May 29, 2018
As part of a first wave of new services, the M.O.S.T. initiative has launched the M.O.S.T. Course Hub to support Maryland faculty in finding easy-to-adopt, high-quality OER. Explore the M.O.S.T. Course Hub to find curated course materials to replace expensive textbooks in many college courses. These learning resources are openly licensed and fully accessible; include comprehensive learning content; are simple to customize; and allow students to retain copies of course materials forever.
April 9, 2018
Clifford M. Kendall, former long-time Chair of the University System of Maryland (USM) Board of Regents and Advisory Board member for the Kirwan Center, passed away on March 28, 2018.
March 6, 2018
The M.O.S.T. initiative announced the award of 29 mini-grants to faculty at 18 MD public higher education institutions to support the adoption, adaptation and scaling of open educational resources (OER), with the potential to save approximately 6,500 students over $1.2 million in Fall 2018 alone.
Funded by the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative’s High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program, the grants represent a mix of high-enrollment courses in mathematics, the sciences, the arts, and the humanities at 2- and 4-year institutions, with a potential to save approximately 6,500 students over $1.2 million in Fall 2018 alone.
