Sub sections:
Innovation and Development Grants
Indicative funding: $4.0 million
The Innovation and Development Program supports research, development and innovation related to the enhancement of learning and teaching in higher education.
Program Objectives:
a) Promote and support strategic change in higher education institutions for the enhancement of learning and teaching, and the benefit of the student experience.
b) Raise the profile and encourage recognition of the fundamental importance of teaching in higher education institutions and in the general community.
c) Develop effective mechanisms for the identification, development, dissemination and embedding of good individual and institutional practice in learning and teaching in Australian higher education.
d) Develop and support reciprocal national and international arrangements for the purpose of sharing and benchmarking learning and teaching processes.
e) Develop and enhance a deep understanding and knowledge of the learning process appropriate to the disciplines being taught
Two rounds of applications in 2012
Round 1 (OLT Closing date 1 March 2012)
Program Priorities for Round 1
- Assessment and promotion of student learning
- Strategic approaches to learning and teaching which enhance student access and progression, and respond to student diversity
- Internationalisation
- Research and development
Seed Projects
Applications for Seed Projects will be accepted in this program.
Round 2 (OLT Closing date 3 August 2012)
Program Priorities for Round 2
- Curriculum renewal
- Improving tertiary pathways
- Innovation and development in learning and teaching, including in relation to the role of new technologies
- Research and development
Seed Projects
Applications for Seed Projects will be accepted in this program.