CEBE Funding for innovative projects in Learning and Teaching

Deadline: Monday 2nd November 2009

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 09/10 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.

All applications 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.

Funds will be allocated on the basis of a competitive bidding process using the criteria described. Projects will run for a 12 month period or less and must include an evaluation strategy. We would normally expect to allocate a maximum of £6k per project. Each bid will however be assessed on its own merit and applications for smaller sums of funding are welcomed.