OER Grant Recipients

Since launching in 2019, the OER grant program has funded 41 projects to replace commercial textbooks and courseware with newly developed or adapted OER. Faculty participants come from a range of disciplines. It is estimated that the completed projects will save 5581 students $719K in textbook costs per year.

2024

Irene Finestrat-Martinez, Accelerated Intermediate Spanish (SPAN 125-0)
Danielle Sass and Arend Kuyper, Data Science 1 with R (STAT 301-1)
Andrew Crotty, Advanced Database Systems (COMP SCI 497)
Ilya Mikhelson, Introduction to Electrical Engineering (ELEC ENG 202)
Jeffrey Richards, Heat and Mass Transport (ChBE 422)
Martina Kerlova and Franziska Lys, Intermediate German (GER 102 (1-3), GER 201, 203, 205)
Daniele Biffante and Daniela Pozzi Pavan, Intermediate and Intensive Italian (ITALIAN 102 (1-3) & 133 (1-2))

2023

David Boyk and Daniel Majchrowicz: Accelerated and Intermediate Hindi-Urdu (HIND_URD 116, 121-1, and 320)
Jingjing Ji and Yangtian Luo: Formal Advanced and Accelerated Chinese (CHINESE 311 and 315)
Emre Bessler and Arvind Krishna: Introduction to Programming for Data Science (STAT 201)
Julia Oliver Rajan and Maria Teresa Villanueva: Accelerated Intermediate and Advanced Spanish for Heritage Learners (SPANISH 127 and 200)
Vincent St-Amour: Data Structures (COMP SCI 214)
Abigail Stringer and faculty sponsor Julius Lucks: Molecular and Cell Biology for Engineers (CHEM ENG 275)
Jili Sun and Yan Zhou: First Year Chinese, Regular and Accelerated (CHINESE 111 and 115)

2022

Jennifer Dunn and Jeff Richards: Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibrium and Staged Separations (CHEM ENG 211 & 212)
Aaron Greicius and Apurva Nakade: Linear Algebra - Courseware (MATH 240)
Sinan Keten: Structural Analysis - Dynamics (CIV ENV 320)
- See completed OER Structural Dynamics
Arvind Krishna and Arend Kuyper: Data Science I with Python (STAT 301-1)
- See completed OER Introduction to Data Science with Python
Elena Lanza and Reyes Morán: Current Topics Through Media (SPANISH 201)
- See completed OER Temas de hoy en Latinoamérica
Ragy Mikhaeel: Arabic (ARABIC 111, 1-3)
Aude Raymond, Christiane Rey, and Patricia Scarampi: Intermediate French (FRENCH 121, 1-3 and 125, 1-3)
Danielle Sass: Introduction to Statistics - Courseware (STAT 202)
- See completed OER: tutorialExtras and isdsTutorials
Tiffany Schmidt and Justin Brown: Neuroscience Electives (NEURO 377 + upper level electives)

2021

Alex Birdwell and Michele Zugnoni: Design Thinking and Communication (ENGLISH/DSGN 106)
Desiree Hanford and Patti Wolter: Reporting and Writing (JOUR 201-1)
Aaron Greicius and Sean McAfee: Single-Variable Differential Calculus and Single-Variable Integral Calculus (MATH 220-1 and 220-2)
J. Michelle Molina: Introduction to Religion (REL 170)
Vincent St-Amour: Data Structures and Data Management (COMP SCI 214)
Ana C Thomé Williams: Reading and Speaking Portuguese (PORT 201)

2020

Lisa Del Torto and Alex Birdwell, Design Thinking and Communication (ENGLISH/DSGN 106)
Eric Auerbach, Econometrics for Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (MATH 386-1)
Anupam Garg, Mathematical Tools for the Physical Sciences (PHYS 311-1, 311-2)
- See completed OER Mathematics with a Scientific Sensibility
Aaron Greicius, Linear Algebra (MATH 240-0)
- See completed OER Linear Algebra: the theory of vector spaces and linear transformations

2019

Shelby Hatch, Chemistry of Nature and Culture (CHEM 201)
- See completed OER Chemistry of Nature and Culture OER
Bruce Spencer, Survey Sampling (STAT 325)

Jean Clipperton, Introduction to Empirical Methods (POLI SCI 210)
- See completed OER Empirical Methods in Political Science OER
Jonathan Emery & Ken Shull, Materials Science & Engineering (MAT SCI 201/301)
- See completed MSE Core Curriculum OER
Arend Kuyper, Intro to Data Science; Data Science Assessments (STAT 202 and 301)
- See completed OER Introduction to Statistics and Data Science OER
Peter Mwangi, Swahili 1 (SWAHILI 111)
- See completed OER Elementary Swahili OER
Karrie Snyder, Sociological Analysis (SOCIOL 226)