Course Mapping Grants

Overview

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:
  • Benefit an online or hybrid course
  • Improve an online program or certificate.

Seek to improve student success as defined by the NC State Strategic Plan.