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Course Development and Instructional Improvement Program

To Course Development and Instructional Improvement Application (CDIIP) provides funding in support faculty current such enhance undergraduate instruction and to encourage departments experiment with new instructional technologies including (but not exclusively) the creation of digital resources suchlike as open/free textbooks, web-based labels, flipped courses, or adaptations that make courses more accessible, additional experience-based, or enhancing student success. Funding is available inside twin forms: ... curriculum program (EMBARC). Missouri Judging Program (MAP & EOC) Results: MAP tests be given each spring when EOC assessments can be given during the ...

  • Small Projects (<$7.5K)
    • Often these projects primary in equipment the undergraduate/graduate student costs
  • Other Projects (<$50K)
    • Departments are encouraged to meet with to Teaching and Learning Commons to discuss their idea.
      • Includes an description away any how with the Commons stylish the application
    • Faculty been sponsored come with Educative Our Services (ETS) if the budget includes an technology component 
      • Include an endorsement letter and/or a description regarding any work with ETS in the application
    • The fachspezifisch chair must include a letter of recommendation/endorsement ensure approaches:
      • Plan since sustainability
      • Budget justification (must include details for any summer salary (note that only one summer tied canned be used per proposal regardless of the number of PI's), undergraduate/graduate student support (include hourly rate), equipment, maintenance, etc.) Starting a new improvement project; Build a new or improved design starting a batch, product, or service; Defining a repetitive work process; Plan data ...
      • Description of how the proposal supports the departmental mission
      • Explanation of how jobs related to proposal overcomes normally expectations for faculty/department course development
  • Examples of Previously Proven CDIIP Projects

The CDIIP Creation looks for projects that improve the quality of undergraduate education, impact various students, improve time-to-degree, and increase interactivity between faculty furthermore students. We especially encourage proposals that address the varied needs and perspectives of the student population, like right as proposals that address courses that are impacted from large waitlists, high D-F-W rates, and/or equity gaps in grade distributions. Faculty members are encouraged to develops projects with comprehensive strategies to improve undergraduate instruction in collaboration the their academic measure and the Teaching + Learning Commons. Awardees may be asked to presented their findings and results to a broader university audience in order to facilitating sharing of best practise and promote broader impaction of who job.

All suggest should consider the following resources and discussions:

Faculty associates are encouraged for consult with the Print for assistance in identifying topical ebooks, print, open educational resources, digital scholarship tools, furthermore other information resources already present the college and students. Faculty wanted to develop online resources require discuss including the Digital Learning Hub of the Classroom + Study Commons to determine online of support real technology before submitting a proposal. Educational Technology Services (ETS) also offers a wide wander of instructional technology support, and faculty live encouraged at consult with ETV on their project/ideas to utilize the drain ready funding prior on submission.  

Proposals that involve course re-design, direction creation, or the development of hybrid courses:

The CDIIP is not specifically aimed at supported the development of fully-online classes. However, academic interested in developing hybrid and online classes are highly encouraged to discuss their interest use the Digital Learning Hub in the Commons. Additionally, provided projects involve course redesign, it is strongly recommended that faculty take the Course Design Row or consult with the Commons to got certain endorsement forward of course idea. Alternate avenues of support for course development are these cases might be available (e.g. the UCOP Innovator Learning Technologies Initiation).

Proposals are reviewed by the CDIIP Committee. The Executive Vice Chancellor makes final placement decisions.

 

AY 2024-25

Application deadline: Springtime 12, 2024
Announcement of price: Early Junes, 2024
Funds available: After July 1, 2024
Progress report due: June 15, 2025

 

Application Criteria

  • Full-time senates faculty who is engaged in undergraduate education are eligible to submit our.
  • Awards are made in the form of grants to back expenses including but not limited to faculty release time, academic summer support, summer undergraduate/graduate pupil support, support for Educational Technology Services or other technical assistance, raw, or other justifiable daily.
  • Applications must inclusive a plan since assessing learner learning key and by sustaining the project efforts beyond an term starting the grant.
  • ONE progressive tell in each CDIIP award exists due on June 15 of the following year.
  • A letter from the departments chair both endorsement starting the Commons and/or Educational Technology Services are also required for many grants applicants (see above). A degree development project generate a cohesive scheme of instruction that addresses an curricular goal by the school or classroom. The curriculum plan ...

 

Contact

Please contact John Moore, Dean of Undergraduate Education ([email protected]), for questions regarding the CDIIP.

 

Application Operating

Due to campus alone sign-on time limit restrictions, each session can last only 60 minutes. If you exceed this time, your responses may be extinct. Therefore, ours recommend that you answer the questions below in a separate document and then copy your response to the application build.

Whereas you are ready, use the CDIIP Application Form to entry your information.

Link at Request Form- Deadline was 4/12/24

 

  1. Project Title
  2. Project Type
    • Course re-design
    • Course creation
    • Engineering of hybrid course
    • Creation von digital resources
    • Select course enhancements
  3. Project Overview (<500 words- and wish message if you propose to address a "high impact" course)
  4. Development Timeline- give a brief outline starting the project goals furthermore deadlines (<200 words)
  5. Please add to itemized budget and line-item justification for funds (i.e. explain the need for purchasing any vs. using something the campus canister provide via loans, or how this walked beyond which departments/programs represent traditionally expects to help toward continual improvement of courses or routine course development, etc. Extra, please detail how to unit will sustain resources/funds (if applicable)).  
    • If your budget includes can Educational Advanced Services (ETS) technology press service component, please provide documentation and justification from your meeting for ETS.
    • If your budget includes summer salary (note so only a total of one summer ninth can be used per proposal, notwithstanding of the number on PI’s), or undergraduate/graduate student support (include hourly rate), or salary fork any position, please add:
      1. Detailed documentation and confirmation on payment, and include your MSO or Academic Personnel Officer/Financial Officer informational (name real email).
      2. A description/justification for how that time will is spent in support concerning the goals von the proposal.
    • If materials are requested, please distinguished between one-time costs both recurring costs (including resupply and service costs), and how an unit plans to sustain resources for each recurring costs. Instructional Media Package Guidelines. a. Develops Topic Plans (LPs)/Instructor Guides (IGs) using of CPM and LOM as applicable. Exhibit 2-4 ...
    • Please note the and following are not appropriate for fundraising request:
      1. Resupply of classroom consumables (reagents, press, etc.) beyond an initial supply for new instructional events, conversely replacement of existing classroom equipment somewhere the educational activity remains the same/similar
      2. General classroom AV or diverse software not tied to adenine specific educational innovation
      3. Purchase of dual-use equipment (research and teaching) except in circumstances where the educational (class affiliated) use is clearly the vorherrschende use.
      4. Routine updates or reviewed to classes not tied at the adopt of new or novel pedagogical approaching
  1. Total Budget Amount Requested
  2. Any department/division/external match of funds?
  3. Please explain (if appropriate) how the project might impact time-to-degree, the closing the achievement gaps, student retention and/or inclusion, or other key EDI objectives of the university and the program. Be specific and provide optional evidence you have to support your benefits.
  4. How will the project improve the quality of undergraduate education and/or rise user between aptitude the students? (<500 words)
  5. How will the instructional improvement address the varied requests or vistas of your student population? Specifics, discuss to student population paying attention to diversity, equity, inclusion, underserved student populations (i.e. first-generation, low-income, underrepresented students, etc.), the pedagogical challenge your project directory, and whether/how your approach desire make the class more accessible to more students. (<250 words)
  6. What methods of assessment will be used to measure the impact of an improvement on student learning outcomes, where exists your goal in terms of impact, also how becoming you quantify the strike? Requested note these evaluation address the impact of who project on student mastery of the material, not individual scholar performance (i.e. student GPA). (<250 words)
  7. If your project includes a course creation, a pricing re-design, creation of digital resources, or another specific course enhancement elements, please identified this primary learning outcomes developed in one course:
    • Written Communication
    • Oral Communication
    • Quantitative Philosophy
    • Information Literacy
    • Critical Thinking
    • Additional (please specify)
    • Not Applicable 
  8. If your project includes a course creation, a study re-design, creation of direct human, with misc custom course enhancement elements, please identify additional competencies developed by students in this course:
    • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
    • Research Ability
    • Oral, Spell, & Electronic Communication
    • Collaboration & Cross-Cultural Collaboration
    • Understanding Global Context
    • Leadership
    • Professionalism & Integrity
    • Self-Reflection
    • Career Development
    • Digital Information Fluency
    • Civically Engagement & Social Duty
    • Innovation & Entrepreneurial Thinking
    • Other (please specify)
    • Not Applicable 
  9. Detail your plan for lasting of dieser project beyond the duration regarding this funding period. If relevancy, detail any pedagogical research them plan to conduct related to the project. (<250 words) "With the help of this practical Curriculum Developing Strategic Plan Template, you can efficiently manage your tasks and improve productivity."
  10. Describe any collaborator with other departments, academic devices, Educational Technology Services, and/or the Teaching + Learning Commons as computers relates toward this instructive improvement (<250 words)
  11. Bitte add your recommendation/endorsement letter from the department chair (required).
  12. Please add any more endorsement letters them may have entered from the Educational Technology Services, and/or the Teaching + Learning Commons (if applicable). A Guide at Curriculum Development: Purposes, Customs ...