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1. Vice Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Awards (VC L&T Awards)
2. Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Awards
3. 2009 Application deadlines
4. 2009 VC L&T Award Guidelines
5. 2009 VC L&T Application Form
6. 2009 ALTC Award Guidelines
7. Recent VC L&T & ALTC award winners and nominees in 2008
8. Past winners (VC L&T Awards and ALTC Awards)
9. Further information and contact details
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There are two levels of teaching and learning related awards that might interest ECU staff.  There are the local ECU awards and the national awards.  The local ECU VC L&T Awards mirror the national Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Awards for obvious strategic reasons.  Winners of VC L&T Awards in any given year are therefore in a very good position to press for ECU nomination in the corresponding ALTC category in the same year.

The VC L&T Awards are not just for academics.  Both VC Citations and VC Awards for Programs that Enhance learning are open to general staff as well as academics.  Check the Guidelines for more detail!

The ECU VC L&T Awards are intended to encourage, recognise and reward excellence and achievement in all forms of teaching, as well as innovations, initiatives and services that contribute in diverse ways to student learning. There are three major award categories in the ECU Vice-Chancellor’s Award Scheme:

• Vice-Chancellor’s Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (VC Citations);
• Vice Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching (VCAET);
• Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning (VC_APEL).

Each of these is explained below in more detail:

Vice-Chancellor’s Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (VC Citations)
The VC Citation scheme is designed to recognise and reward the diverse contributions that individuals and teams make to the quality of student learning. VC Citations are open to general staff as well as academics. Citations are awarded to people who have made a significant contribution to student learning in a specific area of responsibility, over a sustained period, who are widely recognised for their achievements and who have received strong endorsement from students, colleagues and the wider higher education community. Nominations are encouraged from individuals and teams that may include: academic staff, general staff, sessional staff and institutional associates.

Up to ten (10) citations will be awarded in any given year. 

Successful VC Citation applicants will receive a certificate and a grant of $1,000 to assist in teaching and/or learning activities within the scope of their ECU staff responsibilities. Citation certificates will be presented by the Vice-Chancellor at a special ceremony sometime later in the year (date to be announced). All VC Citation winners will be granted ‘preliminary nomination’ for the equivalent ALTC category in the same year. The ALTC Selection Panel will decide final ECU nominations for ALTC Awards.

Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching (VCAET)
The VCAET (pronounced “V Cat”) scheme invites nominations from teams and individuals across eight categories in four groupings. The four groupings are:

1. Excellence in teaching in a discipline area: Applicants can apply in one (1) of five (5) discipline categories (areas).   See the VC L&T Guidelines for details
2. Indigenous teacher:  Applicants can be Indigenous or non-Indigenous academic staff.  Nominees must demonstrate their contribution to Indigenous education. This award is modelled on the ALTC Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Teacher of the Year.
3. Early career: Applicants must have less than seven years experience in teaching at higher education level (this includes teaching outside ECU).
4. Work integrated learning: This category reflects the ALTC Priority Area for 2008.  It should be interpreted broadly and includes situated learning, practicum, clinical education, work placement, cooperative education etc.

Up to six (6) VCAET awards will be given from across the above categories in any given year.  VCAET Awards are available only to academics.  Full-time, part time and sessional academics are eligible for application.

Successful VCAET applicants will receive a grant of $5,000 to assist in teaching and/or learning activities within the scope of their ECU staff responsibilities.

All award winners will receive a certificate presented by the Vice Chancellor at a special ceremony sometime later in the year (date to be announced). All VCAET winners will be granted ‘preliminary nomination’ for the equivalent ALTC category in the same year. The ALTC Selection Panel will decide final ECU nominations for ALTC Awards.

Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning (VC APEL)

The VC APEL (pronounced “VC Apple”) awards are designed to 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 at ECU. Nominations from large-scale team-based University, Faculty, School or Centre projects are particularly welcome. Applications can come from academics or general staff or teams that are a mixture of general and academic staff.

There are seven (7) current VC APEL categories:

Up to two (2) awards will be presented by the Vice-Chancellor from across the above categories.

Successful VC APEL applicants will receive a grant of $5,000 to assist in teaching and/or learning activities within the scope of their ECU staff responsibilities.

All award winners will receive a certificate presented by the Vice Chancellor at a special ceremony sometime later in the year (date to be announced).  All VC APEL winners will be granted ‘preliminary nomination’ for the equivalent ALTC category in the same year. The ALTC Selection Panel will decide final ECU nominations for ALTC Awards.

• Application Form, VC L&T Awards 2009

2. Australian Learning and Teaching (ALTC) Awards for University Teaching 

General information
The ALTC Awards for University Teaching replace the former Carrick Australian Awards for University Teaching (CAAUT). The ALTC scheme and the sub categories have been used to design the VC L&T scheme so that local award winners in each category are well placed to commit themselves for ALTC nomination by ECU.  This ALTC scheme has three major categories with total funding of over $3,000,000. The ALTC Awards for University Teaching include the following categories:

1. ALTC Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (210 awards of $10,000) which are intended for people who have been involved in some aspect of service to student learning that address one or two of the same criteria that applies to the Teaching Excellence Awards. Evidence of excellent and sustained performance is critical in ALTC Citation awards and student learning outcomes must be the main measure of performance. Both general staff and academic are eligible for this award.
   
   
2. ALTC Teaching Excellence Awards (26 awards of $25,000) which cover sub categories of
• Discipline based teaching areas (in 5 discipline groupings);
• Early Career Academics;
• Indigenous Teacher of the Year (The Neville Bonner Award); and,
• A priority category for 2009 which specifically recognises Work-integrated Learning.

One overall Prime Minister’s Award for Australian Teacher of the Year (to be granted $50,000 and a medal) will be chosen from the pool of Teaching Excellence Award winners.

3. ALTC Programs that Enhance Learning Awards (14 awards of $25,000) which covers any program or project within a University that enhances student learning and/or university teaching. Both general staff and academic are eligible for this award. This award scheme is for recognising large programs that directly or indirectly enhance ECU student learning and the overall student university experience. It is expected that Faculty, School or Centre based teams would be most likely to apply for an ALTC PEL award.
   
   

ECU is entitled to submit up to eight (8) ALTC teaching Excellence nominations, seven (7) ALTC PEL nominations (only one in each category) and up to ten (10) ALTC Citation nominations.

ECU Nominations for ALTC Awards

ECU nominations for the ALTC Awards are decided from a pool of potential nominees that includes current year VC L&T winners and recent past VC L&T winners in each of the three categories (VCAET, VC Citations and VC APEL categories).

2009 VCAET, VC Citation and VC APEL winners will automatically qualify for ‘preliminary nomination’ as 2009 ECU ALTC nominees in the relevant category. The 2008 VCAET, VC Citation of VC APEL submission will be used for final decision-making purposes by the ECU ALTC Selection Panel.

2006/7/8 VC L&T winners must submit an Expression of Interest and their previous winning VC L&T application to be considered for nomination by ECU for an ALTC award in 2009. The Expression of Interest consists of the original VC L&T winning submission plus up to TWO (2) A4 pages to advise the Selection Panel of recent achievements or evidence that might further strengthen the nomination.

Winners of VC L&T (or past equivalent local awards) in the years preceding 2006 must again apply for VC L&T recognition in 2008 to be considered for ALTC nomination in 2009.

Expressions of Interest for all ALTC Award categories must be submitted in writing (hard copy AND Electronic copy by email) to:

The ECU ALTC Awards Coordinator,
c/o The Centre for Learning and Teaching Administrative Officer,
Building 18, Level 3, Joondalup Campus
Email: clt@ecu.edu.au

Due dates for Expressions of Interest are shown in the table in Section 3 below.

3. 2009 Application deadlines (VC L&T and ALTC)

This information is relevant to VC L&T Applicants seeking recognition in the 2009 VC L&T Scheme and for those people aspiring to be nominated by ECU in the national ALTC Awards Scheme for 2009.  Nomination by ECU for the 2009 version of the ALTC Awards can only come through winning a 2009 VC L&T award in the relevant category, OR through an Expression of Interest (from local VC L&T winners in the past three years, OR by direct nomination by the ALTC Selection Panel.  More details are given in the VC L&T Award Guidelines.

NB: VC L&T Selection Panels will meet in the week following the published deadlines.

** ALTC submissions need to reach CLT in time for final selection, editing and publication.

4. 2009 VC L&T Award Guidelines (VC Citations, VCAET and VC APEL)

Downloadable copy

5. 2009 VC L&T Application Form

6. 2009 ALTC Award Guidelines (Citations, Teaching Excellence and PEL)

Access these directly from the ALTC website at: http://www.altc.edu.au/carrick/go 

7. Recent VC L&T & ALTC award winners and ALTC nominees

Note that the VC T&L Awards Scheme was formerly known as the VC Services to Learning and Teaching Excellence Award Scheme (VC SLATE)

Winners of VC Citation Awards in 2008

• Trevor Cullen, FEA, Communications and Arts
• Janet Fellows, FEA, Education
• Peter Holland and Team,  including Jo McManus, John Duff and Steve Gardiner, FEA, Communications and Arts
• Associate professor Adrianne Kinnear, FCHS, Natural Sciences
• Jenny Lane, FEA, Education
• Dr Peter Ling, FEA, Communications and Arts
• Dr Mark McMahon, FEA, Communications and Arts
• Dr Geoff Swan, FCHS, Engineering, Physics
• Suzanne Tencer, FRPS, Nursing
• Dr Mel Ziman, FCHS, Exercise, Biomedical and Health Sciences

Winners of VCAET Awards in 2008

• Dr Anna Targowska, FCHS, Psychology and Social Sciences
• Dr Lynnaire Sheridan, FBL, Marketing Tourism and Leisure
• Sue Sharp, FEA, Education
• Dr Tim McDonald, FEA, Education
• Rick Brayford, FEA, WAAPA

Winners of VC APEL Awards in 2008

• Lisa Paris, FEA, Education, Program: The ECU Graduate Mentor Project in Visual Arts Education

Winners of ALTC Citations in 2008

The ECU ALTC Selection Panel subsequently nominated eight ECU individuals or teams for national ALTC recognition in 2008 and seven of these were successful, thus maintaining ECU’s high rate of national award success.  Each successful individual or team was granted $10,000 and received a Citation certificate presented by the ALTC in a ceremony in early August 2008.

The ECU winners of ALTC Citations in 2008 were:

• Associate Professor Lynne Cohen, FCHS, Psychology and Social Sciences
• Trevor Cullen, FEA, Communications and Arts
• Peter Holland and Team,  including Jo McManus, John Duff and Steve Gardiner, FEA, Communications and Arts
• Associate professor Adrianne Kinnear, FCHS, Natural Sciences
• Tim Perkins, FBL, Centre for Planning
• Dr Geoff Swan, FCHS, Engineering (Physics)
• Dr Mel Ziman, FCHS, Exercise, Biomedical and Health Sciences

ECU nominees for ALTC Teaching Excellence Awards in 2008

• Rick Braford, FEA, WAAPA
• Dr Peter Ling, FEA, Communications and Arts
• Professor Joseph Luca, Dean of the Graduate School
• Tim Perkins, FBL, Centre for Planning
• Dr Lynnaire Sheridan, Marketing Tourism and Leisure
• Dr Anna Targowska, FCHS, Psychology and Social Sciences

The ALTC Teaching Excellence Awards for 2008 will be decided sometime later in 2008 and awards will be granted at a ceremony in Canberra in late November or early December. Each winner of a national ALTC Teaching Excellence award receives $25,000.

Winners of ALTC Teaching Excellence Awards in 2007

• Mr Travis Kelleher - Faculty of Education & Arts - International, Cultural and Community Studies - Category: Early Career. 

Winners of ALTC Programs that Enhance Learning Awards in 2007

• Ms Cassandra Colvin, Mr Fozzil Jaffar, Mr Peter Mitchell, Mr Nicholas Tan & Miss Vanessa Trovato – ECU International Title: International Student Support.

There were no ECU nominations for ALTC Programs that Enhance Learning Awards in 2008.

8. Past winners (VC L&T Awards and ALTC Awards)

• VC L&T past winners

9. Further information and contact details

For further information in semester 2, 2008, on either the VC L&T or ALTC schemes please email Rod Ellis at r.ellis@ecu.edu.au. If your query is in semester 1, 2009 please contact Heather Sparrow at h.sparrow@ecu.edu.au

The ALTC provides specific information about the ALTC Awards on their own web site at: http://www.altc.edu.au/carrick/go.  The 2009 ALTC Awards Guidelines are available from this site.  It is highly recommended that you download the guidelines if ALTC awards interest you.

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