VIVA, Virginia’s academic library consortium, opened a new round of VIVA Open Adopt Grants, with an application deadline of November 7, 2023. VIVA Open Adopt Grants provide awards of $2,000 to individual instructors to support the time it takes to integrate existing open (OER) or no-cost materials into a syllabus, and to ensure that the results of those efforts are widely available to Virginia educators. 

VIVA Open Adopt Grants will be awarded to individual faculty members hoping to adopt an already existing open resource.  Team and departmental adoptions, as well as projects seeking to adapt or create new Open Educational Resources, should apply for the next round of the larger scale VIVA Open Course Grants. The VIVA Open Adopt Grant RFP and application can be found on the VIVA website.

Informational webinars will be held on the below dates. Registration is required. More information is available on VIVA’s website.  

October 3, 2023, 11 am: https://vivalib.libcal.com/event/11278527

October 18, 2023, 1 pm: https://vivalib.libcal.com/event/11278542

November 3, 2023, 10 am: https://vivalib.libcal.com/event/11278590

Contact our OER Librarian Dale Dulaney ddulaney@virginiawestern.edu for more information.