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Funded Call for Papers: Colorado History Open Educational Resource

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 2:01 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

Funded Call for Papers: Colorado History Open Educational Resource

Summary:

Textbook costs for college classes are a tremendous burden on students. To alleviate this pressure, Open Educational Resources (OER) are a tool to reduce the cost to students and to ease access. The Colorado Department of Higher Education has provided funding for a Colorado History OER Textbook. This will be a two-phase project with potential for expansion depending on funding. The first phase will be a three-chapter pilot project. After this phase, with additional funding we will open the project to include up to 30 chapters on Colorado history.

Call for Papers:

Our goal is to capture a wide swath of Colorado History that includes the major events and actors as well as the untold stories and narratives that reflect often overlooked histories in traditional textbooks. We encourage chapter proposals that explore major Colorado history in creative ways. Chapter topics may include, but are not limited to, race relations, class and labor, gender norms and roles, the environment, case studies, sports, urban development, suburban sprawl, outdoor recreation, political divisions, natural resource extraction and so forth. We encourage papers from multiple disciples and approaches. Further, graduate students, independent scholars, adjunct professors, and people from a diverse background are encouraged to apply.

Dates & Details:

Please submit a 250 – 350 word abstract and a 250-word bio to

ColoradoHistoryOER@gmail.com

Submit chapter proposals: 2/26/25

Notifications of chapter selection: 4/2/25

- Note that if your chapter is not selected for this initial pilot phase, that does not mean it does not have merit for the larger project. Once funding becomes available, we will re-review previous submissions. You will also be free to submit fresh proposals at that point.

Chapter Due: Aug 1st

Stipend: $1,500 per chapter

Chapter Requirements:

Chapters need to be 5,000-7,000 words, inclusive of footnotes and references.

In addition to the chapter, provide 5-10 primary sources that are Open Access or in the Public Domain for in-class work as an inquiry-based student activity.

Per the CDHE requirements, all new OER developed through this grant must be licensed openly in such a way that allows for the creation of derivative works (using certain Creative Commons licenses), and be posted to an open repository in an editable file format.

Questions? Please contact Braden Neihart at braden.neihart@ccaurora.edu !


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