Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) Spark Grants
Deadline: July 13, 2016
Award Amount: $5,000-$15,000
Eligible Applicants: Harvard University benefits-eligible faculty, students, staff, and postdoctoral researchers

Through modest but meaningful support, these $5-$15K grants are designed to help “spark” promising teaching and learning projects from idea to reality and position innovations for future success.  Funding can be used in various ways, for example, to pay for a research assistant, hire a graduate student with academic technology expertise, or convene collaborative groups.  Proposals that build communities of practice around teaching and learning, facilitate high quality assessment practices and educational research, experiment with and document new instructional practices, involve collaborations that cross organizational boundaries and/or schools, and/or provide pedagogically-driven tools for teaching and learning (multimedia and instructional technology) are especially encouraged.  Through Spark Grants, awardees will receive resources, feedback, and community support to help them develop their ideas into prototypes, pilots, and small-scale innovations.  HILT will also strive to support any future scaling-up of Spark Grant projects by increasing their visibility and connecting awardees and project outcomes with others in the broader Harvard community.