Two FASoS researchers receive grants to make teaching materials openly accessible
Anna Harris and Ferenc Laczó have been awarded OpenUP Grants by the Maastricht University Library to develop new open educational resources. The grants support educators in making teaching materials openly accessible, reusable and available to a wider audience.
A DIY catalogue of clinical innovations during the pandemic
Anna Harris will continue the Clinical Tools project together with her Maastricht Research-Based Learning (MaRBLe) students. Building on the success of ‘Clinical Tools #1: Education’, the new edition, ‘Clinical Tools: A DIY Catalogue for the Creative, Issue 2: Pandemic’, will document the improvised inventions that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, from container hospitals to scuba-mask ventilators.
Students will play an active role throughout the project by researching, co-writing, editing and designing the publication alongside illustrators and a graphic designer. The resulting open educational resource is intended to support clinical training courses, making it relevant for educators and students well beyond Maastricht University.
Understanding contemporary Europe through conversations with historians
Building on five years of editing the online journal of the CEU Democracy Institute, Ferenc Laczó will bring together interviews with leading historians on major turning points in contemporary Europe. Covering topics from the end of the Cold War to the war in Ukraine, the collection will include new introductions written by Laczó and will serve as the core reader for the future FASoS course ‘A History of the Present’. By presenting scholarly debates through conversations, the resource offers students a more engaging and dialogical alternative to a traditional textbook.
About the OpenUP Grants
The Maastricht University Library OpenUP Grant programme awards €5,000 per project to support the development of open educational resources that can be freely accessed, adapted and reused. In this second funding round, twelve projects were selected across Maastricht University's six faculties, including these two FASoS initiatives.