OLT notice from CHELT

Dear all,

Please note the slight change to the Request for Proposals for Good Practice Reports, as per the email below.

Kind regards

Lyn

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Lyn Stevens

Promoting Excellence Administrator

Centre for Higher Education, Learning & Teaching (CHELT) 

Chancelry 10T, Ellery Crescent 

The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200

T: +61 2 6125 9486

F: +61 2 6125 4023

W:  http://chelt.anu.edu.au/

CRICOS Provider #00120C

From: Office for Learning and Teaching <LearningandTeaching@deewr.gov.au>
Date: Friday, 31 May 2013 12:33 PM
To: Office for Learning and Teaching <LearningandTeaching@deewr.gov.au>
Cc: "DE SOUSA,Marguerite (DIISRTE)" <Marguerite.DESOUSA@deewr.gov.au>
Subject: Please Note: Change to OLT Commissioned Work Request for Proposal - Good Practice Report project deliverable [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

UNCLASSIFIED

Dear Institutional Contact Officers,

The Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) would like to advise that there has been a slight change to the Request for Proposal for the Good Practice Reports.

The project deliverables now include a literature review point that unfortunately had dropped off the document. This has been updated on the OLT website and in the attached pdf.

The project deliverables for the Good Practice Report should include:

·         List the key outcomes for teaching and learning of the work done in the topic by the OLT and its predecessor bodies (maximum three pages)

·         Identify and analyse the findings of, and resources for, teaching and learning produced by the national learning and teaching projects and fellowships (half to one page per project or fellowship)

·         Provide a literature review of good practice and key outcomes for teaching and learning from broader Australian and international scholarly research and publications (five to ten pages)

·         Identify the proposed outcomes, and resources for, teaching and learning which will be produced by the incomplete OLT projects and fellowships (half a page per project or fellowship)

·         Identify areas in which further development or work are needed (maximum one page)

For further details please refer to the OLT website http://www.olt.gov.au/grants-and-projects/programs-and-applications/commissioned-projects.

Please accept our apologies and the OLT would be grateful if you could forward this information to interested members of your staff.

Please contact us on learningandteaching@deewr.gov.au if you have any further questions.

Kind regards

Marguerite de Sousa

Director Awards and Networks

Office for Learning and Teaching | Higher Education Division

Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

Level 10, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 

GPO Box 9880, Sydney, NSW 2001

(02)62400626 | learningandteaching@deewr.gov.au| http://www.olt.gov.au

ABN 74 599 608 295

From: Office for Learning and Teaching
Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 10:59 AM
To: HEWLETT,Suzi (DIISRTE)
Subject: Office for Learning and Teaching request for proposals for commissioned projects [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Dear Vice-Chancellor

The Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) occasionally commissions strategic projects in response to key issues in the Australian higher education sector with the guidance of OLT’s Strategic Advisory Committee.

Applications are now open for commissioned projects in the following areas:

1.       Learning analytics: how can it assist us with student retention?

2.       Graduate employability: how can universities best support students to develop generic skills?

3.       Technology enabled learning: how can student learning outcomes be enhanced?

4.       National learning and teaching resource audit and classification

5.       Good Practice Reports:

·         Postgraduate research and coursework degrees

·         Standards

Projects 1–3 are larger strategic projects of national interest and we would anticipate proposals for funding of $220,000 and beyond.The OLT may award one or more grants to address a strategic topic.

Project 4, National learning and teaching resource audit and classification, has funding available of up to $150,000 and the  Good Practice Reports have funding of $30,000 each.

Applications should be received no later than p.m. (AEST) Friday 28 June 2013

The OLT would be grateful if you could forward this information to interested members of your staff.

More information and application instructions may be found at

http://www.olt.gov.au/grants-and-projects/programs-and-applications/commissioned-projects.

Kind regards

Suzi Hewlett

General Manager

Office for Learning and Teaching | Higher Education Division

Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

Level 10, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 

GPO Box 9880, Sydney, NSW 2001

(02) 9246 0487 | trish.treagus@innovation.gov.au| http://www.olt.gov.au

ABN 74 599 608 295

OLT: notice of new research funding for educational projects

Dear colleagues,

The Office for Learning and Teaching has made new funding available for Commissioned Projects in these areas:

1. Learning analytics: how can it assist us with student retention?
2. Graduate employability: how can universities best support students to develop generic skills?
3. Technology enabled learning: how can student learning outcomes be enhanced?
4. National learning and teaching resource audit and classification
5. Good Practice Reports: 
1. Postgraduate research and coursework degrees
2. Standards.

See guidelines: http://www.olt.gov.au/grants-and-projects/programs-and-applications/commissioned-projects 

Intending applicants are to lodge an ANU Notice of Intent to Submit to teaching.grants@anu.edu.au by 3 June, and are to submit their final proposals to their College Research Offices, along with the 'Authority to Apply for External Funding' form,  budget, and all other required documentation as covered in the guidelines, by 14 June. The closing date for submission of applications to OLT is Friday 28 June. 

Please contact us if you need further assistance.

Kind regards

Lyn

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Lyn Stevens

Promoting Excellence Administrator

Centre for Higher Education, Learning & Teaching (CHELT) 

Chancelry 10T, Ellery Crescent 

The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200

T: +61 2 6125 9486

F: +61 2 6125 4023

W:  http://chelt.anu.edu.au/

CRICOS Provider #00120C

From: Office for Learning and Teaching <LearningandTeaching@deewr.gov.au>
Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 10:59 AM
To: "HEWLETT,Suzi (DIISRTE)" <Susan.Hewlett@innovation.gov.au>
Subject: Office for Learning and Teaching request for proposals for commissioned projects [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

UNCLASSIFIED

The Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) occasionally commissions strategic projects in response to key issues in the Australian higher education sector with the guidance of OLT’s Strategic Advisory Committee.

Applications are now open for commissioned projects in the following areas:

1.       Learning analytics: how can it assist us with student retention?

2.       Graduate employability: how can universities best support students to develop generic skills?

3.       Technology enabled learning: how can student learning outcomes be enhanced?

4.       National learning and teaching resource audit and classification

5.       Good Practice Reports:

·         Postgraduate research and coursework degrees

·         Standards

Projects 1–3 are larger strategic projects of national interest and we would anticipate proposals for funding of $220,000 and beyond.The OLT may award one or more grants to address a strategic topic.

Project 4, National learning and teaching resource audit and classification, has funding available of up to $150,00 and the  Good Practice Reports have funding of $30,000 each.

Applications should be received no later than 5pm (AEST) Friday 28 June 2013

The OLT would be grateful if you could forward this information to interested members of your staff.

More information and application instructions may be found at

http://www.olt.gov.au/grants-and-projects/programs-and-applications/commissioned-projects.

Kind regards

Suzi Hewlett

General Manager

Office for Learning and Teaching | Higher Education Division

Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

Level 10, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 

GPO Box 9880, Sydney, NSW 2001

(02) 9246 0487 | trish.treagus@innovation.gov.au| http://www.olt.gov.au

ABN 74 599 608 295

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Office for Learning and Teaching Grants: Round 2

Dear Colleagues

We are  pleased to advise that Round 2 of the 2013 OLT Grants is now underway, closing on 2 August 2013. 

CHELT will be holding an Information Session on Friday 19 April, for staff who are interested in developing Seed Grant and Extension Grant proposals for this round. There will also be further workshops on developing and writing grant proposals. See the Awards & Grants calendar on the CHELT website for dates of all sessions. For staff who submitted an application in Round 1 2013, the results of this round are not yet known. 

Please note that the 2014 Round 1 dates have been brought forward, and will close on November 4, 2013. From Round 1 in 2014, applicants will be able to develop Expressions of Interest for Innovation and Development Grants, and the Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Grants, or full proposals for Seed Grants or Extension Grants. Round 2 will only be open to full proposals invited from successful Expressions of Interest in Round 1.

With the recent announcement that the major grants programs and the fellowships programs of the Office for Learning and Teaching have been listed as Category 1 on the 2013 Australian Competitive Grants Register, we anticipate that the OLT Grants will become an important source of research income to ANU.

If you or your colleagues intend submitting a OLT grant proposal, either with the ANU as the lead institution or with colleagues through another institution, we ask that you submit the Notice of Intent to Submit an OLT Grant Application, linked from the 'Four step guide for ANU applicants' on the CHELT website. The DVC(A) has requested that from 2013 only staff who have submitted an Intent to Submit by 13 May 2013 will be endorsed and permitted to proceed with submitting to the OLT. 

Kind regards

Lyn 

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Lyn Stevens

Promoting Excellence Administrator

Centre for Higher Education, Learning & Teaching (CHELT) 

Chancelry 10T, Ellery Crescent 

The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200

T: +61 2 6125 9486

F: +61 2 6125 4023

W:  http://chelt.anu.edu.au/

CRICOS Provider #00120C

Closing dates for OLT Academic Secondments for 2013 announced

Dear all

The Office for Learning and Teaching has announced the closing dates for nominations for Academic Secondments.

Academic Secondments aim to enhance the ties and understanding between the sector, the OLT and DIISRTE. 

Secondees will carry out a program of work for the Government and the higher education sector on strategic priorities. Those seconded will be a source of academic advice and support to the staff of the OLT, with the aim of broadening staff capability within DIISRTE, and building relationships with the home institution.  

Selection is based on individuals’ professional standing and leadership capabilities, their strong record of contributing to learning and teaching development in their discipline, home institution, and/or more broadly across the higher education sector, their role in policy development and implementation, and demonstrated project management experience, including dissemination and promotion of funded work.

Information regarding the Academic Secondment program and nomination forms may be found on our website at http://www.olt.gov.au/fellowships-and-secondments/secondments.

The closing date for nomination is Friday 26 April 2013.

I would be most grateful if you would encourage your staff who meet these criteria, and would benefit from the experience, to apply. The OLT has gained an enormous benefit from the first secondment and the feedback from the sector on Tilly Hinton's work has been overwhelmingly positive.

Kind regards

Suzi HewlettGeneral Manager
Office for Learning and Teaching | Higher Education Division
Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Resources and Tertiary Education

Level 10, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, 2000

Phone (02) 9246 0604 | Fax (02) 6123 6440 | Mobile 0412 456 089 | Website http://www.olt.gov.au

Email:   susan.hewlett@innovation.gov.au

Internet: http://www.innovation.gov.au;

ABN 74 599 608 295

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The information contained in this email message and any attached files may be confidential information, and may also be the subject of legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient any use, disclosure or copying of this email is unauthorised. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender by contacting the DEEWR Switchboard on 13 33 97 (1DEEWR) during business hours (8am - 5pm Local time) and delete all copies of this transmission together with any attachments.