The Teaching and Learning Enhancement Grant scheme can provide you with support, advice, and resources to make improvements to your teaching. Applying for a grant is a great opportunity to get dedicated time from learning designers to develop interactive online resources, create videos, get assessment or course design advice, or increase engagement in lectures or tutorials. All academics and clinicians in SMP are invited to apply now for projects to be undertaken in 2025, with dedicated funding available for postgraduate and undergraduate medicine and psychology courses and programs.
What kinds of projects can be funded?
TELT projects can include a range of different options to enhance learning and teaching in a particular program or course, such as re-designing curriculum, courses, activities, or assessments to promote active learning for students. For example, adapting lecture content into interactive online modules can free up in-class time to focus on hands-on activities.
The project funding is often used to provide staffing to support the academics and clinicians to research and prepare the content, with the TELT team producing multimedia, graphics, video, and providing learning design and project management support. Funding can also be used to purchase specialised software, hardware, or digital assets if needed.
Some options to consider:
- Create simulations of patients for students to interact with
- Produce videos demonstrating specific skills or concepts
- Adapt traditional lectures to interactive workhops
- Re-design assessments to be more authentic to real-world situations
- Update course Wattle sites to make them consistent and more user-friendly
Examples of previous projects
TELT has worked on a range of curriculum and assessment design and multimedia production projects with SMP academics across a range of disciplines.
How to apply
Proposals for teaching and learning enhancement projects are approved by the School Education Committee, and need to be endorsed by the relevant program committee first. TELT can provide guidance throughout the process and assist in preparing the application.
- Meet with learning designer in TELT to discuss and scope your idea.
- Fill in the application form.
- Submit to your program committee.
- If endorsed, submit to School Education Committee for approval by 30 June, 2024.
- Project work commences in 2025.