1. Teaching Enhancement Project Funding
September 2016
Dr Kerry Dobbins

2. The funding streams Stream A
Provided by the University's Student Experience Enhancement Group (SEEG):
Stream A
Provides funding of up to £15,000 per project to encourage pedagogic research on strategic developments in learning and teaching.
Stream B
Provides amounts of between £2,000 and £3,000 for projects which develop new activities and strategies for learning, teaching and assessment within a department or college.

3. Stream A
Projects in this stream will involve the application and development of pedagogical theory and practice and/or address strategic themes identified by the Student Experience Enhancement Group (SEEG). These are currently:
Assessment – particularly authentic assessment and alternatives to exams.
Marking and feedback – especially on-line marking, rapid feedback, iterative exercises with developmental feedback.
Information, advice and guidance to students.
RefLEct (the University's lecture capture service) and new, sustainable ways of thinking about the lecture.
Peer mentoring.

4. Previous projects
Worlds of statistics (Management)
Drilling down into student engagement (Centre for Interdisciplinary Science)
Building our pedagogical understandings of interprofessional undergraduate simulation with students, patients and faculty (Medical and Social Care Education)
AudioVisuals in the Disciplines (AVID): development of subject-specific libraries of broadcast media resources (Biochemistry and Leicester Learning Institute)

5. Previous projects
Accessible Curriculum project (College of Arts, Humanities and Law )
'FLEx' - the Flexible Learning Experiences research project (College of Arts, Humanities and Law)
What goes on in 'Guided Independent Study'? (English, Criminology and the Academic Practice Service)
Strategies of engagement in science programmes (Education and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science)

6. Stream B
This stream provides amounts of between £2,000 and £3,000 for projects which develop new activities and strategies for learning, teaching and assessment within a department or college. These projects can address themes local to a department or college and focus on a specific aspect which leads to concrete and practical outcomes. Projects could include:
Innovation in teaching and assessment practice.
Developing new and innovative teaching and learning resources.
Developing students’ learning or transferable skills.
Engaging in small scale research and evaluation projects relating to curriculum development.

7. Previous projects
Games as education in the UK (Media and Communication )
Bringing the online experience to life: developing new and innovative online learning resources (Criminology)
Modern Languages Study Centre (MLSC) virtual guide (Modern Languages)
Game apps for learning calculus (Mathematics)
Student and staff perceptions of transferable and workplace skills development in Chemistry degree programmes (Chemistry)

8. Previous projects
Podcasting the past (Archaeology and Ancient History)
Perspectives on the effectiveness of Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) within the School of Medicine from participants, leaders and staff (LLI and Medicine)
Developing new approaches to teaching computational skills in the Physical Sciences and Engineering (Engineering)
Advancing reflection and feedback for medical students: their views on the content of a summative portfolio (Medical and Social Care Education)
Screencasts in Engineering (Engineering)

9. Guidelines Financial support can be provided to cover:
staff costs (e.g. the costs of teaching replacement, the extension of part-time contracts or the creation of new part-time/casual contracts);
one-off production costs (e.g. filming, design and print work) and/or the purchase of essential course materials, books or software necessary to expedite the pedagogic innovation (although applications for software alone will not be funded);
travel and subsistence;
staff development (including participation at events, visits and consultancy fees).
Financial support is not available for:
routine activity for teaching preparation or programme development;
direct staff costs where staff are already full-time employees of the University other than ‘buyout’ costs of replacement teaching or administrative support (see above);
projects which, in the Approvals Group’s opinion, fall into staff member’s core responsibilities - support for funding must be for additional, innovative work and projects;
equipment or computer purchases;
developing entrepreneurial activities.

10. Guidelines
Priority will be given to new applicants to encourage wider participation in pedagogic activity across the University.
Applications must demonstrate alignment to the University’s Learning Strategy.
Applications should not assume support or involvement in the project from any central services.
Project leaders may only hold one TEPF Award (Stream A or B) at a time.

11. Next deadline: Wednesday 28th September 2016, 5pm
The process
Review guidelines on website
Download application form and submit proposal (consider particularly project outcomes and evaluation)
Proposal considered at TEPF Approvals Group meeting (held twice yearly)
Notification of outcome following meeting
Funds transferred
Report due within one month of project completion
Next deadline: Wednesday 28th September 2016, 5pm