CEBE Funding for innovative projects in Learning and Teaching

Deadline: Friday, 1st October 2010

Introduction

One of CEBE’s key roles is to support innovation and enhancements in learning and teaching practice across the Built Environment disciplines. The Centre is making available a series of grants of up to £6,000 each in the 2010/11 academic year. Bids are sought for innovative projects which demonstrate a clear benefit to the built environment student learning experience. Examples of proposals might involve:

the development of a teaching resource, such as a set of guides or course materials, web based resources, the production of a DVD or CD, a teaching pack, exemplar module or workshop session
a mini piece of educational research, for example, the evaluation of an existing course
trialing of a new teaching method or technique
establishment of a new network of academics across HEI’s to focus on a specific learning and teaching issue of common concern
the roll-out and embedding of new practice in a course/module/department

Suggestions for alternative topics are also welcome. Please contact the Centre if you would like to discuss an idea for a project submission.

This year, CEBE especially welcomes applications that address one (or more) of the following Higher Education Academy priority areas:

Better teaching: developing excellent teaching for all students; promoting the professionalisation of teaching; learning from the National Student Survey; enhancing the external examining process
Flexibility of learning: enhancing the learning experience, supporting departments in their responses to changes in the student profile, diversifying models and methodologies of learning
Graduates' impact and contribution to society and the economy: clarifying the relationship between the undergraduate experience and graduates' subsequent lives and contribution to society and the economy, including education for sustainable development and student engagement in curriculum design and delivery.

All bids should demonstrate that there is a clear need for the project being proposed and the ideas and basis of the work must be transferable more widely within the Built Environment community, or provide results that will be of interest to other institutions.

Projects are expected to be able to complete by 31st July 2011 and must include an evaluation strategy. Funding will be allocated on the basis of a competitive bidding process and we would normally expect to allocate a maximum of £6,000 per project. Each bid will, however, be assessed on its own merit and applications for smaller sums of funding are welcomed.