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Call for
Applications: Advanced Course Development Grant - Spring 2007
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 10, 2006
The Instructional Development Council invites
applications for an Advanced Course Development Grant. This new grant
is being jointly sponsored with the Office of the Provost and will
provide a three-credit course release to the successful applicant.
Eligibility. All faculty, lecturers and teaching academic staff
with full-time contracts for the 2006-07 academic year are eligible to
submit applications. Priority will be given to applications that
enhance or explicate effective ways to assist undergraduate college
students in learning.
Award: One three-credit course
reassignment during the Spring 2007 semester.
Purposes. The
Advanced Course Development Grant is designed to support professional
development activities that will enhance a faculty member's teaching skills or
result in the development of innovative teaching strategies. Thus the grant is
to develop an approved new course or to significantly revise an existing
course. Examples of the types of activities funded by this grant include:
1. Developing teaching and learning materials, such
as computer or technology based learning activities and applications to enhance
student learning and engagement.
2. Developing interdisciplinary or problem focused learning activities and
teaching strategies so as to enhance student learning and engagement.
3. Developing learning activities and teaching strategies for service learning
projects so as to enhance student learning and engagement.
4. Developing or implementing a course-based assessment strategy with the aim
of improving student learning and engagement.
Please note: The enhancement of student
learning and engagement is a key criterion used in evaluating applications. The
expectation is for work equivalent to a full course. At completion of the
project, the individual will be asked to publicly present and
submit a report with created work attached, e.g.,
teaching innovations, lesson plans, learning activities, etc., to the Associate
Provost for Academic Affairs.
Application Procedures. A copy of the
Cover Sheet (click here) must be
completed by the faculty member(s), signed by disciplinary and budgetary unit
chairs, and stapled at the top of each copy of the research proposal. The
research proposal, focused on the investigation of college student learning
should not exceed five pages (double-spaced,
12-point type), including the Cover Sheet. Proposals must include:
1. A completed Cover Sheet.
2. An abstract of the project.
3. A well developed reasoning for creating a new course or reworking an
existing course, as well as a description of the project, its goals, including
an explanation of how the project relates to the enhancement of student learning
and engagement. Specific examples of pedagogical techniques, materials,
innovations, etc. are required.
4. An implementation time line for the project.
Five (5) copies of each Advanced Course Development
Grant application, including the
Cover Sheet, proposal and curriculum vitae should be sent to: Timothy
Sewall, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, CL 835 (PROVOST).
Questions?
Contact Dean D.VonDras, Chair, Instructional
Development Council, at 465-5012 or
vondrasd@uwgb.edu.
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Previous Award Recipients
Note: Interested in seeing examples of
successful grant proposals? Click on the hyperlinks below (coming
soon). Please observe that innovation is a key criterion
used to evaluate these grant proposals. Individuals submitting grant
proposals should not assume that they will be funded if they submit
something analogous or similar to a previously successful proposal. Nor
should they assume that they will be denied funding.
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