Technology for Teaching Grants
Technology for Teaching grants are designed to infuse technology-enhanced pedagogy into the university curriculum. Intended to serve both experts and newcomers to technology, the grants help faculty members explore, develop, and support technology-related strategies and curricula. Examples include, but are not limited to: workshop attendance, course-specific software or hardware, using trained student assistants to enhance technology-orientated teaching, or travel to a technology and teaching conference.
Both small grant proposals ($500 or less) and large grant proposals ($501 to $1500) are reviewed on an ongoing basis. All proposals will be reviewed by a committee of faculty and IT staff. Larger grants are limited to one every other year, and requests for travel will be approved only if the applicant’s regular pedagogy travel fund has been exhausted.
Grant Criteria:
- Before submitting this application, faculty members consulted with IT to check on the university’s standard solution or service agreements on particular technologies and software.
- The project represents an innovative use of technology to enhance teaching, or changing technological need related to past innovations.
- The project represents a new pedagogical direction for the instructor or the course. We particularly encourage projects that involve students in collaborative research and instructional roles.
- The project exhibits a demonstrable connection to institutional or departmental curricular goals.
- The project’s outcome represents a new application of technology to the course(s) involved.
- A final report summarizing the project must be submitted by June 15th of the academic year in which the funding was received.