This two-year pilot program, sponsored by the Jefferson Trust and offered by the University of Virginia Library, provided support to faculty who wanted to adopt, adapt, or create open educational resources (OER). As o Spring 2024, the program has awarded its final grant.
VIVA provides four VIVA Open Grant opportunities: Adopt Grants, Course Grants, Grants for Libraries and Open Publishing Grants. These grants encourage the use of open and affordable course content by providing funding for instructors and libraries to adopt, adapt and create course content that can be made available to students for no or very little cost.
If you plan to apply, please consider reaching out to the Library through Judy Thomas (jet3h) or Bethany Mickel (bbm9u) as we would be happy to discuss your proposal.
The Center for Teaching Excellence offers a number of signature programs, tailored services, rich resource materials, and seed grants designed to enhance the teaching environment at UVA.
The Learning Design and Technology team at the College of Arts and Sciences unit is ready to support effective pedagogy with technology.
Resources for Teaching Online is an invaluable resource by the Center for Teaching Excellence in support of the Great and Good Strategic Plan 2030 and which prepares UVA for teaching in the 21st century and learning in different modalities. If you are interested in creating digital assets for your course or converting parts of your course to be online, whether synchronous or asynchronous, these are resources to support you.
UVA's Office of Accessibility provides services and tools dedicated to equal access for all, led by the coordinator of academic accessibility, Lori Kressin.
4-VA at UVA awards collaborative research grants to UVA faculty members each spring to improve research competitiveness within the Commonwealth by providing funding for faculty teams to engage in pilot research that could be used as a springboard for subsequent external funding.