(via Margaret Chambers, CARLI)<\/p>\n
The University of Illinois System\/CARLI has been awarded a 3-year $1.08 million from the U.S. Department of Education’s Open Textbooks Pilot Program – a competitive grant program based on US Senate Majority Whip and Illinois Senator Richard Durbin’s Affordable College Textbook Act<\/a>.\u00a0 The grant will fund Illinois SCOERs (Support for Creation of Open Educational Resources), a program that will provide access to open textbooks and personalized learning tools for entry-level courses in high-demand health care and human development career paths.<\/p>\n “Illinois SCOERs is a true statewide enterprise that will fundamentally change the open educational resources landscape in Illinois by providing a new holistic support model that will promote student success through OER awareness, implementation, growth, and adoption,” said Anne Craig, senior director of CARLI.<\/p>\n CARLI staff will be working with grant partners to initiate planning for the project. The grant period is three years, 9\/1\/21-8\/30\/24.<\/p>\n