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Request for Proposals:  USG Textbook Transformation Grants

From USG:

The State of Georgia’s FY 2015 budget includes funding to support a new USG initiative, Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG), which focuses on reducing the costs of textbooks and the enhancement of GALILEO, Georgia’s Virtual Library and ALG’s parent initiative. A key strategy is to provide grant-supported opportunities for USG faculty, libraries, and institutions to transform their use of textbooks and other learning materials into lower cost options. The Affordable Learning Georgia Textbook Transformation Grants are intended to:

1. Pilot different approaches in USG courses for textbook transformation including adoption, adaptation, and creation of Open Educational Resources (OER) and/or identification and adoption of materials already available in GALILEO and USG libraries.
2. Provide support to faculty, libraries, and their institutions to implement these approaches.
3. Lower the cost of college for students and contribute to their retention, progression, and graduation.

This initial call covers thirty grant awards to be made to support adoption and use of no- or low-cost learning materials in USG courses in Spring semester 2015 in amounts of $10,800 each, in three categories: No-Cost-to-Students Learning Materials, OpenStax Textbooks, and Course Pack Pilots. All USG institutions, libraries, and faculty are eligible and encouraged to submit proposals. A maximum of three per campus will be awarded in this round.
Other planned calls include: (1) Another round in these three categories to be announced in January 2015 for award in April 2015 and deployment in Fall semester 2015, and (2) A call for proposals for department-wide course(s) OER/no-cost-to-students adoptions/adaptations/creations, to be announced in mid-Fall 2014.

Documents
Download Call for Proposals (PDF)
Download Proposal Form (Word)
Download Proposal Evaluation Rubric (PDF)

All proposal documents, references, and attachments should be submitted in a single email to alg@gatech.edu by 5:00 PM, EST, September 8, 2014.