Grants and Awards

Educational Development Grants Available

The Senate Teaching and Learning Committee offers Educational Development Grants of up to $750 for conferences, materials, and other professional development costs related to teaching and learning. For more guidance on conferences to attend or other ways to develop and disseminate your teaching work (e.g. publications), reach out to CETL.

CETL Teaching Grant News

Kate Rougeau Presents Health Sciences Redesign During OER Week

In March 2023, Kate presented her and Emily Van Wasshenova's major redesign of HS 2000 (Introduction to Health and Health Behaviors) to include more affordable, accessible, and engaging learning materials. Watch the presentation: Adopting OER Into a Large Multi-Section Course (23 minutes), from the Affordable Course Materials Initiative Presentations page.

OU journalism students contribute to Solutions News Bureau

As a result of Kate Roff and Holly Shreve Gilbert's teaching grant work on solutions-based journalism, they created the Solutions News Bureau for journalism students to publish their related projects. Read more about solutions journalism in Solutions Journalism: Covering news from a problem-solving lens.

Universal Design for Learning promoted in media studies

Based on her 2020 CETL Teaching Grant work, cinema studies professor Bridget Kies has implemented universal design for learning in her courses and scholarship. As a result, she served as the editor of the special issue Universal Design for Learning in the Media Studies Classroom for the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies: Teaching Media. She authored the Introduction and essay "Queering the Course Design."

Bridget discusses the themes of all essays in this special issue on the ThinkUDL Podcast.

Teaching with Care in Asynchronous, Online Courses: Article Publication

Based on her CETL teaching grant work, OU Libraries' Katie Greer published "A pedagogy of care for information literacy and metaliteracy asynchronous online instruction" in the Journal of Academic Librarianship. She explored whether a pedagogy of care effectively be applied in the asynchronous online environment, and how prioritizing the affective domain of learning help support applying metaliteracy in practice.