Grants & Funding

Key Information

Strategic Initiative Grants
application due 9/22/2008

Exploratory Equipment Loaner Program now available

Prior year programs:

CIT provides funding to Duke instructors for experimenting with instructional technology (IT), redesigning courses to include IT, and sharing their experiences using IT with the campus community and beyond. CIT can also contribute to grant applications to external agencies for instructional technology projects.

Current funding options, 2007-08 academic year:

Program	Purpose	Due Date	Examples
Strategic Initiative Grants	Grants for instructional technology in alignment with Duke's strategic goals.	Initial application due Sept. 22, 2008	Strategic initiative grants from Spring 2008 or our "case examples" page
Flexible Learning Spaces Faculty Fellows	Support program for faculty teaching in flexible learning spaces such as the new classrooms in Perkins library.	TBA - details for 2009 program coming soon	2008 Flexible Learning Spaces Faculty Fellows (archive) Fellows archive or see our examples page
Instructional Technology Faculty Fellows	Custom support for faculty groups collaborating on curricular enhancement with IT - varied topics.	Rolling*	Fellows archive or see our examples page
CIT mini-grants
Blackboard Great Ideas Mini Grant	CIT is seeking real examples of successful uses of Blackboard in Duke courses (to be made available to the public on Duke's Bb support site in late Spring 2008)	February 6, 2008	Description of good uses of Blackboard tools such as discussion boards, blogs, wikis, gradebook, assignments and others.
Jump Start Grant	Pilot or proof-of-concept IT project, or beginning a new activity in a class	Rolling**	See previously funded Jump Start grants or see our examples page
Invited speaker grant	Bringing a speaker to campus, related to IT	Rolling**	speaker about tablet PCs in education, speaker on using video in law education
Non-funding support
Exploratory equipment loaner program	Provide short-term loans of teaching-related devices for faculty exploration	Rolling	Borrow a Kindle or Sony e-reader, a GPS device, or an ultra-mobile PC (mini-tablet PC)
Materials development support	Digitization and materials creation	Rolling	Create digital slides, video clips, podcasts
DDI-related programs***	Support uses of new media and new technologies		Use of tablet PCs by instructors, classroom video recording support, iPod program
Co-authoring external grants	Collaborate on proposal to external granting-body.	N/A	CIT provides evaluation advice on NSF-funded instructional grant, CIT actively collaborates on implementing CCLI grant

* Apply anytime, applications need at least 10 weeks turn-around/review time
**Apply anytime, applications require 4 weeks turn-around/review time
*** CIT-supported but not CIT-funded

For more information:

If you need more information about any program, contact us.
If you have a funding need which relates to use of instructional technology in your teaching, but which appears to fall outside of our listed funding programs, contact us with your needs and we will see if we can help.
For information about previous programs, see the grants archive or the Fellows archive (please keep in mind that the CIT's grant programs have changed each year, so projects funded in the past would not necessarily fit the current funding guidelines.)