During fall 2021, nine proposals were submitted to the Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards. The Academic Technology Advisory Council awarded a total of $99,791 for the following three proposals.

Proposal Title Principal Investigators Org Unit Department Award
Enhancing Engineering Ethics Education through Gamification: A Choose-Your-Own-Path Activity Jennifer Fiegel College of Engineering

 		 Chemical and Biochemical 
Engineering		 $18,000

VIBE: Virtual Instruction in Behavioral Education

Seth King

Tyler Bell

College of Education 

College of Engineering

Teaching and Learning

Electrical and Computer Engineering

 $56,180
AI Enabled Intelligent Assistant (AIIA) for Personalized and Adaptive Learning and Advising Ibrahim Demir College of Engineering
 		 Civil and Environmental Engineering $25,611

 

       Total: $99,791

 

The Academic Technologies Advisory Council assists the Provost's Office and Chief Information Officer in setting directions and priorities for developing, implementing, and evaluating instructional technology directions for the university. Proposals for the Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards are accepted in the fall. Applicants are encouraged to get started on them now. ATAC provides feedback and assist in development of proposals. For more information, visit the award program’s website.

The Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards help fund innovative applications of instructional technologies that impact student success and retention. Applicants are encourage to use emerging instructional technologies such as augmented reality, crowd-sourcing, electronic books (ePub/eText), game-based learning, geo-everything, gesture-based computing, learning analytics, mobile computing, personal web, open content, semantic-aware applications, simulation/simulators for instruction, smart objects, social networking, visual data analysis, and video (e.g., "grassroots video").