Digital content grant proposal deadline extended to Jan. 26
Proposals for the Instructional Development Center’s digital content development grants are due on Monday, Jan. 26. Last spring, the IDC awarded $130,800 to support 10 projects, selected from 30 grant proposals. The maximum funding for any single project is $15,000.
The goal of the grant program is to identify, select, and help implement projects that increase instructional effectiveness and student success through the use of digital and online technology. One of the 2008 grant recipients, Carrie Wachter, assistant professor of educational studies, will use funds to create a simulation of a realistic school situation in which future school guidance counselors learn to recognize suicidal behavior in P-16-aged students.
The center’s educational technologists and student interns assist the grant recipients by developing interactive learning modules from their subject-matter content. The grants pay for faculty release time, their graduate student salaries, and the interns who work on developing their projects.
“We want to cultivate instructional excellence by helping faculty who will experiment with new ideas, teaching methods, and technologies,” said executive director Nancy Wilson Head of the Teaching and Learning Technologies unit of Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP). “We particularly look for projects that are innovative and technologically sophisticated.”
All proposals submitted are required to meet criteria outlined in a checklist available at http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/idc/cfp.cfm. Each applicant, for example, is required to consult with an IDC staff member on or before submitting the proposal on Jan. 26.
For more specific information, send queries to tlt-grants@purdue.edu.
Last updated: Jan. 15, 2008
The goal of the grant program is to identify, select, and help implement projects that increase instructional effectiveness and student success through the use of digital and online technology. One of the 2008 grant recipients, Carrie Wachter, assistant professor of educational studies, will use funds to create a simulation of a realistic school situation in which future school guidance counselors learn to recognize suicidal behavior in P-16-aged students.
The center’s educational technologists and student interns assist the grant recipients by developing interactive learning modules from their subject-matter content. The grants pay for faculty release time, their graduate student salaries, and the interns who work on developing their projects.
“We want to cultivate instructional excellence by helping faculty who will experiment with new ideas, teaching methods, and technologies,” said executive director Nancy Wilson Head of the Teaching and Learning Technologies unit of Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP). “We particularly look for projects that are innovative and technologically sophisticated.”
All proposals submitted are required to meet criteria outlined in a checklist available at http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/idc/cfp.cfm. Each applicant, for example, is required to consult with an IDC staff member on or before submitting the proposal on Jan. 26.
For more specific information, send queries to tlt-grants@purdue.edu.
Last updated: Jan. 15, 2008
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