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Learning & Teaching Enhancement FundBreakfast with the Vice-Provost AcademicSeptember 9, 2013
Overview
The LTEF is an internal grant program :Supports/promotes better engagement in the classroom and scholarly research on higher education teaching, Funds compelling new strategies which reflect Ryerson's commitment to classroom teaching our diverse student body
Overview
Funding range: $7,000 - $20,000Submission deadline: October 20, 2013
Applications and guidelines are available at: www.ryerson.ca/lt/grants/ltef/index.html
Theme: Connect, Engage, Inspire - Strategies and Tools for Today's Classroom
Submissions must demonstrate that they:•Create or use teaching methodologies in an innovative way to enhance student experience;•Use online teaching tools and strategies to enhance courses;•Facilitate greater faculty expertise in engaging our diverse student body•Build on existing knowledge of the scholarship of teaching; or•Lead to transfer of knowledge (e.g. presentation to the wider community, publication, conference).
Requirements- Continued
Proposals must also:Demonstrate impact (long term) Provide a realistic budget Be outcome based (the initiative makes a difference)
The committee will consider other compelling ideas or higher grant amounts.
Eligibility
The principal investigator must be a full-time faculty member (RFA)
Limited-term RFA members may also apply provided that their contract has at least two years remaining at the time of application
CUPE members are encouraged to participate as partners with RFA members.
Process
Proposals vetted and ranked by a committee led by the LTO.
Members of the committee will include Teaching Chairs, faculty and Director, LTO.
Results of the process will be communicated to the individual applicants via internal mail.
Funds made available by January, 2013
Stipulations
The LTEF is not an equipment fund Teaching releases will not be funded Funds made available in January 2013 are to be expended no
later than January 31, 2014. A mid term report will be due mid grant period A final report is required from the grantee within one month
following the end of the grant. The final report must demonstrate how the funds awarded
were used to achieve the goals of the LTEF.
Anne McNeilly & Lisa Taylor School of Journalism
This research aims to determine whether a "minimal marking" concept, which draws on experiential learning, can improve students' knowledge acquisition and save instructors valuable time now spent correcting surface-learning deficits, such as grammar, while marking papers/tests/assignments.
Funded to create a web-based narrated video tutorials and interactive 3D models to improve on conventional architecture pedagogy.
Vincent Hui and Albert SmithDepartment of Architectural Science Title: Foundational Architectural Computing Modules
Mary Foster & Jane SaberTRSM Marketing
• Creating a flipped classroom for MKT100
• Basic business concepts will be taught on-line
• Experiential and applied learning techniques will be used in class
• Students will apply business concepts to team based assignments
• Students must come prepared• Will evaluate its value
Alexandre Douplik & Aditya PandyaDepartment of Physics
• Creating a completely hands free presentation system
• Creating a gesture recognition system for the classroom to release the lecturer from the podium
• Will create a 3D system to “grab” objects from the screen, manipulate them and rotate them for the students
Melanie Panich, Jason Nolan, Garrick Filewod, Catherine Frazee, & Kathryn ChurchTitle: Out from Under, a Virtual Learning Environment
Recreated the "Out from Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember” exhibit as an interactive, virtual world.
Past Projects: HighlightsArt Seto, Dr. Martin Habekost, Jason Lisi, Rich AdamsSchool of Graphic Communications ManagementTitle: Rethinking Learning Delivery Methods - Podcasting from Gutenberg to the iPhone and Beyond
Funding to created 20 video podcasts on fundamental concepts of graphic design and pre-media, printing processes, bindery and finishing, and management.
