2022 CT OER Grant Awardees

2022 CT OER Grant Program Awardees

The Connecticut OER Coordinating Council is pleased to announce the awardees for our 2022 CT OER Grant Program.

Our awardees this year include faculty, staff, and administrators from public and private colleges and universities from across the state, who are working to ensure that Connecticut students have the benefit of equitable access to high-quality, openly licensed learning materials. Through review, and impact grants, our awardees are focused on pushing forward the production, use, and access of open educational resources in Connecticut higher education.

Please join us in congratulating this year’s awardees!

Review Grants

The evaluation of openly licensed content for appropriateness for a given discipline.

• Alison Birks, Charter Oak State College

• MaryAnn Murtha, Western Connecticut State University 

• Nicolas Simon, Eastern Connecticut State University

• Amy Smoyer, Southern Connecticut State University

Adoption Grants

The use of openly licensed materials, generally in replacement of high cost commercial textbooks.

• Hasan Arslan, Western Connecticut State University 

• Leon Brin, Southern Connecticut State University

• Alan Bruce, Quinnipiac University 

• Lauren Doninger, Gateway Community College

• Bernadine Franco, Naugatuck Valley Community College

• Myrta Groeneveld, Manchester Community College

• Patrice Hamilton, Tunxis Community College

• Suzanne Marmo, Sacred Heart University 

• MaryAnn Murtha, Western Connecticut State University 

• Linsey Muldoon, Manchester Community College

• Charles Rocca, Western Connecticut State University 

• Angela Tiru, Naugatuck Valley Community College

Supplemental Grants

The creation of supporting instructional materials in conjunction with the use of openly licensed content.

• Emily Boyer, Naugatuck Valley Community College

• Katherine Hall, University of Connecticut

• Kedan He, Eastern Connecticut State University

• Leslie Lindenauer, Western Connecticut State University 

• Suzanne Marmo, Sacred Heart University 

• David McArdle, University of Connecticut

• Courtney McGinnis, Quinnipiac University 

• Donna Menhart, University of Hartford

• Jason Ostrander, Sacred Heart University 

• Norma Rosado-Javier, Middlesex Community College

• Nicolas Simon, Eastern Connecticut State University

• Jakob Spjut, Quinebaug Valley Community College

Impact Grants

Larger-scale, collaborative projects that address adopting, creating, or supplementing openly licensed content.

• Hamid El Khalfi and Susana Orozco, Charter Oak State College

• Liane Leedom, Tracey Ryan, and Amanda D'Elia, University of Bridgeport

• Martin O'Connor, Beth Merkin, Robert McDonald, and Edward Davis, University of New Haven

• Yevgenia Rivers, University of New Haven

• Diane Russo and Laura Silva, University of New Haven

• David Shaenfield and Nidhi Shrivastava, Sacred Heart University

Please visit the CT OER Coordinating Council Collection within GoOpenCT to view their works.