CAAL-CBPA Strategic Plan: Goal 6.3 Administer an OER Development Grants Program for educators in the region. 

The Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries (CAAL) is delighted to announce the recipients of this year’s AtlanticOER Development Grants. These grants are intended to support educators in the Atlantic Region in the adaptation, adoption, creation, and curation of open educational resources (OER), and to increase access to course materials for students. With funding from the Council of Atlantic Ministers for Education and Training (CAMET), the AtlanticOER Development Grant Program expanded this year. A new tiered system of funding was introduced to better support textbook creation (up to $7,000), adaptation (up to $3,500), and ancillary material creation projects (up to $1,000). 

The grants aim to support educators from provincially funded post secondary institutions in achieving the following objectives:

• Support the creation or adaptation of open textbooks and ancillary materials, such as PowerPoint slides, quiz banks, images, and other digital study or interactive aids;
• Create a variety of OERs developed for use by educators and students in credit-bearing courses;
• Establish supportive events for the development of content for OERs, such as sprints (a collaborative in-person or virtual event to create or adapt an open textbook or ancillary resources); or
• Distribute funds to maximize direct benefit to a wide range of student learners and inquiry across a diversity of disciplines.

The 2024 Development Grant recipients are: 

• Dr. Cynthia Alexander, Department of Politics, Acadia University
• Dr. Yigit Aydede, Sobey School of Business and Economics, Saint Mary’s University  
• Dr. Karen Brebner, Department of Psychology, Saint Francis Xavier University  
• André Davey, School of Access, Education, and Language, Nova Scotia Community College 
• Dr. Elizabeth Jewett, Director of Extended Learning, Mount Allison University 
• Dr. Laura Lambe, Department of Psychology, Saint Francis Xavier University 
• Hannah Rosborough, Instruction and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Sir James Dunn Library, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University 
• Dr. Mo Snyder, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Acadia University 
• Matthew Walker, School of Performing Arts, Dalhousie University 

We are pleased to offer support to educators in the region in developing OERs.