The Distance Education department within FBNS offers a limited number of grants per year to provide instructional design assistance, create new online and blended courses, enhance and update existing online courses, and assist in course redesign. The primary purpose of the Instructional Design Assistance Program (formerly DE Grants program) is to provide faculty and staff assistance in working to develop or revise academic credit courses. The two categories of instructional design assistance grants the Distance Education department offers include the following:
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Course Redesign (existing online courses that need enhancing, rebuilding, redesigning)
The Distance Education staff intends to select at least one proposal from each category to work with during the 2020 and 2021 calendar years. It is expected that each grant recipient will be awarded approximately six months’ dedicated time with an instructional designer (and other DE personnel as needed). It is anticipated that the 2020 project will begin in Fall (August 2020) (ending in December 2020). The 2021 project work begins in January 2021 and runs through May 2021. The grant cycle and process for the 2021-22 academic year will begin in March 2021 with selection notifications occurring in June 2021 and work starting on one grant in August 2021 (ending in late December/early January) and another grant starting in early December 2022 (ending in June 2022). Faculty will indicate their start date preference on the Grant Application, and the DE staff will make the final determination. Each grant has slightly different proposal guidelines and requirements; however, we award funds based on the grant, application materials, and overall project information.
Important Dates for the 2020-21 Instructional Design Assistance Program Cycles
