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Instructional Technology Grant for the Collaborative Development of Interdisciplinary Teaching Resources

The purpose of this grant is to foster collaboration among two or more faculty members - across disciplines or across schools - in creating innovative, technology-based teaching resources.

The following are some ideas that may help you to develop your own collaborative project:

  • For a philosopher and a biologist and an anthropologist to create a multimedia learning module re-examining the “natural state of man” as discussed by Hobbes, Rousseau and others in the context of our current understanding of anthropology, evolution and animal behavior.
  • For a statistician and a sociologist to develop an interactive tool for exploratory data analysis by students of the publicly available databases underlying the research by Robert Putnam in “Bowling Alone”
  • For faculty in interactive digital design and in information systems management to create a joint student project to design and evaluate the user interface of one or more software applications.
  • For faculty in International Business, and the languages to create a teaching module focusing on the impact of language and culture on business interactions, possibly incorporating collaboration with faculty in other countries using the Cultura model from MIT (http://alnombak.mit.edu/xoops/).

 

Your instructional technologists can help you develop your own projects.

The amount of the grant will vary between $600 and $2500 per project depending upon the scope of the project, and the number of participants in the project. Grant recipients can request graduate or undergraduate technical help with these projects.

The successful proposal will consist of one to two pages describing the project and its use of technology, the collaborators and their departments, the course or courses in which the project will be used, and the expected learning outcomes.

If you have any questions send an email to John.Paton@quinnipiac.edu or Gary.Pandolfi@quinnipiac.edu or Maureen.Schorr@quinnipiac.edu.