Grants

The Educational Developers Caucus (EDC) living plan (2010 onwards) calls for new efforts to “enhance critical reflection, inquiry, and communication about educational development practice within the EDC community.” In an effort to support such work, in 2007, the EDC introduced the Educational Developers Caucus Grants Program.

Grants of up to $2,500 are available to EDC members for work that will:

Encourage new directions in educational development;
Facilitate critical reflection about ongoing practice;
Foster inquiry into the results of current projects;
Enhance communication among development professionals;
Expand impact of successful practices beyond local environments;
Build collaborative structures between and among institutions.

Grant money is generated based on the number of institutional memberships to the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), with EDC receiving a percentage of such income. As a result, the total amount of money available in any given EDC grant year varies.

A project funded by the annual EDC grant program can reapply for up to one additional year only.

Examples of previous and possible projects include:

Using funds as seed money to start a new initiative at a single institution; creating a pilot project that has been little more than a good idea awaiting a new opportunity;
Supporting efforts to transition a small-scale project into an institution-wide initiative; building a resource bridge from isolated experiment to multi-stage investigation;
Bringing a latent or languishing project to fruition through focused efforts; taking the next step in “going to scale” with a long-standing initiative that is in need of a home-stretch boost;
Examining an on-going successful activity in a more structured and formal way so as to gather evidence of accomplishment; building an assessment data-set that will impress stakeholders and funders;
Disseminating inquiry results to a wider public via traditional (print) media or new (online and electronic) media; going public so as to spread the good word about your institution’s good work;
Initiating a collaborative or collective project across two or more institutions; putting in place a connective infrastructure to expand creative capacities, build shared experience, and promote significant impact at multiple sites.

To Apply

Complete the Application Form and email to borin@ryerson.ca

2011 EDC Grants Call for Proposals

Grant Reviewers

EDC Members are invited to serve on the Review Committee for the EDC grant program. You must be available to review five to seven applications (roughly three to four hours of work).

You may NOT apply for a grant and also serve as a reviewer. Upon completion of the Review and Selection processes, names and institutions of those serving on the Review and Selection Committees will be listed on the EDC website and in email communications.