FY 2010-2011 Learning Enhancement Grant Program

The Learning Enhancement Grant (LEG) Program is an annual, competitive award program sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and administrated through CLEAR. The goal of the LEG Program is to provide faculty with opportunities to implement new teaching strategies in the effort to improve and enrich the student learning experience at the University of North Texas. The LEG program is specifically designed to support faculty who wish to improve access to higher education by redesigning a course to deliver in a blended or fully online format or for those who are using instructional technology to enhance learning in the classroom.

FY 2010-2011 Funded Projects

Proposal Title	Name	College	Dept	Quarterly Reports	Amount Funded
Globalization and Gender Through Film: Using films as bait, and Wikis as hook	Ozlem Altiok	Arts & Sciences	Women's Studies	Report 1 Report 2 Final Report	$5,000.00
Creativity and opportunity development: Exploring feasible technologies and virtual tools	Anat BarNir	Business	Management	Report 1 Report 2 Final Report	$5,000.00
Blending Videoconferencing and Online Learning Environments to Enhance Classroom Community for Graduate Students	Beverly Bower	Education	Counseling & Higher education	Report 1 Report 2	$ 5,000.00
Superintendent Certification Online Course	John Brooks	Education	Teacher Education & Administration	Report 1 Report 2 Final Report	$ 5,000.00
Utilizing social networking tools to facilitate student centered learning	Simon Driver	Education	Kinesiology, Health Promotion & Recreation	Report 1 Report 2	$ 5,000.00
Using Clicker Technology to Enhance Case-Oriented Student Learning in the Business Capstone Course	Derrick D'Souza	Business	Management	Report 1 Final Report	$ 5,000.00
Development of a Forensic Chemistry Professional Science Masters Program	Teresa Golden	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry		$ 18,890.00
Utilizing research to understand motor behavior: Promoting excellence with emerging technologies	Jeff Goodwin	Education	Kinesiology, Health Promotion & Recreation	Report 1 Report 2 Final Report	$ 5,000.00
Anthropology 2300 Culture and Society	Lisa Henry	Public Affairs & Community Service	Anthropology	Report 1 Report 2 Final Report	$ 5,000.00
Promoting Writing Skills in Large Introductory Courses: Using the Calibrated Peer Review System in Introduction American Government Courses	John Ishiyama Wendy Watson	Arts & Sciences	Political Science	Report 1 Report 2 Final Report	$ 5,000.00
Creating a Collaborative Online Project for an MBA Core course	Nicholas Evangelopoulos Maliyakal Jayakumar	Business	Information Technology &Decision Sciences	Report 1 Final Report	$ 5,000.00
Making the Law Matter-Integrating Technology into Upper Division Law Courses	Kimi King	Arts & Sciences	Political Science		$ 5,000.00
Wimba-Enabled Solution to Enhance Student Engagement and Accessibility: Teaching Graduate Courses 100% Online	Jessica Li	Information	Learning Technologies	Report 1	$ 5,000.00
Web-based Learning Activities for Quantitative Analysis in Kinesiology	James Morrow	Education	Kinesiology, Health Promotion & Recreation	Report 1 Report 2 Final Report	$ 5,000.00
Enhancing student learning through the redesign and modernization of Organic Chemistry I and II curriculum	Robby Petros	Arts & Sciences	Chemistry	Report 1 Report 2 Final Report	$ 5,000.00
Enhancing Team-based, Online Learning with PBWorks: Design and Development of an Online Design Anthropology Course	Susan Squires	Public Affairs & Community Service	Anthropology	Report 1 Report 2 Final Report	$ 5,000.00
Redesign of ADES 3570, Computers in Fashion I	Janie Stidham	Visual Arts & Design	Design	Report 1	$ 3,500.00
Enhancing Collaboration, Assessment, Application, Research and Teacher Presence	Linda Stromberg	Education	Teacher Education & Administration	Report 1 Report 2 Final Report	$ 5,000.00
Enhancing student-centered learning in Biomechanics using new and emerging technological educational tools	Jakob Vingren	Education	Kinesiology, Health Promotion & Recreation	Report 1 Report 2 Final Report	$ 5,000.00
New Technologies for Humanities Research: Digital Collections and Course Wikis	Kelly Wisecup	Arts & Sciences	English	Report 1 Report 2 Final Report	$ 5,000.00
Enhancing Students' Learning in Movement Tasks Using Emerging Technologies	Tao Zhang	Education	Kinesiology, Health Promotion & Recreation	Report 1 Report 2 Final Report Final Report Addendum	$ 5,000.00
				TOTAL	$ 117,390.00