Faculty Fellows Grants

Overview

This grant type essentially exists to promote faculty learning from colleagues about best practices in digital learning with NC State academic technology tools. DELTA collaborates with determined and student-success focused instructors to create content that will assist their peers in creating courses that are pedagogically innovative. In addition, they assist their colleagues in being effective teaching and learning practitioners.

Who should participate?

Faculty who have been employed full or 3/4 time with University for at least 5 years, have had pedagogical success in the classroom and would like to share their knowledge with others.

Choose this grant if:

• You would like to support other faculty and DELTA staff in teaching effectively using a specific campus learning technology(ies), including Moodle, Google Apps for Education, Gradescope, H5P, Moodle Course Roadmap, Padlet, Panopto, Perusall, PlayPosit, VoiceThread, Wooclap, Wolfware WordPress, or Yellowdig.
• You are interested in how pedagogical strategies or design principles can be integrated with other learning technologies, i.e. AI tools, Universal Design for Learning, active learning strategies, etc.
• You have been employed at NC State University for at least five years.

Award

$5,000

Length and Delivery

You will participate in specific NC State DELTA annual activities including a digital teaching and learning panel (October), DELTA-Con (May), Moodle Exchange as a session presenter or facilitator (May), and in a faculty focus group for feedback on DELTA services. You will also propose your own project specific to your experience and interests to create a resource or resources that will advance professional development in digital teaching and learning for instructors at NC State. The plan might include teaching workshops, writing DELTA news or Teaching Resources articles, facilitating peer book or article studies, creating “instructor voice” or teaching tip videos, offering a series to your department, and so on. Historically, Faculty Fellows used their voices to advocate for innovative teaching methods connected to digital teaching and learning. The minimum time commitment is 60 hours over the course of a year.

Services Provided

• Facilitation of collaborative work between DELTA staff and Faculty Fellows grant recipients to support other instructors in teaching effectively using campus technologies

Grant Expectations 

• Participating in scheduled Faculty Fellows planning meetings
• Participating in or contributing to a digital teaching and learning panel (October), DELTA-Con (May), Moodle Exchange as a session presenter or facilitator (May), and a faculty focus group for feedback on DELTA services.
• Working collaboratively with DELTA on their Faculty Fellows project for one academic year (August to August)
• Spending funds within the current fiscal year and in accordance with all deadlines established by the university and the respective college and department. Awards are state-appropriated funds and are subject to all applicable university, college, and departmental rules. Applicants should contact their unit’s budget officer for specifics on spending. Please see the DELTA Grant Funds section on our FAQs page for more information.

Competitive Priorities

Priority consideration is given to applications that:

• Align with DELTA’s strategic goal to lead the digital transformation of teaching and learning
• Focus on teaching effectively with NC State enterprise technology tools
• Explicate specific goals and priorities for a project enhancing professional development for instructors in digital teaching and learning
• Include innovative use(s) of campus technologies integrated with pedagogical strategies for digital teaching and learning

Current Faculty Fellows

• Assistant Teaching Professor Anna Gibson (opens in new window) , English Department, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Associate Professor Wendy Krause (opens in new window) , Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science, Wilson College of Textiles
• Assistant Teaching Professor Megan Lupek (opens in new window) , Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, College of Natural ResourcesAssociate Professor Christopher Crosbie (opens in new window) , Department of English, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Associate Professor Paul Fyfe (opens in new window) , Department of English, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Teaching Assistant Professor Jill Jones (opens in new window) , Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences, College of Education