Jump Start

The Jump Start Online Course Development Program is designed to provide IUPUI and IUPUC faculty with the support, time, and resources to effectively design an online, hybrid or web enhanced course. Jump Start faculty are assisted in envisioning new ways of facilitating learning and redesigning courses to promote improved student learning and more efficient use of faculty time and resources.  

Support for faculty includes:

• instructional design guidance;
• information resources support (help with developing information literacy skills for students, locating appropriate materials, research strategies, filtering tools, etc.);
• instructional technology expertise regarding appropriate use of technology to support effective online teaching;
• help with constructing assessment criteria and plan.
  

Additional support will include:

• production support through Media Design and Production (MDP), including videographers, graphic designers, and web programmers;
• a community of faculty progressing through a similar process.

The Jump Start grant is for faculty who are new to or relatively inexperienced in online teaching. The program has three phases: the preparation phase, the intensive orientation phase which occurs over a two week period in May and the development phase during which the course is created.

How to apply
The application period is closed for 2009. For information on the program, please contact the Center for Teaching and Learning at (317) 274-1300.