ALTC Activities @ UNE
Resources
Through the Promoting Excellence Intiative (PEI), the Australian Teaching and Learning Council (ALTC) builds and/or consolidates the University's systems to support staff by enhancing learning and teaching through constructive engagement with ALTC's Special Initiatives, Awards Schemes, Fellowship Schemes, and Learning Networks.
The following links will connect and direct you to information about these Initiatives, grant opportunities, and awards. Link here to a list of successful applications.
- Promoting Excellence
- Teaching Quality Indicators
- Competitive Grants Program
- Leadership Program
- Priority Projects Program
- Awards (Teaching and Programs)
- Citations
- Teaching Fellowship (previously Associate Fellow)
- National Teaching Fellowships (previously Senior Fellows)
- International Links
- ALTC Exchange
- Discipline Networks
Promoting Excellence
The Promoting Excellence Initiative (PEI) builds and/or consolidates institutional systems to support staff to engage constructively with the ALTC programs.
Teaching Quality Indicators
Link to the ALTC Teaching Quality Indicators Project websiteCompetitive Grants Program
The Competitive Grants Program supports research and development focusing on issues of emerging and continuing importance. Its strategic approach to learning and teaching addresses the increasing diversity of the student body. Link to more information at ALTC website.
Leadership Program
The Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Program supports systematic, structured and sustainable models of academic leadership in higher education.
Link to more information at ALTC website.
Priority Projects Program
The Priority Projects Program supports programs addressing:
- Academic standards, assessment practices and reporting
- Curriculum renewal
- Teaching and learning spaces; and
- Peer review.
Link to more information at ALTC website
Awards (Teaching & Programs)
Link to more information.Citations
To find out more about Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, link to:
Teaching Fellows
Teaching Fellows will normally undertake fellowship activities within their home institutions over a period of one year. The fellowship will provide for full release from all or most academic activities for three months full-time work on fellowship activities. Outside of this period, Teaching Fellows will undertake fellowship activities with the support of their home institutions.
The maximum funding available for each Associate Fellowship is $100 000.
Link to more information at ALTC website.
National Teaching Fellowships
National Teaching Fellowships are highly prestigious, awarded to outstanding scholars who are respected advocates for excellence in learning and teaching in higher education. Senior Fellows are expected to contribute to the intellectual life of the ALTC and play a leadership role in the achievement of the Council's mission.
National Teaching Fellowships would be expected to establish a collaborative team of internationally recognised scholars and to lead an extended seminar as part of their fellowship activities. Funding is available to support the participation of members of the collaborative team. Senior Fellows will normally be expected to be released from all or most academic activities for one year and may include up to three months overseas.
The maximum funding available for each National Teaching Fellowship is $350,000.
Link to more information at ALTC website.
International Links
Ask Belinda for information about this.
ALTC Exchange
The ALTC Exchange - or the Carrick Exchange - is a new online service that will provide learning and teaching resources and functions to support communication and collaboration across the higher education sector. It enables social networking, search and discovery and repository functions for lodging and sharing resources.
Link to the ALTC Exchange.
Discipline Networks
Functions Learning Networks will bring together discipline networks of people and assorted interest groups to build capacity for sustainable improvement of learning and teaching practice in the higher education sector.
Link to more information at ALTC website.
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