The Course Mapping Grants provide faculty with an opportunity to create a visual representation of their course components. This facilitates student understanding and success because they can see how learning objectives, materials, activities and assessments align with course expectations and completion requirements.
Who Should Participate?
Full or part-time time faculty who are interested in aligning course work with course goals and objectives.
Choose this grant if you like to:
Visually link learning objectives to course materials, assignments, expectations and other means of student assessments.
Continuously improve your content according to best practices in course design.
Award
$2000 award plus DELTA consultations and professional development (which could include but is not limited to workshops, consultations, action plan templates and additional resources).
What Courses are Eligible?
Any face-to-face, online or hybrid courses that are credit-bearing and currently being taught or will be taught in an upcoming semester.
Length and Delivery
The grant work spans a single semester. The intention is to use the course map during a future semester.
Services Provided
Workshops, training materials, online resources.
2-3 consultations to discuss instructional needs, collaboratively determine the best technology fit for the instructional challenge, receive guidance on effective instructional use and brainstorm possible learning activities and course integration methods.
Grant Expectations
Attend the “Applying the Quality Matters Rubric” workshop
Complete the “Guiding Your Students to Success with a Course Map” asynchronous workshop.
Write a set of course-level and module-level (topic, unit, week, etc) learning objectives that are measurable.
Develop a course map for one course that demonstrates alignment between learning objectives, materials, activities and assessments.
Competitive Advantages
Priority consideration is given to applications that:
I love discovering ways to enhance my teaching, so I was intrigued by the concept of course mapping. Although it initially felt challenging due to my course’s project-based format, DELTA’s Assistant Director for Course Quality Arlene Mendoza-Moran’s support and the provided materials helped me recognize the value of this framework and apply it successfully in my course design.
Dr. Andrés Téllez
Design and Technology College of Design
Course Mapping Grants in Action
Learn how faculty create learner-centered course content with Course Mapping Express Grants
Screenshot from a Lightboard lecture video in Teaching Assistant Professor Jason King’s CSC 316 course. Animations were integrated to help students better understand abstract concepts.
