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Latest Project The Ayrshire College Foundation has provided £250,000 over three years for an Innovating for Learning Fund to encourage creativity and improvement in curriculum and service design, content or delivery. Grants of between £5,000 and £25,000 will be available to assist with implementing innovative practice to support learning and teaching, or enhance service delivery to increase student success. The fund has been developed to provide start-up funding for innovative or exploratory projects, and bids should focus on new approaches or initiatives that enhance learning and teaching, service delivery and/or the student experience. Proposals can be submitted by individual curriculum and service areas, or collaboratively from a number of areas. Any innovative project will be considered. Examples of the types of applications which would be considered include: • Innovation in curriculum design, content or delivery • Innovation in service design and delivery • Participation in new approaches to learning within or outside the College • New approaches to learning, teaching and assessment Proposals should take account of the changing external environment, for example: • The importance of supporting students with particular barriers to achieving successful outcomes • The growth and potential of new digital technologies for learning or support for learning • The emergence of students as consumers and their associated expectations of how the College should Application form HERE For more details please contact: Angela Scoular [email protected] In the next issue... interact with them Projects which are awarded funding will demonstrate a new approach or initiative that will enhance learning and teaching or service delivery. Successful projects may apply for funding for one further year if a strong rationale is submitted before completion of the project. Find out more about our Innovating for learning Fund, Enterprising Ayrshire and CoLlaborating Ayshire Projects.