Strengthening University eLearning Capacity

The U. S. Embassy in Cameroon announces an open competition for project proposals to strengthen the capacity of university faculty for using e-learning platforms.

The program will equip university administration and/or faculty with the knowledge and tools to build and/or teach from modern e-learning

platforms for distance education.

This capability will make universities more resilient when circumstances interfere with in-person learning and will expand opportunities for partnership with American higher education institutions.

Please carefully follow all instructions below.

Program Objectives:
● Help Cameroonian universities identify barriers to e-learning (including but not limited to:
buy-in of administration and staff, skill level of faculty, and technology and infrastructure gaps) and identify ways to resolve or overcome these barriers; ● Improve Cameroonian university officials’ understanding of distance learning tools and best practices and assist them to adopt remote teaching; ● Assist Cameroonian universities in developing and implementing context-appropriate strategies for deployment of e-learning, supporting both faculty and students, and monitoring and adapting as needed to ensure quality of learning.

Projects may target specific universities or benefit faculty and/or administrations from multiple universities.

Because different universities are at different stages with e-learning platforms, projects should be based on existing needs-analysis data or include activities to conduct a needs analysis of the target audience.

Projects may target one or more of the following areas:
development of institutional e-learning strategies, creation of new e-learning platforms or implementation of commercially available or free e-learning platforms, faculty skills in using e-learning platforms for teaching, or the various factors related to student use of such platforms, e.g.

cost-prohibitive and unreliable internet.

However, if a project targets only one or two factors, it should discuss the impact that other factors may have on the success and sustainability of project activities.

For example, if a project focuses only on training professors how to use e-learning technology, it should explain how other potential barriers (such as administration buy-in) will be addressed or explain how such barriers have already been overcome.

Projects must include one or more of the following:
● Collaboration between a Cameroonian and an American university ● An American expert as a member of the project team or as a speaker or consultant for the project activities ● Use of best practices for distance learning as developed by an American university or expert ● Use of distance learning technology developed in the United States.

The execution of projects must respect all physical distancing and other COVID-19 preventive measures.

These include maintaining 2-meters of separation between people, wearing masks, limiting large gatherings, etc.

Proposals should use virtual tools whenever possible to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission and should include associated costs (e.g.

data bundles for virtual workshop participants).

The following types of activities are not eligible for funding:
● Scholarships for study in the United States or to fund conference attendance or study tours to the United States ● Activities that are inherently political in nature or that contain the appearance of partisanship ● Construction activities ● Programs that support specific religious activities ● Fund-raising campaigns ● Cash prizes for participants
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Department of State


Agency: Department of State

Office: U.S. Mission to Cameroon

Estimated Funding: $74,960


Who's Eligible





Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program website

Additional Information of Eligibility:
PAS encourages applications from the United States and Cameroon: ● Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks, community associations, and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience ● Individuals ● Non-profit media organizations ● Non-profit or governmental educational institutions For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible to apply.

Full Opportunity Web Address:
http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/HPG/JACS/index.html

Contact:


Agency Email Description:
PAS Grants mail box

Agency Email:


Date Posted:
2020-07-19

Application Due Date:


Archive Date:
2020-09-19


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