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Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching
LEADERSHIP FOR EXCELLENCE - 2006

GRANTS SCHEME
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, 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.

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Carrick Institute Grants

Dr Anna Carew (CEDIR), in conjunction with Prof Tim McCarthy, A/Prof Paul Cooper and Dr Sharon Nightingale (Eng Fac), has secured $134k to investigate 'Teaching and Assessing Meta-attributes in Engineering'. 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.