Carrick Institute Grants

Title: Peer Review of Teaching in Australian Higher Education: Resources to support institutions in developing and embedding effective policies and practices ($195,000) Project Leader: Kerri-Lee Harris, CSHE, The University of Melbourne
Project Team:
CSHE, The University of Melbourne - Kerri-Lee Harris, Marcia Devlin, Kelly Farrell, Richard James. University of Wollongong - Maureen Bell

Overview: This project will create a new, easy-to-use set of resources to assist institutions to effectively implement policies and programs of peer review of teaching. A key feature of this project will be the development of a distinctive approach to peer review of teaching that embodies an Australian conception of the scholarship of teaching and that aligns with existing national initiatives for enhancing learning and teaching in higher education. The principles developed will reflect the agreed values of the national sector regarding effective peer review of teaching in Australian higher education. The project will involve consultation with institutional leaders in teaching and learning from all Australian higher education institutions.

The project will engage the higher education community in discussion of teaching scholarship, and this conception of the scholarship of teaching will be built into the national principles of peer review of teaching that will be developed. The project will also ensure alignment between peer review of teaching and the criteria and guidelines for the Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching.

Title: Distributive leadership for learning and teaching: Developing the faculty scholar model ($180,000)
Project Leader: Dr Gerry Lefoe
Project Team:
University of Wollongong: Rebecca Albury, Dr Lenore Armour, Steve Dinham, Tony Herrington and Sandra Wills
University Tasmania: Gail Hart, Pam Allen, Merle Iles
Flinders University: Joan Cooper, Heather Smigiel

Overview: This project will develop a distributive leadership framework for teaching and learning though a faculty-based scholars' network. It will support strategic change through leadership activities embedded in authentic learning tasks. These new leaders will provide a critical mass for extending the network by adopting a cascade model for distributive leadership through mentoring of future implementations within and across institutions.

Title: Teaching and Assessing Meta-attributes in Engineering ($134,000)
Project Team: Dr Anna Carew (CEDIR), Professor Tim McCarthy, Associate Professor Paul Cooper and Dr Sharon Nightingale (Faculty of Engineering)

Overview: This project will run over 18 months and include collaboration with Emeritus Professor Alan Bradley (Head of Accreditation, Engineers Australia) and key engineering education researchers at UQ, USyd and RMIT.

Title: Project EnRoLE: Encouraging Role-based Learning Environments ($198,000)
Project Leader: Professor Sandra Wills

Overview: This project will be undertaken in collaboration with Macquarie University, the University of NSW, the University of Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney. This project will build on the success of the 2002 Learning Designs Project [link http://www.learningdesigns.uow.edu.au], which was funded by the AUTC.

Sarah Lambert - "Student ePortfolio Project" - $70,000
More information about our previous ePortfolio trials and Faculty consultation at: http://staff.uow.edu.au/eteaching/eportfolio

Prof Sandra Wills with Assoc Prof Rodney Vickers - "Understanding Multi Location Teaching at UOW" - $10,000

Prof Sandra Wills - "Supporting New Space Design" - $20,000

Dr Richard Caladine and Oliver Kutzner - "Increasing media-rich content in T&L: A centralised system for recording television programs".
This digital Television Recording Service is a system that automatically records TV broadcasts from digital broadcasters (ABC, ABC2, SBS, SBS news, 7, Ten, WIN) and retains copies of all programs for the previous 14 days for academics to include (in part or whole) in online or classroom teaching.

Dr Richard Caladine - "Faculty-based Videoconferencing"
A new videoconference bridge now allows timetabling of several videoconferences at the one time. The change from ISDN to the Internet as the carrier now makes it possible to videoconference from any network connection on campus: new facilities will be installed in 20.4, two tutorial rooms, as well as in many academics offices. The new system is substantially cheaper to use than the old one and means that long-distance class interactions are now feasible.

Alisa Percy - "Sessional Staff Project: developing faculty guidelines and sustainable practice" - $60,000
The sessional staff project in 2007 focuses on supporting faculties with policy and practice in relation to the induction, development and resourcing of sessional staff. This funding has been provided to collect good practice examples across the Faculties of induction and development practices, while simultaneously working with the Faculty of Commerce to collaborate on the development of a sustainable Induction and Development Program and the development of a faculty-wide website for tutors. The project will also report on the professional needs of sessional staff at our satellite campuses and move towards supporting the communities of practice at these sites.
   Contact:
   Alisa Percy
   alisa@uow.edu.au
   (02) 4221 3289