Learning and Teaching Initiatives 2018
In 2018, the University sought applications for Learning and Teaching Initiatives in the following categories:
- General Learning and Teaching (up to $30,000)
- Feedback and Assessment Practices (up to $30,000)
- Indigenous Knowledge and Curriculum (up to $30,000)
| Coordinator Name/s | Department / School | Project Title | Amount Granted |
Dr Carol Johnson | Faculty of Fine Arts and Music | Online orientation module for music students: supporting students with digital learning skills | $24,258.00 |
Dr Brian Cook | Faculty of Science | Fostering self-directed learning and community engagement using a risk management web-application. | $20,000.00 |
Dr Jason Kenner | Faculty of Fine Arts and Music | Developing a simulated practice program to improve quality and scalability of vocational training in the Master of Music Therapy | $23,389.00 |
Associate Professor Asjeet Lamba | Faculty of Business and Economics | Developing flexible and adaptive learning and teaching tools for Principles of Finance | $23,377.00 |
Dr Katharine Greenaway | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | Groups 4 Education (G4E): A framework for enhancing student well-being in a large first-year cohort through developing social connectedness and foundational academic skills | $29,131.00 |
Dr Meredith McKague | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | Flipping the classroom to enhance student wellbeing and employability outcomes through collaborative problem-based learning activities and online modules for advanced design and data analysis | $28,147.00 |
Mr Alister Thorpe | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | Indigenous knowledge systems and health - a flipped classroom curriculum package | $30,000.00 |
Dr Wenyan Wu | Melbourne School of Engineering | Online learning module and design project development for systems modelling and design | $26,000.00 |
Dr Sarah Frankland | Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences | Breathe: thinking it through. Wellbeing support for FVAS students | $10,000.00 |
Associate Prof Brett Tennent-Brown | Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences | Improving holistic student assessment in DVM4 | $20,000.00 |
Prof John Hajek | Faculty of Arts | Italian radio podcast (Dagli inviati sul Campus! From our correspondents on campus!) | $18,653.00 |
Dr Kwang Cham | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | Expansion of a current digital assessment tool that delivers automated feedback - customising it for broader use across the university | $29,871.00 |
Dr Michael Pianta | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | CrowdCLASS - Crowdsourcing critical appraisal in the classroom | $29,539.00 |
Ms Bronwyn Tarrant | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | Professional Plus+ (NB – release of funding is conditional on re-submitting application to account for only online module component) | $10,000 |
Dr Imali Dias | Melbourne School of Engineering | Threshold concepts through peer support and feedback | $18,539.00 |
Dr Sarah Frankland | Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences | The roots of Australian agriculture: a new, old story | $28,934.00 |
Dr Terry Mulhern | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | Feed Forward, mining assessment data to guide future study | $30,000.00 |
Dr Natalie Courtman | Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences | Embedding peer feedback in collaborative activities for professional development | $25,500.00 |
Dr Sophie Rudolph | Melbourne Graduate School of Education | Enhancing capacity to engage with Indigenous knowledge across teacher education and schools | $29,985.00 |
Dr Natasha Ziebell | Melbourne Graduate School of Education | From collaborative learning to collaborative practice: Interdisciplinary teaching and learning in education and speech pathology | $15,000.00 |
Professor Christopher Leckie | Melbourne School of Engineering | Security Analytics Platform | $23,700.00 |
Dr Charles Sevigny | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | The Virtual Reality Heart Project | $25,000.00 |
Dr Thomas Wong | Faculty of Science | Online feedback and assessent in large undergraduate mathematics subjects via WebWork | $27,420.00 |
Dr Juliana Kaya Prpic | Melbourne School of Engineering | Development of two-way learning modules that address a range of Indigenous engineering knowledge and can be used across various subjects in engineering | $30,000.00 |
Dr Rita Hardiman | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | Multi-discipline comparative anatomy-digital, and object-based hands-on learning | $19,650.00 |
Dr Graham Mackay | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | "Project Murnong': embedding Indigenous scientific knowledge through research laboratory-based practice | $29,200.00 |
Dr Cameron Raw | Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences | Dog-people interactions in Australian Indigenous communities: historical, cultural and wellbeing considerations | $29,000.00 |
Dr Angelina Fong | Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | Development of program suite of online modules and an interactive toolkit to empower students in group work environments | $28,383.00 |
Associate Professor Abdul Jabbar | Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences | Use of ePortfolio for the learning and teaching of veterinary science students | $15,920.00 |