Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment - Western Washington University's Teaching and Learning Center
Faculty Development Summer Grant
The Center for Instructional Innovation & Assessment announced the availability of a limited number of summer grants for Western faculty who wish to use online tools such as online tutorials, simulations, and other strategic uses of the web to enhance their existing courses. Six awards of $4,000 are available for work to be done during Summer Quarter, 2012.
A recent U.S. Department of Education meta-analysis found that courses which blend online tutorials and support with traditional face-to-face instruction yield higher student achievement than stand alone face-to-face courses.
This program will acquaint faculty with models, open-source resources and ideas for web-based course enhancements and provide assistance and support for making the enhancements. Faculty must be available to attend a 5-day on-campus workshop in mid-June, and will then work independently to implement their improvements, supported by CIIA and ATUS staff.
Especially encouraged are enhancements to gateway courses that might be made available department-wide. Departmental teams may apply to create such enhancements. For instance, faculty teams might create online tutorials for concepts or skills for content students typically struggle with in a gateway course, making the tutorial available to all instructors.
Priority will be given to proposals that focus on large (75 students or more) courses and/or gateway courses with high failure rates or difficult material.
Timeline
Application deadline is
March 16, 2012. Extended to March 27, 2012.In order to participate in this faculty development opportunity, faculty must be available to attend all five days of on-campus faculty development sessions during the week of June 11-15, 2012 and must have access to the internet in order to complete the rest of the course development activities during the summer of 2012.
Applications will be reviewed by the CIIA Faculty Advisory Board and awardees will be notified via email by the end of April.
Application Checklist
- Fill out the application which is available in the following formats:
- Faculty Development Award Application as MS Word (.docx)
- Faculty Development Award Application as Rich Text (.rtf)
- Faculty Development Award Application as PDF (.pdf)
Note that long entries may not print as expected in PDF format.
- Print the completed application.
- Obtain required signatures.
- Attach course syllabus.
- Send by March 27th to:
Justina Brown
Mail Stop 9095Note: You are also welcome to email signed and scanned versions of application materials to: Justina.Brown@wwu.edu
Restrictions
- Faculty must be available to attend 5-day on-campus workshop.
- Faculty can teach up to 5 summer credits and still participate.
- Faculty cannot also be receiving a summer teaching grant.
- Faculty may receive this award and a summer research grant, if not teaching.
- Priority would go to people without a summer grant in a tie breaker.
Contact
Justina Brown, CIIA
Email: Justina.Brown@wwu.edu
College Hall 301
360-650-7210
