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Innovation and Development Grants - Program priorities

INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM PRIORITIES 2013

Program Priorities in Brief. Full descriptions of each priority area are in the next section.

  • Assessment and promotion of student learning
  • Curriculum design
  • Improving tertiary pathways
  • Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s higher education access and outcomes
    responding to the recommendations of the Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People (2012)
  • Innovative use of technology in learning and teaching
  • Internationalisation
  • Research and development
  • Strategic approaches to learning and teaching which enhance student access and progression, and respond to student diversity

Assessment and promotion of student learning

Applications should propose an examination of one or more of the following:

  • assessment moderation and benchmarking
  • assessing postgraduate coursework students
  • assessing students in practice settings
  • developmental, diagnostic and summative assessment and feedback to students
  • developments which build on completed predecessor bodies' projects related to student assessment

  • innovative models of assessment and reporting student achievement

Curriculum design

Applications should propose to design and model contemporary curricula that meet students and employer needs and provide the basis for ongoing personal and professional development for students.

Curriculum design proposals should integrate content-focussed discipline developments with learning and teaching innovations and address key issues such as:

  • inclusivity
  • promotion of cross- inter or trans-disciplinary program and pedagogies
  • re-positioning or re-shaping of discipline- based courses
  • revision of assessment practices in the context of curriculum development
  • the evolution of the teaching model from first to final year
  • the future direction and coverage of programs of study
  • use of information and communication technologies
  • work-integrated learning

While projects may develop new innovations where appropriate, emphasis should be given to the creative application of existing innovations in learning and teaching in higher education and should be of value to the sector, or groups of institutions within the sector. Proposals should include emphasis on he long-term sustainability of the curriculum design process. Applicants should also consider the impact and/ or use of free online courseware on the contemporary curriculum.

Projects submitted under this priority could include aspects of the priority Assessment and promotion of student learning.

Projects arising from the work in the discipline scoping projects are encouraged.

Applicants are encouraged to consider partnerships with employers and/ or employer groups.

Improving tertiary pathways

Applications should propose to develop and model strategies for:

  • maximisingthe outcomes for students engaging in transistion between the vocational education sector and the higher education sector, or
  • developing and modelling programs that work wtih schools to improve participation in higher education, or
  • pathways to professional qualifications, to doctoral qualifications, or to other postgraduate study, or research pathways.

Improving Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people's higher education access and outcomes

Applications should propose projects which respond to the relevant recommendations of the Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander People (2012)

Innovative use of technology in learning and teaching

Applications proposing the innovative use of technology in learning and teaching must include a one-page design brief.

Applications should propose:

  • creative use of existing innovations in learning and technology in higher education, or
  • development of mobile solutions to support learning and teaching, or
  • a rethinking of teaching and learning in a cyber environment

Internationalisation

Applications should propose to develop and model the effective integration of international and/ or intercultural dimensions into teaching and learning practice and address key issues such as:

  • assessment practices in the context of internationalisation
  • curriculum design
  • intercultural compentency
  • learning support (including language support)
  • transnational education

Research and development

A small percentage of funding will be reserved for applications which address an issue not featured in the other priorities but considered by the Standing Committee to be of national significance or addressing a major concern in a discipline.

Strategic approaches to learning and teaching which enhance student access and progression, and respond to student diversity

Applications should propose to develop and model approaches to learning and teaching which enhance student access and progression, through a direct response to student diversity: applicants should not assume that projects addressing students are, by implication, addressing 'student diversity'.

Applications addressing support for students from a low-SES background, or who are first-in-family to attend university, are particularly encouraged.

Applications addressing Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander student and teacher support must be submitted under the priority Improving Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people's higher education acces and outcomes.