About the Fellowship
(Applications Open for Fall 2025)
The Digital Pedagogy Fellowship provides a practice-based professional learning experience for Smith faculty who are seeking to incorporate technology into their teaching and create innovative digital scholarship with their students. The fellowship includes a two-day summer institute program (Aug. 18-19, 2025), monthly meetings with fellowship participants during the fall 2025 semester, and a showcase for the Smith community in early 2026. Faculty will have the opportunity for hands-on training with staff partners and digital innovation spaces, build their digital fluency and engage in a community of practice with other faculty to enhance their teaching in meaningful ways. Fellowship recipients will receive a $500 research grant awarded at the completion of the program in Spring 2026.
Proposals by Smith Faculty are due by May 30, 2025. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by June 13, 2025, and will need to confirm their participation by July 1, 2025.
Theme for 2025 Fellowship: Telling Stories that Matter
What do scholars need in order to tell a really good story? Telling compelling and impactful stories about our work is an important way to make complex research relatable, memorable, and engaging for a broader audience. This year, the Digital Pedagogy Fellowship program will focus on engaging faculty and their students in diverse forms of digital storytelling. Course projects should explore at least one form of digital storytelling such as podcasting, oral histories, digital narratives, video narratives, and we welcome hybrid or experimental media genres as well! Shared learning opportunities for faculty participants will emphasize effective narrative design, designing and sequencing assignments, the media production process, copyright and ethical considerations, and audience engagement strategies if you choose to share your work outside of the classroom.
- Podcasts
Journalistic audio narratives that emphasize research, writing, interviews with experts, and reinterpreting scholarship for a public audience. - Oral Histories
A recorded conversation, typically audio or video, between a researcher and an individual who possesses personal knowledge or experience relevant to a specific historical event or topic. - Digital Narratives
A story told using any combination of images, video, audio, and text. These stories can be personal reflections, educational presentations, or creative works. - Video Productions
Recorded video that is edited and combined with audio narration and music. This can involve various types of videos, such as explainer videos, mini documentaries, expert interviews, or lectures. - Experimental or Hybrid Genres
Is there something we aren’t listing above that you’re interested in exploring with your students? We want to hear about it! Feel free to consult with us before submitting your application.
Questions? Please contact Travis Grandy, Assoc. Director for Learning Research and Technology (tgrandy@smith.edu)
Instructions to Apply
Please attach your purpose statement and project proposal in a single document (Google doc, Word Doc, or PDF).
- Purpose statement (Up to 500 words): This fellowship program is intended for faculty at all levels of experience incorporating technology into their teaching. Describe how your participation in the fellowship will benefit your personal, scholarly and/or professional development.
- Project proposal (Up to 500 words): Describe a new project, unit or assignment that you would like to develop for your course in partnership with Learning Research and Technology. Please include a description of your preliminary learning objectives, what specific kinds of work you expect students to do, and how this work builds on or enhances work in your class or discipline.
- Designate the course for your project: Please designate at least one course being offered at Smith College during the Fall 2025 semester where you are the primary instructor. Non-credit courses will not be eligible.
Apply to the Fall 2025 Digital Pedagogy Fellowship
If you would like to consult about your proposal before applying, or have other questions about the fellowship program, please contact Travis Grandy, Assoc. Director for Learning Research and Technology (tgrandy@smith.edu).