Apply for a Textbook Affordability Small Grant--Deadline November 15, 2021

The Michael Schwartz Library, in collaboration with the Center for eLearning, Center for Instructional Technology and Distance Learning (CITDL), and the Center for Faculty Excellence, is sponsoring another Textbook Affordability Small Grant to help support faculty who are willing to adapt/remix an open textbook for a class. Grant applications are due November 15, 2021.Textbook Affordability Grant OverviewTextbook Affordability Grant Application (log in with your CSU email address)Open Textbooks which are a type of open educational resource, are full, real textbooks licensed to be freely used, edited, and distributed. Increasingly, faculty members all across the country are adapting/remixing open textbooks as one way to address the crisis of textbook affordability. Visit the Open Textbook Library to peruse peer-reviewed textbooks and decide if one of them is right for your course, or send your syllabus to your personal librarian to map your current materials to openly-licensed content for you to consider. Successful applicants will receive support from a team of librarians and instructional designers who will help you adapt/remix openly-licensed material for your use.Contact your personal librarian for more information.