Summer Stipend for Transitioning to OER
JMU Libraries’ Transition-to-OER summer stipend program provides funding for faculty to do critical course redesign work, such as developing new assignments and graded activities, when transitioning to an open textbook or other open educational resources (OER).
Apply
This summer program awards up to five (5) $2,000 stipends to instructors to develop a new syllabus using open and affordable course materials that will be implemented during the following academic year.
Applications for Summer 2026 are closed. The next call for proposals will open in Spring 2027.
Awardee Expectations
- attend the cohort orientation
- list your course as no-cost in MyMadison during class enrollment periods
- publish your new/revised syllabus to VIVA Open under a Creative Commons license
- provide a reflection of your program experience at the end of the year
Selection Criteria
View the rubric with selection criteria (PDF).
Past Recipients
2025
- Molly O’Donnell, ENG 221 syllabus, Literature and Ideas
- Alvin Chao, CS 149 syllabus, Introduction to Programming
- Hyun Kang, SOWK 305 syllabus, Social Work Research Methods
- Maura Hametz, HIST 102 syllabus, World History since 1500
- Jessica Salvatore, PSYC 101, General Psychology
2024
- Danielle DeRise – WRTC 103 syllabus, Rhetorical Reading and Writing
- Jennifer Byrne – POSC 326 syllabus, Civil Rights
- Yi Edward Yang – POSC 295 syllabus, Research Methods in Political Science
- Sojib Bin Zaman – HTH 320 syllabus, Statistical Methods for Health Science Research
- Eva Strawbridge – MATH 103 syllabus, The Nature of Mathematics
2023
- Yongguang Hu, HIST 101 syllabus
- Kevin Flint, FIN 420 syllabus
- Amy Strunk, BUS 160 (summer 2024)
- Laura Lambert, ISAT 113L syllabus
- Brian Leventhal, PSYC 825 syllabus
- Pamela Sullivan, EDUC 175E syllabus
- Krisztina Jakobsen, Melanie Shoup-Knox, and Dan Holt, PSYC 211 syllabus
2022
- Jeannie Harding, HIST 225 syllabus
- Peter Eubanks, HUM 251 syllabus
- Hakseon Lee, POSC 230 syllabus
- Oleksandr Kokhan, CHEM 132 syllabus
- Maryam Sharifian, IS 498 syllabus
Questions?
Learn more about OER grants and stipends for JMU faculty or contact Liz Thompson, our Open Education Librarian.