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 will award 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 2026-2027 academic year.
Applications for the 2025-2026 program are closed.
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, Literature and Ideas
- Alvin Chao, CS 149, Introduction to Programming
- Hyun Kang, SOWK 305, Social Work Research Methods
- Maura Hametz, HIST 102, World History since 1500
- Jessica Salvatore, PSYC 101, General Psychology
2024
- Danielle DeRise – WRTC 103, Rhetorical Reading and Writing (Fall 2024)
- Jennifer Byrne – POSC 326, Civil Rights (Fall 2024)
- Yi Edward Yang – POSC 295, Research Methods in Political Science (Fall 2024)
- Sojib Bin Zaman – HTH 320, Statistical Methods for Health Science Research (Fall 2024)
- Eva Strawbridge – MATH 103, The Nature of Mathematics (Spring 2025)
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 (spring 2024)
- 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.