announcing the 2014 TransCanada Collaborative SoTL Inquiry Grants
TransCanada Pipelines Limited has invested $925,000 over a five year period, part of which will support a Research Program for Learning Innovation and Collaborative Inquiry.
As part of this program, the Institute for SoTL at MRU is please to announce the Collaborative SoTL Inquiry Grants. These grants are designated for collaborative teaching and learning inquiry projects which go beyond an inquiry about teaching and learning in a single class. Note that while the Nexen Scholars Program is designed to support scholars in developing a project, the TransCanada grants require a complete research proposal including literature review, research question, methodology and dissemination plans.
Some examples of collaborative inquiries include, but are not limited to, inquiries about teaching and learning that:
- will be investigated in multiple courses and/or sections in a department or program (for example, studying student learning over a series of courses)
- will be investigated in courses from different programs and faculties (for example, studying students’ writing skills development in courses from a variety of disciplines)
- will be investigated in courses from multiple contexts (for example, studying the effect of a certain pedagogy at institutions with varying class sizes)
- have a student as a co-investigator (a senior student collaborating to design/conduct a study in a lower-level class)
- require the expertise of a variety of co-investigators due to the size and scope of the project (for example, a technical writing expert collaborating to study student report writing skills in a science lab)
Collaborative SoTL projects may apply for funding of up to $10,000 per year. The budget for these grants is $30,000 per year so one or two grants will be awarded per funding cycle. For multi-institutional projects, a MRU faculty member must be the principal investigator on the project. See the guidelines document, below, for more information. If you are uncertain whether or not your proposed project meets the criteria, please contact the Director to explore possibilities.
APPLICATION DEADLINES Mar 31 and Oct 31 each year
