UC Online Campus Block Funding Requests: 2023 - 2024
Greetings!  

In 2023-2024, UC Online will provide $2M in block funding in four categories for online projects with a focus on digital inclusion. The four categories are: 1) courses; 2) professional development; 3) research; and 4) infrastructure. Based on project plans submitted from campuses, award amounts will vary.

UC Online Goals
Campus funding requests will be selected based on alignment with UC Online goals, including projects that: 
- promote digital inclusion
- advance the use of digital technology
- enhance student and faculty teaching and learning experiences and outcomes
- help close equity gaps

NOTE: UC Online will provide additional funds for CCES operations and change orders, as well as for cross-campus instructional funding/enrollment support. Check with your UC Online Campus Liaison for more information. The funding categories are described below. 

2023-2024 UC ONLINE FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

1. COURSES
Funding is available for the development and enhancement of fully online courses, course sequences, minors or programs that are developed, offered and open to students across campuses through the cross-campus enrollment system (CCES). The approved course must be open to cross-campus enrollment (five times in five years, excluding summer offerings). Courses should emphasize elements of digital inclusion, and be designed to enrich and enhance student opportunities to learn and succeed.

Tools and Applications. Requests for a specific tool to support instruction will also be considered for funding, but only in conjunction with a course funding request. 

UC Irvine Course Requests: A course agreement will need to be signed on your campus for funds to be transferred to your department. Please reach out to your UC Online Campus Liaisons if you would like to review the agreement prior to submitting your funding request. 

Recommended Award: A maximum of $45K/course.

2. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Funding is available for systemwide professional development (online and in-person) that supports online teaching and learning, and digital inclusion efforts. Possible projects include: professional development for faculty in online teaching to ensure student success, and the like. Priority will be given to online professional development that is open to faculty, staff and graduate students/TAs across the system, and involves three or more campuses.

3. RESEARCH PROJECTS
Funding is available for systemwide research projects that focus on online course efficacy, analysis of existing data on online courses, closing equity/performance gaps in online courses, and any new research that focuses on issues related to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEI & A) in online courses.

4. INFRASTRUCTURE
Tech Integrations. Complete technology integrations (using IMS Global interoperability standards) to connect learning platforms and tools designed to function as a whole, to produce a coherent learning environment that aggregates learning data and provides students an enriched learning experience.

Infrastructure and Equipment. One time/startup cost of hardware associated with the storage of digital assets used in online courses (such as servers or cloud-based storage solutions – not to exceed $10,000); licenses for software associated with creating and developing online courses and digital course assets (such as Captivate, Camtasia, Adobe Photoshop, and the like) as a campus-wide project. 

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS
The UC Online Leadership team requires you to share your findings or results at the conclusion of the project. Additionally, you must complete the expense tab on the approved budget three months after the conclusion of the project.

INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit a separate project form and accompanying budget for each project on how you plan to allocate the block funds awarded to you.

DEADLINE
Friday, January 12, 2024, 5:00 pm

TIMELINE
  1. Wednesday, 11/1/23: funding request opens.
  2. Friday, 1/12/24: funding request submission deadline.
  3. Friday, 1/19/24: UC Online provides a list of submitted requests to campus liaisons.
  4. Friday, 1/19/2024 – Friday, 2/9/2024: campuses prioritize funding requests (high, medium, low).
  5. Monday, 2/12/2024: campuses submit a finalized list of funding priorities to UC Online. 
  6. Friday, 3/1/2024: UC Online makes decisions regarding campus funding requests.
  7. March 2024: UC Online begins award notification communications (fund, hold and decline to fund).
Requests outside these windows will be considered based on funding availability. If you have identified a project with a budget greater than $200K, we encourage you to submit a follow-on request by emailing UC Online.

We look forward to receiving your project requests!

Thank you for your interest in and support for Online Education at the University of California. 

 
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PROJECT TITLE (for courses, please provide the course code and course name):
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1a. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI):  Last Name, First Name *
1b. PI: Email Address *
2a. CO-PIs:  Last Name, First Name
2b. CO-PIs: Email Address (separate each email with a comma)
3a. CAMPUS: (for multi-campus collaboration: select all campuses that have agreed to participate in this project)
UCB
UCD
UCI
UCLA
UCM
UCR
UCSD
UCSF
UCSB
UCSC
Home Campus
Multi-Campus Collaboration:
3b. MULTI-CAMPUS COLLABORATION: Contact Information: Please provide first name, last name and an email for each additional contact. Separate each contact with a semi-colon.
4. PROJECT CATEGORY (Select one. Submit a separate request for each project) *
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Please include a brief description of your funding request. Additional questions below are listed by category:
1. COURSES: description of the course, rationale, need by other UC Campuses, and commitment to cross-campus offerings.

2. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (PD): description of the PD for faculty in teaching online to ensure student success. How will you make the PD available across the campus and to other campuses across the system? Provide information on systemwide collaborators, share Box/Dropbox links for letters of support/commitment/participation from other campuses.

3. RESEARCH PROJECT: description of the research topic, goal and anticipated outcomes.  How will you make the research project available across the campus and to other campuses across the system? Provide information on systemwide collaborators, and share Box/Dropbox links for letters of support/commitment/participation from other campus.

4. INFRASTRUCTURE: description of the infrastructure project, including what it intends to provide or accomplish, how it will support ongoing UC Online work at your campus, and any other aspects of the project that will help reviewers understand your request. 
  • What do you intend to do, and how you will use UC Online funds? 
  • Why is the infrastructure project needed at your campus? 
  • Who will this project benefit? 
  • Provide any relevant data, analyses, and information to justify funding for the project. Please describe the timeline for the project.
6a. ABSTRACT: Please include an abstract of your funding request. Limit 150 words. *
6b. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Please include a brief description of your funding request. 
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7. CROSS-CAMPUS IMPACT: 
How will this project request support the online work on your campus and other campuses?
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