The following are the rubrics and instruments that will be used to evaluate the projects and courses nominated for the awards.
Definition of innovative teaching with technology and learning practices at UNT Dallas
“Any technology-based teaching strategy, approach, technique, or tool that is used, or used in a new way, to produce quantifiable gain for student outcomes or the student experience, and can be implemented widely at UNT Dallas.”
Practice or Tool Enhancement
Many teaching and learning practices and tools, with modification, can fit the definition of innovative. The following grid outlines just a few ways creative, unproven, or trendy practices and tools can be made more innovative.
- Utility
- Solves a defined problem
- Has potential to benefit many courses/faculty
- Creativity
- Is a novel approach or application
- Represents a new paradigm
- Efficacy
- Uses an evidence-based approach
- Impact to student learning and/or the student experience can be demonstrated
- Feasibility
- Realistic in the current environment
- Achievable given current constraints
- Risk
- Presents an acceptable level of risk
- High probability of producing desirable outcomes
- Resistance
- Has champions within UNT Dallas
- Not likely to be met with extreme resistance