Title: Funding opportunities for advancing scholarship in teaching and learning: all I know without knowing it all!
1Funding opportunities for advancing scholarship
in teaching and learningall I know without
knowing it all!
- Dale Holt, Institute of Teaching and Learning
2Who are we? What should we be?
- Becoming Australias premier university
LEADERSHIP? for - scholarship and research RD/INNOVATION
INVESTMENTS? that inform - pedagogical practice and institutional management
of - flexible and mixed mode education NEW 21ST
CENTURY MEANINGS? - as evidenced by the achievement of quantifiable
national and international peer recognition for
Deakins work in this field PROFESSOR HIGHER
EDUCATION CONTRIBUTIONS.
3Overview
- Whats scholarship in teaching and learning?
- What do we mean by the research and teaching
nexus? - Scoping scholarly concerns nationally
- Scoping scholarly concerns within Deakin
- Presenting and publishing scholarship in teaching
and learning
4Deakin Discussion Paper
- The Scholarship of Teaching What does it mean
for Deakin University? - Professor Marcia Devlin (PhD)
- Chair, Higher Education Research, Deakin
University - Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
- May 2008
5ALTC/Carrick scholarship descriptors
- Showing advanced skills in evaluation
reflective practice - Participating in and contributing to professional
activities related to learning teaching - Coordination, management and leadership of
courses student learning - Conducting publishing research related to
teaching - Demonstrating leadership through activities that
have broad influence on the profession
6Trigwell, Martin, Benjamin, Prosser (2000,
p.159) Approaches to Scholarship in Teaching 1
- The scholarship of teaching is about
- Knowing the literature on teaching by collecting
and reading that literature
7Trigwell, Martin, Benjamin, Prosser (2000,
p.159) Approaches to Scholarship in Teaching 2
- Scholarship of teaching is about
- Improving teaching by collecting and reading the
literature on teaching
8Trigwell, Martin, Benjamin, Prosser (2000,
p.159) Approaches to Scholarship in Teaching 3
- Scholarship of teaching is about
- Improving student learning by investigating the
learning of ones own students and ones own
teaching
9Trigwell, Martin, Benjamin, Prosser (2000,
p.159) Approaches to Scholarship in Teaching 4
- Scholarship of teaching is about
- Improving ones own students learning by knowing
and relating the literature on teaching and
learning to discipline-specific literature and
knowledge
10Trigwell, Martin, Benjamin, Prosser (2000,
p.159) Approaches to Scholarship in Teaching 5
- Scholarship of teaching is about
- Improving student learning within the discipline
generally, by collecting and communicating
results of ones own work on teaching and
learning within the discipline
11Research and teaching nexus meaning of linkage?
- Trowler Wareham (2007, p.5)
- Link?
- Inform?
- Support?
- Enhance?
- Add value to?
- Integrate?
12Research and teaching nexus Trowler Wareham
(2007, pp.3-5) meanings of nexus
- Learners do research
- Teachers do research
- Teachers and learners research together
- Research embedded in curriculum (research
influences the what and the how of curriculum
design) - Research culture influences teaching and learning
- The nexus, the university and its environment
- Teaching and learning influences research
13Teaching and Learning Plan 2008-2012
- Implementing an effective teaching-research nexus
to enrich the student experience through the
direct involvement of researchers in both course
development and delivery.
14Conceptions of research, teaching and scholarship
of teaching Brew (2003)
- Different conceptions of research
- Different conceptions of scholarship
- Different conceptions of knowledge
- Different conceptions of teaching learning
- Different conceptions of research and teaching
nexus
15The Academic's andPolicy-Maker's Guides to
theTeaching-research Nexus
- New strategies to assist Australian universities
to strengthen the teaching-research nexus in both
institutional policy and individual practice. - The project team will draw on practices
identified in targeted discipline areas to
prepare resources that will provide illustrative
possibilities across three broad student levels
first year students, final year undergraduate
students and postgraduate coursework students. - This website will provide evidence-based,
ready-to-use resources built on a scholarly
foundation of evidence gathered from
international sources, as well as a rigorous
national study of effective teaching-research
nexus practices in Australian universities. - Significant gap the absence of practical
resources for academics and policy-makers wishing
to engage with the issue and operationalise the
teaching-research nexus in classroom, faculty and
institutional practice. - www.trnexus.edu.au
16Deakin STALGS topics/themes/developments
- ICT e-simulations, eLive, iLecture, Turnitin,
SAPA, DSO portfolio, blogging, podcasting, Second
Life, online pedagogy, animation gaming
systems, exemplary uses, virtual organisations,
mobile phones, social software - Graduate attributes assessment, portfolios
- Assessment progressive, self- peer
- Students international, graduate outcomes,
student evaluations, student services,
course-wide development - Experiential projects, case study, centre,
online virtual exchange, diversity in placements - Research/teaching nexus internationalisation,
research methods - Flexibility new approaches
- Staff development discipline-based new staff
172008 review of STALGS guidelines
- Teaching and Learning Plan
- Support projects that explore alternative
effective and efficient teaching models and
pedagogies.
18Faculty primer schemes 2008
- FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND LAW 2008 SMALL GRANTS
IN TEACHING AND LEARNING - FACULTY OF ARTS AND EDUCATION SMALL GRANTS IN
TEACHING AND LEARNING - 2008
19Australian Learning and Research Council
(formerly Carrick) Mission
- PROMOTING AND ADVANCING
- LEARNING AND TEACHING
- IN AUSTRALIAN HIGHER EDUCATION
20Australian Learning and Research Council
(formerly Carrick) Values
- Inclusiveness by assisting the development of
networks and communities which support higher
education staff who have a direct impact on the
advancement of learning and teaching. - Long-term change through a focus on systemic
change. -
- Diversity by recognising and valuing
institutional and discipline differences and
similarities. -
- Collaboration through the programs it funds and
in its work practices. - Excellence through the recognition of quality in
its programs and awards and its encouragement of
higher education institution's recognition of
quality teaching and learning.
21The big national issues
- Achieving excellence?
- Sustaining excellence?
- Changed environment?
- Changing environment?
- Time horizon 21st century?
- Leading and managing change?
- New curriculum? New pedagogies? New
media/technologies? New assessment?
22ALTC Grants Program
- Leadership for Excellence in Learning and
Teaching Program - Priority Projects Program 80,000 to 220,000
up to 2 years (Small projects should be completed
in one year) - Competitive Grants Program 60,000 to 220,000
Up to 2 years
23Deakin success as lead to date
- Building academic staff capacity for using
eSimulations in professional education for
experience transfer (2008) - Strategic Leadership for Institutional Teaching
and Learning Centres Developing a Model for the
21st Century (2007)
24ALTC Grants Principles
- Compliance with the Carrick Institute mission,
objectives and values - Transparency
- Value for Money
- High Impact
- Future Looking
25ALTC projects
- 2007 Projects
- 2006 Projects
- 2005 Projects
- 2008 funded to date up soon
26ALTC Learning Networks
- Pilot Projects, Investigation and Scoping
Initiatives - Common Curriculum Issues and Higher Education
Enterprise Initiatives
27ALTC Learning Networks
- Architecture, Design and Creative and Performing
Arts - Business, Management, Economics and Law
- Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science
- Science, Engineering, Mathematics and
Technology and - Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Human
Service Professions (including Education and
Social Welfare)
28Business as an exampleABDC TL Network
- Building professionally-relevant learning and
industry engagement in the business curriculum - Building and assessing the development of generic
skills across the business curriculum - Valuing quality teaching in business education
- TL Network select project teams to develop
funding applications for the future Carrick
Institute funding round based on above
29Working up a proposal
- Whats you special interest?
- Whats the basis for your special interest?
- Why do you think its of national significance?
- Has same or similar project been funded by ALTC?
- Which grants category are you targeting, and why?
- Do you understand ALTC meaning of dissemination?
- Who could you collaborate with, and why?
- What are the benefits for Deakin?
- Is the project doable? For you? Others? Do you
really want to do it?
30ALTC dissemination
- Identify potential users and stakeholders
-
- Describe strategies to engage with the users
focusing on the intended adoption -
- Identify the range of project outcomes and
potential users of the different outcomes etc -
- Describe strategies for enabling each identified
group of intended users to become aware of the
relevant outcomes and ideas and involved in
making effective use of them - Describe strategies for engaging with intended
users and obtaining feedback during the project - Outline evaluation strategies on the impact of
project outcomes with the intended user
communities during and following the project
development
31Competitive Grants Program
- Research and development focussing on issues of
emerging and continuing importance - Strategic approaches to learning and teaching
that address the increasing diversity of the
student body - Innovation in learning and teaching, including in
relation to the role of new technologies
32ALTC feedback
- There was inadequate preparation in terms of
literature reviews, and situating applications in
relation to current and past work - Single institution applications without clear
applicability to the sector and wider community - Dissemination poorly understood and addressed
- Requirements for project management not
considered - IP issues not addressed
- Many budgets contained simple errors
- In a number of cases the budgets appeared
unrealistically high - Budgets need to be clearly related to activities
and outcomes detailed in the application.
33Leadership for Excellence in Learning and
Teaching Program
- Priority one, institutional leadership to enhance
learning and teaching through leadership
capacity-building at the institutional level - o Funding range 150,000 to 220,000
- o Projects duration up to 2.5 years
- Priority two, disciplinary and cross-disciplinary
leadership to enhance learning and teaching
through leadership capacity-building in
discipline structures, communities of practice
and cross-disciplinary networks - o Funding range 80, 000 to 220,000
- o Project duration up to 2 years
- Priority three, consolidating leadership by
building on the outcomes of projects funded in
earlier years under the Leadership for Excellence
in Learning and Teaching Program - o Funding range 80, 000 to 120,000
- o Project duration up to 1.5 years
34ALTC feedback - leadership
- Lack of understanding of approaches to leadership
and clear definition of leadership outcomes - Lack of explicit focus on leadership
- Too much jargon
- Poor development of project thinking
35Leadership for learning teaching
- Leadership program report (2007)
- Leadership for learning teaching occasional
papers (2006) - Leadership Colloquium
- (2006)
- Leadership Forum
- (2007)
- Completed Leadership Reports
36Leadership areas funded to date
- INSTITUTIONAL LEADERSHIP
- Positional/Structural leadership
- Leadership curriculum for Associate Deans and
- Course Coordinators
- Academic leadership capabilities
- Leadership in Indigenous higher education
- Developing leadership capabilities of Course
Coordinators - Leadership in curriculum and program Development
- Curriculum improvement leader model
- Leadership capability of academic coordinators
- Emerging leadership framework
- A strategic leadership model for the 21stCentury
- Rich media technologies
- Distributed leadership
- Learning and teaching communities
- Student feedback and leadership
- Leadership in online learning and teaching
37Leadership areas funded to date
- DISCIPLINARY LEADERSHIP NATIONAL NETWORKS
- Learning and teaching communities
- Australian law postgraduate network COMPASS
- Effective partnering in nurse education
- Cross-disciplinary mathematics and statistics
Support - Scientists teaching scientists
- Indigenous women and leadership
- Team management systems
38Priority Projects Program
- Academic standards, assessment practices and
reporting - Curriculum renewal (new 2008)
- Teaching and learning spaces
- Peer review
39Areas to research ANZSRC, Division 13 Education
- 1301 Education systems
- 130103 Higher Education flexible education fit
here - 1302 Curriculum and pedagogy
- 1303 Specialist Studies in Education
- 130306 Educational technology and computing
-
40Where to present?
- If on educational technology, ASCILITE Ed-Media
- If on open and distance education, ODLAA
- If on tertiary teaching and learning, HERDSA
- If on the scholarship of teaching and learning,
ISSOTL - If on games and simulations in education, ISAGA
- Discipline-based conferences with educational
focus
41Where to publish?
- If on educational technology, AJET
- If on open and distance education, DE
- If on tertiary teaching learning, HERD
- If on the scholarship of teaching and learning,
IJSOTL - If disciplinary context, Discipline-based
educational journals
42High ranking educational technology journals
Stuart Palmer analysis http//www.deakin.edu.au/i
tl/research-eval/publish.php
- As an example, the following table lists journals
relevant to the field of e-learning ranked in the
top 30 by their impact factor/score from a
range of indexes, based on 2006 data - Interactive Learning Environments
- Educational Technology Research and Development
- Computers and Education
- Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
- Journal of Educational Computing Research
- British Journal of Educational Technology
- The Internet and Higher Education
43ACRONYMS
- Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in
Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) - Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
(AJET) - Distance Education (DE)
- Ed-Media World Conference on Educational
Multimedia, Hypermedia Telecommunications. A
conference of the Association for the Advancement
of Computing in Education (AACE) - Higher Education Research and Development Society
of Australasia (HERDSA) - International Journal for the Scholarship of
Teaching Learning (IJSOTL) - International Society for the Scholarship of
Teaching Learning (ISSOTL) - International Simulation and Gaming Association
(ISAGA) - Journal of Higher Education Research
Development (HERD) - Open and Distance Learning Association of
Australia (ODLAA)
44Useful references
- Angelo, T. (2007). Seven Promising Pathways,
Seven Perilous Pitfalls to Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning Helping Aspiring
Teachers-Scholars Succeed. Keynote address at
Carrick Institute National Discipline-Based
Development Forum on The Teaching/Research Nexus,
Adelaide, August. - Boyer, E.L. (1990). Scholarship reconsidered
Priorities of the professoriate. Princeton, NJ
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching. - Brew, A. (2003). Teaching and Research New
relationships and their implications for
inquiry-based teaching and learning in higher
education. Higher Education Research
Development, 22(1), 3-18. - Huber, M.T. (2004). Balancing acts the
scholarship of teaching and learning in academic
careers. Washington, D.C. American Association
for Higher Education, Carnegie Foundation. - McKenzie, J. (2007).Variation in patterns of
teacher development and change Connections with
the development of scholarly teaching and the
scholarship of teaching. In Enhancing Higher
Education, Theory and Scholarship. Proceedings of
the 30th HERDSA Annual Conference CD-ROM, July,
Adelaide, Australia. - Trigwell, K.. Martin, E., Benjamin, J. Prosser,
M. (2000). Scholarship of Teaching a model.
Higher Education Research Development, 19(2),
155-68. - Trowler, P. Wareham, T. (2007).
Re-conceptualising the teaching-research nexus.
In Enhancing Higher Education, Theory and
Scholarship. Proceedings of the 30th HERDSA
Annual Conference CD-ROM, July, Adelaide,
Australia.