Engaged Learning Fellowship
What are Engaged Learning Fellowships?
The ELF program has been around since the beginning of the Engaging Classrooms QEP, but it has been reimagined in response to feedback from our internal program evaluations and the PACE external reviewers’ report. Beginning fall of 2024, ELFs will be selected from amongst those who completed exceptionally promising TIGs in the previous year. The goal is to support excellent scholarship in teaching and learning.
What does it mean to be an ELF?
It means you receive two years of support from our office in order to write a manuscript on the basis of your TIG project and then submit it for presentation and publication.
In the first year, you'll receive advice regarding study design, manuscript preparation, and presentation/publication venue selection. Once you've completed the manuscript and submitted for presentation at a conference, you'll receive a $2,000 stipend.
In the second year, you'll receive up to $2,000 in support travel to a conference to present on your manuscript and further advice in order to get the manuscript in shape for submission to a peer-reviewed journal.
Our aim is to support everyone on the TIG submission team, but we unfortunately we will not be able to support any team members who have left the university.
What are the requirements?
Year 0:
- Submit a TIG final report.
Year 1:
- Complete a comprehensive literature review compiled and performed by each fellow, shared with the entire cohort during monthly meetings
- Conduct an in-depth analysis of active learning techniques applicable to each member’s accepted proposal
- Implement the proposal such as, but not limited to, writing and editing of course materials, course redesign, curriculum development or redevelopment
Year 2:
- Continuation or updating the implementation
- Serve as mentor to first year fellows
- Act as formal ambassadors to their home department or college to aid in recruiting more fellows for later fellowship years