Congratulations to ALTC citation recipients
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 15th, 2009
CONGRATULATIONS!
Dr Ayse Bilgin, Statistics, Faculty of Science - for enhancing learning and teaching in statistics through different assessment tools, timely feedback and learning support that encourages independent learning.
Dr Jennifer Cornish, Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences - for promoting passion for biological psychology which has increased student understanding and interest in the field of neuroscience and [...]
Call for Entries! 2009 Digital Education Achievement Awards
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 1st, 2009
Marina Leight, the Center for Digital Education and Converge magazine invite nominations for the eighth annual Digital Education Achievement Awards (DEAA) and the former Best of the Web contest (now part of DEAA).
The Digital Education Achievement Awards is a forum for recognizing education Web sites and outstanding contributions at the application and infrastructure level.
The DEAA [...]
MQ’s 2009 Innovation awards
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on May 28th, 2009
Congratulations to the winners of the 2009 Macquarie University Innovation Awards!
In particular, the recipients of the Innovation in Teaching and Learning award for:
Termfinder - Jargon-busting and Concept-building an online Learning Tool for Beginners in Science and Social Science
(From Macquarie University) Professor Pam Peters, Dr Claudia Oliveira; LTC’s own Dr Theresa Winchester-Seeto; Mr Adam [...]
2009 Australian University Teaching Awards - closing dates
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on April 24th, 2009
The Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) has five award programs that recognise teaching excellence and outstanding contributions to student learning:
Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Closes 1 May 2009.
Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning. Closes 10 July 2009.
Awards for Teaching Excellence. Closes 10 July 2009.
Prime Minister’s Award for Australian University Teacher of [...]
Nominations open for HEd Quality Award
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on April 9th, 2009
Do you know someone who is advancing the quality of higher education in Australia?
Nominations are now open for the 2009 AUQA Australian Higher Education Quality Award.
Past recipients include Paul Ramsden (2006), Geoff Scott (2007), and Graham Webb (2008).
The deadline for nominations is May 1, 2009.
Lecturer of the Year - Nominations Open
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on April 3rd, 2009
Do you know a lecturer who deserves 5 nights in Fiji?
THE AWARD
Lecturer of the Year is an initiative by UniJobs to promote and acknowledge lecturers from around Australia. The award allows Australian university staff and students to nominate a lecturer for their teaching excellence.
THE PRIZE
The winner will be awarded a certificate and a trip [...]
MQ 2009 Innovation awards - entries close March 11
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on February 27th, 2009
Don’t miss your chance to win one of nine awards which recognise and reward outstanding performance and excellence in innovation. Open to all staff and postgraduate research students at Macquarie, you have the chance to win cash prizes up to the value of $3,000.
Entries close Wednesday 11 March, 2009.
Visit the Innovation Awards website for more [...]
Congratulations to Marnie!
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on November 26th, 2008
Marnie Hughes-Warrington has been awarded the Prime Minister’s award for university teaching!
Read more about Marnie’s teaching in a previous blog post. Find out how she plans to spend her prize money here.
The 2008 Edublog Awards
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on November 13th, 2008
It’s time for the 2008 Edublog Awards. This year, all nominations are public (hence this post). There are 14 categories in total, so if you have recommendations for the categories I have been unable to fill, including most influential blog post, best resource-sharing blog, best new blog (sadly, nominating oneself is not permitted), please post [...]
L&T Lunchbox 2
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on October 23rd, 2008
Into learning and teaching? Want to meet others with the same interest? Want help with grants or awards? Want to know what the ALTC are doing?
Then the informal L&T Lunchbox is for you.
In the second Lunchbox you will not only get to chat and networking with other great teachers, but also hear how to go [...]