Grants & Awards

TLOS manages a suite of institutional grants and awards to the Virginia Tech community including seed grants to grow leading-edge innovation, funding to develop or redesign courses for flexible and online learning experiences, and awards to support large-scale curricular redesign and competitive research grants. In addition, we have established recognition of our partners as they contribute to help us complete our mission.

Open Requests for Proposals or Applications

• The XCaliber Award call for applications is open with a deadline of December 2, 2024. Learn more and apply.  Please submit questions, concerns, or requests for more information about grant opportunities to tlos@vt.edu.
  
  
• The Accessibility Professional Certification Grant Program is open with a deadline of December 4, 2024, at 5 p.m. Learn more about the CPACC grant program and apply.

Grants

TLOS manages a suite of institutional grants to the Virginia Tech community including seed grants to grow leading-edge innovation, funding to develop or redesign courses for flexible and online learning experiences, and awards to support large-scale curricular redesign and competitive research grants.

4-VA Grant Initiatives

4-VA is a collaborative of Virginia Tech, College of William and Mary, George Mason University, James Madison University, Old Dominion University, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Military Institute working together to realize Virginia's goals for higher education. Grants are intended to promote collaborations that leverage the strengths of each university. 4-VA grants at Virginia Tech support innovative approaches to collaborative endeavors, collaborative research, and course redesign. The next Virginia Tech 4-VA request for proposals will open during the 2025 spring semester.

Accessibility Professional Certification Grant Program

Accessible Technologies awards grants to selected candidates throughout the university to become International Association for Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) certified accessibility professionals.

DRIVE Grants

Develop, Redesign, Innovate, Vitalize, and Enhance (DRIVE) grants fund the development or redesign of flexible and online learning experiences for Virginia Tech students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The DRIVE grant program is currently paused and not accepting new proposals. An announcement will be shared in VT News and on Canvas when applications reopen. 

Technology-Enhanced Learning Grants

Technology-Enhanced Learning Grants (formerly Innovation in Learning Grants) support the implementation and evaluation of innovative approaches to teaching and learning using technology in support of for-credit courses. They advance the integration of new technologies in teaching and learning without limiting or prescribing the exploration of either the technologies or the curricular and pedagogical approaches.

Awards

TLOS manages the yearly selection of XCaliber Award recipients. In addition, we have established recognition of our partners as they contribute to help us complete our mission.

XCaliber Award

Recognizing exceptional, high-caliber contributions to technology-enriched teaching and learning. The XCaliber Award call for applications is open with a deadline of December 2, 2024. Learn more and apply.

Outstanding Remote Teaching

Recognizing 158 faculty members for their excellent contributions to Virginia Tech's teaching mission during the 2020 spring semester as reported by students and colleagues through an online survey.

Looking for other ways to partner with TLOS?

We are always looking for ways that we can help improve teaching and learning outcomes through technology. If you have a new idea or would like some assistance in implementing technology in your classroom, please contact us.