Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Grants

The commitment of staff to enhancing learning outcomes is highlighted by their success in gaining funding for numerous teaching and learning initiatives.

National

The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) provides nationally competitive funding opportunities to support and promote innovation in higher education learning and teaching. Successful Faculty led projects include:

2008 Priority Project: Project Leader: Professor Doune McDonald (School of Human Movement Studies)
Project Team: Dr Craig Engstrom and Dr Peter Hay (School of Human Movement Studies); plus partner institutions the Unviersity of Melbourne and the University of British Columbia.
Project: An integrated system for online clinical assessment of practical skills (eCAPS) for web-based courses.
Funding: $218,929.

2007 Competitive Grant: Dr Camile Farah (project leader), School of Dentistry
The Virtual Slidebox – a new learning paradigm for exploring the microscopic world ($114,724)

2007 Discipline-based Initiatives: Associate Professor Sylvia Rodger, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Project: Mapping the future of Occupational Therapy Education in the 21st Century: Review and analysis of existing Australian Competency Standards for entry-level Occupational Therapists and their impact on Occupational Therapy Curricula across Australia. $99,947.

UQ

UQ provides funding for scholarships in teaching and learning, which support a wide range of initiatives.

Full list of successful Faculty of Health Sciences recipients.

Faculty 

The Faculty of Health Sciences provides funding through  competitive Learning Enhancement Grants. Successful projects include: 

2009  (1) An innovative web-based system for electronic feedback using text and audio comments (eFTAC). Team members - Craig Engstron, Peter Hay, Doune Macdonald, Phillip Long, Camille Farah and Lisa Nissen. This project will evaluate eFTAC through the implementation and development of an assessment system, based around the “Pulse Smartpen / LiveScribe” technologies. Specifically, eFTAC will fully and simultaneously integrate both written and verbal feedback through a user-friendly online system to provide rich, accessible and engaging feedback on students’ assessment items.

            (2) A project to compare students results and investigate the benefits of videoconferencing. As part of the undergraduate course in paediatrics and child health, the School of Medicine's Department of Paediatric and Child Health will provide surgical tutorials to all students using this type of elearning. This project will be conducted in collaboration with the Centre for Online Health. 

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