Innovative Teaching
and Learning Grants
The Center offers the Cornell teaching community a range of grants and awards to support the implementation of innovative and evidence-based teaching methods.
Each year we invite the Cornell teaching community to propose projects that explore new tools and emerging technologies, approaches, and teaching strategies to facilitate vibrant, challenging, and reflective learning experiences at Cornell.
The CTI has funded a wide range of faculty projects through the Innovative Teaching & Learning Grants. Explore the variety of innovation projects.
2022-2023
Giving Purpose to Students' Second Language Practices: Fulfilling Meaningful and Authentic Tasks through Task-based Language Teaching.
Emilia Illana Mahigues and Juan M. Escalona Torres, Lecturers, College of Arts and Sciences.
Improving student comprehension through interactive model visualization.
Doug McKee, Senior Lecturer , College of Arts and Sciences
Students examined the connections between epidemics, pandemics, society, and culture as documented by textual and visual evidence and help to produce a visually dynamic eBook.
Professor Juno Parrenas, College of Arts and Sciences.
Improving student learning outcomes and satisfaction in large STEM lecture courses.
Professor Abigail Snyder and Sarah Daly, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Created short immersive experiences to connect predictive model developers with those required to use the models.
Elizabeth Karns, Senior Lecturer, Computing and Information Science.
2021-2022
Deployed Field Technologies for Enhanced Avian Habitat Assessment and Design Innovation.
Joshua Cerra, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture
Explored ways of Increasing Active Learning to Foreground Student Competence Development.
Gen Meredith, Professor, Master of Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine
Developed a module to ensure that incoming students have the necessary critical thinking skills to thrive.
Professor Chelsea Specht, Christina Schmidt, Senior Lecturer Mark Sarvary, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
2019-2020
2019-2020
3D Anatomy and Physiology
Incorporated the Organon 3D software into anatomy classes to help student explore tissues and processes.
Darlene Campbell, Senior Lecturer, Biology
Faculty Learning Communities for STEM
Continued faculty learning communities to remove silos and make common language data-driven teaching changes.
Michelle Smith, Associate Professor, Claire Meaders, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Building your own Neuroscience Equipment
Developed an inexpensive microscope that allowed them to see neurons in action.
David Deitcher, Associate Professor, Bruce Johnson, Senior Research Associate, Neurobiology & Behavior
Projected Natures
Developed a course in which students would use biosensors to understand how individuals interact with environments.
Jennifer Birkeland, Assistant Professor, Lanscape Architecture
Students created an instrument to explore aspects of sound and performance.
Trevor Pinch, Science & Technology Studies, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Assistant Professor of Music.
2018-2019
The Art of Math
Created new tools to assist in making their team-taught course "The Art of Math" more active and engaging for their diverse group of students.
Courtney Roby, Associate Professor, Classics and Andrew Hicks, Associate Professor of Music
Virtual Reality and Intercultural Competence
Used Virtual Reality to help teach students interculture competence.
Andrea Won, Assistant Professor, Connie Yuan, Professor, Communication
Investigative Biology Makerspace
Developed a new learning space, the "bio-imagination maker-space," with the investigative biology teaching laboratories.
Mark Sarvary, Senior Lecturer, Neurobiology & Behavior
Online Evolutionary Biology
An online course that uses active learning techniques.
Kelly Zamudio, Professor, and Abby Drake, Senior Lecturer, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology