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Open Pedagogy Assignment Grants - Pilot

Note: PALSave is not currently accepting applications for Open Pedagogy Assignment Grants.

Are you a faculty member at a PALNI-supported institution interested in Open Pedagogy? If so, PALNI invites you to apply for a $400 PALSave Open Pedagogy Assignment Grant. This pilot grant serves as an incentive for you to create (or redesign) and share an open pedagogy-focused assignment for your course, providing a foundation for future students and educators to learn from and build upon. Faculty must be a United States residents to receive stipends.

Applicants will be notified on a rolling basis starting in mid-September, 2024. Please add amanda@palni.edu and patti@palni.edu to your email contacts to prevent important information regarding your grant application from going to spam. 

Open pedagogy assignments, also called renewable or public-facing assignments, include student-generated content such as:

  • Ancillaries (test banks, slides, learning objects)
  • Blog posts
  • Crowdsourced content
  • Multimedia projects 
  • Open review and annotation
  • Portfolios
  • Textbooks
  • Videos
  • Websites
  • Wikipedia articles
  • Other examples from the Open Pedagogy Portal

If selected, PALNI will provide:

  • An Open Pedagogy Learning Guide on open pedagogy and related assignments
  • PALSave Open Pedagogy Discussion Space where you can connect with other faculty
  • Support for the assignment design process through email consultation and/or web office hours
  • A $400 stipend

To receive the stipend, participants will be expected to: 

Applications are currently closed. If you have any questions, please direct them to Amanda Hurford.