Teaching and Learning Services offers four internal grants to faculty members and contract instructors interested in both experimenting with new approaches to teaching and learning, and research about university teaching. The grant program enables instructors to develop and redesign their courses, conduct scholarly investigations of all aspects of teaching and learning, and attend conference to disseminate knowledge about their teaching practices.
Recently funded projects include:
- Kevin Hamdan, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies: The effects of using mobile classroom response system on students’ engagement and performance
- Melanie Adrian, Department of Law and Legal Studies: Multiple-choice exams: An opportunity for active learning?
- Kim Hellemans, Department of Neuroscience: Exploring academic buoyancy among university students: A literature review
- Christopher Cox, School of Linguistics and Language Studies: Bringing collaboration into the classroom: Community Service Learning in university-based language documentation courses
- Mira Sucharov, Department of Political Science: Op-ed writing and social media engagement: A guide for students and scholars
- Paul Jasen, Department of Music: Redesign of the Department of Music’s digital audio production curriculum to include experiential learning
- Marc Saurette, Department of History: Development and beta testing of the new digitization seminar for students in the Department of History to provide hands-on experiential learning
- Véronic Bézaire, Department of Chemistry: Developing an online interactive tool and redesign of in-class learning activities
- Pamela J. Walker, Department of History: Developing Reacting to the Past game for women’s history courses
- Peggy Hartwick, School of Linguistics and Language Studies, and Shermeen Nizami, Systems and Computer Engineering, are recipients of the Educational Conference Travel Grant, which will support their presentations at academic conferences in summer 2018. Peggy will present about cuPortfolio integration in her classes at the annual meeting of the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning, while Shermeen’s paper titled Integrated information rich engineering course design was accepted for the Annual International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society conference. Contract instructor Tracy Hodgson-Drysdale, from the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, also received a grant to attend the 2018 annual Systemic Functional Linguistics Congress in Boston and present about Teaching Science Writing Informed by SFL: A Continuum of Learning.
Find out how you can apply for the four teaching and learning grants here.