Georgia Southern, Georgia Gwinnett, KSU Lead in Recent ALG Grant Awards

Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) recently awarded more than $225,000 to University System of Georgia faculty and instructors to further the adoption and use of open educational resources, or OER. These grants will save students an estimated $300,000 annually in the cost of course materials.

Award amounts ranged from $2,000 to $30,000. Georgia Southern University received the most grants this period, with $53,824 funding five projects. Kennesaw State University followed, receiving grants for four projects.

A project at Georgia Gwinnett College received the highest single award of $30,000. Led by Rebecca Flynn, the project team plans to create open resources for an English course.

In this 23rd grant round, Affordable Learning Georgia funded 17 proposals—on topics including biology, Spanish and engineering—from nine USG institutions. To read the list of grantees, click here.

An initiative of GALILEO and the University System of Georgia, ALG promotes student success by increasing the availability of affordable alternatives to expensive commercial textbooks. Since its inception, the grant program has awarded more than $6 million.