TLC Didactic Innovation grant
UvA Teaching & Learning Centre Central (TLC Central), together with the TLC Network, is committed to creating time and budgets for UvA educators and employees from all faculties to innovate their teaching methods. Do you have an idea that allows you to innovate your classes offline and/or online and do you want to experiment with it? Then the TLC Didactic Innovation grant might be something for you. This grant supports you in finding innovative solutions to your didactic challenges. With the goal: a contribution to behavioural change, involvement and knowledge transfer in education.
The next application round of the TLC Didactic Innovation grant is expected to start in December 2024 or January 2025.
Theme of academic year 2023-2024: Gamification
The TLC Didactic Innovation grant changes its theme every year. This academic year’s theme: Gamification, incorporating game elements into your teaching. With Gamification, you apply game elements into your educational practice. By applying game elements in education, you can extra motivate students extrinsically and intrinsically. When incorporating game elements, think about using riddles, rewards, assignment cards or tricky game rules.
The TLC Didactic Innovation grant provides support in various ways
The TLC Didactic Innovation grant is organized and supported by UvA Teaching & Learning Centre Central (TLC Central) in collaboration with the TLC Network. It gives you the opportunity to think up solutions to your teaching problem and test them.
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The grant consists of 80 development hours you can use to work out the improvement idea.
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You get personal educational support: a coach (TLC educational expert) will guide you in the practical elaboration during the entire innovation process. Your coach will actively contribute ideas for the development of your concepts, methodologies, and/or products.
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You can exchange ideas and experiences with other teachers who receive a grant.
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You have the opportunity to collaborate with TLC Central to evaluate and potentially further develop the results of your project.
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You are an educator/employee or a team of educators/employees of one or more subjects at the UvA and have a role in their development.
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You find it interesting to be involved in educational innovation.
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You are willing to share your knowledge and inspire others.
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You have an appointment at the UvA for at least 0.5 FTE for the duration of the project.
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You have permission from your supervisor to spend time on this project.
- Contributes convincingly to the objective of the grant: improve the learning process/experience of students in your teaching, through a didactic innovation.
- Quality of the proposal. We assess the justification, the relationship between learning objectives and learning outcomes and the plan of approach.
- The feasibility of the project within the timeframe.
- Relevance to educational practice within the university.
- Teaching experience and background of the applicant(s).
- Distribution of applications across different courses/faculties.
- Measurability of the expected improvement.
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There are 10 grants per academic year.
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Up to 80 hours are available per grant, depending on the proposal submitted.
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These hours are in addition to the hours already allocated by your own department for this subject.
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Team members may choose to divide hours amongst themselves (or suggest spending some of the hours to request support of a student assistant for the project).
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The applicant completes the application form.
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If the grant is awarded, the applicant must be able to demonstrate that their department head or supervisor will allow them sufficient time to carry out the project.
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The application is evaluated by a committee consisting of experts from various faculties, composed by TLC.
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After approval of the application, an intake interview.
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During the course of the project, TLC organizes meetings and coaching, according to the needs of the recipients of the grant.
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Upon completion, the project is evaluated together with TLC. The results will be shared within the UvA and possibly included in a publication.
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It is possible to receive additional hours for knowledge sharing about your project.
- The TLC Didactic Innovation grant can be applied for annually.
- The next application round of the TLC Didactic Innovation grant is expected to start in December 2024 or January 2025.
For more information about the TLC Didactic Innovation grant, please contact Sjoukje Kerman (Projectmanager Educational Development TLC Central).