Immersive Learning Faculty Challenge Grant

More news from our Academic Team:

Are you using scenario based learning or games in your classes? Do you have ideas to create educational games that support student success in your classes but haven’t had the time to really develop something? Now is the time to advertise and expand on what you are already doing or to collaborate with peers at CCCOnline and in the CCCS system to create something that will engage students in immersive activities. We encourage you to reach out not only within CCCOnline, but across disciplines and across institutions to develop these “lighthouse programs.” For example, the history instructors from multiple institutions teaching Colorado history might collaborate to create a pioneer settlement game, or history, geography, and political science instructors might get together to create a geography activity that would meet competencies in all three areas.

Karen Kaemmerling, Associate Dean of Social Sciences, is the CCCOnline representative on the Immersive Learning Advisory Group; this group created the request for proposals to all faculty and staff in the CCCS system to address the growing interest and use of game-based and immersive learning in our classes. The Faculty Challenge Grant program expects the submissions to identify a need, focus on improving student success and engagement, and provide sustainable, collaborative solutions. The activities created as part of the grants will be available to all faculty and staff in the CCCS system under the Creative Commons attribution license.

Please see the Request for Proposals and related documents at this page: http://cccs.edu/EdServices/Educators.html

Be creative, have fun, and please contact Karen Kaemmerling at Karen.kaemmerling@cccs.edu with questions.