Carol Twigg, executive director of RPI’s Center for Academic Transformation, has announced that the center will present $2 million in grants from the Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign to 10 universities and colleges nationwide.
The 10 institutions will each receive a $200,000 grant for course redesign projects that could produce significant increases in student numbers and create sizeable cost savings. The focus of the grant is on introductory courses with large enrollments.
The grants are part of the third and final round of a three-year, $6 million grant cycle funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. So far, 30 projects have been funded.
The purpose of the program is to encourage colleges and universities to redesign their approaches to instruction by making use of technology to attain cost savings and quality enhancements.
