FACET's Annual Innovate Awards
The FACET Innovate Awards serve two important purposes that promote FACET’s mission. The awards recognize faculty who bring passion, innovation, and creativity to the classroom to promote student success. It also helps FACET share and disseminate best practices in teaching for the benefit of the entire IU community.
The call for applications for Innovate 2026 will be announced in December. Last year's categories were as follows:
- Collaborative activities: Do you have an effective collaborative classroom activity? What does this activity look like, and how does it promote peer-to-peer engagement in addition to student learning?
- Community engagement: Do you have an effective community engagement activity? What does this activity look like, and how does it promote community engagement in addition to student learning?
- Creative uses of online tools: Do you have a particularly effective method or activity that uses online tools (applications, programs, or Canvas tools) to promote student learning? What does this activity look like, how does it work, and how does it impact student learning?
- Skills across the curriculum: Do you have an activity that empowers students by teaching them how to learn skills across the curriculum, such as reading, writing, speaking, critical thinking or others?