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Office for Learning & Teaching

Establishment of Office for Learning and Teaching

Early in 2011 the Australian Government announced the closure of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), and commissioned a review into support for higher education learning and teaching led by UK higher education expert, Ms Alison Johns. The Review report was released in November with the Minister accepting all of the review’s seventeen recommendations, which include:

  • the establishment of an Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT);
  • the creation of a Strategic Advisory Committee to ensure the ongoing involvement of the higher education sector in setting directions for the Office for Learning and Teaching;
  • a focus on commissioned work to address strategic priorities in the Grants Program; and
  • the introduction of academic secondments to the new Office to work on key priorities for the sector.

The Government has committed $50.1 million in program funding over four years towards the Promotion of Excellence in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PELTHE).

PELTHE consists of a suite of grants, fellowships, awards and networks, and will be administered by the Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT).

Information on PELTHE Programs is available at the Office for Learning and Teaching website.

Queries may be directed to UNE’s OLT Institutional Contact Officer, Alicia Zikan on 02 6773 5190 or by email olt-admin@une.edu.au

 

OLT Key Dates 2013

Description

Deadline

National Senior Teaching Fellowships

Up to 4 with value max. $250,000

1 February 2013

National Teaching Fellowships

Up to 6 with value max. $90,000

1 February 2013

Grants

There has been a change in the operation of this program in 2013. In 2013 there will be two rounds for funding. In Round 1, applications may either be full proposals or an Expression of Interest. In Round 2, only invited full proposals from successful EOI’s will be accepted. Seed Grant applications will be accepted in Round 1 and 2.

 

Innovation and Development - 2013 funding $4 million (indicative)

Program Priorities

  1. Assessment and promotion of student learning
  2. Curriculum development
  3. Improving tertiary pathways
  4. Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s higher education access and outcomes responding to the initiatives of the Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People (2012)
  5. Innovative use of technology in learning and teaching
  6. Strategic approaches to learning and teaching which enhance student access and progression, and respond to student diversity
  7. Internationalisation
  8. Research and development

 

Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching  - 2013 funding $1 million (indicative)

  1. Consolidating leadership by building on the outcomes of projects funded in earlier years under the Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Program.
  2. Disciplinary and cross-disciplinary leadership to enhance learning and teaching through leadership capacity building in discipline structures, communities of practice and cross-disciplinary networks.
  3. Institutional leadership to enhance learning and teaching through leadership capacity-building at the institutional level.
  4. Building the learning and teaching capacity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, responding to the relevant recommendations of the Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People (2012)

 

Seed Projects (may be in either grant program) - 2013 funding $1 million (indicative)

Seed projects are: pilot projects which test and evaluate an original idea, or stand-alone, small-scale projects, or projects which build the capacity of early career academics (one with no fewer than two and no more than 5 years’ cumulative teaching experience in higher education). Max. $50 000 per grant

Round 1 – 25 Feb

Round 2 – 2 August

 

 

Round 1 2014

Closing date in November 2013. Information available in August 2013. This will again be EOI’s and full proposals

Extension Grant Round 1 - Max. $30 000

To disseminate or embed the outcomes of completed learning and teaching projects or fellowships in institutions which were not partners in the original project.

2 April 2013

Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Max 160 awards of $10 000, Max 8 nominations per institution

9 May 2013

Awards for Teaching Excellence

Up to 16 awards of $25 000, 2 in each of 8 categories

4 July 2013

Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning

Up to 12 Awards of $25 000, with up to 2 in each of 8 categories

1 nomination per category for each institution

4 July 2013

Extension Grant Round 2

2 September 2013