The Teaching & Learning Center (TLC) is pleased to share this year’s faculty opportunities for supported course design and redesign for all modalities (i.e., in-person, online, and hybrid).
Program: Online Course Design & Development for Summer 2024 and Beyond
Quarter offered: Spring
Schedule: Five hour-long cohort sessions and regular consultations with an instructional designer
Targeted courses: Asynchronous online summer courses that have the potential to help significant numbers of students make progress toward their degree. These include courses that are a major requirement, key for degree progress for incoming first-year or transfer students, a bottleneck course, or part of a pair or sequence of courses.
Faculty Compensation: One course release (tenure track faculty) or one course equivalency (lecturers).
How to Participate: View the call and apply by December 11 (10:00 AM), 2023, using this form.
Program: Project REAL — Redesigning for Equity & Advancing Learning
Quarter offered: Spring & Summer
Schedule: Weekly 2-hour sessions for nine weeks (Spring) OR biweekly 3-hour sessions for three weeks (Summer Session I)
Targeted courses: High-enrollment, high-equity-impact, sequential courses / teams of instructors
Faculty Compensation: 1/2 GSR (25% time) for senate faculty; partial appointment for lecturers with less than 100% academic year appointments (Spring) OR $5000 lump sum (Summer)
How to Participate: Apply using this form by February 16, 2024 for the Spring cohort, and by May 1, 2024 for the Summer one.
Program: Open-Access Courses on Coursera (MOOC)
Quarter offered: Ongoing
Theme: Social justice, racial justice, climate justice
Targeted courses: All course topics will be considered
Faculty Compensation: One course release or equivalency
How to Participate: View the call and apply by February 15, 2024, using this form.
Annual Call for Proposals from UC Online
This call is currently open to support the development of online courses and projects focused on digital inclusion. For courses, awards are generously funded at up to $45K per course. Interested faculty are encouraged to work with their department chair, and are required to consult with the campus liaisons to UC Online. Submissions can be made through the linked form. UC Online’s deadline is January 12, 2024.
Ongoing consultations with instructional designers and education specialists are available if you are unable to attend one of the programs above and/or as a follow-up to participation in a program.
Please contact tlc@ucsc.edu with any questions.