2020 Affordable Learning Grant award winners

Congratulations to this year’s recipients of an Affordable Learning Grant from Oregon State’s Open Educational Resources Unit. The grants will enable educators at OSU and elsewhere to develop and adapt a new collection of open textbooks and OER.

The project author(s) will each receive funding to help offset the time and expenses required to implement high-quality, freely available learning materials. They will also receive support from the OER Unit in locating openly licensed materials, media development, professional development and more.

All faculty members listed here from Oregon State University unless otherwise noted.

Pollinators in Peril

Open textbook

Project author

• Louisa Hooven, associate professor (senior research), Department of Horticulture

Instruction to Neuroscience

Open textbook

Project author

• Colin Johnson, associate professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

WR 222: Persuasion, Reasoning, and Audience

Open textbook

Project authors

• Kristy Kelly, instructor and assistant director, School of Writing, Literature and Film
• Rob Drummond, senior instructor I, School of Writing, Literature and Film
• Liz Delf, senior instructor I, School of Writing, Literature and Film

Introduction to Software Requirements, Design, and Project Management

Open textbook

Project author

• Lara Letaw, instructor and inclusive research designer, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Methods in Computational Ecology

Open textbook and user manual

Project authors

• Nathan Schumaker, assistant professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
• Sydney Watkins, research fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratories

Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women

Open textbook and edited collection

Project authors

• Susan Shaw, professor, Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
• Janet Lee, professor Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
• Tracy Butts, interim dean, Department of English, California State University, Chico
• Janet Lockhart, independent scholar

Open Judicial Politics

Open textbook and edited collection (new edition)

Project authors

• Rorie Solberg, associate professor, Department of Political Science
• Eric N. Waltenburg, professor, Department of Political Science, Purdue University

GIS Applications in Forest Engineering

Open textbook

Project author

• Michael Wing, associate professor, College of Forestry