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Writing Carrick Institute Learning and Teaching Grants Tips for success

Writing Carrick Institute Learning and Teaching Grants Tips for success. Judith Lyons Learning and Teaching Development. Overview: Address Criteria. Choose the right grant scheme Note RMIT Closing Dates Competitive Grant – 28th February 2008 Research and Development Student diversity

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Writing Carrick Institute Learning and Teaching Grants Tips for success

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  1. Writing Carrick Institute Learning and Teaching GrantsTips for success Judith Lyons Learning and Teaching Development

  2. Overview: Address Criteria • Choose the right grant scheme Note RMIT Closing Dates • Competitive Grant – 28th February 2008 • Research and Development • Student diversity • Emerging technology • Leadership Grant - 13th March 2008 • Institutional leadership • Discipline, cross discipline leadership • Leadership projects building on past projects • Priority Grant – 26th March 2008 • Assessment • Peer Review • Teaching and learning spaces

  3. Overview: Address Criteria • Choose the right grant scheme - This is focussed on discipline • Discipline-Based Initiatives • 2008 Guidelines NOT out YET • 2007 priorities: • Investigative initiatives • Common curriculum initiatives • Higher Education Enterprise initiatives • Usually due in May and August

  4. Applying and process • Carrick Institute • 2 stage process • EoI and Full proposals • Registration on Carrick Management System • RMIT internal process • Endorsement DVCA Prof Jim Barber • Review/ Critical friends • Feedback • Final submission by RMIT • (See last slide for details)

  5. Project Aims (Goals) • Overall aim • Conceptualise the idea – Needs to have broad impact to HE sector / discipline • Identify the need for improvement of student learning • Identify educational issues and problems that needs addressing to improve student learning and experiences

  6. Specific Aims (objectives) • Be specific • Clear objectives • Make it achievable • Align it with your project design/ approach, outcomes and budget • Know the literature and what is happening in your area of the project • Avoid jargon

  7. Rationale and Background • Rationale • Significance – how and what it will impact? • impact for other institutions • Use evidence, literature to support • Align it with RMIT Academic Plan, Strategy 2010… • Background • Why? • Use evidence, literature to support • What is out there and how your project differs from it or will add to it • Work already done, building on, trialling etc

  8. Project Approach • Use appropriate methodology • Align it with your objectives, outcomes and budget • Make it doable • (phases/stages over the year) • Address all the criteria • See approaches being used in current projects • Build in evaluation • Self/team/expert evaluation

  9. Project Budget (p15) • Appropriate budget and justification • No infrastructure, and recurrent funding • Teaching release ~35,000/year • Salaries and 28% oncost • Project manager/ assistant • 10% administration costs and overheads • Collaboration costs • Dissemination costs • Technical and expert support • Travel

  10. Project Management & team • Choose teams carefully • Build teams into project design • Ensure teams have the ability and the time to do the project • Buy in technical expertise ie project manager/ educational/ evaluation expertise • Gain sponsorship of those who can promote resources/ change/ findings and provide evidence for this

  11. Collaboration and dissemination • Collaboration – a must • Use existing networks • Types of collaboration (loose, collaboration and partnership) • Resource it • Dissemination • Awareness (seminars, conference, websites, publications etc) • Understanding -they are part of it (silent or active collaboration) • For embedding and use (how others may take up your work to use or build on it

  12. RMIT Processes-Applying for a Carrick Grant • Step 1: Download both the individual program guidelines and the Grants Scheme Supporting Information Guidelines. • Step 2: Discuss your ideas and intensions to submit with Carrick Grant co-ordinator, Learning and Teaching Development, Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic. • Step 3: Get Carrick Grant ID and password – by expressing interest to submit a proposal or EoI from Carrick Management System • Step 4: Get Carrick Grant Certification pro forma (This is endorsement from project leader and Head of School) • Step 5: Review and feedback - Submit Full proposal or Expression of Interest to Judith Lyons, judith.lyons@rmit.edu.au by the stated RMIT internal deadline. • Step 6: Submit FINAL application to Judith Lyons, judith.lyons@rmit.edu.au by the stated RMIT deadline for endorsement by Professor Jim Barber Deputy Vice Chancellor Academic

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