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Office for Learning and Teaching
Learning and Teaching ForumCharles Darwin University, Darwin
3 September 2015
Office for Learning and Teaching
Dr. Paul CorcoranDirector, Grants and Fellowships
What do we do?• Lead sustainable quality improvement in higher
education learning and teachingHow do we do it? • Provide support to explore, develop and implement
innovation in learning and teaching through a suite of awards, fellowships and grants
• Work with leaders across the higher education system to identify, and support work on, issues of strategic importance to higher education learning and teaching
Office for Learning and Teaching
Office for Learning and Teaching
• From 1 July 2016 a new learning and teaching institute will be established, with $28 million in funding, to promote excellence in teaching and learning.
• This will involve administering the grants, fellowships and awards under the Promotion of Excellence in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education programme.
• Universities will be invited to bid to host the new institute.
New Institute
Grants• Innovation & development: < $500k • Strategic priority commissioned work: > $220k• Closing date for this round is 2 November 2015
Fellowships• Up to 8 National Teaching Fellowships: $90k • Up to 4 National Senior Teaching Fellowships: $250k• Closing date for this round is 1 February 2016
Opportunities in 2016
Citations• Open: February 2016• Close: May 2016
Awards• Awards for Programmes that Enhance Learning• Awards for Teaching Excellence• Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year• Career Achievement Award • Open: May 2016• Close: July 2016
Opportunities in 2016
2016 priority topics• Academic standards• Assessing equivalence of qualifications and learning
outcomes • Assessment and promotion of student learning• Designing learning for the future• Employability skills for the future• Improving institutional pathways across higher
education• Improving access to and outcomes in higher
education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• The contemporary PhD
OLT priority areas for grants
OLT priority areas for grants
2014• Professionalisation of the academic workforce• Academic integrity
2014/15• Technology-enabled learning • Learning analytics• Graduate employability
Strategic Priority Commissioned grants…delivered in:
OLT priority areas for grants
2015/16• English language support• 21st century student experience• Developing global perspectives
Strategic Priority Commissioned grants…delivered in:
2016/17• The future of the academic workforce• Personalised learning in a massified higher
education system• Academic integrity and good practice in
assessment
Enhancing the Training of Maths and Science Teachers• To support collaboration by mathematicians and
scientists with educationalists to create new approaches and higher education courses for pre-service teachers
• 5 Projects:• Opening real science: Authentic mathematics and
science education for Australia (Macquarie)• Step up! Transforming mathematics and science
pre-service secondary teacher education in Queensland (QUT)
ETMST Programme
Enhancing the Training of Maths and Science Teachers• 5 Projects (cont’d):
• It’s part of my life: Engaging university and community to enhance science and mathematics education (SCU)
• Reconceptualising mathematics and science teacher education programs (Melbourne)
• Inspiring mathematics and science in teacher education (UQ)
ETMST Programme
The Fellowships Programme encourages excellence in learning and teaching in higher education by supporting individuals who have the educational expertise and leadership skills to:
• identify educational issues across the higher education system and to facilitate approaches to address these issues
• devise and undertake a significant programme of activities that will have substantial impact on students, staff, institutions and the higher education system
OLT Fellowships
• stimulate strategic and systemic change in higher education institutions
• raise the profile of learning and teaching in higher education and the prestige associated with the pursuit of excellence in teaching
• show leadership in promoting and enhancing learning and teaching in higher education and exploring new possibilities
OLT Fellowships
• establish and build on national and international partnerships in learning and teaching in higher education
• foster national and international collaboration and collegial networking for sharing research, innovation and good practice in learning and teaching
• contribute to the growing community of scholars in higher education learning and teaching.
OLT Fellowships
Features of a strong nomination
• Demonstrates students’ engagement
• Demonstrates development of innovative teaching strategies
• Shows sustained impact on the discipline and the sector
• Demonstrates how you go above and beyond your role as an educator
OLT Awards
Identifying your contribution
A six word teaching memoir. Tell your story in six words:
Statistics fun? Always gets a giggle.Building technologies for better student learning.
BuDI. Best friend for first years.Reform through education in Indonesian Papua.
Sustained excellence in supporting doctoral students.Biomechanics excellence through authentic student
engagement.
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Building a nominationOLT Awards
Set the scene
(context)
Make the claim
(focus)
Support the claim
(evidence)
Show the impact
(you make a difference)
Context
• Assumptions of the assessors’ prior knowledge or expertise on the subject
• Present any special teaching circumstances
• Cover the landscape and the attractions
• Balance between description and evidence or claim
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Focus• Carefully choose your focus, i.e. your claim, which
facilitates addressing the criteria
• Highlight your excellent work, not just a description of what you have done
• Make you or your programme special, like a selling point
• Relate to enhancing students learning outcomes
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What is strong evidence?• Evidence attests to the claims you make
• Effective evidence comes from a range of sources, and is purposefully sought (broad and depth)
• Evidence is written into your nomination, not a stand-alone
• Give voice to those who matter to you
• Be prepared to let go
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What makes evidence accountable?
• Evidence is identified by source, context, date
• Authenticity is validated by you and the nomination process
• Quote accurately
• Honesty
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How to collect evidence
• Keep a portfolio for evidence in your office
• Built it in your programme timeline or project plan
• Seek data from the central units
• Collect from your network
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Form of evidencePeers
• peer review of teaching, course materials, course content, assessment practices
• scholarship of teaching, publications• teaching and learning strategies• leadership and management roles• various levels of peers – senior,
supervisor, reviewers, colleagues etc• recognition• uptake of ideas
Student Learning• students’ self-reported
knowledge/skills gained• rates of attrition, failure, progression
to honours/postgraduate• grade distribution• evaluation of generic
skills/outcomes/attributes• student work - assessment, thesis,
projects• employer/workplace feedback• approaches to study questionnaire etc
Student Reactions• student evaluations of teaching• student interviews, focus groups• informal class student feedback• formal surveys and questionnaires• unsolicited student feedback• student logs and journals• on-line feedback
Self• teaching journal• teaching philosophy• self reflections, analysis & evaluation• responsiveness to student feedback• publications• leadership roles• innovations
Adapted from a framework from Nicoll and Smith, no longer accessible online.
Supporting materials
• References• Teaching materials
• a three minute video • website • 10 pages of teaching materials
• CV
See these as cohesive elements alongside the written statement
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Style
• First person in active voice
• Professional presentation with accessible formatting
• Your voice
• Plain language
• Keep students and student learning upfront
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A few reminders• Evidence, evidence, evidence
• Be focussed and spell out your achievements
• Use your network
• Read other applications
• Give yourself time and space to write and reflect
• Be yourself
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Any questions?
Visit our website: www.olt.gov.auPhone and talk with us: 02 6240 0625