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Overview Instructors at Yale University can apply for grants to support teaching innovation. The Instructional Innovation Grants (IIG) program offers a common application procedure and serves to coordinate application distribution to the appropriate groups for review. Currently, these grant programs include the following, and details may be viewed at the IIG website at www.yale.edu/iig. The Paul Moore Memorial Fund is devoted to improving and upgrading the curriculum in major fields of instruction in Yale College. It is intended mainly to support the development of new methods and materials for the reorganization of important basic courses The Baker-Steyer Fund supports enrichments and innovations in undergraduate education. It is receptive to proposals that affect a program of study and thereby reach many students - for example foundational or "core" courses, and courses with large enrollments Faculty who teach foreign languages may apply to the Center for Language Study (CLS) for funding to support a variety of language teaching activities including materials development, curriculum design, integration of new pedagogical methods, etc. Grant funds are available from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning for projects along the same lines as those offered by the Center for Language Study. The ITS Innovation Fund supports innovation and enhancement in teaching and learning through the use of information technologies. A significant component of the funds are targeted towards internal, peer-reviewed grants for specific courses. In addition, there exist several prizes and awards . The Poorvu Family Award was established to recognize and enhance Yale's strength in interdisciplinary teaching. According to the terms of the gift, the award is to be made to outstanding members of the junior faculty who have demonstrated excellence in teaching in interdisciplinary undergraduate programs. The McCredie Grant for Teaching Excellence in a Technology-Enhanced Course is awarded annually from academic year 2000 through 2004 to an instructor in Yale College who demonstrates effective teaching and learning through integration of digital technologies into their curriculum. The next round of applications will be solicited in Spring of 2000, and details will appear on the IIG website at http://www.yale.edu/iig. ITS Innovation grants In spring of 1999, the ITS innovation fund made seven awards to investigators in support of instructional uses of technology. The awards spanned the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, and are expected to have a significant effect on the targetted undergraduate and graduate courses. Thomas Arnold (History) and Maria Georgopolou (History of Art) received an award to enhance the Theatrum Mediterraneum web site for History 325 (Mediterranean Boundaries; see article on Page 1 of this issue). As a followup to an earlier ITS-Library award that established the site with primary source materials, the instructors are now working to include original digital images and other enhancements to the site. Kathryn Alexander and her colleagues in the Music Department are creating digital resources for a large number of undergraduate music courses. Using common paradigms of accessing information, they are building a Virtual Concert Hall and Virtual Music Library that contain digitized audio materials for student listening and study, and other online musical instruction materials for specific courses. These resources also build on an earlier ITS-Library grant that helped to establish a Departmental digital music lab for student use. Eric Denardo, Professor of Operations Research, received an award to develop digital teaching materials for his introductory course in Operations Research Stephen Dellaporta in MCDB will use his award to develop virtual courseware for his Introduction to Genetics course and to integrate and evaluate the use of WWW resources in his curriculum. Jacques Gauthier in Geology received an award to develop CD and web-based interactive courseware for the teaching of paleontology to undergraduates. William Kelly and Richard Bribiescas of Anthropology received an award to develop a faculty resource development lab to support instructors' use of digital materials in undergraduate and graduate teaching. Paula Resch and her colleagues in English will use their grant to enhance the use of collaborative writing software in English writing classes, and to evaluate the effectiveness of this technology on the improvement of students' writing skills. CLS Technology Grants The Center for Language Studies also funded seven proposals in support of language teaching activities and materials development. The recipients include: Ling Mu (Chinese) for Learning Going On Line -- A Project to Digitize Supplementary Teaching Materials For Chinese 130. Ling Mu & Zhengguo Kang (Chinese) for Reading with Multimedia -- A Project to Digitize Supplementary Reading Materials For Chinese 133. Karen von Kunes (Czech) for Living Czech: 601 Idioms. A Proficiency Course in Idiomatic and Spoken Literary Czech. Pierre Capretz (French) for Camus' L'Etranger: An Interactive Hypermedia Program for Intensive and Second-Year French. Jordano Quaglia & Jean Krasno (Portuguese) for preparing materials and curriculum for teaching in Portuguese about the United Nations. Julia Titus (Russian) for creating a digitized version of The Gentle Creature by Dostoevsky for Advanced Russian. Ernesto Livon-Grosman (Spanish) to integrate radio programs broadcast by the BBC on the Web as the audio component for Advanced Conversational Spanish.
Details and abstracts can be viewed on the CLS web site at http://www/cls/resources/iig/abstracts99/. |
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