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Learning and Teaching Performance Fund

2007

In 2007 Macquarie University was awarded $2,994,432 from the Federal Government's Learning and Teaching Performance Fund (LTPF). This money was awarded on the basis of performance in the 2005 Course Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) and the 2005 Graduate Destination Survey (GDS).

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The income from the 2007 LTPF has been used to fund:

Unit Project Budget Status

University-wide

Curriculum Mapping Tool

$50,000

Complete

WebCT Upgrade

$350,000

NYC

Assessment Project - draft and consult an Assessment Policy

$34,423

NYC

Documenting Good Practice

$50,000

NYC

ACODE e-Benchmarking Project

$48,786

Complete

Macquarie Accessibility Services (MQAS)

$144,066

NYC

Install a student-centred learning space on Level 1 of the Library

$133,644

NYC

Student learning space - response to student feedback

$18,000

NYC

Content Management System

$31,297

Complete

Australian Centre for Educational Studies (ACES)

Educational Leadership Conference

$990

Complete

Educational Leadership Program

$37,787

Complete

Electronic Smartboards

$37,500

Complete

Mature Age Trainee Teachers

$6,958

Complete

Preparing Teachers for the Future

$10,000

NYC

Teachers for the Future - academic staff and change

$10,000

NYC

Student to professional (PDF)

$7,800

NYC

Use of technology in the education of students with high support needs (PDF)

$9,000

NYC

International and comparative pedagogies in teacher education

$8,500

NYC

Responding to changing landscapes Study 2: connectivities between research, tertiary education, and government policy in the development and induction of beginning teachers in Early childhood (PDF)

$9,270

NYC

Early childhood Teachers for the Future: expectations and beliefs of 2007 and 2008 MTeach students (PDF)

$20,000

NYC

Getting the best for student learning (2 strategic planning workshops)

$8,000

NYC

E for English website

$12,500

NYC

Video sequences: Special Education (PDF)

$44,430

NYC

Using WebCT to develop an exemplary quality learning environment

$8,550

NYC

Improving the Master of Teaching program

$8,265

NYC

Economic and Financial Studies (EFS)

Audit of unit outlines, examinations and teaching materials

$20,000

NYC

Participation in Learning and Teaching conferences

$18,000

NYC

External evaluator for curriculum reviews

$20,000

NYC

Support for adjunct staff to attend FIeLT

$5,000

NYC

LEAD Projects

$60,000

NYC

Pronunciation assistance for NESB tutors

$16,050

Complete

Symposium to spread results of LEAD Projects

$4,929

Complete

Web materials on engaging students, teaching diverse groups, peer observation

$55,000

NYC

Environmental and Life Sciences

Audit of Unit Outlines and support for the curriculum renewal process

$34,678

NYC

Internationalisation (Environmental Education Student Exchange Program)

$45,000

NYC

Develop a Summer Internship program available to domestic U/G students

$10,000

NYC

Student Support

$29,000

NYC

New technologies and student learning

$20,000

NYC

Humanities

Unit Guide Online (UGO)

$180,000

NYC

Equipment for online support position and teaching seminars

$14,709

Complete

Teaching mentoring program

$33,093

Complete

Teaching Seminars

$37,895

Complete

OUA Teaching Enhancement Project

$100,657

NYC

Information and Communication Science (ICS)

Review of Assessment in Computing
Support for Group work in Computing
Portfolio Assessment in Computing

$33,671

Complete

Increase first year retention rate

$36,463

Complete

Support of Teaching and Learning Culture

$11,000

Complete

Linguistics and Psychology

Experiment Creator (RTF)

$4,000

NYC

Peer Assisted Learning

$28,000

Complete

Using student feedback to improve teaching-research nexus (RTF)

$15,000

NYC

A new vision for Translation and Interpreting Education (RTF)

$25,000

NYC

Lecturer in Teaching and Learning Enhancement

$82,000

Complete

Upgrading the Department of Linguistics and Psychology websites (RTF)

$33,000

NYC

Law

Funding for Assoc Dean (L&T) and Director HDR

$120,000

NYC

Clinical program cost support

$20,000

Complete

A/V equipment for Law teaching spaces

$4,215

Complete

Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM)

Adjunct teachers

$5,314

Complete

Assurance of Learning/Informal Benchmarking of Learning Goals

$5,186

Complete

Transition to WebCT

$16,500

NYC

Electronic Smartboards

$13,664

NYC

Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy (SCMP)

Develop module on enhanced assessment feedback

$9,164

NYC

Assist staff to apply for Learning and Teaching Awards

$23,837

Complete

Develop a foundational academic skills online module

$17,416

Complete

Develop Learning and Teaching section of SCMP intranet

$9,164

Complete

Improve the learning experience of Indigenous Students (PDF)

$42,839

NYC

Academic literacy in BCM and BTeach, offered by Warawara (PDF)

$65,313

NYC

Develop media short courses with Uni of Missouri and Butler University

$25,775

NYC

Employ Learning and Teaching Project Officer to increase student recruitment among non-traditional student groups

$47,675

NYC

Buy-out Teaching Review

$9,164

NYC

TOTAL

 

$2,507,137

 


NYC = Not yet complete

 

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