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Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) awards and grants
The University has achieved a high rate of success with ALTC excellence in learning and teaching awards since the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (formerly known as the Carrick Institute) was established in 2006.
USC has also been involved with a number of ALTC-funded projects investigating the quality of learning and teaching in Australian higher education.
2011
Citation recipients
Dr Peter Baxter
For sustained commitment to creating opportunities for students to become successful accounting professionals, driven by a passion for teaching and the discipline of accounting.
Dr Christine Morley
For inspiring social work students to engage in critical reflection as an integral part of transformative learning and effective action for social justice.
Dr Fiona Pelly
For sustained leadership in the creation of professionally relevant and research-informed Nutrition and Dietetics curricula.
Ms Kylie Readman
For developing and leading a collaborative, transdisciplinary 'Assessment Makeover' process: mentoring colleagues to improve assessment and enhancing students' learnign experiences.
Ms Emma Kill
For 'making a future': pioneering innovative programs that enable young mothers and underrepresented equity groups to re-engage with and achieve a tertiary education.
Grant projects
A Handbook: Leadership for excellence in learning and teaching
Institutions: University of the Sunshine Coast, PhillipsKPA Pty Ltd
Grant: $220,000
Experiential Learning in Planning Education: Resources and Tools for Good Practice
Insitutions: University of the Sunshine Coast, La Trobe University, University of Tasmania, Edith Cowan University, Planning Institute of Australia
Grant: $176,000
2010 citation recipients
Dr Phillip Ablett
For enlivening social theory to inspire students to become agents of change for a just, democratic and sustainable society.
Dr Lisa Chandler
For sustained design and delivery of innovative, practice-informed, and student-focused curricula that provide a professionally-relevant foundation in art and design practice.
Professor Roger Hughes
For scholarly leadership in the development of nutrition and dietetics curriculum, student learning and graduate outcomes, particularly in the area of public health nutrition.
Dr Debra Livingston
For empowering graphic design students by leading innovative and inspiring practicum experiences through integrating regional community and industry-based engagement into their lives and study.
Professor Margaret McAllister
For the creation and development of Solution Focused Nursing, an innovative and internationally recognised model for student learning that develops high level caring skills.
Ms Lily O'Hara
For passionate, enthusiastic and sustained commitment to inspiring and motivating health students to become expert and engaged practitioners.
2009
Citation recipients
Ms Liani Eckard
For enhancing the cultural engagement, personal development and employment opportunities of students through a leading Global Opportunities Program.
Dr Ann Parkinson
For improving the learning outcomes for foundation students in biology and physiology through innovative pedagogies and resources.
Ms Anna Potter
For excellence in curriculum design, assessment practice and academic leadership that supports and motivates students to learn in a large, first-year foundation course.
Ms Margot Reeh
For developing university-wide, student-to-student mentor and advising programs that enhance the university experience of beginning students and benefit the student leaders personally professionally.
The Headstart Program
For enhancing Year 11 and 12 students' development as individuals and as learners, through immersion in University courses across all faculties.
Dr Monte Wynder
For sustained enthusiasm in curricula development and delivery that models and generates creative problem solving to prepare flexible and innovative accounting graduates.
Grant projects
A review of the dissemination strategies used by projects funded by the ALTC Grants Scheme
Institutions: The University of Queensland (Lead), University of the Sunshine Coast
Grant: A$208,000
2008
Citation recipients
Associate Professor Stephen Lamble and Ms Gillian Cowden
For creating innovative curricula and developing research-informed teaching resources that enhance graduate employment opportunities in the profession of journalism.
Grant projects
Developing cross-disciplinary leadership capacity for enhancing the professional education of multidisciplinary mental health workers
Institutions: Griffith University (Lead), University of the Sunshine Coast
Grant: A$218,925
2007
Citation recipients
Dr Karen Brooks
For sustained and outstanding teaching, writing and public engagement that motivates, challenges and inspires undergraduate students as well as the wider community.
Ms Gayle Mayes
For enhancing students' employability and work readiness by providing a motivational work integrated learning experience that incorporates an individualised and supportive student-to-work transitional process.
Grant projects
Enhancing frameworks for assuring the quality of learning and teaching in university offshore education programs
Institutions: The University of Western Australia (Lead), Curtin University of Technology, University of the Sunshine Coast
Grant: A$149,573
The whole of university experience: retention, attrition, learning and personal support interventions during undergraduate business studies
Institutions: University of the Sunshine Coast (Lead), Griffith University, Monash University, Murdoch University, The University of Sydney, University of South Australia, University of Southern Queensland
Grant: A$219,877
2006 citation recipients
Dr Gary Crew
For leadership in the creation and ongoing development of a professionally productive creative writing department in a new regional university.
Dr Maria Raciti
For creating a successful relational learning environment for business students of all abilities.