2010 Awards Scheme Report - Office for Learning and Teaching

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AWARDS SCHEME
2010 REPORT
February 2011

Table of Contents
1.0 The ALTC Awards Scheme 2
2.0 Citations 5
3.0 Program Awards 8
4.0 Teaching Awards 10
5.0 The Prime Minister’s Award for
Australian University Teacher of the Year 12
6.0 Career Achievement Award 13
7.0 Conference funding 14
8.0 Events 15
9.0 Appendix 1 2010 Citation and Award winners 16
10.0 Appendix 2 Cumulative Scheme data 2006-2010 34
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1.0 The ALTC Awards Scheme
Overview
The Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) scheme is one of the Australian
Learning and Teaching Council’s (ALTC’s) designated responsibilities, as noted in in
Transforming Learning and Teaching in Australian Higher Education: ALTC Strategic
Plan 2010-2013.
The awards are an important part of the ALTC’s mission to promote and advance
learning and teaching in Australian higher education.
The scheme comprises five award programs that recognise teaching excellence and
outstanding contributions to student learning. These five awards are:
• Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning;
• Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning;
• Awards for Teaching Excellence;
• Prime Minister’s Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year; and
• Career Achievement Award.
The ALTC also provides funding for award recipients to present at conferences.
Objectives
The awards scheme has been specifically designed to achieve the following outcomes:
• raise the profile and encourage recognition of the fundamental importance of
teaching in higher education institutions and in the general community; and
• foster and acknowledge excellent teaching in higher education.
Participation
In the period 2006-10, participation in the citations and awards programs has been strong
and consistent. Since its inception, the citations program has received nominations from
more than 80 per cent of eligible institutions, with all nominating institutions making
multiple nominations in 2010. As might be expected, numbers of nominations received
have been highest in an early year of the program (2007) but trends continue to indicate
that approximately 300 nominations per annum can be expected.
Significantly fewer nominations (73 from individuals, and six from teams) for teaching
awards were received in 2010 than in 2009. It should be noted however, that the success
rate for teaching award nominations has increased from 22 per cent in 2009, to 27 per
cent in 2010. One interpretation might be that more nominations of a higher quality were
received in 2010 compared with those received in 2009. In the period 2006-10, more than
60 per cent of institutions submitted nominations for teaching awards.
The success rate of nominations for program awards has increased significantly from that
seen in 2006 and appears relatively constant (25 per cent in 2007-10, with no more than
2 per cent variation from the average rate in any one year during the period). While the
proportion of eligible institutions submitting nominations declined from 60 per cent in 2006
to 41 per cent in 2008, it has increased annually since 2008 to 50 per cent in 2010. The
proportion of institutions submitting more than one nomination declined from an average
in the period 2006-2009 of 57 per cent to 48 per cent in 2010. Two additional institutions,
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Holmesglen Institute of TAFE (Victoria) and Tabor College Inc, (Victoria), become eligible
to apply for AAUT in 2010, raising the number of eligible institutions from 44 to 46.
Australian Awards for University Teaching Committee (AAUTC)
membership, as at September 2010
Professor John Hay AC Chair
Professor Margaret Gardner AO
Professor Stuart Campbell
Professor John Rosenberg
Vice-Chancellor and President,
RMIT University
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning
and Teaching), University of
Western Sydney
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(International and Future
Students), La Trobe University
Associate Professor Nereda White Australian Catholic University
Ms Catherine Vandermark
Group Manager, Higher
Education Group, Department
of Education, Employment and
Workplace Relations
Ms Robin Pacey* Griffith University
Mr Shaun Khoo* The University of Melbourne
* For teaching, program and Prime Minister’s awards only
ALTC Board
Chair
ALTC Board
member
Universities
Australia
nominee
Universities
Australia
nominee
Indigenous
community
representative
Minister’s
nominee
Postgraduate
student
Undergraduate
student
The terms of the appointments of Professor Campbell and Professor Rosenberg expired
on 31 December 2010.
Nomination and selection
Nominations for citations, program and teaching awards are considered by at least two
assessors, who provide general advice on the relative quality of the nominations to the
AAUTC. Final decisions on all award recipients rest with the Committee. The ALTC Board
determines recipients of the Career Achievement Award.
Guidelines
Guidelines for each program in the awards scheme in 2010, including information on the
nomination process, were made available on the ALTC website in September 2009.
The priority area for teaching awards in 2010 was internationalisation.
The Committee has endorsed modifications to the guidelines for 2011 and, following
approval by the Board, these were released in October 2010. An early career category
has been established in the Citations program and up to 10 Citations will be awarded in
this category. There is no change to the overall number of Citations available (210).
In 2011, 24 Awards for Teaching Excellence will be available (previously 27). The priority
area for the Teaching Awards in 2011 is teaching large classes.
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The Program Award category Assessment and feedback has been discontinued (owing
to the small number and poor quality of nominations in this category for at least the last
three years). Nominations focussed on assessment may be made in the category
Innovation in curricula. In recognition of the emerging importance of the area, a new
category, Widening participation, has been added to the Program Awards in 2011.
With the approval of the Board, the guidelines for Funding for award winners to present at
conferences have been adapted to extend eligibility for funding from 2011 to the support
of presentations by ALTC Fellows who have completed their programs.
Feedback
Written feedback on each unsuccessful nomination for a citation or an award was
provided to Institutional Contact Officers, in August or November, respectively.
The committee approved Assessment reports for the Citations and Awards program for
release and these were published on the ALTC’s website during 2010. The reports
contain data on nominations as well as general comments by the assessors on the
quality of nominations.
Administration
In 2010, a custom-designed nomination management module of the ALTC’s Business
Information Management System (BiMS) was launched. This module allowed significant
improvement in the timely and accurate processing of citation and award nominations
received in hard copy, and provided template-based reporting functions that better
facilitated the assessment, decision-making and notification processes. Development of a
portal for online submission of nominations commenced in 2010, and will be available for
the 2011 Citations program.
BiMS and the records management software TRIM enable ALTC to fulfil its recordkeeping,
document management and storage and disposal obligations as a
Commonwealth agency.
Assessor Program
All recipients of 2010 Citations, and Teaching and Program Awards have been invited to
register as assessors. Those on the assessor register (which also includes nominees
proposed by eligible institutions) may be called upon to assess nominations and
applications in the Awards, Fellowships and Grants programs.
Scheme performance
Cumulative scheme data for the period 2006-10 can be found in Appendix 2.
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2.0 Citations
Overview
Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning recognise and reward the
diverse contribution that individuals and teams make to the quality of student learning.
Citations may be awarded to academic, general and sessional staff, and institutional
associates, who have made significant contributions to student learning in a specific area
of responsibility over a sustained period. Citations may be awarded for both direct and
indirect contribution, whether the contribution is general or more specific.
There are no specified categories for citations. Each citation is unique and reflects the
diversity of ways in which academic staff, general staff, sessional staff or institutional
associates contribute to learning and teaching in higher education.
This is the fourth year that citations have been conferred. Nominations for 2010 citations
closed on Friday, 30 April 2010. Up to 210 citations were available, each with a prize of
$10,000 to be paid to the recipient’s institution. This year the available funding allowed no
potential for this number to be exceeded.
Nominations
In 2010, 297 nominations were received from 42 of the 46 eligible institutions (see Table
1).
Recipients
In 2010, a total of 193 citations were presented to staff from 40 of the 42 institutions that
lodged nominations. A list of 2010 Citation recipients can be foundTable_8 in Appendix
1.
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Table 1: Citations 2010: nomination and recipient numbers (by institution)
Institution Nom Rec
The Australian National University 7 7
University of Canberra 5 2
ACT total 12 9
Avondale College 0 0
Charles Sturt University 5 4
Macquarie University 9 4
Southern Cross University 5 3
The University of Sydney 7 4
University of New England 2 2
The University of New South Wales 8 5
The University of Newcastle 10 6
University of Technology, Sydney 8 6
University of Western Sydney 10 10
University of Wollongong 9 7
NSW total 73 51
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education 2 1
Charles Darwin University 0 0
NT total 2 1
Bond University 10 2
CQUniversity Australia 3 3
Christian Heritage College 1 0
Griffith University 10 8
James Cook University 10 5
Queensland University of Technology 10 7
The University of Queensland 10 10
University of Southern Queensland 6 3
University of the Sunshine Coast 10 6
QLD total 70 44
Flinders University 10 6
Tabor College Inc. (SA) 2 0
The University of Adelaide 10 5
University of South Australia 10 7
SA total 32 18
University of Tasmania 7 5
TAS total 7 5
Deakin University 10 7
Holmesglen Institute of TAFE 0 0
La Trobe University 3 3
Melbourne College of Divinity 0 0
Monash University 9 5
RMIT University 9 2
Swinburne University of Technology 8 7
Tabor College Inc. (VIC) 0 0
The University of Melbourne 10 8
University of Ballarat 4 2
Victoria University 4 4
VIC total 57 38
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Table 1: Citations 2010: nomination and recipient numbers (by institution),
continued
Curtin University 7 7
Edith Cowan University 4 2
Murdoch University 9 3
The University of Western Australia 9 6
WA total 29 18
Australian Catholic University 8 6
The University of Notre Dame Australia 7 3
National total 15 9
AUSTRALIA total 297 193
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3.0 Program Awards
Overview
Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning recognise learning and teaching support
programs and services that make an outstanding contribution to the quality of student
learning and the quality of the student experience of higher education. The programs and
services receiving program awards must have demonstrated their effectiveness through
rigorous evaluation and will set benchmarks for similar activities in other institutions.
Nominations for 2010 Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning closed on Friday, 9
July. A maximum of 14 awards were available.
The program award categories are:
1. Assessment and feedback, encompassing assessment initiatives that
encourage students to develop and demonstrate higher-order skills and attitudes
such as academic independence, ethical practices and values, and critical
thinking and feedback that is timely and supports students’ learning development;
2. Educational partnerships and collaborations with other organisations,
encompassing partnerships between universities, and universities and other
organisations – such as schools, professional bodies, businesses and industries
– in collaborative approaches to learning and teaching;
3. The first year experience, encompassing the academic and social transition to
higher education, learning and teaching within large student groups, and the
quality of the first year student experience;
4. Flexible learning and teaching, encompassing approaches to learning and
teaching that afford flexibility in time, place and/or mode of learning;
5. Innovation in curricula, learning and teaching, encompassing innovations that
encourage novel approaches to learning and teaching, innovations that
encourage or support multidisciplinary, research-based learning and teaching
approaches, innovations that utilise the potential of new and/or emerging
technologies;
6. Postgraduate education, encompassing programs that focus on postgraduate
students, postgraduate coursework learning and teaching, postgraduate research
supervision and research higher degree candidature, and postgraduate learning
support; and
7. Services supporting student learning, encompassing services directly related
to student learning such as services for specific groups of students, information
access, course advising, language and learning support, counselling and
disability support.
Each successful nominee across the seven categories receives a program award and
$25,000, paid to the recipient’s institution.
Nominations
In 2010, 42 nominations were received from 23 of the 46 eligible institutions. A list of
program award nominations received and awards made, by category, can be found in
Table 2. A list of program award nominations received and awards made, by institution,
can be found in Table 3.
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Recipients
Awards were presented to 10 recipients from nine institutions (See Table 2 and Table 3),
including the first such award to Victoria University. A list of all 2010 Program Award
recipients can be found in Appendix 1.
Table 2: Program Awards 2010: nominations and recipients (by category)
Category Nominations Recipients
Assessment and feedback 3 0
Educational partnerships and collaborations with
8 3
other organisations
The first year experience 7 2
Flexible learning and teaching 2 2
Innovation in curricula, learning and teaching 12 1
Postgraduate education 3 1
Services supporting student learning 7 1
Total 42 10
Table 3: Program Awards 2010: nominations and recipients (by institution)
Institution Nominations Recipients
Australian Catholic University 1 0
Curtin University 1 1
Deakin University 2 0
Edith Cowan University 1 0
Flinders University 3 0
Griffith University 1 0
James Cook University 1 0
Macquarie University 2 1
Monash University 3 0
Queensland University of Technology 4 2
Swinburne University of Technology 2 1
The Australian National University 1 0
The University of Adelaide 1 0
The University of Melbourne 2 0
The University of Notre Dame Australia 1 0
The University of Queensland 4 1
The University of Western Australia 4 1
University of South Australia 1 0
University of Southern Queensland 1 0
University of Tasmania 2 0
University of Western Sydney 2 1
University of Wollongong 1 1
Victoria University 1 1
Total 42 10
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4.0 Teaching Awards
Overview
Awards for Teaching Excellence celebrate a group of the nation’s most outstanding
university teachers in their fields. Teaching awards give recognition to teachers
(individuals and teams) renowned for the excellence of their teaching, who have
outstanding presentation skills and who have made a broad and deep contribution to
enhancing the quality of learning and teaching in higher education.
Nominations for 2010 Awards for Teaching Excellence closed on Friday, 9 July. A
maximum of 27 awards were available.
There are eight categories of teaching awards:
1. Biological sciences, health and related studies (including agriculture, animal
husbandry, medicine, nursing, etc.);
2. Early career;
3. Humanities and the arts;
4. Law, economics, business and related studies;
5. Neville Bonner Award/s for Indigenous education;
6. Physical sciences and related studies (including architecture, building and
planning, engineering, computing and information science);
7. Social sciences (including education); and
8. Priority area for 2010: internationalisation.
Each successful nominee across the eight categories receives a teaching award, and
$25,000 which is paid to the recipient’s institution.
Nominations
Seventy-nine nominations were received from 28 of the 46 eligible institutions by the
closing date. A list of teaching award nominations received and awards made, by
category can be found in Table 4. A list of teaching award nominations received and
awards made, by institution, can be found in Table 5.
Recipients
In 2010, 21 awards were made to recipients from 28 institutions (see Table 4 and Table
5), including the first such award to a staff member of Charles Darwin University. A list of
all recipients can be found in Table 10 in Appendix 1.
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Table 4: Teaching Awards 2010: nominations and recipients (by category)
Category Nominations Recipients
Biological sciences, health and related studies 15 4
Early career 11 2
Humanities and the arts 9 3
Law, economics, business and related studies 16 3
Neville Bonner award/s for Indigenous education 2 2
Physical sciences and related studies 9 1
Social sciences 12 4
Priority area 2010 − internationalisation 5 2
Total 79 21
Table 5: Teaching Awards 2010: nominations and recipients (by institution)
Institution Nominations Recipients
Bond University 1 0
Charles Darwin University 1 1
CQUniversity Australia 2 0
Curtin University 5 3
Deakin University 2 0
Edith Cowan University 3 0
Flinders University 2 0
Griffith University 3 2
La Trobe University 2 0
Macquarie University 5 0
Monash University 3 1
Queensland University of Technology 6 3
Southern Cross University 1 0
Tabor College Inc. (SA) 2 0
The Australian National University 3 2
The University of Adelaide 7 1
The University of Melbourne 4 0
The University of New South Wales 1 1
The University of Newcastle 4 3
The University of Notre Dame Australia 1 0
The University of Queensland 7 2
The University of Sydney 1 0
The University of Western Australia 6 1
University of Ballarat 1 0
University of South Australia 3 0
University of Southern Queensland 1 0
University of Western Sydney 1 1
Victoria University 1 0
Total 79 21
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5.0 The Prime Minister’s Award for Australian
University Teacher of the Year
Overview
The Prime Minister’s Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year is Australia’s
premier university teaching award. The recipient is selected by the AAUTC from the
successful nominations for teaching awards and receives the Prime Minister’s award and
$50,000, paid to the nominating institution. The Prime Minister’s award is given to an
academic with an exceptional record of advancing student learning, educational
leadership and scholarly contribution to learning and teaching.
In selecting the recipient of the Prime Minister’s award, particular attention is given to the
evidence provided for teaching award criterion five: scholarly activities that have
influenced and enhanced learning and teaching.
Recipient
This year the standing committee selected one outstanding teaching award recipient to
receive the Prime Minister’s award:
Dr John Minns
Dr Minns is Director: Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS)
and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations program, The
Australian National University.
Dr Minns is recognised for his passionate commitment to helping students grapple with
major problems in international political economy. Hallmarks of his teaching include:
presenting students with real-world problems in the global economy which require
analysis; and research and careful attention to the development of research techniques
which are transferable across many disciplines. He poses engaging and challenging
questions about the world we live in and emphasises how these questions really matter to
the lives of millions of people. He ensures his teaching engages students by creating
exciting visual and auditory experiences, including film, music, graphics and crosswords.
The infusion of his research into students’ educational experience also receives positive
feedback from both students and colleagues.
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6.0 Career Achievement Award
Overview
The ALTC will occasionally award a Career Achievement Award to one or more
individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to learning and teaching,
recognised throughout the higher education sector. The Career Achievement Award is
given to individuals whose career achievements in learning and teaching in higher
education have had a major influence and left an enduring legacy.
Nominations are made by members of the ALTC Board.
Recipient
The ALTC Board recognised one outstanding educational leader with the Career
Achievement Award.
Emeritus Professor Richard Johnstone
Professor Johnstone served as the foundation Executive Director of the Australian
Learning and Teaching Council, from 2005 to his retirement in early 2010. A graduate of
The University of Newcastle in New South Wales and University of Cambridge, Professor
Johnstone has lectured in English literature in universities in Australia and the UK. He
has subsequently held a range of senior university appointments, including Deputy Vice-
Chancellor at Charles Sturt University, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic Support) at the
University of Sydney, and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) at the University
of Technology, Sydney, a post he occupied from 2000 to 2005.
Professor Johnstone has demonstrated a career-long commitment to the enhancement of
learning and teaching in higher education. In the late 1990s, he joined the Committee for
University Teaching and Staff Development and was also Deputy Chair of the Australian
Universities Teaching Committee, from 2000 to 2004.
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7.0 Conference funding
Overview
The purpose of this initiative is to promote and advance learning and teaching through
providing funding for recipients of Australian Awards for University Teaching to present at
discipline, research-based, and learning and teaching conferences. Sponsorship is
provided to conference organisers primarily to support recipients to present on their
teaching in the discipline or category of their award. There were two rounds in 2010,
closing 30 April and 1 October.
As described previously, the 2011 guidelines extend eligibility to the support of
presentations by ALTC Fellows who have completed their programs.
Applications
Four applications, with a total value of $16,770, were received (see Table 6).
Table 6: Conference funding recipients
Event
ECU Teaching and Learning
Forum (February 2011)
Griffith University Celebrating
Teaching Seminar
June 2010)
12th IUBMB Conference
21st FAOBMB Conference
ComBio2010 meeting
(September – October 2010)
13th Pacific Rim First Year in
Higher Education Conference
(June 2010)
Host
Institution Award recipient Funding
Edith Cowan
University
Griffith
University
La Trobe
University
Queensland
University of
Technology
Professor
Keithia Wilson
(Griffith University)
Mr Glen Hutchings
(Curtin University)
Associate Professor
Pauline Ross
(University of
Western Sydney)
Dr Claire Macken,
(Deakin University)
Ms Debbie Lees
(Monash University)
Ms Liz Smith
(Charles Sturt University)
Associate Professor
Alf Lizzio
(Griffith University)
Associate Professor
Syed Mahfuzul Aziz
(University of South
Australia)
$3000
$1000
$2480
$10,290
Total $16,770
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8.0 Events
Citation presentation ceremonies
The 2010 Citations were presented in six ceremonies around Australia. Table 7 gives
details of these events. Dr Carol Nicoll, ALTC Chief Executive Officer gave an address at
each ceremony describing the recent developments in the ALTC’s strategy. Citations
were presented at five of the ceremonies by Professor John Hay, Chair of the ALTC
Board, and by Board member, Professor Jane den Hollander, in Melbourne.
Table 7: 2010 Citation presentation ceremonies
Date Location Attendees
Thursday, 29 July State Library of South Australia,
Adelaide
Monday, 2 August Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney
Tuesday, 3 August NGV International, Melbourne 192
Thursday, 5 August Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane 176
Monday, 9 August Old Parliament House, Canberra 89
Wednesday, 11 August Perth Town Hall, Perth 78
Total 786
Awards presentation ceremony
Awards presentations were made at a national ceremony held at Parliament House,
Canberra on Tuesday, 16 November 2010. The program and teaching awards were
presented by Ms Amanda Rishworth MP, Member of House of Representatives Standing
Committee on Education and Employment, representing Senator the Hon Christopher
Evans, Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations. Senator
Evans presented the Prime Minister’s Award.
Later that evening, at the celebratory dinner at Old Parliament House, the career
achievement award was presented by Professor John Hay, Chair of the ALTC Board.
The ceremony was attended by 211 guests, including staff from 27 institutions, DEEWR,
and other peak bodies such as TEQSA, AQF Council, Australian Research Council,
Innovative Research Universities and Australian Institute for Teaching and School
Leadership.
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9.0 Appendix 1 2010 Citation and Award recipients
ALTC Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning 2010
Australian Catholic University
Professor Graham Rossiter
For a comprehensive, research-enhanced contribution to religious education in Australia
and overseas
Dr Anne Scott
For inspiring students to become effective primary teachers by making the vital link
between literacy, numeracy and ICT in the cause of social justice
Dr Tracey Sanders
For empowering and creative teaching practices that enhance student learning through
collaborative and community partnerships on the Brisbane ACU campus
Dr Donna Gronn
For an outstanding contribution to the pedagogically sound use of technology in teacher
education, through teaching and staff development
Ms Alison Blair
For sustained enthusiasm and expertise in leadership through early adoption of the web,
and staff development for quality online education
Dr Vanessa Rice
For an influential contribution to the postgraduate education of exercise physiologists
through innovative work-integrated learning
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education
Dr Kirstin Ross
For embracing, exploring and evaluating an ‘authentic-experiences’ approach to teaching
Indigenous and non-Indigenous students in public health
Bond University
Associate Professor Amy Kenworthy
For translating a command of the field of Business Negotiation into curricula, experiential
teaching approaches, resources and services that motivate and inspire students to learn
Associate Professor Allan Stirling
For designing learning opportunities that engage and motivate medical students in
clinically applied anatomy
Charles Sturt University
Dr Jennifer Sappey
For sustained enthusiasm and commitment to the pursuit of social justice by creating
learning experiences that inspire, influence and motivate all students to succeed.
Dr Chris Scott
For engaging and motivating large classes of professional practice-oriented students in
service subjects
Mr David Maxwell and Mr Brett Van Heekeren
Building an effective and sustained relationship with industry stakeholders to create an
innovative learning environment for Commercial Radio students.
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Dr Gerard Boland
For innovation and sustained dedication to facilitating challenging yet positive learning
environments that enable pre-professional theatre-makers to devise original
entertainments for performance amongst popular audiences.
CQUniversity
Professor Robert Reed
For developing engaging and effective resources to support student learning across the
sciences
Mrs Helen Holden
For using creative strategies that enable a diverse group of marginalised learners to
develop the academic and personal skills necessary to become successful lifelong
learners
Ms Judith Brown
For sustained learning engagement and motivation of performing arts students through
the presentation of inspirational lecture recitals that foster independent and lifelong
learning
Curtin University
Associate Professor Jan Grant
For developing exemplary teaching resources and innovative experiential approaches
resulting in high student engagement, integrated learning and skill development in
counselling psychology postgraduates
Associate Professor Katie Dunworth
For leadership and innovation in nurturing the enhancement of English language
proficiency among students and staff from linguistically diverse backgrounds
Associate Professor Mauro Mocerino
For a sustained commitment to improving student learning of chemistry through
scholarship and the use of innovative and active learning strategies
Professor Beverley Oliver and Curriculum 2010 Team
For implementation of an evidence-based and scholarly Comprehensive Course Review
process leading to increased student satisfaction
Mr Khoa Do
For developing unique and innovative approaches to support creative learning
environments that enhance and enrich self-directed and independent learning within the
discipline of architecture
Ms Lisa Goldacre
For the innovative, engaging and flexible delivery of an introduction to law course to first
year business students in large classes in a transnational setting
Mr Corey Sinteur
For commitment as a sessional teacher of advertising and marketing to teaching diverse
student cohorts both onshore and offshore using an industry-focused approach
Deakin University
Dr Debra Bateman
For the sustained use of highly innovative and imaginative pedagogies and curriculum,
and leading-edge design of learning spaces, that significantly enhance student learning
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Ms Berni Murphy
For inspiring students in Public Health and Health Promotion through innovative and
highly engaging approaches, and a strong command of the field
Dr Julie Cassidy
For pioneering innovative and engaging teaching methodologies and technologies to
support inclusive experiential learning that facilitates practical legal skills development
and promotes inter-cultural competencies
Ms Jo Raphael
For creative approaches to providing relevant, authentic and student-centred learning
experiences that inspire education students to become effective and reflective future
educators
Mr Paul Bethell
For engaging and creative teaching strategies that take the newsroom into the classroom
and build a bridge between the academy and industry for journalism students
Associate Professor Malcolm Campbell
For sustained and inspirational leadership of teaching and learning across an institution
Associate Professor Kieran Lim
For the development of curriculum and learning resources, which encourage, empower
and engage chemistry students
Edith Cowan University
Associate Professor Andrew Lewis
For the design and implementation of an innovative cross-disciplinary approach to screen
and theatre acting that is successfully engaging students and achieving positive
employment outcomes
Mr Micheal McCarthy
For the development and implementation of a unique approach to aural training that
inspires students and provides sound music training
Flinders University
Dr Katrina Breaden and ALTC Team
For the development and implementation of an innovative, influential and collaborative
palliative programme that meets the needs of culturally diverse students across the Asia-
Pacific region
Mr Michael A Bull and Associate Professor Carol Irizarry
For leadership and innovation in developing specialist teaching of loss, grief and trauma
theory and practice in a professional social work course
Associate Professor Linnett Sanchez, Associate Professor Simon Carney, Ms Karen
Sparrow and Associate Professor David Turner
For a team-led, multidisciplinary workplace experience involving health professional
students in remote indigenous communities. Fostering professional and personal learning
and development beyond the comfort zone
Associate Professor Jamie Quinton
For influencing, inspiring and motivating student learning through the design and delivery
of engaging, interactive and fun Physics curricula that focus on positive student
experiences
Professor Laurence Owens
For sustained excellence in student centred respectful and responsive teaching
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Dr Kate Douglas
For Teaching Traumatic Literature: Engaging the Whole Student through Effective
Communication and Supportive Teaching Practices
Griffith University
Ms Karen van Haeringen and Ms Jennifer Martin
For the strategic development and implementation of institutional policy, systems and
services that support a sustainable and holistic approach to promoting academic integrity
among students
Associate Professor Janis Bailey
For creating a highly engaging capstone course in Employment Relations that
synthesises and applies students’ previous learning providing an effective bridge to their
working futures
Ms Judy Hartley, Ms Martina Donaghy, Ms Jo Merley, Ms Trish O'Keefe and Ms Suzanne
Wilkinson
For sustained commitment to the development and delivery of high quality equity
programs that support the aspirations and capabilities of students from diverse
backgrounds
Ms Carol-joy Patrick and ALTC Team
For being an ‘agent-of-change’, over more than a decade, institutionally and nationally
through practitioner-driven contributions to work-integrated learning scholarship
Dr Yuping Wang
For innovation in curriculum and resource development, through the creative integration
of information and communication technologies (ICTs), to meet the needs of language
learners
Associate Professor Hong Guan
For nurturing responsible structural engineering professionals in developing skill sets and
expertise in planning, analysing, designing, and constructing safe, effective and
economical structures
Professor Vladimir Estivill-Castro
For leadership and innovation in postgraduate supervision that supports, engages, and
inspires computer science research students to succeed in a highly competitive research
environment
Dr Merrelyn Bates
For long-term, student-focused leadership that develops individual strengths, fosters
independent learning, self-efficacy and professional capacity for future work in
Criminology and Criminal Justice
James Cook University
Dr Raoul Adam
For the effective design and implementation of pedagogies that foster learner
'connectedness' in a pre-service teacher education course
Dr Marie Caltabiano
For integrating 'Best Practice' work models with pedagogy and scholarship to foster
desired attributes in Psychology graduates
Associate Professor Susan Gordon, Ms Marianne Bonassi, Dr Marion Gray and Ms Anne
Jones
For the development, implementation and review of Individual Learning Plans in Allied
Health which successfully respect and support first year students as individuals
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Dr Josephine Pryce
For sustained and enthusiastic teaching that creates a positive learning environment and
involves, empowers and transforms students through their learning of management
theories and practice
Dr Lindsay Harrington
For sustained commitment and enthusiasm to improving student engagement and
achievement in marine biology through multi-dimensional teaching and response to
feedback
La Trobe University
Professor Richard Broome
For sustained teaching excellence in tertiary history based on high quality research and
leadership in disseminating and communicating leading research through secondary
educational history resources
Ms Tania Blanksby and ALTC Team
For a ‘community of practice’ leadership approach to curriculum redesign, leading to an
enhanced first year learning experience in biology
Associate Professor Ishaq Bhatti
For the innovative development of Australia’s first ever Islamic Banking and Finance
course designed according to Shariah laws and ethical values to enhance student
learning
Macquarie University
Dr Kerry-Ann O'Sullivan
For excellence in supporting English teachers at critical points of professional transition
through the innovative provision of high-quality, engaging and research-led ICT resources
Ms Sue Spinks
For sustained commitment to empowering students to find their individual academic
“voices”, and to achieving excellent outcomes for all students through relevant University
committees.
Dr Michelle Arrow
For an enthusiastic, collaborative and accessible approach to teaching that inspires
student excitement, engagement and enjoyment of Australian history
Dr Matt Bower
For supporting pre-service teachers to develop learning design capabilities based upon a
scholarly and passionate approach to educational technology innovation.
Monash University
Associate Professor Mike Grace
For sustained, effective contributions to innovative curriculum design using scenariobased
learning and facilitating student engagement in chemistry
Dr Michael Henderson
For designing rich, participative online learning environments in which students are
motivated and inspired to learn
Mr Matthew Butler, Dr Angela Carbone, Mr Shane Moore, Ms Mylini Munusamy and Ms
Sheelagh Walton
For team leadership that reinvigorated a challenging multi-campus, multi-disciplinary first
year core programming unit through introducing innovative feedback processes to
develop independent student learning
2010 Awards Scheme Report 20

Dr Karen Hapgood
For using her industrial experience to mentor chemical engineering students to achieve
their career aspirations and to prepare students for life after university
Dr Richard Reina
For sustained excellence in supervision of honours students in biological science that
guides their evolution into research-trained scientists
Murdoch University
Ms Prue Andrus
For engaging and preparing third year nursing students in caring for a critically ill patient
during emergency resuscitation simulation exercises.
Dr Martin Cake, Dr Melinda Bell, Dr Teresa Collins and Dr Jennifer Mills
For innovation and leadership in the successful integration of Veterinary Professional
Life, a whole-of-course intervention enhancing professional attitudes, ethics,
communication and life skills
Ms Linda Butcher
For creative integration of pedagogical and professional media knowledge to produce
effective, engaging resources addressing emerging learning and teaching issues
Queensland University of Technology
Dr Jo Lampert
For sustained commitment to faculty and university-wide leadership in providing
innovative learning and teaching related to social inclusion, equity and Indigenous
education For sustained commitment to faculty and university-wide leadership in
providing innovative learning and teaching related to social inclusion, equity and
Indigenous education
Professor Patsy Yates
For developing learner and patient-centred approaches that prepare nurses to make
positive contributions to improving health outcomes for our community
Dr Dann Mallet
Supporting undergraduate learning through leadership, research-guided teaching
strategies and resource and curriculum development, modern communication practices,
and contextualised mathematics
Dr Tommy Tang
For consistently creating an authentic, experience-based and interactive environment for
deep learning and promoting effective teaching through research, peer mentoring and
support activities
Associate Professor Les Dawes
For sustained commitment to innovative student-focused learning experiences and
environments that engage students in real world learning
Mr Trevor Stanley
For leadership in the development and implementation of innovative curriculum design to
deliver authentic, sustainable and integrative learning experiences for accountancy
students
Dr Laura Gregory
For the development of a transformational linguistic approach to the teaching of anatomy
while providing a learning environment that promotes actualisation of student potential
2010 Awards Scheme Report 21

RMIT University
Dr Jeff Shimeta
For innovative teaching of critical-thinking skills at the undergraduate level in the context
of understanding science as an investigative process
Dr Kate Westberg
For sustained innovation and institutional leadership in developing industry-relevant
curricula, resources and assessment to enhance student learning and engagement with
large undergraduate marketing cohorts
Southern Cross University
Dr Ross Goldingay
For authentic, field-based learning about wildlife conservation that illuminates the nexus
between teaching and research for environmental science students
Ms Meredith Kayess
For empowering and encouraging students through the development of student identity
and self-aware approaches to learning in the humanities during the transition to university
Dr Janie Conway-Herron and ALTC Team
For the sustained provision of innovative, flexible, research-based creative writing
resources to achieve transformative, vocationally valued, student-centred learning
opportunities
Swinburne University of Technology
Dr Benedict John Williams
For sustained development of innovative and integrated learning activities and
assessments that enhance student engagement and learning
Dr Carolyn Beasley
For outstanding achievement in inspiring incarcerated students with limited educational
backgrounds to achieve academic success in postgraduate education
Dr Antonio Lobo
For developing and implementing real world industry client-based projects which produce
significant improvements in student learning through active engagement in
undergraduate marketing education
Ms Julie De Rooy
For excellence in teaching law, including engaging multidisciplinary and culturally diverse
students, using targeted real world scenarios, extensive feedback and transition
workshops
Dr Dominique Hecq
For excellence in postgraduate teaching by developing and implementing highly
personalised learning practices which enhance student creativity, performance, wellbeing,
social inclusion and recognition beyond academe
Ms Nicki Wragg
For teaching excellence in the development of a research/practice paradigm that
establishes Swinburne honours graduates as leaders in their field and as potential design
researchers
Dr Catherine Lang
For sustained leadership in building a Women in ICT community providing student
leadership opportunities, engaging with diverse groups and creating successful academic
and social experience
2010 Awards Scheme Report 22

The Australian National University
Dr Lindell Bromham
For using enquiry-led learning to engage students with ideas in evolution and genetics
and to encourage them to take an active role in hypothesis-testing
Dr Katrina Lee-Koo
For developing and empowering students as independent and responsible agents for
change in the global politics of security
Dr McComas Taylor and Dr Ashvin Parameswaran
For innovative and flexible approaches to teaching and learning that reinvigorate South
Asian Studies in Australia
Associate Professor Molly Townes O'Brien
For using media creatively in large group law teaching to excite interest, promote
engagement and inspire deep learning
Dr Craig Savage
For implementing curricula that focus on thinking and acting like a physicist, especially
through the development and scholarly evaluation of technology for physics education
Dr John Powers
For developing innovative materials to inform students about religion as a global
phenomenon, and to analyse how religion influences current events
Professor Tom Kompas
For passionate, motivational and respectful teaching, making difficult mathematical and
statistical concepts meaningfully clear and practical for applied economic research and
policy evaluation
The University of Adelaide
Dr Steven Grainger
For enhancing the engagement, learning outcomes and achievements of the diverse
student body through the development of open-ended cooperative learning project
frameworks
Dr Natalie Williamson
For combining humour, enthusiasm, clarity and strategic activities to arouse curiosity
among chemistry students, encouraging a willingness to question and seek answers for
deeper understanding
Ms Catherine Snelling and Ms Sophie Karanicolas
For sustained excellence in team teaching in a lively, imaginative and engaging manner
that inspires enthusiastic, independent learning in the field of oral health
Dr Ben McCann
For using language immersion, along with joie de vivre, to motivate students and inspire
engagement in French grammar, literature and culture
Mr Joshua McCarthy
For successfully promoting professional, academic and social interaction among a
diverse cohort of digital design students using the participatory web, and dashes of
humour
2010 Awards Scheme Report 23

The University of Melbourne
Professor Kate Darian-Smith
For over ten years’ commitment to supervision ensuring the success of diverse
postgraduate students researching across disciplines in humanities and creative arts,
institutionally and nationally
Mr Clinton Golding
For ‘educating for thinking’ through the development and implementation of thoughtprovoking
curricula, resources and scholarly activities across disciplines, resulting in
critical, creative and insightful students
Professor Rachel Webster
For creating an exceptional research training culture, inspiring and supporting early
researchers to achieve excellence in the astrophysics field, and more broadly as research
scholars
Mr Clifford Ogleby
For 29 years of excellence in motivating students to become skilled professional leaders
in surveying, mapping and spatial information, with an empathetic world view
Professor Marilyn Renfree
For over three decades of inspirational supervision and long-term career mentoring of
research higher degree students, with outstanding outcomes for students in the life
sciences
Professor Mark Elgar
An exemplary record of providing individually adapted supervision, support and mentoring
that equips students with the skills and confidence to flourish as independent research
scientists
Ms Sara Pheasant
For enhancing students’ experience of learning through embedding procedural fairness
and equality into administrative processes, encouraging greater transparency and
institutional responsiveness to individuals' circumstances
Ms Sunita Jogarajan
For ongoing dedication and innovation in engaging and enthusing widely diverse cohorts
of students in their study of the traditionally daunting subject of taxation law
The University of New South Wales
Dr Eileen Pittaway
For internships that change lives: producing reciprocal benefits between refugees, United
Nations agencies and students, and exceptional learning leading to major social change
Dr Louise Lutze-Mann
For the sustained development and implementation of research-focused teaching
resources for undergraduate science students that encourage student engagement
Dr Gangadhara B Prusty
For innovative teaching and assessment of mechanics courses in engineering, which
encourage and motivate students to learn threshold concepts effectively
Associate Professor Richard Madelaine
For fostering a performance-based approach to drama in the discipline of English, by
teaching Shakespeare in a manner that has inspired students over four decades
2010 Awards Scheme Report 24

Ms Anna Cody, Ms Emma Golledge, Ms Anna Hartree and Ms Denise Wasley
For innovative clinical legal education which inspires law students to connect legal
practice, theory and justice issues while working with disadvantaged communities
The University of Newcastle
Dr Michael Ondaatje
For creating exceptionally engaging teaching environments and embedding innovative
resources in newly-developed American history courses that have inspired and motivated
students to learn
Mr Brendon Murphy
For responding to the unique needs of students in transition by developing and
embedding innovative teaching strategies in the study of criminal law
Dr Johanna Macneil
For successfully integrating problem-based learning into graduate human resource
management courses, thereby enhancing student engagement, professional knowledge,
and an appreciation for plural perspectives
Mrs Josephine Smith
For responding to student needs by developing sustainable, innovative and effective
teaching resources to support and enhance student learning in head and neck anatomy
Ms Yolanda Surjan
For sustained commitment to the development of innovative strategies to engage and
support first year student transition in a large and multidisciplinary undergraduate course
Dr Sharyn Hunter
For redesigning a course on nursing older people that incorporates sustainable strategies
which challenge nursing students’ attitudes and prepare them for professional practice
The University of Notre Dame Australia
Dr Angeline O'Neill
For motivating and inspiring students through the creation and outstanding teaching of an
innovative, sustained program in English literature
Professor Richard Berlach
For sustained commitment to facilitating learning through the development of a research
culture within the Fremantle campus’ School of Education
Ms Claire Kaylock
For using active student-centred approaches to promote student engagement within a
constructivist model of legal learning
The University of Queensland
Dr James Laurenceson
For sustained excellence in teaching large undergraduate economics courses: inspiring
students through relevance, interaction, enthusiasm and humour – contributing to
increasing enrolments and lower attrition rates
Mr Michael Jennings
For improving first year students’ mathematical understanding through enthusiasm,
engagement and innovative teaching approaches
2010 Awards Scheme Report 25

Professor John Simmons
For excellence in teaching that has inspired, challenged and encouraged engineering
students in six decades, and for national leadership of culture change in engineering
education
Professor Lawrence Gahan
For 25 years of engaging students, enhancing learning, inspiring colleagues and
sustaining leadership in chemistry
Dr Terry Tunny
For outstanding dedication and expertise in teaching physiology in clinical context to
medical students resulting in an enhanced educational experience in the medical
program
Dr Martie-Louise Verreynne, Mr Stewart Gow and Mr Clint Ramsay
For sustained excellence in engaging industry in the learning experiences and
professional development of postgraduate business students
Associate Professor Matthew Hornsey
For inspiring and motivating psychology students in large classes through the use of
narrative and connectedness
Associate Professor Malcolm Parker
For preparing future doctors to manage the ethical, legal and professional obligations and
challenges of 21st Century medical practice, through 15 years of inspiring leadership
Mrs Margaret Stephenson
For outstanding teaching and leadership in internationalising the curriculum, in promoting
global student learning and offering students a ‘virtual overseas education’ experience
without leaving home
Associate Professor Joseph Grotowski
For sustained leadership in teaching and learning of mathematics – engaging students
and inspiring an institutional culture around curriculum innovations across the discipline
The University of Sydney
Dr Tara Murphy and Dr James R Curran
For their outstanding commitment to first year IT teaching, including the development of
an innovative online learning system to enhance the student experience
Ms Patty Kamvounias
For sustained commitment to enhancing student learning in business law through an
integrated approach to assessment and feedback
Dr Peter Gibbens
For the development of an internationally recognised simulation based experiential
learning system for flight mechanics that has produced significant improvements in
student learning and enthusiasm
Dr Sabine Ludewig
For sustained commitment to enhancing the learning experience of undergraduate
students by creating an intellectually challenging learning culture that fosters motivation,
inclusion and intellectual autonomy
The University of Western Australia
Winthrop Professor Lawrie Beilin
For three decades of exemplary leadership in teaching and learning and for fostering
relationships between universities and hospitals that is crucial for excellence in medical
education
2010 Awards Scheme Report 26

Winthrop Professor John Campbell Murdoch
For the development and implementation of a unique program which delivers clinical
education to undergraduate medical students in a variety of rural and remote settings
Professor Carolyn Oldham
For sustained commitment to increasing diversity of student learning experiences in
engineering
Winthrop Professor Michael Tobar
For inspiring physics students to reach their full potential and transform into successful
research scientists through participation in ground breaking research
Professor Paul Fournier
For 15 years of sustained exemplary teaching in the field of bioenergetics in exercise,
health and disease
Winthrop Professor Lesley Vidovich
For sustained outstanding commitment to the highest quality postgraduate teaching and
research supervision which motivates and inspires students to engage with Education
studies
University of Ballarat
Dr Robyn Brandenburg
For developing pre-service teachers as critically reflective practitioners through the
application of an innovative, scholarly and extensively researched strategy known as
Roundtable Reflective Inquiry
Ms Diane Clingin
For long-term contribution to the development of innovative services and pastoral support
to higher degree research candidates, contributing to a strong postgraduate life at the
University of Ballarat
University of Canberra
Dr Thea Vanags
For using active learning to demystify psychology, inspiring student engagement with the
‘hard, boring’ topics to create exciting learning interactions
Dr Robyn Prior
For using ‘step-wise’ knowledge building approaches to help reluctant learners
understand and apply complex concepts in difficult biochemistry areas
University of New England
Associate Professor Russell McDougall
For sustained commitment to and demonstrated excellence in creating innovative,
empowering and challenging online learning communities to enhance students' distance
learning in literature studies
Dr Robyn Muldoon
For leadership in the development of the New England Award, an innovative program
which fosters students’ personal and professional development at university through
extra-curricular activity
University of South Australia
Associate Professor Rosie Le Cornu
For sustained commitment to innovation and scholarship in professional experience
(practicum) in the field of teacher education
2010 Awards Scheme Report 27

Dr Denise Wood
For sustained excellence in engaging undergraduate students through service learning
and research activities that promote social and ethical action and enhance the student
learning experience
Mr David Blaiklock
For excellence in the approach to illustration design teaching which supports, motivates
and engages student learning through the recognition of individual priorities and
professional focus
Dr Jackie O'Flaherty
For sustained use of innovative learning initiatives that engage nursing/midwifery
undergraduates and which significantly contribute to a supportive learning environment
and positive learning experience
Dr Sharon Russo and ALTC Team
For a sustained team approach that meets the challenges of teaching early childhood
education in a transnational context through empathetic approaches supporting students
as individuals
Mr Peter Balan
For sustained innovation in approaches that develop students’ ability to relate classroom
teaching to industry and community application
Dr Malgorzata Korolkiewicz
For sustained commitment to enhancing the overall experience for first year students in a
mathematics service course
University of Southern Queensland
Dr Birgit Loch
For innovation in the use of technologies for mathematics teaching, and leadership in
lecturers’ adoption of these technologies to promote student learning
Dr Rhoderick McNeill
For a sustained contribution to curriculum development in music education and for
enhancing access to music education for diverse groups of students
Associate Professor Aileen Cater-Steel
For leadership and innovation in designing and developing an information technology
service management curriculum incorporating internationally-recognised professional
certification in response to industry demand
University of Tasmania
Dr Natalie Brown
For encouraging a focus on student learning by promoting, modelling and working with
colleagues to advance scholarship of teaching and learning through a ‘value-adding’
approach
Associate Professor Sankar Sinha
For developing innovative, active learning activities and implementing them in a
challenging and supportive environment to prepare compassionate, holistic, critical and
highly skilled medical practitioners
Dr Derek Choi-Lundberg
For development and enthusiastic delivery of constructively aligned, diverse, active
learning sessions that motivate undergraduate medical students to learn human anatomy
in a supportive environment
2010 Awards Scheme Report 28

Associate Professor Frances Martin
For sustained enthusiasm, commitment and passion to student-centred learning of
scientific methodology which has inspired students to be excited and passionate about
research
Dr Christopher Kong Hua Chin
For creating an innovative learning environment that inspires cross-faculty first year
mathematics students to continue their studies and foster independent learning skills
University of Technology, Sydney
Dr Keith Willey and Mrs Anne Gardner
For sustained scholarly contributions to collaborative learning oriented assessment
activities, innovative use of self and peer assessment, efficient feedback mechanisms
and development of students’ judgement
Ms Michelle Kelly
For sustained leadership and mentorship in the integration of health care simulation
learning experiences to enhance practice readiness of nurses and midwives
Associate Professor Toni Robertson
For an innovative, significant and sustained contribution to undergraduate and
postgraduate learning in the related fields of human computer interaction and interaction
design
Dr John Buchanan
For sustained contributions to education students’ understandings of social issues,
particularly intercultural issues, from a variety of perspectives, to assist their students in
doing likewise
Dr Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson
For sustained innovation in socio-technical studies curriculum and in flexible delivery
technologies, grounded in both scholarship and student learning outcomes
Mrs Sue O'Neill
For sustained commitment to excellence in the delivery of undergraduate teacher
education courses resulting in enhanced engagement and learning by students via
enthusiasm and relevance
University of the Sunshine Coast
Dr Phillip Ablett
For enlivening social theory to inspire students to become agents of change for a just,
democratic and sustainable society
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
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
2010 Awards Scheme Report 29

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 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
University of Western Sydney
Dr Satomi Kawaguchi
For the ‘3-New’ approach: using second language acquisition research, new
communication technologies and pedagogy to motivate, inspire and engage students of
Japanese for better learning outcomes
Dr Catherine Camden-Pratt
For foregrounding critical creativity: establishing safe spaces for experimentation using
creative learning approaches which transform students’ understanding of themselves as
agents of change
Dr Leanne Rylands
For sustained quality contributions to mathematical learning for all ability levels and
backgrounds by motivating and inspiring students in an open, positive and passionate
environment
Dr Adrian Renshaw
For excellence in science teaching broadening participation, engagement and inspiring
students to learn using approaches in assessment and feedback that foster independent
learning
Dr Katrina Barker
For creating an atmosphere of intellectual excitement to influence, inspire and motivate
diverse groups of students preparing for careers in teaching
Dr Roumen Dimitrov
For successful experiential and engaged learning and teaching that educates public
relations students to stand out as professionals
Dr Fernanda Duarte
For effectively facilitating transformative learning in a management school through sound
scholarship and engaging experientially-based approaches that inspire students to think
more critically and ethically
Dr Mark Williams
For innovative online resources providing high quality, timely and constructive feedback:
enhancing student learning for diverse student cohorts in chemistry
Dr Sharon Andrew
Bridging the research-teaching nexus: applying educational research to ensure an
evidence-based approach for improved student outcomes in nursing programs
Dr Margaret Clarke
For leading quality change in teacher education and influencing improvement of teaching
and learning practices through her scholarly work at the University of Western Sydney
University of Wollongong
Professor Timothy McCarthy
For leadership in curriculum and space design that fosters collaborative learning,
particularly for ‘killer’ subjects in engineering
2010 Awards Scheme Report 30

Dr Christine Brown
For inspiring collaborative reflection amongst academics and sowing the seeds of
educational change through enhanced institutional peer recognition of teaching
Professor Diana Wood Conroy
For passionate commitment to innovative doctoral supervision of individuals across
cultures in creative practice-led research 1998-2010
Dr Karen Daly and Ms Lidia Bilbatua
For a vibrant Spanish language curriculum that blends language and culture through
creative use of technology
Associate Professor Rodney Nillsen
For inspiring students, extending their conceptual grasp, and encouraging independent
thought through developing new ideas, materials and teaching approaches in
mathematics
Associate Professor Ian McCall and Mr John Littrich
For introducing law graduates to the challenges of professional practice in an authentic
and supportive blended learning environment
Associate Professor Mohan Chinnappan
For research developing and using model-eliciting activities in numeracy to enhance the
professional development of teachers
Victoria University
Dr Kerry Dickson
For sustained contributions to engaging disadvantaged students in learning anatomy and
physiology, especially via kinesthetic approaches
Dr Gillian Best, Dr Darko Hajzler and Ms Lily Wong
For sustained creative development of a peer mentoring program in first year accounting
that has enriched the educational experience of students as mentors and mentees
Ms Angela Dressler
For sustained initiative creating an embedded career development model for
undergraduates that provides career direction, instils lifelong career management
strategies, builds confidence, and enhances employability
Dr Mark Vicars
For pedagogical approaches that motivate, inspire and support socially disadvantaged
and culturally diverse students to overcome barriers to learning and to experience and
attain success
2010 Awards Scheme Report 31

Table 8: ALTC Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning 2010
Educational Partnerships and Collaborations with Other Organisations
Beyond institutional walls: community
Engagement in secondary teacher education
Professional Practice program, School of Sport
Science, Exercise and Health (SSEH)
University of Western Sydney
The University of Western Australia
Mining Education Australia The University of Queensland
The First-Year Experience
PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions) @ UOW
Telemachus Ancient History Mentor Program
(a.k.a Tele's Angels)
Flexible Learning and Teaching
Career Development Program
Open Access Undergraduate Information Systems
Program - Inclusive Online Pedagogy
University of Wollongong
Macquarie University
Innovation in Curricula, Learning and Teaching
Go Global Curtin University
Queensland University of Technology
Swinburne University of Technology
Postgraduate Education
Demystifying the Thesis Victoria University
Services Supporting Student Learning
QUT Student ePortfolio Program Queensland University of Technology
2010 Awards Scheme Report 32

Table 9: ALTC Awards for Teaching Excellence 2010
Biological Sciences, Health and Related Studies
Associate Professor Tracy Levett-Jones The University of Newcastle
Associate Professor Christian Lueck The Australian National University
Dr Keith McGuinness Charles Darwin University
Associate Professor Gary Velan The University of New South Wales
Early Career
Dr Amy Cutter-Mackenzie Monash University
Dr Greg Marston The University of Queensland
Humanities and the Arts
Dr Scott Harrison Griffith University
Associate Professor Elizabeth Koch OAM The University of Adelaide
Dr Philip Matthias The University of Newcastle
Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies
Associate Professor John Anderson The University of Newcastle
Mr Michael Blissenden University of Western Sydney
Professor Ian Phau Curtin University
Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Education
Mr John Mallard, Dr Julie Hoffman,
Ms Rosalie Thackrah
Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson,
Dr Maggie Walter
Curtin University
Queensland University of
Technology,
University of Tasmania
Physical Sciences and Related Studies
Mr Andrew Scott Queensland University of Technology
Social Sciences
Dr Shelley Dole The University of Queensland
Dr Deborah Henderson Queensland University of Technology
Dr John Minns The Australian National University
Assistant Professor Mark Pegrum The University of Western Australia
Priority Area 2010 − Internationalisation
Associate Professor Jaya Earnest Curtin University
Dr Peter Woods Griffith University
2010 Awards Scheme Report 33

10.0 Appendix 2 Cumulative Scheme data 2006-2010
Citations
Total nominations
Table A2.1
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2006-10
Nominations received 290 326 305 286 297 1504
Citations awarded 208 252 208 206 193 1067
Success rate 72% 77% 68% 72% 65% 71%
Participation
Table A2.2
Number of eligible
institutions
Number of institutions
submitting nominations
Percentage of eligible
institutions submitting
at least one nomination
Number of eligible
institutions submitting
more than one
nomination
Percentage (of total
nominations received)
from institutions
submitting more than
one nomination
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
45 45 44 44 46
37 39 41 40 42
82% 87% 93% 91% 91%
37 38 40 38 42
100% 97% 98% 95% 100%
2010 Awards Scheme Report 34

Awards for Teaching Excellence
Total number of individual nominations
Table A2.3
Individual nominations
received
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2006-10
109 91 87 101 73 461
Awards made 19 23 20 22 19 103
Success rate 17% 25% 23% 22% 26% 22%
Total number of team nominations
Table A2.4
Team nominations
received
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2006-10
14 11 9 8 6 48
Awards made 3 1 1 2 2 9
Success rate 21% 9% 11% 25% 33% 19%
Participation rates
Table A2.5
Number of eligible
institutions
Number of institutions
submitting nominations
Percentage of eligible
institutions submitting
at least one nomination
Number of institutions
submitting more than
one nomination
Percentage (of total
nominations received)
from institutions
submitting more than
one nomination
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
45 45 44 44 46
32 27 30 31 28
71% 60% 68% 70% 61%
25 20 20 27 18
78% 74% 67% 87% 64%
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Programs that Enhance Learning
Total number of nominations
Table A2.6
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2006-10
Nominations received 75 59 42 44 42 262
Awards made 11 14 10 12 10 57
Success rate 15% 24% 24% 27% 24% 22%
Participation rates
Table A2.7
Number of eligible
institutions
Number of institutions
submitting nominations
Percentage of eligible
institutions submitting
at least one nomination
Number of eligible
institutions submitting
more than one
nomination
Percentage (of total
nominations received)
from institutions
submitting more than
one nomination
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
45 45 44 44 46
27 26 18 20 23
60% 58% 41% 45% 50%
15 15 10 12 11
56% 58% 56% 60% 48%
2010 Awards Scheme Report 36