e-Learning Incentive Grant
(part of the Faculty of Education e-Learning Incentive Program)
e-Learning Incentive Grant Application Form (85 KB MS Word)
Submit to the Office of
Graduate Studies and Bureau of Research, Room A106, Faculty of Education
Terms of Reference [November 17, 2004]
Purpose
The e-Learning Incentive Grant is designed to encourage faculty and staff to contribute visibly and significantly to the Faculty goal of integrating information technology into teaching, learning, scholarship, and administration.
All projects supported by e-Learning Incentive Grants will contribute directly to Faculty knowledge on how to integrate information and communications technology (ICT) into teaching and scholarship. These projects are intended to enhance our relationship with our associate schools.
Projects will be supported for work of the Faculty in the following areas:
- applications of ICT in teaching and learning in pre-service programs and graduate programs;
- collaborative projects in K–12 schools, involving faculty members, graduate students, teacher candidates, and classroom teachers;
- support and administrative functions.
Context
The grant is part of the Faculty's e-Learning Incentive Program.
Eligibility
All full-time faculty and full-time staff.
Note: Although part-time faculty and staff, graduate students, teacher candidates, and classroom teachers may have significant involvement in projects, full responsibility for project planning, proposal development, and project management must lie with full-time faculty or staff, who are expected to be substantially involved in all aspects of the project.
Calls for Proposals
At least one call will be made per year for requests for funding and dedicated time of e-Services staff.
Funding
Project budgets may range from a few hundred dollars to $5 000. Funds may be used for any reasonable expenses, including hardware, software, and personnel. They will not be used for faculty release time. Funds are to be used in the fiscal year in which the award is made.
More specifically, funds may be used for:
- special software and hardware employed by the project;
- technical support (configuration of hardware and software);
- release time for teachers;
- travel to and from sites outside Kingston;
- participant travel to and from Queen's for project activity at Queen's;
- Graduate Students as Research Assistants.
Funds awarded to projects may be prorated.
Funds not used within the fiscal year of the award will be returned.
In keeping with Queen's policy, resources purchased with these funds will remain the property of the university. (In projects involving collaboration with schools, arrangements may be made for resource sharing on a case-by-case basis.)
Timing (2007/2008 fiscal year)
- Call for proposals: April 10, 2008
- Proposals due: June 12, 2008
- Adjudication complete: early July
- August 1 - April: use of funds
- April 23: financial statement (with supporting documentation)
- All grant holders must submit a brief report, including the impact the award had on their work, within 6 months of the termination of the award. Grant holders who fail to submit a report will be ineligible for further grants. Submit these to Education Graduate Studies and Bureau of Research Office. There is also an expectation that recipients will provide a project report for the e-Learning Hub Website, presentation of the project to the Faculty.
Adjudication Criteria
Preference will be given to ICT integration proposals for work that:
- adds significantly to Faculty knowledge;
- is attainable, sustainable, and extendable;
- makes effective, efficient, and creative use of resources;
- involves improvement of teaching, learning, scholarship, or administration;
- includes collegial professional development;
- connects theory and practice.
- builds on previous Faculty experience with e-learning
- builds on relevent research on e-learning
- funding will be provided by a peer review process. The perceived quality of the proposal, as documented in the application itself, and need are the most important criteria used by the Adjuducation Committee in reaching recommendations for funding.
All applications will be adjudicated by a committee appointed by the Dean. The committee will include internal and external academics and senior staff, including people with resource expertise.