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Open Pedagogy Assignment Grants - Pilot

Applications open!

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.

Note: 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: 

  • Review the Open Pedagogy Learning Guide and Discussion Space
  • Submit the completed assignment
  • Agree to share the assignment with an open license 
  • Implement the assignment in your course
  • Agree to provide evaluative data about the program via:
    • Student Perception Survey 
    • Faculty Evaluation Survey

To apply, please fill out the application at this link. The application will ask about the related course, current knowledge level, and interest in open pedagogy. If you have any questions, please direct them to Amanda Hurford.