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This fall, the Kirwan Center will expand the scope of its Ï¡È±ÁÔÆæÍø Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative to make learning materials more affordable for students. This work is being made possible by a $1 million grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Education program.

As part of a first wave of new services, the M.O.S.T. initiative has launched the  to support ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø faculty in finding easy-to-adopt, high-quality OER.  Explore the  to find curated course materials to replace expensive textbooks in many college courses. These learning resources are openly licensed and fully accessible; include comprehensive learning content; are simple to customize; and allow students to retain copies of course materials forever.

Clifford M. Kendall, former long-time Chair of the ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø (ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø) Board of Regents and Advisory Board member for the Kirwan Center, passed away on March 28, 2018.
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Kendall’s impact on higher education in ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø is well known. He dedicated countless hours of service to both the ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø Board of Regents and the ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø Foundation, and his incredible generosity to his alma mater, the University of ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø, College Park, and to the Universities at Shady Grove has impacted the lives of countless students.
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The M.O.S.T. initiative announced the award of 29 mini-grants to faculty at 18 MD public higher education institutions to support the adoption, adaptation and scaling of open educational resources (OER), with the potential to save approximately 6,500 students over $1.2 million in Fall 2018 alone.