Event

Cultivating the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning across USM is a workshop-based event designed to support USM faculty in exploring or advancing their engagement in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Organized by the USM Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, the event will consist of simultaneous, hands-on workshops -- 101: Beginning Your SoTL Project and 301: Advancing Your SoTL Project -- followed by lunch and the opportunity to continue workshop conversations and explore special topics in SoTL.

The Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation invites faculty, staff, and students across the University System of Maryland (USM) to participate in a spring 2025 showcase celebrating the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), defined as the systematic investigation of student learning, instruction, and/or teaching innovations and the dissemination of findings so as to contribute to a broader knowledge community.

The  2024 USM Health Equity Convening, a unique opportunity for cross-institutional learning, will focus on Advancing Civic Health and Health Equity. This convening brings institutions together to share their campus action plans, engage in cross-institutional learning, and discuss critical issues related to motivating students to build community and change the future of health through political and civic engagement.

This one-day summit brought together faculty, students, librarians, instructional designers, and administrators from across all of Maryland’s postsecondary institutions to explore the contours of open pedagogy, from philosophical questions it raises about power in the classroom to practical questions about how to jump into the practice. At the heart of the conference was the question: what happens when students and their collaborators—peers, faculty, community members, librarians, and more—drive knowledge creation?

Faculty and staff from across Maryland participated in the M.O.S.T. OER Creation Showcase, which took place on Friday, May 5, 2023 via Zoom. The Showcase highlighted faculty who have created openly licensed instructional and learning materials.

This is the second health equity convening focused on Empowering Students to be Agents of Change in Promoting Health Equity, and it serves as a bookend to the first one that took place in spring 2022. Invite Only.

The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Initiative is pleased to announce a Request for Proposals for the 2023 OER Grant Program. For 2023, M.O.S.T. is seeking proposals for two grant programs. An informational webinar about the 2023 M.O.S.T. OER Grant Opportunity will be held on Monday, January 23, 2023 from 3:00 – 4:15 p.m.

Learn about the 2023 OER Grant Request for Proposals.