Learning and Teaching Initiatives 2013
In 2013 priority for Learning and Teaching Initiatives was allocated to four funding priorities areas:
- general learning and teaching initiatives (amounts of up to $35,000);
- eLearning initiatives (amounts of up to $60,000);
- initiatives to develop 'signature' online undergraduate subjects (amounts of up to $60,000); and
- initiatives to develop online Coursera subjects (amounts of up to $35,000).
2013 Round 1 Grant Recipients
Coordinator Name/s | Department/School | Project Title | Amount Granted | Project Reports |
Clare Newton and Rebecca Cameron | Architecture, Building and Planning | Construction Unwrapped | $50,000 | |
Kevin Brophy and Elizabeth MacFarlane | Culture and Communications | Bringing humanities and the arts online: Short fiction as a test case | $40,000 | |
Anne McLaren | Asia Institute | eLearning initiative in Chinese Literacy | $5,000 | |
Greg Restall and Lesley Stirling | Historical and Philosophical Studies | Online Logic Teaching for on-campus and off-campus students | $35,000 | |
Cynthia Hardy | Management and Marketing | Developing a virtual classroom for Organisational Behaviour | $10,000 | |
Danny Samson, Marie Maragos, Mark King and Jenny Pesina | Management and Marketing; CELT | Enhancing Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Managing People and Organizations: Instructional Design, Interactivity and Applications of Technology | $30,000 | |
Collette Tayler, Jane Page and Jan Deans | Education | The early childhood teaching and learning resource | $40,000 | |
Gavin Buskes, Graham Moore, Kaya Prpic, Peter Schachte and Linda Stern | Infrastructure Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Engineering Learning Unit; Computing and Information Systems | Rapid Feedback and Objective Assessment of Student Learning/ Tasks Developing frameworks to improve quality of feedback in Melbourne School of Engineering subjects (projects to be combined) | $40,000 | |
Timothy Baldwin and Paul Cook | Computing and Information Systems | SES Topic Modelling and Reporting | $40,000 | |
Tuan Ngo, Lu Aye and Graham Moore | Infrastructure Engineering | EDUtopia, a collaborative e-learning platform for design and simulation-based subjects | $30,000 | |
Adrian Pearce and Tim Miller | Computing and Information Systems | Apps@Melbourne: Software development laboratory for natural user interfaces | $25,000 | |
Jenny Hayes and Andrew Tan | Anatomy and Neuroscience | Enhancing online learning of human anatomy | $45,000 | |
Terry Judd and Kristine Elliott | Medical Education Unit | Improving access to learning resources and activities with smart phone apps | $40,000 | |
Jeremy Moss | Nossal Institute for Global Health | Philosophy, Politics and Economics | $50,000 | Cancelled |
Graham Mackay, Bang Bui and Linda Denehy | Pharmacology; | Enhanced learning in Pharmacology for future 'Non-Medical' drug prescribers | $30,000 | Report Pending |
Cook Nicole | Resource Management and Geography | Integrating current web-based socio-spatial data with existing LMS, lecture capture, tutorials and assessment to develop immersive learning experiences in the social sciences | $15,000 | |
David Kennedy | Resource Management and Geography | Developing eField Trips and ePracticals in Physical Geography: A new paradigm of field science learning | $25,000 | |
Andrew Drinnan | Science | Thinking Scientifically' - a wholly online undergraduate subject for introducing students to the scientific method and its diversity of application across the different scientific disciplines | $60,000 | |
Dawn Gleeson and Lisa Godhino | Genetics | Preparing our students for lectures in first year Biology | $20,000 | |
Katrina McFerran and Grace Thompson | Music | Developing more effective learning experiences and outcomes for geographically distributed learners for the Masters in Music Therapy | $8,000 | |
Elizabeth Tudor, Dez Hughes and Wayne Kimpton | Veterinary Science | Development of Interactive Clinical Reasoning Activities ("Case Conversations") for DVM students in large group settings | $40,000 |
2013 Round 2 Grant Recipients
Coordinator Name/s | Department/School | Project Title | Amount Granted | Project Reports |
| Chris Pettit and John Barton | Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network | Utilising the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network to support online teaching and learning in the built environment | $15,000 | |
| Sophie Sturup | Architecture, Building and Planning | Adapting urban environments fieldwork guide for use on LMS mobile app | $4,350 | |
| Peter Raisbeck | Architecture, Building and Planning | An introduction to the Architectural Design Studio | $5,000 | |
| Amitabh Mattoo | Australia India Institute | Development of online subject on contemporary India through Coursera | $10,000 | |
| John Fitzgerald | Social and Political Sciences | Enhancing the crime policy experience: Using social media monitoring datasets to find the digital public | $5,000 | Report Pending |
| Jeanette Hoorn | Culture and Communications | Sexing the Canvas | $35,000 | |
| Andrea Rizzi | Languages and Linguistics | L@C@M: e-learning language and culture at the University of Melbourne | $19,000 | |
| Mohsen Kalantari and Abbas Rajabifard | Infrastructure Engineering | Saving the Earth, Organising Mars | $15,000 | |
| Steven Bird | Computing and Information Systems | VCE Computer Science: Developing an Extension Study | $35,000 | Report Pending |
| Paul Andonov, Tim Baldwin and Mike Pottenger | Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching; Computing and Information Systems; Faculty of Business and Economics | Implementation of the online PeerTutor application – a peer-moderated Q&A forum – in the Faculty of Business and Economics and Department of Computing and Information Systems | $10,000 | Project Cancelled |
| Mark Joshi and Mark King | Economics; Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching | Enhancing student learning of financial mathematics | $20,000 | |
| Susan Sawyer, George Patton and Samantha Van Staalduinen | Paediatrics | Development of a Coursera subject on global adolescent health | $35,000 | |
| Bronwyn Tarrant, Thomas | Nursing | In theory: In practice - A trial with iiNurse | $15,000 | |
Sandra Uren, Roy Robins-Browne and Kristine Elliott | Microbiology and Immunology; Medical Education Unit | Interactive case studies in medical microbiology and immunology | $5,000 | |
| Patrick Griffin, Sandra Milligan and Esther Care | Melbourne Graduate School of Education | MOOC-Coursera course in Assessment and Teaching of 21C skills | $20,000 | |
| Chi Baik | Centre for the Study of Higher Education | Enhancing the quality of teaching and learning: Developing an online induction course for sessional teachers | $29,000 | |
| Alvin Vista | Melbourne Graduate School of Education | Development and validation of an automatically scaffolding and rubric-targeted interface for a distributed-resource large scale marking system for complex assessments | $17,540 | |
| Ruth Beilin | Resource Management & Geography | Integration of the LMS with the Blackboard Learning Mobile Learning Application for Reshaping Environments | $4,598 | |
| Sigfredo Fuentes and Kate Howell | Agriculture & Food Systems | Do-your-own-experiment kits (DYOExpK) to improve teaching and learning experience in Science | $10,000 | |
| Deborah King and Liz Bailey | Mathematics & Statistics | Calculus and Probability: An online bridging subject | $35,000 | |
| Stephen Best, Colette Boskovic and Michelle Gee | Chemistry | ChemBytes Back – LabDots: Empowering students in the Lab | $20,000 | |
| Joel Brennan | Melbourne Conservatorium of Music | Musicians' Drones: Fine tuning your intonation (A pitch perception and tuning application for mobile computing platforms) | $28,000 | |
| Mark Davis, Dayle Tyrrell, Elise Boller, Elizabeth Tudor, and Adrian Whitham | Veterinary Science | Delivering Communication Teaching in the Faculty of Veterinary Science's Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree programme | $21,000 | |
| Peter Mansell, David Beggs and Sarah Frankland | Veterinary Science | Crook Moo | $20,000 | Report Pending |
| Peter McPhee | Centre for the Study of Higher Education | MOOC development: The French Revolution | $35,000 |