To provide a collegial network for grants and awards professionals in Queensland to share practice, develop skills, and take collective action to support the advancement of learning and teaching in higher education
The Queensland University Educators Showcase (QUES) celebrates Queensland’s excellence and innovation in University teaching
Read MoreThe Queensland Promoting Excellence Network (Q-PEN) formed during implementation of the ALTC funded Promoting Excellence Initiative (PEI 2008-2011) and grew out of a shared commitment to quality in learning and teaching within teams of professional staff and learning leaders from all 11 Queensland member institutions.
Q-PEN embraces the spirit of collaboration for excellence promoted by the ALTC and subsequently the OLT and has made use of shared resources, creativity, and innovation to improve systems and outcomes in member institutions as well as contributing to the national quality agenda.
The aims and objectives for Q-PEN include:
Developing sustainable and shared systems and approaches for fostering collaborative grant applications
Collaborating on dissemination of grant outcomes
Identifying effective ways of showcasing good practice in learning and teaching (such as joint seminars with national award winners)
Developing inter-institutional strategies for sharing resources and innovations for enhancing learning and teaching
Benchmarking activities to enhance policies and processes
Providing support and professional development for academics and awards and grants staff
Maintaining strong links with OLT sponsored learning and teaching networks to explore points of intersection for mutual benefit
Fostering effective communications with the national Office for Learning and Teaching
Queensland University Educators Showcase (QUES) - Celebrating Queensland’s Excellence and Innovation in University Teaching
Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 September 2016, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia Campus
The Queensland University Educators Showcase (QUES), was a showcase event celebrating and sharing practice from the most innovative teaching and learning university educators across Queensland. A series of short seminar sessions were held alongside keynote addresses during the two day event, focusing on:
—Sharing innovative and excellent teaching practice from across Queensland
—Celebrating teaching and learning in Queensland Universities
—Opportunities to network with potential future collaborators
Presentations from keynote and seminar session presenters across the two day event can be viewed below.
Google Drive to the Cube - Group Learning in the Digital Space
Future capable: learners, teachers, universities
Simulated learning in Allied Health programs: Different purposes for different professions
Learning through Visualisation
Extending the ripples on the pond by inspiring and motivating scholarly teaching
Connected, creative, courageous: new models of leadership for learning
Capturing Student Voice for Success in an Enabling Program – Preparing for Success Program (the PSP)
Reconnecting students to construction sites through a 4-dimensional digital learning environment
The CAFÉ Toolkit: Improving courses and resources by applying Cognitive Load Theory
Synchronous and asynchronous lecture delivery: Capture and Keep FYE
Shaping the 21st Century student experience at regional universities
Laboratory to large classes: researching what 'works' in large foundation year health courses
OLT Grant Application Handbook
USC characteristics of competitive ALTC grant submissions (PDF 151k)
Bond University Peer Review Feedback Form for OLT Citation Nominations (PDF 96k)
What counts as evidence (PDF 219k)
USQ sources of evidence (PDF 230k)
ALTF Presentation for dissemination through West Australian Network (PPT 563k)
Discipline Networks ALTF: Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows Presentation (PDF 62k)
Fellowship Presentation by Helen MacGillivray (PDF 113k)
Ingredients for successful faculty award nominations (PDF 1.1M)
ALTC Grants scheme internal reviewers guide (PDF 3.3M)
T&L sub-committee guidelines for reviewing ALTC citations-awards (PDF 83k)
Uni Newcastle 2010 ALTC full proposal timeline (PDF 10.6M)
USC being on ALTC awards selection panel (PDF 1.7M)
USC OLT grant appl cover sheet (PDF 212k)
USC Support plan for ALTC grant appl development (PDF 151k)
QLD PEN Resources 2008 – 2010 (PDF 845k)
USC brochure for funding opportunities (PDF 1.7Mk)
USC 2011 celebration of L&T brochure (PDF 4.4Mk)
Institutional representatives and their contact details are listed in the members section of this site
See membersPlease contact Leigh Sawyer (Grants and Awards Officer, Learning Futures, Griffith University)
Email LeighTo add or edit content on this website, please contact Ainslie Searles (Web Officer, Learning Futures, Griffith University)
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