Project proposals
The Lab for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (LITL) is seeking submissions for project proposals. This is an opportunity to present your project and potentially see it actualized. The lab invites submissions from faculty members from all departments.
Submission deadline: November 30, 2024
Benefits of working with LITL
Faculty members will benefit from working with a small team committed to making your vision a reality.
The Lab for Innovation in Teaching and Learning is a lab where you can experiment with and/or develop new and innovative teaching and learning methodologies. The lab is a place where it’s okay to try something and have it “fail".
The lab is open to working with all faculty members across the university and often draws from multiple departments to form interdisciplinary collaborative teams for specific projects. These collaborative teams can sometimes include other institutions, community and/or industry partners, depending on the needs and scope of a project.
How funding works with LITL
If you need funding, the lab will work with you to explore what funding opportunities exist and can be leveraged for your project. We have experience working with Ministry and granting agencies and can help with the exploration and application process.
Some projects come to LITL with funding already attached as part of faculty funding, an existing grant, or other circumstances.
Hiring students
Should your project be selected, our earliest conversations/ideation meetings will help determine if student partners are warranted and the nature of the project’s funding requirements/constraints. Students involved as partners in our projects are typically paid as research assistant positions for their collaborative work.
We work with CREW rates as a guideline minimum for our Student Partners.
What defines a LITL project
Briefly put, a LITL project is one that is true to its namesake: a project that is innovating in the teaching and learning space. It’s a project that is pushing boundaries and is aspirational in nature.
If your project feels like a LITL project, we invite you to submit it for consideration.
Consult the lab’s Projects web page to learn about some previous projects developed in collaboration with LITL, including:
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a tutor
- Virtual Reality (VR) as a teacher training tool
- Using Minecraft as a classroom
- Developing a card game for an accounting class
- Mentorship initiatives for students designing new learning spaces for the university.
Several projects that began at LITL have continued beyond the lab. The project you propose could form the basis of a proof of concept that may eventually lead to a bigger project or grant (e.g.: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Ministère de l’Éducation du Québec (MEQ), etc.).
Note: while many of our projects have a technological element to them, not all require it. One can innovate in teaching and learning without necessarily involving technology.
Not sure where to start?
If you are not yet sure about what your project is or could be, but still want to explore working with the lab, please complete our submission form and clearly indicate that it is an “Expression of interest” with information about why you want to work with LITL.
The lab can set up a series of initial exploratory ideation meetings to brainstorm and see what comes of them, with no commitments or prerequisites.
Submit your idea
Should you have a concrete idea for a project, please download and complete the Project proposal application form and send it to: litl@concordia.ca.