Application Information

Pilot for In-Load Online Teaching (PILOT) Initiative Application

Applications are due June 30, 2023 for work to begin in Fall 2023

The Pilot for In-Load Online Teaching (PILOT) is a two-year program that aims to improve student success by supporting academic units in creating a transformational change for online, remote, and hybrid teaching and learning at CU Boulder. PILOT seeks to leverage online, remote, and hybrid modalities to create sustainable change that aligns with pedagogical excellence, research-based practices, and course and program objectives, while at the same time providing options for the academic unit, college, or university to conceptualize and evaluate these modalities as part of overall teaching excellence. 

To support the work, each initiative will receive up to $15,000 per year for two years. A maximum of three initiatives will be funded for the Fall 2023 cohort. 

For more information about the goals and activities of PILOT, visit the CTL website, Pilot for In-Load Online Teaching (PILOT).

Preparing and Submitting an Initiative Application

The PI is the individual who will serve as the primary lead and contact for the duration of the project. Applications must be submitted by the PI and include a letter of support from the department chair, academic unit lead, or program lead. If the department chair, academic unit lead, or program lead serves as PI, no letter is required.

A complete application will include all of the following items:

  1. Responses to all of the questions #1-9 in the Application Form below (please limit responses to four total pages)
  2. Letter of support from department chair, academic unit lead, or program lead

Please prepare the final application as a single PDF and upload at the application link.

For assistance with the application, please contact CTL@colorado.edu.

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Please limit responses to four total pages. You can remove the text instructions but keep the headings and question numbers in your responses.

Contact Information

  • PI Name and email
  • Department, academic unit, or program
  • Department Chair name and email

PILOT was created to improve student success by creating transformational and sustainable change for online, remote, and hybrid teaching and learning at CU Boulder.

Q1. Explain your initiative. Why was this initiative chosen? Describe how your initiative will transform how the academic unit/college/university conceptualizes online teaching and learning as part of their overall teaching excellence. 

Q2. Identify your stakeholders and discuss how your initiative is tied to student and faculty success. 

Q3. How does your initiative support diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and access? What equity-minded questions might you pursue with further inquiry?

Project Goals and Activities

Q4. What would be the desired outcome(s) of your initiative? How will participation in the PILOT program help you achieve these outcome(s)?

Q5. What do you anticipate will be the principal activities of your team over the two-year project period? Carefully discuss how your team will be successful during fall 2023 to meet applicable university structures and timelines (e.g., new course proposal and new program proposals must be finalized and submitted to the university January 2024).

Q6. The CTL and relevant campus partners will provide support to help the teams work towards their goals. What kinds of assistance do you anticipate needing to address the goals of your initiative?

Initiative Team Information

The composition of the initiative team should reflect the makeup of those essential to your initiative’s success. Thus, each initiative team will have a different mix of members. The initiative team should include no more than 6-8 key members and might include:

  • Team Manager
  • tenured and tenure-track faculty
  • teaching faculty
  • the course coordinator or undergraduate or graduate curriculum chair
  • a GTA or GPTI
  • staff members who supports the unit or has expertise in the relevant areas

Q7. Please list the members of the initiative team and their role(s) in your initiative.

Funding

Q8. Please provide a brief description of how the PILOT funds will be used to support the proposed initiative.

Q9. The PI is responsible for ensuring that if a graduate student or undergraduate student is part of the team, they are compensated for their work on this project. Compensation can take different forms, such as stipends, differential workloads in the GTA contract, or as a project for a Lead Graduate Student Fellowship. Please describe how the graduate student or undergraduate student member(s) will be compensated.