The Office of the Provost is pleased to announce the Innovative Teaching with Technology Award. This annual award will recognize a full-time RIT faculty member who uses technology to teach in effective and innovative ways. Entries will be judged on innovation, impact on student learning, and on how the technology demonstrates enhanced teaching and learning. The range of acceptable entries is broad—such as the incorporation of a new technology, or the use of an existing technology or teaching methodology in a unique way. Emphasis is placed on using technology for pedagogical purposes to improve or advance learning.

Eligibility Requirements, Nomination and Selection of Award Recipient

• All full-time RIT faculty with at least one year of experience are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to those entries using an existing technology that could be made available to all faculty. Nominees may be asked to demonstrate his or her application of this technology in a live setting.
• Candidates can either nominate themselves or be nominated by any member of the RIT community including students, alumni, or colleagues.
• A review committee chosen by the Provost’s Office will select the award recipient.

Application Process and Deadlines
The applicant or the nominator must complete and submit the following:

• Click here for application form. A PDF file to use as a guide while preparing the application is available here.
• Copies of the project on a CD, DVD, flash drive, or a viable URL that directs us to your use of the technology. (Please note that a course in myCourses may not be accessible to the review committee.)
• Additional student feedback or letters of support, if available
• Applications must be submitted by 5 pm, Friday, February 17, 2012.

Selection of Award Recipient

A review committee of faculty and other academic affairs designees is appointed by the Provost. 

The review committee assesses nominations to determine if they meet eligibility requirements, then individually and collectively ranks the application package according to how strongly each candidate meets the stated criteria. After careful deliberation, one recipient is selected from the pool. The review committee provides its recommendation to the Provost.

Nominations are requested during fall quarter each year and one award is given annually in spring quarter.

Presentation

The award will be given at the spring Celebration of Teaching ceremony attended by the recipient and guests, Provost, deans, trustees, former winners of this award, and recipients of RIT distinguished teaching and service awards. The recipient will be presented with a framed certificate, a check for $1,000, and will be formally recognized at the spring Academic Convocation.

Questions

Contact Anne M. Canale, Instructional Design Consultant

Teaching & Learning Services
The Wallace Center 
Rochester Institute of Technology
amctwc@rit.edu
(585) 475-7696