Creation Award Guidelines

Guidelines

This award is not for the adoption of an existing OER. It is designed to support the creation of openly licensed learning materials where none currently exists, or to substantially modify existing OER with original content which results in a wholly new and unique resource. The finished product will then be used in a Textbook Cost: $0 course at UH-West O’ahu.

The materials developed

• must align with the student learning outcomes in the course
• must include original content
• cannot include photos, images, charts, graphs or other content which are not under your copyright or have not been CC licensed by the copyright holder
• must properly attribute any content that is not original
• must be uploaded to an open access repository or an open publishing platform such as UH Pressbooks (training available) or Dspace, the UHWO Repository
• must be openly licensed and freely shareable according to one of the following licenses: CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC, or CC BY-NC-SA
• must not be for-profit or created with the purpose of selling to a publisher

Criteria

Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• Amount of original work to be included
• Total number of students enrolled in your sections of the course during the current academic year
• Current cost of the textbook. If the course is already Textbook Cost: $0, the cost of a textbook used in the same or a similar course
• Successful completion of the “Introduction to OER” UHWO training workshop or a different OER training
• OER will be used in a semester-long course

Consult this rubric, which will be used to rate applications.

Award Amounts

The award scale ranges from $1,000 to $4,000*, and is contingent upon the originality of the OER that is created. Detailed information about the range is below. Applicants can choose to create either a text or a video series.

*Contact Michiko at msjoseph@hawaii.edu for detailed information about the disbursement of funds.

$3,000-$4,000 award range

1. Create an original open textbook, developed with minimal use of existing OER
   Individual award: $3,000
   Team award: $4,000
2. Create an original video series comprised of 30 sessions (approximately 30 mins per session) of content that addresses course SLOs.
   Individual award: $3,000
   Team award: $4,000

$2,000-$3,000 award range

1. Revise and remix an existing OER into a cohesive resource. Significant original content is included.
   Individual award: $2,000
   Team award: $3,000
2. Create an original video series comprised of 15 sessions (approximately 30 mins per session) of content addressing most course SLOs.
   Individual award: $2,000
   Team award: $3,000

$1,000-$1,500 award range

1. Revise and remix existing OER into a cohesive resource for your class. Some original content is included.
   Individual award: $1,000
   Team award: $1,500
2. Create an original video series comprised of 15 sessions (approximately 10 mins per session) of content addressing some course SLOs.
   Individual award: $1,000
   Team award: $1,500