UAlbertaTLEF Info Session 2012 The TLEF Adjudication Process With thanks to Susan Barker, Maggie

UAlbertaTLEF Info Session 2012

The TLEF Adjudication Process

http://www.provost.ualberta.ca/AwardsandFunding/tlef.aspx

With thanks to Susan Barker, Maggie Haag, Chuck Lucy and Bob LuthPast TLEF Adjudication Committee members

http://www.provost.ualberta.ca/AwardsandFunding/tlef.aspx


• Vice-Provost (Academic Programs & Instruction),

or delegate, Chair

• Vice-Provost (Information Technology), or delegate

• Vice-President (Research) or delegate

• Member of the Committee on the Learning Environment (CLE)

• One tenured faculty member selected by GFC

• Director, Centre for Teaching and Learning

• One undergraduate student selected by Students’ Union

• One graduate student selected by GSA

TLEF Adjudication Committee


• Innovation

• Collaboration

• Evaluation

• Sustainability

• Dissemination

• Budget and Timelines

TLEF Proposal must address:


• How is this project or research innovative?

• How will it expand the realm of effective practice in teaching and learning at UAlberta?

• “normal course development activities will not be funded”

Innovation

Normal activities“updating”“modernizing”

Innovative“discovery learning”“community service learning”“mobile learning”

Discipline focus Learner focus


• between faculties, departments, and/or divisions

• among students and faculty

• providing students opportunities to participate in a learner-centered environment

• with community partners

Collaboration

Clear roles and synergy in collaboration


Include comprehensive evaluation strategy • what are the desired results?• how will these be measured?

Specific research questions and related research methodology need to be defined.

Evaluation


Demonstrate how the proposed activity has the potential for sustained improvements in educational outcomes.

Sustainability

How will the project or research:

• make optimal use of existing resources

• benefit a significant number of students

• continue to operate or provide benefit beyond the TLEF support period?


How will you share your idea and results with:

• other UAlberta instructors ?

Festival of Teaching Centre for Teaching and Learning workshops University Teaching Program (FGSR)

• UAlberta students ?

• within discipline ?

• < 10% of total project budget

Dissemination


Useful Supplements

• Relationship of educational theory to practice

• Alignment with Dare to Discover


• be specific about how budget is derived

• align with the fiscal year (April 1 to March 31)

• use the single-year or multi-year budget template

• indicate project or research timelines for major activities

Budget and Schedule of Timelines


• bulk of the budget will be used to support activities that promote high quality teaching and learning at UAlberta

• requests for capital equipment (e.g. computers) must be shown to be integral to the proposal

• principal and co-applicants cannot receive remuneration

• funds for teaching release will be considered only in exceptional circumstances

Important Budgetary Considerations


• extent to which the proposed activities are likely to benefit students and instructors within the Faculty and University

• indicator of long-term sustainability of the project or research within the Faculty

Dean’s Ranking

Appraisal Letter from Chair or Dean


TLEF Proposal Review

Prior to adjudication meeting:1. Any conflicts of interest identified2. Each grant reviewed by all committee members3. Each give summary score of Yes/Maybe/No

At adjudication meeting: Committee members in conflict leave room4. Primary reviewer provides brief summary5. Secondary reviewer adds comments6. Proposal is discussed by committee7. Decisions are reached by consensus All proposals discussed


• Full funding

• Partial funding

• Conditional funding

• Unfunded

Funding Decisions


• Know your audience

• Clear, well-written, well-organized proposal

• Why is this the best use of TLEF funds?

Keys for a Successful Proposal


Short term, small class intervention with three international conferences for lead investigator and 2 graduate students

3 top of the range Mac laptops, top of the range digital video recorder and audio recorder for small short term project

Anything in Hawaii in January!

What was not funded



Department of Sociology Jana Grekul, $31,687 Community Service-Learning in a Large Introductory Sociology Class

Department of PhilosophyRobert Wilson, $112,332 Building Collaborative Communities for Critical Inquiry

Campus Saint-JeanDonald Ipperciel, Georg Peschke, Roger Moore, and Hassan Safouhi, $90,228 Mathematical Suite for Moodle (MSM)

Health Sciences Council / EducationSharla King, Mark Hall, LuAnne McFarlane, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Norton, Teresa Paswlaski, Lisa Guirguis, and Kent Stobart, $131,053 Integration of Interprofessional Competencies in Health Science Programs: Building a Bridge from the Classroom to Practice Environments


Department of Family Medicine Shelley Ross, Sarah Forgie, Michel Donoff, and Paul Humphries, $22,837 Evaluating the Competency-Based Achievement System (CBAS): Implementation Beyond Family Medicine

Department of Pediatrics Sunita Vohra and Sarah Forgie, $23,090 CAM Fair: An Interdisciplinary Teaching Intervention for Health Sciences Students

Faculty of NursingKarin Olson, Greta Cummings, Robert Hayward, Manal Kleib, and Anne Sales, $17,538 Health Informatics in Baccalaureate Nursing Education: Effectiveness of Lecture vs. Online Learning Approaches


Department of Biological Sciences Julia Foght, $15,000 Development of a Web-based, Interactive, Simulated Fermenter for Teaching Micrb 415 Industrial Microbiology and Renovation of Course Content

Department of Physics Al Meldrum, John Beamish, and Gregory Thomas, $137,579 Transforming the Undergraduate Physics Laboratory Experience: A Guided Inquiry Approach

Department of Physics Sharon Morsink, Craig Heinke, and Gregory Sivakoff, $55,507 Enhancing Astronomy Education through On Campus Telescopes

Documents

UAlbertaTLEF Info Session 2012 The TLEF Adjudication Process With thanks to Susan Barker, Maggie