Educational Technology Fellows
The Educational Technology Fellows (Ed Tech Fellows) is a program that supports instructors in implementing educational innovation with technology. Annual cohorts collaborate with the Northwestern IT Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) team to bring their pedagogical projects to life, enhancing learning experiences for students and helping instructors achieve their teaching goals.
As a fellow, you will:
- Attend meetings and events to see experts demonstrate new educational technologies or discuss new classroom teaching strategies.
- Collaborate with other fellows, engaging in meaningful interdisciplinary exchanges.
- Work on your project with help from your TLT consultant.
- Explore opportunities to share your experience and outcomes.
Program Structure
Fellows are recommended to plan for the following time commitments:
- Meet with your assigned TLT mentor every 1-4 weeks to design and complete a teaching project (2-6 hours per month).
- Attend monthly meetings to discuss project progress, hear from other fellows, and learn about new developments in educational technology (4 hours per month).
- In-Person Cohort Meetings (all meetings from 12-1 p.m., Evanston Campus, Library with hybrid option available):
- Friday, November 8, 2024
- Friday, December 6, 2024
- Friday, February 7, 2025
- Friday, March 7, 2025
- Attend TEACHx May 21-22, 2025 (optional)
- Upon project completion: Consider ways to present Ed Tech Fellow work at TEACHx, to colleagues, or via other avenues.
How to Apply
We welcome applicants from all campuses and programs, including adjunct instructors and graduate student instructors. The application involves summarizing your project idea, goals, and any steps taken so far (no prior work on the project is necessary). The application should take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
The application for the 2024-25 cohort has now closed.
Topic Areas and Project Examples
Although the EdTech Fellows program is open to projects on all topics, we will give priority to the following topics:
Topic Areas for 2024-2025
- Classroom Engagement Using Technology: Implementation of interactive learning tools or engaging interactive experiences, utilization of augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) to create immersive learning environments, incorporation of gamification elements, learning apps, and creative uses of Canvas.
- Students' Tech Literacy: Integration of apps and ed tech devices into the learning process, familiarization of students with technologies that will prepare them for future workforce demands.
- Active Learning with Technology: Implementation of project-based learning (PBL) approaches using technology or incorporation of collaborative digital tools.
Examples of Past Projects
- Beyond the Page: Incorporating digital tools in creative writing
- Digital sites to demonstrate student learning in Latinx Chicago
- Embedding technology-based active learning strategies and engagement in an epidemiology course
- Improving use of real-time and asynchronous collaborative technology tools for a remote IT leadership course
- Development of course site to be more interactive and take advantage of Canvas's feature
- Gamification of elements in graduate online courses
- Using technology in a live-client setting to ensure learning outcomes
- DEI in the workplace with reality theatre
- Using a digital annotation tool to encourage students to take more leadership during in-class discussions
- Making student-facing library information modules more accessible and engaging to students and more readily available to faculty
- Using AI in the classroom for language conversations and learning
- Creating a more inclusive curriculum for historical music course
Educational Technology Fellows
We thank all Educational Technology Fellows for their participation and contributions.
Fellows for the 2024-2025 Academic Year will be selected in November.
2023-2024 Academic Year
- Denise Bouras, Weinberg College, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
- Isabella Vergara Calderon, Weinberg College, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
- Leslie Rydberg, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Yan Zhou, Weinberg College, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
- Amna Moustafa, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Hasheem Hakeem, Weinberg College, Department of French and Italian
- Julia Oliver Rajan, Weinberg College, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
- Sarah Cleveland, School of Communication
- Megan Hyska, Weinberg College, Department of Philosophy
- Rafael Matos, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
- Chin-Hung Chang, Weinberg College, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
- Heather Henderson, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Yang Qu, School of Education and Social Policy
- Shanté Elliott, School of Education and Social Policy
- Claudia Quevedo-Webb, Weinberg College, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
- Giorgia Chinazzo, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Carolyn Kmet, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
- Paola Morgavi, Weinberg College, Department of French and Italian
2022-2023 Academic Year
- Anne Zald, Northwestern Libraries
- Kiki Zissimopoulos, McCormick Office of Undergraduate Engineering
- Mindy Thorpe, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Tiffany Schmidt, Weinberg College, Department of Neurobiology
- Abby Stringer, McCormick School of Engineering
- Naira Corzon, Weinberg College, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
- Chin-Hung Chang, Weinberg College, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
- Anne Marie Adams, School of Communication
- Shuyi Weng, Weinberg College, Department of Mathematics
- Jennifer Lin, Weinberg College, Department of Political Science
- Bennett Goldberg, Weinberg College, Department of Physics and Astronomy
- Helen Cho, Weinberg College, Department of Asian American Studies Program
- Jasmine Thomasian, Bienen School of Music
- Irene Finestrat, Weinberg College, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
- Paul Feller, Bienen School of Music
2019-2020 Academic Year
- Amy Johnson, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Amy Partridge, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Christopher Neary, School of Education and Social Policy
- Jennifer Ryan, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Julia Moore, The Graduate School
- Katherine Martinez, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Katia Viot-Southard, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- kihana miraya ross, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Kimberly Rusk, School of Professional Studies
- Lowell Lindstrom, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Marissa Liveris, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Michael Zuckerman, School of Law
- Myrna Garcia, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Nell Novara, School of Law
- Raquel Amorese, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
- Sarah Fay, School of Professional Studies
- Spencer Striker, Northwestern in Qatar
- Wiebke Bullerman, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences