Faculty Fellows

The Next.IU eLearning Innovation Faculty Fellowship offers opportunities to support student success, including:

• use of existing IU tools in innovative ways
• exploration of new tools developed externally
• development of new software or tools in collaboration with UITS staff
  
  

Student success is one of IU’s key institutional goals. Technology can be an important tool to facilitate high-impact teaching practices that addresses today’s challenges of declining enrollment and workforce development. With that in mind, the following criteria will be used to evaluate proposals:

• Does it support student success goals (retention, completion, academic success)?
• Does it help reduce inequitable outcomes for students based on income background and race/ethnicity?
• Is it scalable or replicable across disciplines, modalities, and/or campuses?
• It is solving a problem that is widely experienced by faculty or has led to negative outcomes among students?
• Does it support evidence-based best practices in the use of technology in teaching and learning?
• Is it sustainable?
• Does it use existing resources? Or if new resources are needed, are there ways to get those resources and do the student benefits outweigh the cost?
  
  

These IU-developed projects are good examples of innovative uses to technology to support student success:

• Quick Check—quizzing tool integrated with Canvas that creates inline assessments in courses. The tool allows for frequent, low-stakes assessments that encourage interaction with course content and give high-quality feedback.
• Boost—mobile app integrated with Canvas that provides automated notifications about assignments and due dates.