Center for Educational Resources

The Technology Fellows Program is a mini-grant initiative that enables faculty to partner with technology savvy students to develop resources that enhance pedagogy, increase or facilitate access to course content, encourage active learning, promote critical thinking, or support student collaboration.

Full-time faculty and students are eligible to apply. Each faculty member receives $1,000 for project leadership and oversight; student fellows receive $4,000 for resource development and implementation. While faculty need not have specific technology expertise, they must understand how digital technologies could be employed to support their teaching objectives. Student applicants are encouraged to have programming or multimedia skills, or they must have a concrete (and feasible) plan for acquiring the skills required for their projects. Approximately 285 hours of work may be devoted to each project.

The CER staff are available to help interested applicants formulate project ideas and match faculty with student partners. Once fellowships are awarded, CER staff serve as liaisons to project teams by meeting about project progress, providing technical consultation, and helping teams prepare for a year-end showcase to share project results with the community.

A committee of faculty and technical professionals from the Johns Hopkins community reviews all applications using the criteria listed in the program guidelines found here in PDF format.

2018 Projects

Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

Neuroscience
Building Interactive Online Resources for Active Learning in Cognitive Neuroscience
Faculty: Brenda Rapp, Jeremy Purcell Fellows: Donald Li, Deleney Ubellacker

Earth & Planetary Sciences
Building Video Resources for Planetary Science Intro Courses
Faculty: Sabine Stanely Fellow: Xinting Yu

Cognitive Science
Interactive Visualizations for Computational Concepts in Cognition
Faculty: Tal Linzen Fellow: Richard McCoy

History
Popular Culture and Spacial History in 19th Century America
Faculty: Ron Walters Fellow: Sam Backer

Whiting School of Engineering

Mechanical Engineering
An Interactive Set of Resources for Learning Control Theory
Faculty: Sri Sarma Fellows: Julia Costacurta, Jung Min Lee

Mechanical Engineering
Implementing Virtual Reality Technology to Power Interactive Visualization of Multivariate Data
Faculty: Yun Chen Fellow: Wei-Hung Jung

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Turning a Nonlinear Dynamics Class into a Visual Laboratory
Faculty: Yannis Keverkidis Fellow: Yorgos Psarellis

Civil Engineering
Visualizing Optimization Concepts and Algorithms
Faculty: Jamie Guest Fellows: May Thu Nwe Nwe

2017 Projects

Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

Sociology
Online Stata Tutorials for Statistics Courses
Faculty: Sahan Karatasli Fellow: Nicholas Warren-Mohr

Bloomberg School of Public Health

Biostatistics
Using GitHub Classroom for Introductory Data Analysis
Faculty: Leah Jager, Margaret Taub Fellow: Jacob Fiksel

Whiting School of Engineering

Biomedical Engineering
Molecules and Cells Pre-Course
Faculty: Eileen Haase Fellows: Rohith Bhethanabotla, Conan Chen, Tiffany Chen, Wooyang Son, Brooke Stephanian

Biomedical Engineering
BME Design Studio Prototyping Equipment and Techniques: Digital Library
Faculty: Elizabeth Logsdon Fellow: David Gullotti