Projects and Grants
Projects and Grants
The State University of New York (SUNY) has received $4 million from New York State since 2017 to fund the sustained use of Open Educational Resources (OER). Calculating savings to students and families in the timeframe 2017-2020, SUNY had more than tripled the impact of that investment.
From 2017 through Spring 2022, total savings is over $78 million.
Details of funding models for each year are below. Please send additional questions to oer@suny.edu.
Current Projects
2023 SUNY OER Impact Grants
For 2023, selected institutions will be awarded SUNY OER Grants to support significant advances in OER adoption, scaling, and sustainability in support of student success. There are two levels of grant funding – up to $15,000 and up to $30,000. Grants will be awarded for projects such as:
- Large-scale adoption of OER for high-enrollment courses and gateway courses with the highest drop/fail/withdrawal rates
- Creation of OER, such as open textbooks, adaptive courses, and ancillary materials
- Professional development supporting OER and open pedagogy
- For more information visit the 2023 OER Grants Program page https://oer.suny.edu/2023grants/
Previous Projects
Prior SUNY OER Funding Opportunities
2019-2020
- Discipline-focused faculty development
- Change Management and sustainability cohorts
- One-third of campuses participated in facilitated sustainability workshops in 2019-2021
- A two-year guided approach to sustainability
- Limited new OER course section funding 2018-2019 SUNY OER Funding
2018-2019
- Baseline and Course Section
- OER Degree Program Development
- OER Creation Projects
2017-2018
- Baseline funding and per student enrollment funding
SUNY OER Services Funded OER Degree Programs
- A.S. in Liberal Arts English and Humanities at Corning Community College
- A.S. Liberal Arts in Math and Science at Herkimer Community College
- M.A. in Learning and Emerging Technologies at Empire State College
- Gen Ed pathway at SUNY Oneonta
Sustainability
Sustainability planning should occur at the beginning of the OER initiative. rpk GROUP worked with the SUNY System Office and OER implementation teams at four institutions to develop a set of resources to assist campuses with OER sustainability planning. In ad