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VIVA: VIVA Open Adopt Grants

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VIVA Open Adopt Grants

VIVA's Open Adopt Grants award $2,000  to educational professionals in the state of Virginia who wish to adopt and curate existing open and no-cost course materials from fall 2025 through fall 2026. Grants will be offered in the following categories:

VIVA Open Adopt and Curation Grants: Adopt and Curation grants offer support to faculty who have identified a single pre-existing resource or a group of resources that can be curated into the materials needed for a single class.

VIVA Course Mapping Grants: Course Mapping Grants are offered to instructors who would like to adopt a resource that has been identified and reviewed as appropriate for a Transfer Virginia Course. These resources can be found in the Course Mapping hub on the VIVA Open site.

Community and Public Health Nursing Targeted Grants: Community and Public Health Nursing: A Call to Action is a primer exploring the diverse roles of community and public health nurses. This open textbook and an accompanying instructor guide were released by VIVA Publishing in 2025. These targeted adopt grants are for instructors who would like to adopt this text in their classrooms.

Team and departmental adoptions, as well as projects seeking to adapt or create new Open Educational Resources, should apply for the larger scale VIVA Open Course Grants.

Important Dates

The Spring 2025 round of adopt grants opened March 6, 2025. Applications can be found here. The deadline is May 2, 2025. 

Expectations

Each awarded grant will receive support from VIVA in adopting existing OER, including access to Pressbooks, ISKME’s Open Author Tool, and copyright consultations. Recipients will have the option (but not the requirement) to meet with the VIVA grant coordinator and participate in the annual VIVA grant recipient kickoff meeting. Grant recipients will be expected to complete the following activities:

  • Institutional sign-off on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) provided by the VIVA Central Office, using the project proposal as a statement of work.
  • Completion of a final project report, including provision of data on impact on student success and a course syllabus with resource links. The report must include overall changes in Drop/Fail/Withdraw (DFW) rates and student performance (examples: grades, standardized tests, other learning outcomes assessments), if available.
  • Ancillary materials must be created under a Creative Commons license and will be made accessible through the VIVA Open shared repository platform. Exceptions for other, more restrictive open licenses, including for test bank questions and homework materials, will be made on discussion with VIVA. Ancillary materials developed in authoring platforms that have proprietary features that are unable to be accommodated in the VIVA shared repository should include plans for how that content can be shared.
  • Syllabi for associated courses must be provided to the VIVA Open Syllabus Bank and openly licensed for access and use by other educators.
  • All intellectual property rights for content created remain fully with the creator, but VIVA requires permission to host the content in perpetuity.
  • Participation in VIVA-related communications, including post-project surveys.