Course Innovation Initiative

Program Overview | Course Innovation Initiative (CI2)

This initiative is in place to direct resources and support to departments and faculty working on development or continuous improvement of courses at UHD that impact a large number of students. Priority target courses are high-enrollment, multi-section courses taught by numerous instructors. Faculty teams receiving a CI2 award will implement a course innovation project that seeks to improve student learning in part through a focus on four essential strategies illustrated to the right:

A Learning Ecologies approach to course design is encouraged and provides a framework by which faculty form CDTs that integrate discipline-specific expertise along with university services.

For example, a single course might integrate innovative pedagogy, instructional technology, academic support services (i.e. Math and Writing centers), library resources, and impactful learning strategies that require the expertise of university staff in corresponding departments.

Additionally, CDTs will use Learning Environment Modeling (LEM) as a flexible design framework to maximize course quality. More details regarding the Learning Ecologies model and Learning Environment Modeling (LEM) are available at www.tinyurl.com/UHDecologies and www.uco.edu/lem.

HOW TO APPLY

Process opens March 2023 LEARN MORE: bit.ly/ctleCI2 IMPORTANT DATES: • Mar 3 – Proposal Preparation Workshop • Mar 31 – Proposal Due Date

Awardee Project Timeline: