Funding for Faculty Teams
The OER for Social Justice grant provided $40,000 in stipends per faculty team. By default, the team leader received an additional $1,000 per year in recognition of their responsibility, and the remaining $37,000 was split evenly among all team members (including the team leader). However, teams could elect to propose a different payment distribution amongst team members that best reflected the distribution of labor to achieve the goals of the grant for that unique project. The grant project team worked with the faculty team to finalize the stipend distributions upon acceptance of award.
Funds were disbursed in three stages, upon completion of deliverables; $10,000 was distributed in Year 1, $15,000 in Year 2, and $15,000 in Year 3.
LMU: Faculty awardees received payments through payroll.
SMC, SCU, USF: Faculty were paid directly through LMU. Instructions for setting up payments were shared with faculty teams upon award.
Additional Benefits
Opportunity to participate in a cohort-based virtual OER learning community with faculty across LMU, SMC, SCU, and USF
Dedicated support from librarians and instructional designers on finding, evaluating, adapting, creating, and publishing OER
Support from the OER for Social Justice grant team (OER Librarian, OER Instructional Designer, and the OER Liaison from your institution):
- Finding existing OER to adapt and build upon
- Copyright guidance on the use of third-party materials
- Guidance with accessibility and technology-based strategies for learning during the creation and publishing of the OER
- Formatting support, training, and hosting on the publishing platform, Pressbooks, or other OER platform
- Assigning a Creative Commons license and DOI
- Sharing their OER and making it discoverable via OER repositories