Fund for Innovative Teaching

Every year, CFDE funds will be available for small grants supportive of innovative undergraduate and/or graduate, and postgraduate teaching at Emory. Grants will range from $500-$3000. FIT Grants are open to all full time faculty and are available for both individual faculty members and faculty working as teams. Priority will be given to those whose proposals promise long-term educational effects within the Emory community.

Funds will support a variety of new approaches:

• courses which feature recent discoveries in research and take that research into the classroom;
• courses which necessitate a “pilot” of new pedagogical methods; (funding would be available for both the course or the pilot that precedes it)
• new interdisciplinary courses that move across departments or across schools (NB: in this case support for the registration process across schools will be provided);
• innovative methods of team-teaching.

Grant proposals will be judged on the basis of six criteria:

• the suitability of the project for the areas described above;
• the clarity of educational purpose;
• the feasibility of integration into the Emory curriculum;
• the proposed budget being reasonable and sufficient to accomplish the aims of the study;
• the scholarly and pedagogical credentials of the faculty members and their suitability for the project; and
• the feasibility of the project’s gaining further funding outside Emory.

Grantees may use the funds on a reimbursement basis any time during the year of the grant. Funds may be used for direct and incremental expenses only. They may not be used to offset salary. During the year of their grant, grantees will be required to attend a once-a-semester teaching seminar with other grantees to share their innovations. At the end of the semester in which the class was launched, grantees will be required to provide a report that includes:

1. the final syllabus;
2. student evaluations that include students’ opinions of the new approach and how it affected their learning;
3. specific steps for integration into the Emory curriculum; and
4. plans for future funding of the project.

They will also be asked to participate in a transition session whereby they share their knowledge with the new grantees of the subsequent academic year.

We are delighted to announce the recipients of 2010 grant competition for our Fund for Innovative Teaching (FIT) below.

In our view, these projects represent the best that Emory has to offer. They projects ranging from cross cultural theater to innovate language pedagogy to collaborative teaching in the health sciences to public health/GIS mapping. They  are pedagogically  and technologically creative, and broadly collaborative. All of them will be integrated in significant ways into existing Emory curricula.

Congratulations!

Professor Douglas Ander, School of Medicine
Inter-Professional Team Training Session in ER Medicine

Professors Angelika Bammer and Anna Grimshaw, Emory College
Explorations in Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Professor Vincent Cornell, Emory College
Sources of the Self: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives

Professors Jack Eichler, Brenda Harmon, and Nichole Powell, Oxford College
Development of an Anticancer Chemotherapy Laboratory Module for General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry

Professor Michael Evenden, Emory College
Interdisciplinary/Intercultural Revision of Theater Studies 215: The History of Drama and Theatre

Professor Monique Hennick, School of Public Health
Visual Teaching Tools for Qualitative Research

Professors Peter Hoeyng and Kevin Karnes, Emory College
Jewish Modernities: Music, Literature, and Cultural Politics

Professor Maureen Joyner, School of Medicine
Simulation Based Learning in the Acute Care Curriculum

Professor Patrick Kilgo, School of Public Health
Creating a Consulting Clinic in Problem-Based-Learning Format in Biostatistics 500

Ms. Holly Korschun, Communications and Marketing and Dr. David S. Stephens, School of Medicine
Current Research and Discoveries in Emory University’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center

Drs. Colleen Kraft, Jeannette Guarner and Eileen Burd, School of Medicine
Computerization of Microbiology Vignettes as a Tool to Teach Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Pathology to Healthcare Professionals

Professor Juan Leon, School of Public Health
Mastering Human Biology through Public Health Challenges

Professor Yu Li, Emory College
First year Chinese Language Curriculum

Professors Yang Liu and Michael Page, School of Public Health
Introduction to Satellite Remote Sensing of the Environment and its Applications in Public Health

Professor Ann Massey, Nell Hodgson School of Nursing
Recitation as a Means of Improving Student Performance

Professor Robert McCauley, Emory College
MBC 501: Being Human

Professor Edward Queen II, Emory University
Ethics of Teaching

Professor Judy Raggi Moore, Emory College
ITAL376R: Medicine and Compassion

Professor Eric Reinders, Emory College
The Cultural Revolution: Language, Religion, Art and Media

Professors Debra Spitulnik, Amy Aidman, Sheila Tefft, Sissel McCarthy, and Eddy Von Muller, Emory College
Navigating Media Environments and Media Futures

Professors Parmi Suchdev, Julie Gutman, Andi Shane, Lynn Gardner, School of Medicine
Global Health on Clifton Education Curriculum

Professor Susan Tamasi, Emory College
Health Communication

Professor Wan-Li Ho, Emory College
Chinese Beyond Emory Podcast

Next deadline for FIT Grant applications will be announced in early 2011.