Individuals and teams may submit an application describing their project to:
1. Adopt an existing open textbook, other open educational resource, or existing college resource. Incorporate an existing open textbook, open course content, or existing college resource (such as library materials) into your your syllabus and curriculum, reducing or eliminating learning materials costs for students.
2. Adapt an existing open textbook or other open educational resource to your instructional needs.
3. Remix existing OER and create new open content to suit your course. New content includes adding a chapter to an existing text, adding supplemental content such as question banks, lecture slides, lab manuals, etc.
4. Create an OER. Develop an open textbook or open course of your own.
Applicants can choose to do one or a combination of the above. Applicants will be expected to follow and submit the provided OER Adoption Toolkit to document their process.