COOL Grants

Grants currently being offered:

• COOL Grant Trainings
• Course Development Grant
• Course Enhancement Grant
• Quality Assurance Inventory (QAI)
• Exemplary Courses

Information on upcoming grants will be posted soon!

Digital learning has evolved rapidly over the last decade as an educational genre capable of serving both residential and remote students, particularly those who face 21st century workplace expectations for continuous learning. These working students have created competitive global markets for academic programs across a variety of academic disciplines in the format of online, hybrid, flex, blended, and traditional face-to-face courses. The Office of the Provost and the Coastal Office of Online Learning have joined together to provide faculty with funding opportunities to advance the development of high quality courses and programs for graduate and undergraduate students while utilizing digital technology tools. These grants are designed to recognize the increased utilization of this methodology by faculty to meet the needs and objectives of their courses, the University’s Strategic Plan, and the best needs of the individual program.

College Deans and Department Chairs are invited to engage their faculty in strategic planning discussions about potential course curricula using digital technology tools. 

*Hybrid courses are defined here as courses with 51-99% of their required course activities completed in an online environment, as measured by reduced seat time requirements, with limited on campus requirements. Similarly, Hybrid programs would have 51-99% of their required coursework available in an online format for students to complete, with limited on campus requirements.

Past COOL Grant Course Certifications

The COOL office has awarded COOL grants to faculty from across the academic colleges and disciplines for their exemplary work on course development. Courses receiving certification have met or exceeded QM and QAI standards. The COOL team would like to acknowlege the extraordinary work performed in the following courses listed below. These courses exceed standards set forth by the CCU Quality Assurance Inventory tool used by the COOL unit for course evaluations.