adaptation, or creation of open educational resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grant Opportunities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four types of grants are available to support a range of course sizes and instructional needs:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transition grant, small enrollment course enrichment (49 students or fewer):<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Individuals or a team may apply for a $500 grant to incorporate open educational resources or Library-licensed materials into an existing course. <\/span>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transition grant, mid-sized enrollment courses (50 students or more):<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Individuals or a team may apply for a $1,500 grant to integrate open or Library-licensed materials into their course.<\/span>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transition grant, large enrollment courses (150 students or more):<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Individuals or a team may apply for a $5,000 grant to support the adoption of open or Library-licensed teaching materials.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authoring an open educational resource grant. Individuals or a team may apply for a $5,000 grant to create an open educational resource by altering, editing, or remixing existing materials and\/or developing original content.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn More<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interested faculty and instructors are encouraged to attend an upcoming information session on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/udel.libcal.com\/event\/16242658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">February 17<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/udel.libcal.com\/event\/16250782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">March 18<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and reach out to Jeanne Kambara, Open Education Librarian at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:jkambara@udel.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">jkambara@udel.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for a consultation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proposals must be submitted by April 24, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For full details and application information, visit:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/teaching-and-learning\/oer\/ud-oer-grant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/teaching-and-learning\/oer\/ud-oer-grant\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Register for the February Info session: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/udel.libcal.com\/event\/16242658\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/udel.libcal.com\/event\/16242658<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Register for the March Info session: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/udel.libcal.com\/event\/16250782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/udel.libcal.com\/event\/16250782<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty and instructors can submit a proposal now through April 24, 2026 Faculty and instructors teaching an upcoming course at the University of Delaware are invited to apply for the Open and Affordable Teaching Materials grant, offered by the UD &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":19026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 12:36:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19044,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19025\/revisions\/19044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}