MLV IPAD Incentive Application

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MLV IPAD Incentive Application

2013 Making Learning Visible:  Implementation, Impact
& Dissemination of Scholarly Teaching
iPad mini Incentive Grant

To support faculty in creating Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Inquiry Projects
Applications due May 31, 2013!  Space is Limited!

  Teaching university-level courses is a form of serious intellectual work that can be as challenging and demanding as discovery research. When teaching is undertaken as a form of inquiry into the impact a course has on student understanding, the quality and depth of this work can be revealed through writing that reflects the relation between the process of teaching and its results.
Daniel Bernstein, University of Kansas
The Making Learning Visible inquiry project development series offers faculty the opportunity to produce evidence of teaching effectiveness that goes beyond IDEA survey results. Findings can be used as evidence of scholarly teaching in promotion and tenure reviews.  Five mandatory sessions this fall will take faculty through the process of creating and implementing a classroom inquiry plan with an additional optional consultation available on the final meeting date.  Faculty will place a course inquiry project documenting the inquiry on a CAFE maintained website to share with UAA colleagues and beyond.  http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cafe/portfolios/index.cfm

We know your time is valuable and want to reward committed faculty who are willing to take the time to investigate and share effective teaching practices with their colleagues. Faculty who complete the process (see below) will receive a new iPad mini.  Participation is limited. 

ELIGIBILITY
All UAA faculty are eligible to apply, with the understanding that you must be able to:    
  • Attend all five MLV sessions 9/6, 9/20, 10/4, 10/18, 11/1 (11//15/2013 - final meeting is an optional consultation)   
  • Introduce, document, and assess the new strategy in at least one course during the spring 2014 semester.    
  • Create an inquiry project and post it to the MLV Blackboard site by March 17, 2014.
Priority (in order) will be given to faculty who have:
1)    participated in the MLV book group but not yet implemented a project;
2)    been introduced to MLV (e.g., Tech Fellows, CCEL, Sustainability Across the Curriculum, and CAHDRE faculty) and are ready to begin the portfolio creation process.
3)    Faculty with no prior MLV experience.

To apply, please complete the contact information form below and submit up to 2 pages in response to the following  three questions to uaa_cafe@uaa.alaska.edu

  1.  Summary of MLV Project you are considering.
  2.  Prior participation in SoTL/Making Learning Visible (If yes, please describe)
  3.  Project Timeline
(Applications due by 5 pm Friday, May 31, 2013, Awardees will be notified by June 12, 2013)