NEW OER Grant Program | Now Accepting Applications Support KPU's commitment to Open Education by applying to the newly updated OER Grant Program. Regular faculty can apply for funding to create or adapt Open Educational Resources! 🔗 OER are materials that are freely accessible and openly available<https://media.kpu.ca/media/What+are+Open+Educational+ResourcesF/0_8zhj26kp> for anyone to use, re-mix, improve and redistribute. This can include images, videos, interactive simulations, worksheets, and of course, textbooks. There are now two streams of grants offered by this program: Stream A: OER Grant— to a maximum value of $4,000, up to $2,000 of which can be used for professional development purchases or activities by the grant recipient. The remaining amount can be used for project funding as outlined in Eligible Expenses. Stream B: Section Release and OER Microgrant— this includes the cost of a section release and up to $2,000 for additional project funding as outlined in Eligible Expenses. To apply and for more information, please visit: https://www.kpu.ca/open/grants. Accepting applications until Wednesday, January 19, 2022. For questions, reach out at open@kpu.ca<https://kpu.ca/> For more about KPU | Open Education, please visit: www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open> Follow us on Twitter at @KPUopen<https://twitter.com/KPUopen> Very best, [logo gif] Urooj Nizami; MISt, MA (she/her) Open Education Strategist, KPU | Open Education Kwantlen Polytechnic University e urooj.nizami@kpu.ca<mailto:urooj.nizami@kpu.ca> w www.kpu.ca/open<http://www.kpu.ca/open> Subscribe to the KPU Open listserv here<https://lists.bccampus.ca/mailman/listinfo/openkpu> Kwantlen Polytechnic University ► Where thought meets action This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, please destroy the e-mail message and any attachments or copies. At KPU, we work, study, and live in a region south of the Fraser River which overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral lands of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semihamoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlen peoples. <https://www.kpu.ca/open/grants>