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Submit a proposal for the 2022 M.O.S.T. OER Grant Program

Faculty OER grants and Institutional OER grants available

The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Initiative is pleased to announce a Request for Proposals for the 2022 OER Grant Program. For 2022, M.O.S.T. is seeking proposals for two grant...

Posted: January 10, 2022, 3:05 PM

Apply for 2022 Lumen Circles OER Fellowship

Join other USM faculty for OER training and support

The Maryland Open Source Textbook Initiative (M.O.S.T.) invites faculty from two-year and four-year colleges and universities to apply for a Spring 2022 Lumen Circles Fellowship focused on...

Posted: January 6, 2022, 9:13 AM

Panopto Downtime: Update

Site unavailable 4 hours beginning 9:00 PM on 01/08

As originally announced November 17, our Panopto cloud site will be updated with the latest features and improvements on Saturday, Jan 8th 2022. We expect up to 4 hours of downtime, with a start...

Posted: December 21, 2021, 5:19 PM

Apply for 2022 Lumen Circles OER Fellowship

Participate in a OER faculty learning community- no cost!

See information below about Lumen Circles OER Fellowship: Apply now for a Spring 2022 Lumen Circles Fellowship focused on Effective Teaching Using OER Be part of an OER-focused virtual...

Posted: December 16, 2021, 2:46 PM

Creating Consistency in Course Sections with Ultra Templates

Templates available for course or department Ultra adoption

Since Fall 2018, the default Blackboard course template has had the Ultra Course Preview setting enabled, which allows faculty to convert a new Original course to see what it looks like in Ultra...

Posted: December 15, 2021, 1:55 PM