The Open Textbook Writing Fellowship is a two-semester long writing program to provide Duquesne faculty with the time and resources to produce their own free to use textbook. These open textbooks will be fully digital, permissible for use and editing under Creative Commons Copyright, simple to integrate into Canvas for courses, and designed to address the needs of a specific course offered at Duquesne University.
Along with providing faculty with designated times to write, revise, and peer review their course materials, this fellowship will include workshops on open education and open pedagogy, planning for digital books, publishing digital books, and more. At the end of the fellowship, each participating faculty member will have a digital, open textbook published in the Duquesne Scholarship Collection. These textbooks will be available for their students, other instructors, and peers in their field.
After this fellowship, faculty members will be able to:
To apply for the fellowship, please complete the Microsoft Forms application below. If needed, the Microsoft Word version of the application is available for ease of reading.
Microsoft Forms: link to the application
Depending on the applicant pool, decision preference will be based on academic diversity.
If you have any issues accessing the application, please reach out to Reagan Harper at harperr3@duq.edu
Fall Semester
Spring Semester
July 25, 2024: Application goes live
September 6, 2024: Applications Due
September 23, 2024: Fellowship Acceptance Packets sent out
October 1, 2024: Deadline for Faculty to Accept Participation