March 6, 2018
The M.O.S.T. initiative announced the award of 29 mini-grants to faculty at 18 MD public higher education institutions to support the adoption, adaptation and scaling of open educational resources (OER), with the potential to save approximately 6,500 students over $1.2 million in Fall 2018 alone.
Funded by the ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative’s High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program, the grants represent a mix of high-enrollment courses in mathematics, the sciences, the arts, and the humanities at 2- and 4-year institutions, with a potential to save approximately 6,500 students over $1.2 million in Fall 2018 alone.
December 8, 2017
The ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is seeking proposals for the 2018 High-impact OER Mini-Grant program to strategically support ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø public institutions’ efforts to adopt/adapt Open Educational Resources (OERs) or scale OER adoption.
November 15, 2017
The Kirwan Center is seeking institutional partners from across ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø to participate in a Kresge Foundation funded project starting in Spring 2018 that will pilot the efficacy and feasibility of replacing the high-stakes mathematics placement exam process currently in use with a process that empowers students to assess and remediate their mathematics knowledge using adaptive learning tools i
