Library & Information Technology, through the support of the Provost’s Office, invites faculty members to submit proposals for course design or redesign projects. Library & IT is committed to supporting faculty development of a range of projects that integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology. Each year the Technology Integration Grant program has a broad-based theme. The 2013 cycle will focus on digital scholarship initiatives, blended learning projects and course design projects related to digital literacy/information literacy. A summer stipend of $4,000 will be awarded to faculty who are planning to work in the summer of 2013.
Note that the emphasis of this grant project is on course development initiatives and scholarship projects and not equipment acquisition.
Those submitting Digital Scholarship Proposals:
This grant provides the opportunity to advance digital scholarship initiatives that enhance or create new ways for students to engage in scholarship, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, and that develop new methods for exploring rich content. Awards will be made for either new initiatives or advancement of digital scholarship projects underway. Priority will be given to those who have not received outside grant funds or previous Bucknell funds to support the project. Priority will be given to projects that create opportunities for students to engage in digital scholarship work. Funded projects will involve collaboration with a technologist and a librarian.
Those submitting Course Development Proposals:
This grant provides the opportunity to integrate established teaching methods with current technologies in order to enhance student learning and engagement. Awards will be made for either new course development or modification of existing courses. New courses must be authorized by appropriate curricular approvals. An important part of this granted development may be the creation of learning modules developed based on faculty content that could be adapted, shared and reused for future semesters. Funded projects will involve a substantial technology integration element, collaboration with an instructional technologist and/or librarian.
Types of activities
The possibilities are wide and the tool set is flexible. The ideas listed below provide descriptions of examples of activities designed to build rich out-of-classroom opportunities to advance complex course projects, online elements of project-based learning, or digital scholarship initiatives. Grant recipient(s) will partner with an instructional technologist and a librarian during development and implementation.
● Faculty might create a series of videos and interactive assignments meant to experiment with a ‘flipped classroom’ model. The project might focus on examining learning objectives, outcomes and assessment methods to leverage both out-of-class and in-class time in different ways to meet those objectives.
● Students might work to create an oral history podcast about local points of historical interest, or might analyze primary documents in a digital interface.
● In the foreign languages, students could create electronic presentations, innovative digital media production, or language practice modules.
● GIS projects might focus on sharing, analyzing or monitoring data in order to create meaningful visuals that tell stories (through comparing maps or a variety of information types including but not limited to images of cells, blueprint documents, historical star charts, mathematical models) in order to expand the range of discipline-specific skills.
● The development of partnership projects that document conversations with community members engaged in critical issues, or preparing ‘paper as blog’ projects to present findings to local representatives are examples of processes that have the potential to increase student interest and engagement while improving students’ ability to synthesize and communicate findings.
● Projects might use or create a digital image collection to enable primary research, or focus on an open film collection to re-contextualize meaning-making using digital media.
● Faculty might seek to develop a Microbial Genome Annotation project, a Supreme Court case analysis project using audio files, or an American History project using audio, video and text.
Grants will be awarded on a competitive basis. Maximum grant amount is $4000 for faculty stipend. Additional fund may be available for summer student research. Funds for most projects are expected to be used by September 2013.
Procedure
Please email the proposal to Tracy Hower at tracy.hower@bucknell.edu by Friday, May 3, 2013. Provost’s Council will select up to three proposals for funding and notify the applicants if their grant has been approved. Please contact Carrie Rampp, Director of Library Services & Instructional Technology at cer013@bucknell.edu with any questions regarding the grant or the application process.
Requirements for Proposals, Course Redesign
Please include all of the following sections in your proposal. We appreciate submissions that do not exceed four pages double-spaced.
1 A brief description of the content of the course as it is currently offered or will be offered.
2 A description of the proposed practices and tool-use that will develop through this integrative redevelopment process.
3 A statement about how you will define learning outcomes for your redesigned course.
4 A statement about how you intend to leverage an instructional technologist and/or librarian in your project.
5 Information about how often the course is likely to be offered.
6 An estimate of the number of days or weeks to be devoted to the project during summer 2013.
7 A written commitment to teach this course in the [2013-2014] academic year and at least one more time within the [2014-2015 or 2015-2016] academic year.
8 The endorsement of your department chair.
Requirements for Proposals, Digital Scholarship
Please include all of the following sections in your proposal. We appreciate submissions that do not exceed four pages double-spaced.
1 A brief description of the content of the current or planned project.
2 A description of what will be completed as a result of the grant support.
3 A statement about how you will define learning outcomes for information literacy and/or technological competency in connection with your project.
4 A statement about how you intend to leverage an instructional technologist and a librarian in your project.
5 Information about how you imagine using the completed project in your own scholarship or teaching.
6 If student researchers will be used on this project please provide details about the scope of the work and a projected schedule or timeline.
7 An estimate of the number of days or weeks you expect to devote to this project during summer 2013.
8 A written commitment to continue to develop and enhance this project over the next 2-3 years.
9 The endorsement of your department chair.
Please note that proposals from faculty who received a Course Development grant for the summer of 2011 or 2012 may have lower priority than those from faculty who did not receive previous funding. Applicants are requested to list all summer commitments. Other employment, including summer school, contractual summer stipends, or other stipends awarded by the Faculty Development Committee (including research grants) may impact funding. Provost’s Council will consider time demands associated with other summer commitments and the impact those time demands may have on the ability to complete the project this summer.
End-of-grant responsibilities
Grant recipients agree to give a presentation at a future Library & IT event in order to share information about course goals and technology developments and are asked to consider opening open their classrooms to visiting faculty during technology-focused teaching exchange days.