Teaching and learning
The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), formerly the Carrick Institute, provides a national focus for the enhancement of teaching and learning. The ALTC conducts a number of award and grants schemes, and other initiatives, that promote strategic change in Learning and Teaching across the higher education sector.
A deliverable is a product or activity arising from the proposed project. Deliverables include workshops, reports, web-sites, learning objects etc.
Dissemination involves more than the distribution of information or making it available in some way. Dissemination also implies that some action has been taken to embed and upscale the project outcomes within the immediate context (e.g. the discipline, School or University), and/or to replicate or transform and embed an innovation in a new context.
See further (all PDFs): Strategies for Effective Dissemination of Project Outcomes (2005), p. 2, A helpful exploration of the concept of dissemination may be found in Dissemination, Adoption & Adaptation of Project Innovations in Higher Education (2005), pp.159–163. See also Funding Innovation and Disseminating New Teaching Practices (2002).
Evaluation is the systematic process or results of an assessment or appraisal in relation to project objectives and predicted outcomes. Evaluation is to be undertaken at multiple points throughout a project and is understood and reported within an evaluation framework.
The Grants and Awards Panel is delegated by the Deputy Vice Chancellor: Academic with the responsibility of reviewing all applications for Teaching grants and awards under the UniSA and ALTC schemes. The panel comprises of academic staff representing a cross-section of the University.
Innovation is understood as either a ‘first’ or ‘second’ generation concept, and refers to an idea, product, process or service that adds value, is useful or transforms current practice in the context to which it is applied. ‘First-generation innovators’ are those who do or create something new or different. ‘Second-generation innovators’ are those who take an innovation from one context and replicate, adapt or transform it for use within a new context.
A milestone is a transition point or deadline related to the completion of a certain task or group of tasks within a project. Milestones are generally tied to the primary stages of the project. Setting milestones is a useful strategy for ensuring that specific tasks are completed and can help also in apportioning project responsibilities between the Project Team members.
An outcome is an achievement which the project is designed to accomplish, preferably described in a form that is measurable or for which evidence can be provided. To prepare an outcome statement for a project proposal, the question that should be posed is: What is the project designed to achieve and how will the Project Team know they have been successful? A number of unplanned outcomes are likely from any project. These should be included in the final report along with the success in achieving the nominated project outcomes.
The Project Team is the group that will carry out the implementation of the project. Project Teams comprise a minimum of two eligible academic staff members. One member (or more than one in the case of joint team leaders) is designated the ‘Project Team leader’ and is delegated to represent and to sign-off for and on behalf of the team. The Project Team leader, or joint leaders, is/are the primary applicant(s) for purposes of the grant application.
A group that is established by the Project Team to provide advice, monitor progress and provide feedback to the Project Team during the development and implementation of the project. The Reference Group is part of the strategy for ensuring project evaluation. In addition, the Reference Group may assist the team to pursue any resource or information needs, provide advice on evaluation and intellectual property, and/or promote the project within the University.
