Institutional SoTL Grants across Canada*

Carla B. Howery

Teaching Enhancement Grant

• supports SoTL within the discipline of Sociology
• two grants up to $2000 each

Principal criteria—The project must advance the teaching and learning of sociology, serves as a seed project that will continue to have an impact over time and will be systemic in its impact.

Dalhousie University/

Centre for Learning and Teaching

Student Engagement Initiatives

• proposals reviewed on a rolling basis
• one time funding of $300,000

The aim of these collaborative projects is to enhance student engagement and success through developing high impact activities within and between Faculties.

Dalhousie University/

Centre for Teaching and Learning

Teaching and Learning with Technology Grants

• Type 1—up to $5000.
  Eligibility: full-time faculty
• Type 2—up to $2000.
  Eligibility: full and part-time faculty and limited-term faculty with at least one year remaining in their contract term

The grants are intended to encourage and support faculty members who are seeking new and innovative ways to incorporate technology into their teaching practice that result in a design or re-design of a course or curriculum.

Type 1—for projects that involve course/curriculum design or redesign, affect a high proportion of students, and include a plan to evaluate the project outcomes. Priority will be given to projects that have the potential for application beyond a single course.

Type —for projects that provide direct learning benefit to students and have the potential for a long-term benefit in a particular course or program

Preference will be given to projects that can be completed within one year and that can be fully funded by the awarded grant plus any necessary additional funding from other sources

McMaster University/

Centre for Leadership in Learning

Teaching and Learning Grants

• Submissions for large grants (up to $10000) accepted once per year.
• Submissions for small grants (up to $1000) accepted three times annually.

Potential to improve the quality of students’ learning

McMaster University/

Centre for Leadership in Learning

Paul R. MacPherson Teaching Fellowships

• Lifetime appointment as a McMaster University Teaching Fellow.
• Up to $40,000 to work on a teaching & learning project.
• Release from a portion of the Fellow’s typical faculty responsibilities to allow him/her to spend time working on the project.

• Quality & eligibility of proposed project (including potential impact on student learning).
• Evidence of candidate’s ability to complete project successfully.
• Evidence of candidate’s active engagement in teaching & learning and of his/her potential to serve as an educational leader.
• Quality of proposed contributions to teaching & learning at McMaster beyond the duration of the initial project.

McMaster University/

Centre for Leadership in Learning

Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award

• campus-wide recognition for innovative research achievement by a new faculty member; and
• $25,000 support towards a project to actively involve undergraduate students in research.

• Evidence of research excellence
• Quality of undergraduate project proposal (including innovativeness and potential impact on student learning)

Queen’s University/

Centre for Teaching and Learning

Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grants

• total $10,000 annually
• each grant up to $5,000/year

• designing or redesigning courses, programs
• developing innovative and effective assessment or teaching strategies
• creating new active learning opportunities to increase student engagement in learning

University of Alberta/

VP Academic’s Office

Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (since 2006)

• total $800,000.00 annually
• amounts per grant vary (but have included individual multi-year grants of over $100,000 In funding)

• for attending instructional development  PD or organizing such events (workshops, conferences, etc).
• for developing expertise in instructional methods: course re-design, resource development, researching outcomes achievement through innovative teaching

University of Ottawa/

Grants Subcommittee, Centre for University Teaching

Teaching and Learning Grants

• total $56,000 per year, each grant not usually more than $5,000

• to improve teaching and learning effectiveness
• to encourage innovation in teaching

University of Ottawa/

VP’s office

NSSE grants

• Total $150,000

• creation of French language materials Research relating to NSSE data

Creation of French language materials
Research relating to NSSE dataUniversity of Saskatchewa/

Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness and Centre for Discovery in Learning

Provost Innovation Grant

• up to $10,000 for two years

Teaching Scholars Grants

• up to $2500 for two years

• provost innovation grant is for a team to implement and investigate an innovative project in teaching and learning.
• Teaching Scholar Grants are for an individual or team to undertake a pilot SoTL project.

University of Victoria/

Learning and Teaching Centre

Learning and Teaching Development Grant

• up to $7500

• proposals must focus on improving the student experience through pedagogical, curricular, co-curricular,or cross-institutional processes
• attention paid to both the number of students directly impacted and the feasibility of the proposed project within the timeframe and budget presented.

University of Waterloo/

Centre for Teaching Excellence

Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement(LITE) Grants

• seed grants $500 – $5000
• Full Grants $5000 – $15000 per year for 2 years maximum

• “The purpose of the LITE grants is to provide support for experimenting with and investigating innovative approaches to teaching that aim to foster deep student learning and enhance teaching at the University of Waterloo. The program replaces the LIF/PIF grant scheme and is composed of two kinds of grants: LITE Seed Grants and LITE Full Grants.”

Western University/

Teaching Support Centre

Research on Teaching Grant

• total ~$10,000
• $500-$2500 each

• research on teaching