Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program (IITAP)

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost

The Division of Instructional Innovation and Assessment is pleased to announce the eleventh annual Innovative Instructional Technology Awards Program (IITAP), the provost’s program to encourage, support, and reward innovation in using instructional technology. The total amount of cash awards is $10,000.

UT Austin faculty and faculty-student/staff teams are invited to enter instructional technologies used for at least one semester for UT Austin courses with documented outcomes. Entries should demonstrate how the instructor’s approach promotes students’ knowledge and skills and makes teaching and learning more effective, relevant, and efficient.

Ideally, entries should:

create engaging learning experiences that help achieve teaching and learning goals
synthesize knowledge and content into a creative, innovative system
support faculty and students in effective and efficient teaching and learning
model, demonstrate, integrate, and contextualize concepts and concept relationships
support the direct application of knowledge and skills
support the assessment and evaluation of knowledge and skills
align with discipline knowledge
include multiple levels or organization schemas more likely to be integrated into multiple contexts for multiple audiences
be scalable and extensible to many learners

Specific technologies eligible for consideration include:

tutorials
content libraries with creative interfaces to enhance usability and functionality
narratives and problem-based learning scenarios
assessment and evaluation practices and tools
interactive animations, games, simulations, and virtual-worlds
tools enabling mobile, collaborative, and social-networking practices
learning spaces

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Entry deadline for the next round of IITAP will be announced soon.

Entries will be reviewed by a panel of experts to determine finalists. Finalists will be judged by a panel including previous IITAP award recipients, members of the Academy of Distinguished Teachers, experts in instructional design, and members of the New Media Consortium.

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