From November 2006 - June 2008, NITLE worked with leaders in its participant community to promote community-based innovation and collaboration via the NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund. These leaders, serving on advisory councils to NITLE, used the Fund to recognize and award creative, community-driven projects and programs with financial support. Institutions that received these competitive awards worked--and in many cases are continuing to work--on behalf of the NITLE Network community to develop and promulgate effective, mission-appropriate uses for digital technology in teaching and learning. NITLE is pleased to present the awarded projects:
This project will be designed for teachers of dance studies and history survey courses and humanities teachers who wish to incorporate dance into their curricula. Key collaborators: Wesleyan University, Oberlin College, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Find out more.
This project will function as a follow up workshop to the NITLE sesson on "Technology and the Language Curriculum" in September. Key collaborators: Pomona College, Occidental College, Austin College, Lewis and Clark College, Reed College, Scripps College, University of Puget Sound, and Willamette University. Find out more or download the flier (.pdf, 152.55 KB).
This project will fund a symposium promoting inter-institutional relationship building. Key Collaborator: Centre College. Find out more.
Project Update -- July 22, 2008 -- Faculty, librarians, technologists, and senior administrators from participating institutions in the Midwest will be invited to participate in an event to be held July 25 - 26, 2008, at Lake Forest College. Participants will examine collaboration through their diverse personal, professional, and institutional lenses. This workshop will 1) seek to identify the characteristics of effective collaboration, 2) permit participants to apply the tools and techniques at their own institutions and assess the outcomes, and 3) distill the ideas and experiences for wider dissemination. More about the workshop | More about the original project proposal
Key collaborators: Beloit College, Earlham College, and Lawrence University.
Project Update -- July 16, 2008 --Rhodes College and Wheaton College invite faculty, librarians, and technologists from NITLE participating colleges to a 2 1/2-day workshop on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) at Wheaton College, October 10 - 12, 2008. The workshop will begin with lunch on Friday, October 10, and end at 4:30 PM on Sunday, October 12. More about the workshop | Apply online (deadline: September 2, 2008).
Key collaborators: Wheaton College, Rhodes College, Brown University.
This project seeks to document current practices, identify common grounds and outline a framework for the development of a shared infrastructure. Key collaborators: Wesleyan University, Grinnell College, Kenyon College, and Oberlin College. Find out more.
This project focuses on developing laboratory resources to engage students in studying health problems at a biopsychosocial level of analysis. Key collaborators: Davidson College, Wake Forest University, Randolph Macon University, and Noldus Information Technologies. Find out more.
This project is a series of collaborative learning events designed to promote course redesign by rethinking learning goals through technologies. Key collaborators: faculty, librarians, technologists, and staff at Furman University. Find out more.
This proposal is for a conference to assist liberal arts institutions in the creation of digital access to material culture collections. This conference will bring together faculty collectors, technologists, librarians, and media specialists. Key collaborators: faculty and staff at Vassar College. Find out more.
This project seeks to implement two programs that will result in working policies and practices on the following essential pre-requisites to implementing a successful shared repository: collection focus, site organization, and access controls. Key collaborators: University of Richmond, Carleton College, Trinity University, St. Lawrence University, and Grinnell College. Find out more.
A project to develop a shared and evolving resource that provides practical guidance on the use of games and simulations to promote learning on campus. Led by Dickinson College. See the project summary and call for participation(registration deadline: October 5, 2007).
This project focuses on planning an inter-institutional conference or symposium on the use of geospatial technologies on college campuses. Key collaborators: Vassar College, Smith College, Amherst College, Williams College, Wheaton College, Trinity College, and Skidmore College. Find out more.
This project will expedite the preparation of proposals to the Instructional Innovation Fund. Key collaborator: NITLE Midwest Advisory Council. Find out more.
Project Update -- July 16, 2008 -- The Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS) will administer the Research Practices Survey in 2008 - 2009. NITLE participating institutions are invited to participate in the administration of the survey, which is transitioning into HEDS administration as one outcome of the "Improving Students’ Information Literacy: Analyzing and Using Results from the Spring 2007 Research Practices Survey Project," a recipient of a NITLE Instructional Innovation Fund Award. HEDS is offering a single administration to incoming first-years, with a sample of any size, for an institutional cost of $500; the cost of two administrations, whether cross-sectional or longitudinal, is $650. Register to Participate (.pdf, 23.34 KB) | Sample Survey (56.85 KB) | Extended Project Update. For more information, contact Erika Shehata at the HEDS office.
Key collaborators: St. Olaf College, Carleton College, Cornell College, Knox College, Lewis and Clark College, Swarthmore College, Trinity University, University of Puget Sound, Wellesley College, University of Maryland.
This project will allow for detailed planning for the Instructional Technologists at Liberal Arts Colleges Symposium. Key collaborators: Macalester College, Carleton College, Colorado College, and DePauw University. Find out more.
This project will develop a workshop for integrating library resources and Sakai, exploring new modes of integration and collaboration that exploit the strengths of the Sakai toolset. Key collaborators: Whitman College, The Claremont Colleges, Willamette University. Find out more.
This project seeks to develop an interactive timeline application for the CLEo/Sakai learning environment, making it possible for users to manipulate and contribute information to the timeline. Key collaborators: Whitman College, Pomona College, Claremont-McKenna College. Find out more.
This project will convene a planning committee of members from collaborating institutions who are interested in creating a summer student internship exchange. Key collaborators: Lake Forest College, Carleton College, Colorado College, DePauw University, Macalester College, and St. Olaf College. Find out more.
A project to explore the potential of moving images to form interdisciplinary connections on liberal arts campuses. Key collaborators: Hamilton College, Colgate University, Juniata College, and St. Lawrence University. Find out more.
This project will foster communication, collaboration, and networking among inorganic chemistry faculty. Key collaborators: Reed College, Claremont Colleges, DePauw University, Earlham College, Harvey Mudd College, Hope College, and James Madison University. Find out more.
This project will bring together Sakai users and prospective users from the Western Region for the purpose of networking. Key collaborators: Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College, Pomona College, and Scripps College. Find out more.
Archive of community-driven projects
From November 2006 - June 2008, NITLE sponsored an Instructional Innovation Fund (IIF), a program of competitive awards designed to recognize and promote innovation and collaboration at participating institutions in teaching with digital technology. The program, administered as four separate funds by community leaders serving on NITLE's regional advisory councils, awarded support to campus-driven projects (listed above) that spoke to the strengths, needs, and strategic priorities of their respective regions. The IIF program officially concluded at the end of June 2008.
Although the active dispersal of IIF awards has ended, NITLE continues to work with award recipients to publicize calls for proposals and publish reports related to awarded projects and programs. Award recipients are encouraged to use NITLE's publicity guidelines (.pdf, 43 KB) as a planning aid. The publicity guidelines outline how to access promotional support from NITLE for projects approved by the advisory councils.
Questions about the Instructional Innovation Fund may be directed to Michael Nanfito.