Grant Partnerships
Learning Technologies has been fortunate in seeking additional support for faculty looking to maximize the use of technology to reach our students and to promote research. Contact us to find out more about how Learning Technologies can help you look for grant and other funding for your projects.
A few highlights of recent grant-related funding in partnership with LT:
The Department of Education has just awarded the UA a $1.2 million grant over the next four years to create the Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy (CERCLL). The Center will provide support for research and teaching in language instruction for a variety of projects at the UA. The principal investigator is Linda Waugh, director of the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) program. Linda and Renate Schultz will be directors of the new Center. This is particularly exciting for the LTC as the Center will be administered out of the LTC and makes for a new way of doing things for us.
In February of this year the Parents Association provided a grant of over $18,000 to OSCR to help fund the mobile help desk. This provides help desk services five days a week to students in campus residence halls. OSCR tech help personnel rotate between various residence halls during the regular semester to provide help to students where they live. This service has been very well received on the campus and will allow OSCR to assist greater numbers of students at their convenience.
Recent awards for the TRIF Anyplace Access for Arizonans program will keep LTC staff busy over the next year as we help to place more material online that will reach and teach at a distance. The following is a quick list of the programs that were funded. Contact the LTC for more information on specific programs:
* Online Health Promotion Resource Center — Principal Investigator Dr. Myra Muramoto. This program will provide convenient and readily accessible web resources for information and training on health behaviors related to tobacco dependence, alcohol use and nutrition and physical activity.
* Doctor of Nursing Practice — Principal Investigator Dr. Sally Reel. New online courses to create this new academic degree program will be created over the next two years. This new degree program will provide an alternative to nurses seeking a PhD program as an alternative to research-focused programs.
* New Strategies for Life Sciences Outreach in Arizona — Principal Investigators Katja Schulz and Lisa Schwartz. The Tree of Life project will increase their content focused on developing a new digital library of audio and video features that will improve public understanding of the sciences.
* Science Outreach and University Resources for Community Enrichment (SOURCE) — Principal Investigator Dr. Stacey A. Forsyth. By creating a science outreach database that connects Arizonans to science education outreach resources at the UA, we'll have one-stop shopping access to science education programs, events and personnel.
* Online Access to Distance-Learning Tools for Watershed Stewardship in Rural Arizona — Principal Investigator Robert Emanuel. Working with funding from both the TRIF Access grants and the TRIF Water Sustainability program, material from the Master Watershed Stewards program will be placed online, making the material accessible to Arizonans who cannot attend the face-to-face classes.
* Sustainability of Semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA) — Principal Investigator Carla Bitter. Working with the LTC, SAHRA will create online resources that are aimed at middle and high school teachers in all areas that impact water use and conservation.
* ArizonaNativeNet — Principal Investigator Robert A. Williams. This program will help to bridge the digital divide between Native Nations in Arizona and the higher education resources, knowledge and expertise of the University of Arizona. Funding for this program will allow the continued development of distance deliverable learning initiatives, electronic extension and information resources and videoconferencing capabilities.
* Arizona Geoengineering Certificate — Principal Investigator Muniram Budhu. Working with faculty in Civil, Mining and Geological and Soil and Water Engineering, a set of web-accessible courses for the Geoengineering Certificate program will be created.
Contact the LTC for more information on grant opportunities — 626-2621.
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