Eight projects were selected to receive awards to create or customize openly-licensed alternatives to expensive course materials. This year, awards were split into three categories: seed (early or small projects), spread (expansion or large projects), and sustain (updating or maintenance on existing projects).
VCU Libraries, the Office of the Provost, VCU Online, the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, Academic Technologies, Barnes and Noble @ VCU, Inclusive Excellence, and the Friends of VCU Libraries sponsored the fifth round of awards to support faculty adoption of zero-cost resources and creation of openly-licensed alternatives to expensive course materials.
Through the VCU Impact Levels, the Affordable Course Content Awards celebrates project achievements with set "milestones" that mark the number of students impacted, cost savings from using free resources, and semesters the resource has been used at VCU.
When a project reaches a new milestone, we will update their "milestone medal" on this guide and share the news with the project's creators to formally support their case for the value and impact of their project. Impact Levels are not meant to be comparable across projects.
For more information and to see the full list of (current) milestones visit:
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