current awards
How award decisions are made
The Engage program is advised by an interdisciplinary Faculty Advisory
Group that reviews and approves all proposed award topics and projects.
This group meets 9-12 times per year to explore campus teaching
and learning needs, review project proposals, and evaluate program
progress.
innovation awards
This type of support is offered to faculty and instructional
staff who are looking to develop or expand innovative
instructional technologies or tools to address challenging
teaching or learnin goals.
2006 & 2007 Innovation Awards: 'Engaging to Learn: Simulations & Games'
We are now exploring the potential of simulations and games as serious tools for teaching and learning because they provide rich, complex
environments in which to practice case- or problem-based learning using higher-level critical thinking skills, and to provide immediate
feedback on a student's choice of solutions.
adaptation awards
This type of support is offered for faculty and instructional staff
who would like to integrate easy to use technologies and tools
into their teaching. Each year, a new technology or tool is chosen
through a campus-wide process, and announced here.
2006 & 2007 Adaptation Awards: 'Podcasting'
Our award program to support the use of podcasting to meet teaching and learning needs has received high-profile attention from national
and international media, Big Ten schools and Apple computers. We are one of the initial U.S. campuses to pilot the use of Apple's iTunes U
to deliver instructional podcasts to students, and to incorporate the use of Learn@UW, our campus's course management system, for user
authentication. Instructors and students report improved learning with the option for "learning anytime, anywhere".
impact awards
This type of support is to simply and quickly enable faculty to implement small ideas that have a high impact on teaching and learning.
2006 & 2007 Impact Awards: 'Student Response Systems: "Clickers" in the Classroom'
Campus faculty and support staff spent the summer of 2006 evaluating a variety of student response systems. In August, the group choose eInstruction (www.einstruction.com) to be the recommend response system for UW-Madison. While instructors are still free to choose other systems, standardization on eInstruction will mean there will be a clearer path for instructors and students who want to take advantage of the technology.
See the Accomplishments & Portfolio section
for a list of all projects.
