ITaP is offering a competitive grants program to fund innovative technology projects that aim to improve instructional quality and effectiveness. The 2010 grant program has been redefined to better align with the Purdue strategic plan.

ITaP will fund up to $120,000 on innovative projects that use such concepts as user-generated content, social media, collaboration, simulation, gaming, mobility and more.

Proposals will be accepted until 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. All Purdue tenure-track, clinical and statewide-technology faculty at the West Lafayette campus are eligible to apply.

Applicants are required to consult with an educational technologist in ITaP’s emerging technologies group before submitting their proposals. This consultation will cover the project scope, technical resource requirements, timeline for delivery, budget and formal assessment expectations.

“We want to cultivate instructional excellence by helping faculty who will experiment with new ideas, teaching methods and technologies,” said David Eisert, manager of ITaP’s instructional media and emerging technologies. “We particularly look for projects that are technologically sophisticated and, this year in particular, collaborative and cross-disciplinary.”

ITaP will award $60,000 for the recipients of its new Emerging Technology High Impact Award. The grantees need to present a proposal for a multi-faculty, cross-disciplinary project that addresses the strengths and limitations of applying innovative technology in an interdisciplinary environment, creating a sustainable framework that ensures continued use and establishing high measurable impact for future campus-wide implementation in support of teaching and learning.

This grant program will also fund up to four Technology Innovation awards at a maximum of $15,000 each to individual faculty members whose projects advance the groundbreaking use of technology for integration in the curriculum.

Faculty will find the complete grant guidelines on the ITaP grants Web page. To schedule a pre-submission consultation, call 49-63257 or send a query to tlt-grants@purdue.edu.

Last updated: Oct. 12, 2009

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