DMC Faculty Fellowship Program
The DMC Faculty Fellowship Program (FFP) is sponsored by the Office of Information Technology (OIT) and managed by the Digital Media Center (DMC), OIT.
Who
This newly restructured 18-month program provides a small, cross-disciplinary community for Twin Cities instructors who aspire to engage, individually and collaboratively, in a scholarly investigation of how to enhance student learning through the thoughtful integration of technology into teaching and learning and share their findings with the larger University community.
What
Faculty fellows each propose a Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) Project and, with the support of other faculty fellows and DMC consultants, plan, develop, and work toward implementing and evaluating it. This project will be of strategic significance to the department and college.
Faculty fellows each receive $10,000 to support work on their TEL Projects, which may be used toward release time, production services purchased from OIT or elsewhere, RA support, hardware/software purchase, and conference travel. Over 18 months, beginning in August 2008, fellows will work incrementally to
- identify course components, courses, or programs to be [re]designed;
- write design documents;
- develop prototypes; and
- implement and evaluate their projects.
A Web page that captures this process for each fellow will be developed throughout the year and featured on the DMC site at the end of the spring semester. Follow this link to see pages for the previous year’s Fellows.
Fellows also work together to explore scholarship relevant to the program's theme and produce a collaborative report that will include an annotated bibliography, advice for colleagues and administrators, and recommendations regarding research that is needed to propel the field forward. During the second fall semester of the program, faculty fellows form a panel and make a presentation as part of the TEL Seminar Series.
Why
The program helps instructors develop the knowledge and skills requisite for being faculty leaders in the area of TEL by offering them opportunities to
- reflect on the nature of expertise as a key to teaching and learning in our disciplines;
- become familiar with the design and development process;
- experience using new technologies;
- work collaboratively to explore relevant scholarship;
- review and contribute to the scholarship of teaching literature; and
- share what they know.
How
Up to five fellows each year will attend an initial three-day workshop in August centered around best practices in course design and teaching and learning with technology. The workshop will be followed by eight seminar meetings in the fall and spring semesters, and one additional meeting in the second fall semester. Over this 18-month period, fellows will learn design frameworks, share their own work, provide feedback to peers, individually and collaboratively explore a range of TEL issues relevant to the University community, and create visible scholarly output in the form of TEL Project-related Web pages and collaborative reports and presentations.
When
The 2008–09 Call for Proposals (PDF) is linked from the "In This Section" area in the right column; applications are due by 5:00 p.m., May 5, 2008. The program will begin with a three-day workshop in August and continue with nine scheduled meetings and several events through the fall semester of the following academic year.
