ETAMU Faculty Receives 2025-2027 Texas OER Grant

Dr. Flavia Belpoliti, associate professor and director of Spanish graduate studies at East Texas A&M University, recently received a grant worth more than $16,000 to develop course curricula based on Open Educational Resources (OER). The grant is administered through the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Division of Digital Learning and totals $16,585.

According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, OER are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others. OER therefore provide a low- or no-cost textbook or learning material option for students and educators that reduces financial barriers to education.

Belpoliti, who has taught at East Texas A&M since 2014, plans to implement the grant to design two Spanish for Heritage Speakers courses that fully implement OER. In addition to the grant, Belpoliti was selected as a member of the 2-year OER Texas Fellowship to advance OER and open pedagogies policies in Texas. Development grants were also awarded to faculty at Houston Community College, Trinity Valley Community College and The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley for 2025-2027.

Learn more about the THECB OER Fellows Program. See a full list of grant awardees.