Digital Teaching & LearningFellows
Now Accepting Applications for 2024-2025!
Digital Teaching & Learning Fellows and Digital Teaching & Learning Mini-Grants
We’re looking for faculty who want to create meaningful, engaging, and inclusive digital learning experiences for their students.
Digital Teaching and Learning Fellows and Mini-Grantees will collaborate with their peers and with DLINQ staff to design and implement a digital learning project that transforms teaching and learning in their course. We provide structure, expertise, a stipend, and a supportive community of peers to help you reach your goals.
Our Fellows program and our Mini-Grantees program share the same goals but offer different structures and stipends. Read about each program below to choose which might be right for you.
Digital Teaching and Learning Fellows
The Digital Teaching and Learning Fellowship is a year-long program that provides time and support for a deep dive into the design and implementation of a digital learning project in your course. During the Fall and Spring of 2024-2025, Digital Teaching & Learning Fellows will explore digital learning research and practice, gain technical skills, engage in reflective practice in a community of peers, and implement their project in their course, with support from DLINQ staff.
In Fall 2024 of the fellowship, faculty will work closely with DLINQ staff and their cohort of peers to design their project. The goal of the Spring 2025 semester is to implement their design in a course and iterate that design based on input from students, with ongoing support from DLINQ staff and their cohort of peers.
The Fellowship is open to MIIS and Middlebury College faculty. We plan to fund up to 4 Fellows for AY 2024-2025.
This fellowship is not intended to replace our online course design process. If you are interested in designing a fully online course, please contact DLINQ.
Potential projects
Fellows are invited to propose a digital teaching and learning project that they can implement in a course that they will be teaching in Spring 2025. Types of projects may included, but are not limited to:
- explore the possibilities for AI in your teaching
- create an AI assignment for your class
- design a digital learning project/assignment (for ex. podcasting, digital storytelling, mapping, virtual field trip, etc.)
- create an Open Educational Resource for (or with!) students
- design a critical digital inquiry project for your students
- do a digital accessibility audit on your course and create more accessible digital course materials
- …and more! Check out the 2023-2024 Fellows to see their projects.
Fellowship Award
Fellows will receive a stipend of $4,000, dispersed in the fall ($2k) and spring ($2k), in order to compensate for their time and participation. Participation and stipend in the spring is contingent upon making sufficient progress toward goals and completing the participation requirements of the fellowship.
Digital Teaching and Learning Mini-Grants for Generative AI Projects
The Digital Teaching and Learning Mini-Grant program is a semester-long program that provides an opportunity to engage with Generative AI for teaching and learning. During the Fall of 2024, Digital Teaching & Learning Mini-Grantees will focus on exploring Generative AI through engagement with research and practice, gaining technical skills, working on a generative AI-related project, and engaging in reflective practice in a community of peers, with support from DLINQ staff. We plan to fund up to 4 mini-grantees for Fall 2024.
Potential projects
Mini-Grantees are invited to propose a digital teaching and learning project related to generative AI. Types of projects may included, but are not limited to:
- explore the possibilities for AI in your teaching (for ideas, see Teach with Generative AI from Harvard)
- create an AI assignment for your class
- create a prompt bank for you and your students (for example, GenAI ChatBot Prompt Library for Educators)
- create a guide for ethical uses of AI
Mini-Grant Award
Fellows will receive a stipend of $1,000 in order to compensate for their time and participation.
Tentative Schedule
Participation in events is required.
Apply to Be a DT&L Fellow or Mini-Grantee
The Digital Teaching and Learning Fellowship and Mini-Grant programs invite proposals for the 2024-2025 cohort from faculty at Middlebury College and MIIS. Proposals will be reviewed by the Associate Provost for Digital Learning, the Director of Digital Pedagogy and Media, and a faculty reviewer from MIIS and the college. Please review the information on this page for details about Fellowship and Mini-Grant requirements.
We strongly encourage prospective applicants to schedule a conversation with Dr. Sarah Lohnes Watulak prior to submitting an application, to ensure that the proposed scope of work is aligned with the fellowship and that your submission is as strong as possible. Please reach out to Sarah via email (sarahlw AT middlebury DOT edu) or via the DLINQ consultation request form.