Learning and Teaching Initiatives 2014
In 2014, Learning and Teaching Initiatives grants were allocated in the following seven priority areas:
Large-scale Learning and Teaching Initiatives
- general learning and teaching initiatives (amounts of up to $35,000)
- online subject conversions (amounts of up to $35,000)
- eLearning developments (amounts of up to $35,000)
- MOOC developments (amounts of up to $35,000)
Asia-capabilities Initiatives
- enhancing students' Asia capabilities through mobility and collaboration (amounts of up to $7,500)
Small-scale Learning and Teaching Initiatives
- eLearning and related improvements (amounts of up to $10,000)
- learning through analytics (amounts of up to $10,000)
2014 Round 1 Grant Recipients
Coordinator name/s | Faculty/department/school | Project title | Amount granted | Project reports |
| Peter Raisbeck | Architecture, Building and Planning | Coursera Subject Proposal: An Introduction to the Architectural Design Studio | $5,000 | - |
| Dominique Hes and Dianne Chambers | Architecture, Building and Planning; Melbourne Graduate School of Education | Achieving Principle 1.4 of the University's Environmental Policy of Embedding Education for Sustainability (EfS) in the curriculum: Piloting and refining a methodology with ABP | $5,000 | |
| Jens Oliver Zinn | School of Social and Political Sciences | A Social Science Perspective on Risk and Uncertainty - Developing an On-line Subject for Coursera | $34,877 | Report Pending |
| Margaret Simons | Centre for Advancing Journalism, Graduate School of Humanities & Social Sciences | Principles of Journalism for Engaged Citizens | $34,988 | |
| Graham Sewell | Department of Management and Marketing | Online Subject Conversion & Development - MGMT20001 "Organisational Behaviour" | $33,472 | Report Pending |
| Robert LoPresti, Louisa Remedios, Pat Nicholson, Louise Harms, Bronwyn Davidson, Steve Trumble, Mina Borromeo, David Beckett, Louise McKinlay, Carol Jewell | Department of Physiotherapy, Department of Nursing, Department of Social Work, and Department of Speech Patholgy, Melbourne School of Health Sciences; Melbourne Medical School; Melbourne Dental Schoool; Melbourne Graduate School of Education; Western Health; Melbourne Health | Linking eLearning and Simulation Technology: Comparing models of innovative interprofessional practice | $35,000 | Report Pending |
| Shawana Andrews and Shaun Ewen | Melbourne School of Health Sciences; Melbourne School of Population & Global Health | Bilibellary's walk - enhancing our perceptions of place, space and belonging | $34,821 | |
| Anna Ryan, Terry Judd and Geoffrey McColl | Medical Education Unit, Melbourne Medical School | Progress testing and feedback | $34,938 | |
| Lisa Bourke | Rural Health Academic Centre | Taking our Rural Health Teaching to Rural Settings | $20,000 | |
| Russell Cross | Melbourne Graduate School of Education | Knowledge transfer through e-Learning: MGSE/ESA e-Learning partnership to support languages education reforms through innovations in content and language integrated learning | $34,154 | Report Pending |
| Dianne Vella-Brodrick, Gavin Slemp and Lea Waters | Melbourne Graduate School of Education | E-coaching to promote peer learning, career planning and positive leadership in undergraduate and graduate students | $15,000 | |
| Rui Zhang | Computing and Information Systems | Making the first Tsinghua-Melbourne c-Campus Style Subject Happen | $25,000 | |
| Pascal Van Hentenryck and Carleton Coffrin | Department of Computing and Information Systems, Melbourne School of Engineering | Discrete Optimization (Part 2) | $35,000 | Report Pending |
| Matt Duckham and Susanne Bleisch | Infrastructure Engineering | Improving spatial information science teaching and learning using spatial engagement and spatial activities-based learning | $20,000 | Report Pending |
| Anthony Weatherley, Ian Rutherford and Graham Moore | Department of Agriculture and Food Systems; Department of Resource Management & Geography; Department of Infrastructure Engineering | Smartphone app for field-based experiential and iterative learning | $20,000 | |
| Maria Castle | Biology Laboratory | Creating a Biology online community | $12,835 | Report Pending |
| Alexandra Jaworski and Kwang Cham | Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences | Expansion of an interactive web-based movie library to encompass routine and advanced optometric clinic procedures and featuring on-line student based peer and self review feedback loops, to benefit all years of the Doctor of Optometry (OD) program | $28,000 | |
| Andrew Fisher | Faculty of Veterinary Science | Foundations of Animal Health Online | $34,000 | |
| Veronique Duche and Paul Gruba | School of Languages & Linguistics | Media rich resource development for blended language learning | $8,928 | |
| Dianne de Saint Leger | School of Languages & Linguistics | 'Somewhere in France': Developing and enhancing an online exhibition of WWI | $5,000 | Report Pending |
| Ikuko Nakane and Yasuhisa Watanabe | Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts | Online pre-seminar video and grammar exercises for blended Japanese language learning | $9,886 | |
| Nilss Olekalns | Department of Economics | Developing a Blended Course Curriculum for Macroeconomics for Managers (ECON90032) | $9,623 | |
| Meredith McKague, Daniel Little and Paul Dudgeon | Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences | Dynamic micro-learning pathways: An interactive environment for teaching statistical methods | $9,940 | |
| Colleen Holt | Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, Melbourne School of Health Sciences | eFundamentals: Developing online problem-based learning to extend linguistic analysis to clinical speech pathology practice | $5,000 | |
| Seamus Delaney and Fiona Trapani | Melbourne Graduate School of Education | Incorporating collaborative, interactive experiences with digital video into Science education teaching | $5,000 | |
| Eugene Gvozdenko and Robyn Pierce | Melbourne Graduate School of Education | Providing individualized learning plans for primary education students by means of personalised diagnostics using SMART tests | $9,792 | Report |
| Linda Stern, Peta Humphreys and Andrew Ooi | Melbourne School of Engineering; University Library | Just-in-time Learning for Library Research Skills | $9,220 | Report Pending |
| Kathryn Williams | Office for Environmental Programs | Enabling an interdisciplinary 'flipped classroom' approach to teaching behaviour change | $9,324 | |
| Jenny Martin | Department of Zoology | Customised learning: using real-time student feedback to shape curriculum | $9,324 | |
| Julie Martin and Algis Vingrys | Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences | A library of online interactive case study scenarios to supplement OD student's capstone off-campus clinical learning experiences | $5,000 | |
| Jean-Pierre Scheerlink | Faculty of Veterinary Science | Development of short videos as an e-learning teaching aid | $10,000 | |
| Jennifer Carter | Faculty of Veterinary Science | The Use of Audience Response Systems to Promote Student Engagement in Large Lecture Settings in Veterinary Science | $6,000 | Report Pending |
| Farrah Ahmed and Pip Nicholson | Asian Law Centre | Implementation of Melbourne Law School Asia Strategy - Scoping Visit to India | $7,660 | Report Pending |
2014 Round 2 Grant Recipients
Coordinator name/s | Faculty/department/school | Project title | Amount granted | Project reports |
Dominique Hes | Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning | Formulation of a capstone portal: Facilitating an outstanding student experience | $10,000 | |
Andrys Onsman, Paul Walker and Gini Lee | Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning | Developing a first year common core subject in the Bachelor of Environments | $34,955 | Report Pending |
Helen Dickinson | School of Social and Political Sciences/Melbourne School of Government, Faculty of Arts | An Introduction to Australian government | $20,000 | Report Pending |
Frederik Vervaet | School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Faculty of Arts | Enhancing eLearning practice for students of the Ancient World | $7,500 | |
Leanne Coombe, Shaun Ewen and Rob Moodie | Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences | Indigenous Public Health: an integrated core, online subject | $33,159 | |
Danny Samson | Management & Marketing, Faculty of Business & Economics | Moving Managing and Leading Organizations Online | $34,936 | |
Dawn Gleeson and Philip Batterham | Genetics, Faculty of Science | Conversion of GENE10001:Genetics in the Media to be delivered as an online subject | $35,000 | |
Meredith Martin, Lea Campbell and Amanda Coles | Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences/ Social and Political Sciences/ Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts | Work Integrated Learning Aptitudes: Enhancing on and off campus experiences through eLearning | $35,000 | Report Pending |
Paul Bergey | Management & Marketing, Faculty of Business & Economics | Enhancing Learning Design, Interactivity and Applications of Technology in Procurement and Logistics: An Approach to Intensive Learning and Teaching | $25,000 | Report Pending |
Arianne Dantas, David Story and Stephen Harrap | Physiology/Melbourne Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences | Development of increasingly complex scenario-based virtual experiments for progressive investigation of circulatory shock by students beginning from undergraduate levels to postgraduate to clinical practice | $34,638 | Report Pending |
Terry Judd, Anna Ryan and Geoff McColl | Medical Education Unit, Melbourne Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences | Utilising wearable cameras for teaching, learning and self- assessment | $10,338 | |
Alvin Vista, Esther Care and Patrick Griffin | Melbourne Graduate School of Education | Development and validation of a guided peer-review system that uses an automatically scaffolding and rubric-targeted interface for marking complex assessments | $17,000 | Report Pending |
Rob Moodie and Tara Sklar | Academic Centre for Health Equity, Population &[] Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences | How long will you live? Understanding how population ageing will transform the world as we know it | $34,955 | |
Brian Krongold and Gavin Buskes | Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering | Introduction to Electrical Circuits | $10,000 | Report Pending |
Peter Stuckey and Carleton Coffrin | Computing & Information Systems/NICTA, Melbourne School of Engineering | Modelling for discrete optimization | $35,000 | |
Sybil Nolan | Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts | Online lab modules for Publishing students | $7,061 | Report Pending |
Andrea Carson | Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts | From theory to practice: The media’s role in politics | $9,025 | |
Anthony Morphett, Robert Maillardet and Sharon Gunn | Mathematics & Statistics, Faculty of Science | Conceptual learning with interactive applets | $10,000 | |
Natalie Courtman | Veterinary Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Science | Virtual microscopy for analysis and enhancement of student learning in pathology | $9,016 | Report Pending |
Dalton Harvie | Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Melbourne School of Engineering | Transport processes concept bites | $6,400 | Report Pending |
Linda Corrin and Victoria Millar | CSHE, Melbourne Graduate School of Education | Conducting and teaching curriculum review with learning analytics | $7,440 | Report Pending |
Lena Sanci, Lindsay Guy and Anne O'Connell | GP and Health Care Primary Academic Centre, Melbourne Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences | General practice lenses symposium video conversion | $5,878 |