Funded Projects
Teaching and Technology Innovation grants support faculty projects to improve student learning, curriculum, or pedagogy, or contribute data to the scholarship concerning how students learn. Here are some of the funded projects from previous grant cycles:
Funded Project Presentations
Discovery-Based Experiments to Enhance Students Learning in the Organic Chemistry Laboratory Courses
The following faculty teams received funding:
- Jessica Lucas and Christelle Sabatier (Biology): Create short online videos for students in Biology 21.
- Maribeth Oscamou (Mathematics & Computer Science) and Norm Paris (Physics): Create online videos for Math 14 or Physics 33.
- Carol Ann Gittens (Liberal Studies), Natalie Linnell, & Nicholas Tran (Mathematics & Computer Science): Develop new content and new pedagogy for introductory computer science courses
- Christelle Sabatier, Tracy Ruscetti, David McMillan, Lianna Wong (Biology): Develop formative online and in-class assignments for introductory biology courses that can gauge, report, and record student mastery of specific learning objectives.
- Julia Voss (English): Document how faculty and students use recently built/renovated classrooms and study how teachers and students learn to work within both "traditional" and nontraditional classroom spaces.
Other Projects
What happens when all students and faculty have access to mobile technology within the classroom environment? What are the benefits for teaching and learning, and what challenges do mobile devices present? Three cohorts of students and faculty in LEAD (Leadership Excellence and Academic Development, a four-year program for first-generation college students) focused on academics, community engagement, and service) experimented with the use of iPads in their CTW and LEAD seminar classes.
In the summer of 2012, SCU began the process of redesigning some of its classrooms to facilitate more active learning pedagogies such as discussion, project-based work, and analysis in groups. The redesigns afforded more flexibility in how classroom space could be used. Additionally, many classrooms incorporated technologies that allow students to share their work easily with others from their laptops or mobile devices.
Through small group discussions and CAFÉ lunch sessions, faculty teaching in the redesigned classrooms have shared their experiences with others, leading to new experimentation. In addition, the Collaborative has surveyed faculty and students using these classrooms.
