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Funding

TLtC-Funded Projects
         
Full-scale Implementation Grants: Awarded Spring 2001    
         
 

Dissemination of Calibrated Peer Review: an On-line, Multidisciplinary Writing-to-Learn Instructional Tool (First-year)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
  Chapman, Orville (UCLA)
CAMPUSES:
  UCLA, UCR
DESCRIPTION:
  Strategy: The Calibrated Peer Review (CPR), a web-based instructional tool for online peer review of students' written assignments, has been used in life science and chemistry courses at UCLA. Chapman and his colleagues will extend the use of this tool into courses in Life Science core courses and engineering at UCLA and in introductory and advanced chemistry courses at UCR.
Target Audience: Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
FUNDING:
  First-year Award
LINKS:
 

> Read feature story about this project

 
Electronic Language Materials Archive (ELMA) (First-year)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
  Johnson, Randal (UCLA)
CAMPUSES:
  UCD, UCI, UCLA, UCSC
DESCRIPTION:
  Strategy: Design templates for web-based materials, create a repository, export the archive to other UC campuses, and give workshops on using the online materials.
Target Audience: Faculty
FUNDING:
  First-year Award
LINKS:
 

> See project proposal
> Read feature story about this project

 
Sacred Sites of Asia Instructional Resource (First-year)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
  Holdrege, Barbara (UCSB)
CAMPUSES:
  UCB, UCR, UCSB, UCSD, University of Sydney, University of Redlands
DESCRIPTION:
  Strategy: Develop 12 generic (non-course-specific) sacred site modules that can be incorporated in the fourteen designated UC courses, with each course employing a distinctive combination of modules.
Target Audience: Students in Religious Studies courses starting Winter 2002
FUNDING:
  First-year Award
LINKS:
 

> See project proposal
> Read feature story about this project

 
SPIDER: Shared Pedagogical Initiative, a Database of Educational Resources for the UC Community (First-year)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
  Clark, Michael (UCI)
CAMPUSES:
  intracampus
DESCRIPTION:
  Strategy: Virtual Research I and II at UCI have provided online instructional materials to 6,000 undergraduates enrolled in the Humanities Core Course (HHC) and Argument and Research (WR39C) to improve their research skills. Proposers plan to build on, complete, and regularize the resources into stand-alone models to be available to other UCI composition courses and UC campuses through SPIDER: Shared Pedagogical Initiative, a web-based archive of instructional materials.
Target Audience: Faculty, graduate student instructors and undergraduate students.
FUNDING:
  First-year Award
LINKS:
 

> Read feature story about this project

 
UC Writing Institute (First-year)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:
  Abrams, Elizabeth (UCSC)
CAMPUSES:
  UCB, UCLA, UCSB, UCSC
DESCRIPTION:
  Strategy: UCB, UCLA, UCSB, and UCSC will initiate a systemwide online Writing Institute to serve as a think-tank and a publisher and disseminator of recommended teaching tools and practices. In the second year, UCD, UCI, UCR will be partners. Work on conceptualizing and developing content for the online site has been done.
Target Audience: UC Writing Programs faculty, K-12 and community college teachers, and graduate students.
FUNDING:
  First-year Award
LINKS:
 

> See project proposal
> Read feature story about this project

   
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