OLT Innovation and Development Grants - EOI and full proposals sought

The Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) has released the 2015 Grants Program Information and Application Instructions.

These research and development grants are Category One.

Approximately $8 million (indicative) has been allocated to the grants programme in 2015 with Innovation and Development Grants program offering between $40,000 and $500,000 for full proposals.

Round One: 28 November 2014
Round Two: 22 June 2015.

The Innovation and Development priority areas are:

• Academic standards
• Assessing equivalence of qualifications and learning outcomes
• Assessment and promotion of student learning (on selected topics)
• Curriculum design (on selected topics)
• Employability skills
• Improving institutional pathways across higher education
• Improving access to and outcomes in higher education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• The contemporary PhD

The aim of the Grants programme is to provide funding for academics and professional staff to investigate, discover, develop and implement innovations in learning and teaching.

Grants facilitate scholarship and research into learning and teaching, and promote systemic change in the sector. They play an important role in providing esteem for learning and teaching scholarship and practice.

Please download the Information and Application Instructions for further detail from:

http://www.olt.gov.au/grants-and-projects/innovation-and-development

The internal due dates are:

Innovation and Development Grants Round One 2015

10 Novemberfor formal review

24 November for institutional endorsement.

Internal expressions of interest are now open. More information, concept forms and writing guides are available from Linda Butcher l.butcher@murdoch.edu.au