Teaching Innovation Grants
The Office of the Provost is committed to fostering a culture of pedagogical experimentation at the University of Maryland. The Teaching Innovation Grants facilitated by the Teaching and Learning Transformation Center (TLTC), empower faculty and instructors to explore new practices by providing resources and faculty development opportunities to pilot transformative projects that enhance student success.
Each cycle of Teaching Innovation Grants focuses on a different theme in support of our commitment to reimagine learning at UMD. Read more about each of the grant cycles in the sections below.
First Cycle: Active and Experiential Learning (22-23AY)
In Spring 2022, UMD launched a round of grants to support innovative educational projects focused on expanding active and experiential learning. Through the grants, a total of 115 projects were awarded totalling $2.7 million, directly impacting 19,171 students-seats, 296 courses, and 86 academic programs. The report on the 2022 initiative demonstrates the program's broad impact, highlights and remarkable accomplishments. Survey data show an overwhelmingly positive response from our students concerning their course experience.
Second Cycle: Education Technology (23-24 AY) & (24-27)
The 2023 grant program awarded funding to projects that use innovative educational technology to create more effective, engaging, and inclusive learning experiences that prepare our students to navigate a technology-rich world. The program awarded $1.3 million in grants to 24 projects to emphasize the intersection of education and technology, including AI, virtual reality and gamification. In all, the grants were able to bolster 73 courses with over 32,000 student seats across 10 academic units.
Projects were funded through two grant tracks. T-02 grants supported exploratory and developmental work such as designing and testing evidence-based teaching approaches through a pilot in a course or program, on a one-year cycle aligned with the academic year. T-01 grants supported larger-scale efforts to prototype or adopt advanced educational technologies into the curriculum, requiring 1:1 matching funds from participating colleges or departments and a clear path toward external funding; these projects ran on a three-year cycle spanning 2024 through 2027. There were twenty-one T-02 projects awarded at up to $50,000 each, and three T-01 projects at up to $150,000 per year for three years.
Third Cycle: Inclusive and Accessible Teaching (25-26 AY)
The 2025 grant program encouraged instructors to reimagine learning with inclusive and accessible learning experiences. The program awarded $470,000 in grants to 48 projects to integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles in courses to create innovative learning experiences for UMD students focusing on multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression.
Learn more about the inclusive and accessible teaching grant awardees
Fourth Cycle: Data-Driven Insights for Student Success (26-27 AY)
The current call for proposals in the 2026-2027 academic year, fosters an inquiry cycle related to teaching enhancements for student success. This year’s theme focuses on using measurable insights to create more responsive, evidence-based learning experiences.