Open Educational Resources (OER)

Announcing the 2023 OER Champions Award

The Library Initiative for Equitable and Affordable Learning (LIEAL) seeks nominations for the 2023 Mt. SAC Open Education Champions awards. 

Eligibility: Nominees must be affiliated with Mt. SAC College (the person nominating does not need to be). Nominees could be an individual person or a team of individuals, like a Program, workgroup, Committee, or Department.

The Open Education Champions Awards provide recognition to faculty, instructors, or staff who have made outstanding contributions to advance open practices and OER at Mt. SAC. These awards will honor those whose open course materials and professional and/or research practices have had an impact on the student experience and influenced peers to share more openly.   

Those eligible for nomination have engaged in some or all of the practices below in their teaching, learning, and research: 

• Use existing OER and/or library resources in their classes 
• Create and share teaching materials that are ancillary to existing open textbooks, for example, test banks of questions, presentations, multimedia content, simulations, instructor and student manuals, study aids, or additional learning activities 
• Revise and share syllabi, assignments, and other course-related resources necessary for the transition to traditional proprietary textbooks and course materials 
• Modify/Create, share and use OER in their classes 
• Mentored faculty in the adoption or creation of OER
• Increased student success rates through the adoption of OERs in their classes
• Implemented Open Pedagogy assignments to increase student engagement and success in their classes

Administrators, colleagues, and students are encouraged to nominate faculty and instructors. Self-nominations are also accepted. The nomination process will be open March through April 26, 2023. Review and selection will take place in late April 2023, and notifications sent by May 15th, 2023. 

Questions? Email lieal@mtsac.edu