Jan 14, 2020 | Home Page
The Open Innovation Challenge (OIC) annually allows creative Penn State faculty to win support for their transformative ideas involving education and technology. Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) is currently accepting proposals for this year’s OIC.
The OIC takes place at TLT’s Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology on Saturday, March 21. Finalists are chosen from the pool of proposals and then will have five minutes to present their idea to an audience of over 500. Following the presentations’ conclusion, Symposium attendees will vote online for their favorite ideas.
The chosen winner will work with a dedicated team for one year to further explore their OIC idea.
The deadline for OIC submissions is January 25, 2020. All Penn State faculty is eligible to submit a proposal.
If you’d like to help choose this year’s OIC winner, register to attend Symposium today. The event is free and open to the entire Penn State community. Along with the OIC, this year’s Symposium features presentations, conversations, and activities centered around powerful ideas that aim to unlock technology’s potential to transform teaching and learning.
Katherine Milkman, the Evan C. Thompson Endowed Term Chair for Teaching Excellence at the University of Pennsylvania; a Washington Post contributor; Charles Schwab podcast host; and award-winning researcher will give the keynote address at this year’s Symposium.
Sep 18, 2019 | Home Page
Penn State faculty who participate in the third round of Affordable Course Transformation at Penn State (ACT@PSU) will continue the effort to provide greater access to higher education through affordable course materials. The call for proposals will open on Wednesday, September 25 and the deadline to submit is Monday, November 11.
“It was exciting to work on [ACT@PSU] because it gave me the resources to complete something I had planned for many years,” said Zachary Klingensmith, assistant teaching professor of economics at Penn State Behrend, when asked about his ACT@PSU project last year. “The ACT team introduced me to existing materials that allowed me to create something beautiful, useful, and free for my [ECON 102 and 104] students which will be used for many, many years to come.”
Published research has shown that open educational resources (OERs) are effective in increasing students’ end-of-course grades along with their potential to save student populations millions of dollars. Penn State is supporting the effort to develop OERs through ACT@PSU, a program funded by the Open and Affordable Educational Resources (OAER) Working Group which is charged by Penn State executive vice president and provost Nick Jones.
Faculty who participate in ACT@PSU receive a grant stipend, instructional design support from Teaching and Learning with Technology, and additional support from the Open Educational Resources coordinator and Open Education Librarian.
ACT@PSU will open the call for proposals on September 25. Interested faculty should visit Penn State’s OER website and click on “Schedule Consultation” in the top right corner and choose to meet in person or via Zoom with Julie Lang or Amanda Larson.
Following the consultation, an online application can be submitted along with a syllabus for the course intended for transformation.
