ALTC Grants Scheme

The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Grants Scheme was instituted in 2006 (previously called the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education).  The scheme is designed to promote and support innovation in higher education learning and teaching nationally.

The Scheme supports three programs.  Detailed information each of the schemes can be found in the Grant Scheme Guidelines, which are available from the ALTC website.

2010 Guidelines now available

In a significant change to the call of applications for the ALTC Grants Scheme, from 2010 there will be two general calls for Full Proposals to each grant program. As a result, Expressions of Interest will no longer be accepted.  A summary of changes to the 2010 Grants Scheme has been provided by ALTC.

Each of the three programs will have two open application rounds.  UQ will run an optional readership scheme where feedback can be sought on applications, followed by a formal Review Committee which will meet to provide feedback on and endorse UQ-led applications.

Closing dates [printable flowchart of closing dates]:

If you are applying as a partner on an proposal led by another institution, ALTC still requires DVCA endorsement.  To arrange a letter of UQ support, final or near final copies of proposals should be emailed to m.card@uq.edu.au at least a week before the relevant ALTC closing date along with a brief summary of the UQ commitment required of the collaboration. 

Funding Range

• Applications other than those building directly on previous work is $80,000–$220,000.
• Applications building directly on previous ALTC or AUTC projects have a funding range of $80,000–$150,000.

Some changes were also made to the funding priorities for the Competitive Grants and Priority Projects programs.  The program priorities are:

1.  COMPETITIVE GRANTS PROGRAM [Guidelines]

Competitive Grants funding priorities 2010:

• Research and development focusing on issues of emerging and continuing importance
• Strategic approaches to learning and teaching that address the increasing diversity of the student body
  • Applications for 2010 must address the issues of student diversity directly. Applicants should not assume that projects addressing students are by implication addressing the "diversity of the student body"
• Innovation in learning and teaching, including in relation to the role of new technologies

2.  PRIORITY PROJECTS PROGRAM [Guidelines]

Priority Projects funding priorities 2010:

• Academic standards, assessment practices and reporting
  • Academic Standards: basis of grading decisions and decisions about student performance; development and description of a shared understanding of ‘standards’
  • Assessment and Reporting Practices: developmental, diagnostic and summative assessment and feedback to students; assessing postgraduate coursework students; revision of assessment practices in the context of curriculum development; assessing students in practice settings; setting and/or moderating standards; innovative models of assessment and reporting student achievement; developments which build on ALTC/AUTC completed projects related to student assessment
     
• Curriculum renewal - development of contemporary curricula that meet student & employer needs and provide the basis for ongoing personal and professional development for students: the future direction and coverage of programs of study:
  •  re-positioning or re-shaping of discipline-based courses
  • promotion of cross- inter- or trans- disciplinary programs and pedagogies
  • use of information and communication technologies
  • inclusivity
  • internationalisation

• Teaching and learning spaces
  • design & evaluation of leading edge learning spaces
  • pilots or prototypes that will transform both spaces and practice - these can include an asset budget (not capital works) where the asset is integral to the change in practice
  • projects that build on the outcomes & findings of 2007 “Spaces and Places – for learning”

3.  LEADERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE IN LEARNING AND TEACHING PROGRAM [Guidelines]

Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Program priorities 2010:

• Institutional leadership to enhance learning and teaching through leadership capacity-building at the institutional level.
  • Funding range: $150,000 to $220,000
  • Project duration: up to 2 years
• Disciplinary and cross-disciplinary leadership to enhance learning and teaching through leadership capacity-building in discipline structures, communities of practice and cross-disciplinary networks
  • Funding range: $80,000 to $220,000
  • Project duration: up to 2 years
• Consolidating leadership by building on the outcomes of projects funded in earlier years under the Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Program.
  • Funding range: $80,000 to $150,000
  • Project duration: up to 1.5 years

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Successful 2009 ALTC Grants

UQ was successful in obtaining a number of ALTC Grants in 2009.

Project Title: Veterinary Pharmacology Curriculum Renewal to Improve Graduate Outcomes and Public Safety.

Project Leader: Associate Professor Paul Mills – School of Veterinary Science
Grant Scheme: Priority Projects
Project team: Partner institutions from Charles Sturt University, Murdoch University, University of Sydney, Massey University, University of Melbourne, University of Adelaide, James Cook University and the Chapter of Veterinary Pharmacology.
Funding: $220,000.

Project Title: IS-IT learning? Online interdisciplinary scenario-inquiry tasks for active learning in large, first year STEM courses.

Project Leader: Associate Professor Lawrence Gahan and Dr Gwen Lawrie, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences 
Grant Scheme: Competitive Grants
Project team: Professor Phil Long (CEIT), Kelly Matthews (Science), Professor Peter Adams (Science), Dr Lydia Kavanagh (Engineering), and Purdue University
Funding: $215,000
 

Project Title: Investigating the theory (and practice) of pedagogic resonance: making disciplinary thinking visible within university classrooms

Project Leader: Dr Mia O'Brien, Teaching and Educational Development Institute
Grant Scheme: Competitive Grants
Project Team: The University of Sydney, Griffith University
Funding: $217,000

Project Title: Exploring Problem-Based Learning Pedagogy as Transformative Education in Indigenous Australian Studies

Project Leader: Dr Liz Mackinlay, Aboriginal and Torres Trait Islander Studies Unit
Grant Scheme: Priority Projects
Project Team: Professor Ian Lilley, Dr Sean Ulm, Dr Kate Barney (ATSISU), The University of Newcastle, UNSW, Monash, UTS, Charles Darwin University
Funding: $219,521

UQ staff members have also been involved in successful proposals led by other institutions:

• Professor Ian Cameron (Engineering) and Professor Caroline Crosthwaite (EAIT): The Engineering Design Journey – Needs, Concept and Reality, The University Melbourne (Lead) along with Charles Darwin University, Curtin University of Technology, The University of Sydney and Coogee Energy
• Professor Phil Long (CEIT): "Seeing" Networks: visualising and evaluating student learning networks. University of Wollongong (Lead), along with Murdoch University, RMIT, University of British Columbia
• Associate Professor Diane Donovan (Maths & Physics):  A national discipline-specific professional development programme for lecturers and tutors in the mathematical sciences, Macquarie University (Lead) along with The University of Sydney, Murdoch University and the University of Southern Queensland
• Professor Paul Bailes (ITEE): Addressing ICT curriculum recommendations from surveys of academics, workplace graduates and employers, University of Wollongong (lead) along with Murdoch University, Swinburne University of Technology and the Australian Council of Deans of Information and Communications Technology.

Congratulations to all staff members involved in these successful projects.

Previous Carrick Grants Scheme Winners

Previous years winners of Carrick Grants can be viewed here. 
 

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