The Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence acknowledges excellence in teaching both by individuals and teams. CSU has aligned its policies and procedures with the OLT Awards. Expressions of interest and applications are called annually.

• Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence guidelines and Nomination Form (.doc)
• Charles Sturt University Winners of Teaching Excellence Awards
• List of previous winners of the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence

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This is an award from 2007 and is offered annually. It is open to program teams from Faculties, Divisions or a mix of both. The award recognises 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.

• Vice-Chancellor's Award for Programs that Enhance Learning Guidelines and Nomination Form (.doc)
• Past Winners of Vice-Chancellor's Award for Programs that Enhance Learning

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This is a newly approved award from 2012 and is open to all sessional academic staff members who meet the eligibility criteria stipulated in the guidelines below

• Vice- Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Sessional Teaching Guidelines and Nomination Form (.doc)

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Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning recognise and reward the diverse contributions made by individuals and teams to the quality of student learning.

Citations are awarded to those who have made a significant contribution to the quality of student learning in a specific area of responsibility over a sustained period, whether they are academic staff, general staff, sessional staff or institutional associates.

Citations provide an opportunity for distinctive institutional missions, values and priorities in learning and teaching to be recognised. Citations are awarded for a range of contributions to student learning, both direct and indirect.

Up to 160 Citations, including the Early Career category, with prize value of $10,000 each, are available in 2013.

Nomination Instructions
2013 Australian Awards for University Teaching Nomination Instructions and Supporting Information

http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/2013AAUTNominationInstuctions_0.pdf

Nomination Forms
2012 Citations nomination form (TBA)
12 Citations nominations summary form (TBA)
Nominations must be made by your Institutional Contact Officer via the Awards Portal

Closing Date
5pm (AEST) Thursday 9 May 2013

Presentation Ceremonies
Details of presentation ceremonies will be announced in 2013.

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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 that receive Program Awards must have demonstrated their effectiveness through rigorous evaluation and will set benchmarks for similar activities in other institutions.

The eight categories for Programs that Enhance Learning for 2013 are:

• Widening participation
• Educational partnerships and collaborations with other organisations
• The first-year experience
• Flexible learning and teaching
• Innovation in curricula, learning and teaching
• Postgraduate education
• Services supporting student learning
• Global citizenship and internationalism
  

Up to 12 Awards with a prize value of $25,000 each will be granted across the seven categories in 2013.

Nomination Instructions
2013 Australian Awards for University Teaching Nomination Instructions and Supporting Information

http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/2013AAUTNominationInstuctions_0.pdf

Nomination Forms
2013 Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning nomination form (TBA)

For ICOs
2013 Awards nominations summary form (TBA)
ICOs should only submit one Awards nomination form their institution including both Program and Teaching Award nominations.

Closing Date
5 pm (AEST) Thursday 4 July 2013

Presentation Ceremony
Presentations will be made at a national ceremony (TBA)

Australian University Teacher of the Year

• Career Achievement Award

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Teaching Awards 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.

The eight categories of Awards for Teaching Excellence in 2013 are:

• Biological Sciences, Health and Related Studies (including Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Medicine, Nursing etc)
• Early Career
• Humanities and the Arts
• Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies
• Neville Bonner Award/s for Indigenous Education
• Physical Sciences and Related Studies (including Architecture, Building and Planning, Engineering, Computing and Information Science)
• Social Sciences (including Education)
• Priority Area for 2013 is: High impact strategies for progression, retention and attainment

Up to 16 Awards each with a value of $25,000 will be granted across the eight categories in 2013.

Nomination instructions
2013 Australian Awards for University Teaching Nomination Instructions and Supporting Information (TBA)

Nomination Forms
2013 Awards for Teaching Excellence nomination form (TBA)
2013 Student Feedback Questionnaire (TBA)

For ICOs
2013 Awards nominations summary form (TBA)
ICOs should only submit one Awards nomination form their institution including both Program and Teaching Award nominations.

Closing Date
5 pm (AEST) Thursday 4 July 2012

Presentation ceremony
Presentations will be made at a national ceremony (TBA)
For further information on the Office for Learning and Teaching Awards, click on the link below.
http://www.olt.gov.au/awards/nominations

A list of previous CSU winners can be found here

2013 Formal call for Applications for Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning and for Expressions of Interest in applying for Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning or Awards for Teaching Excellence (.pdf)

Advice for writing teaching excellence award applications
This link contains advice for writing teaching excellence award applications

National and international teaching excellence award schemes
This link contains a list of guidelines for national and international teaching excellence awards

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Learning and Teaching Grant's Scheme

In 2013, the OLT Grants programs comprise:

• Innovation and Development Program
• Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Program
• Seed Projects

Dates for OLT Grant Programs  – 2013

In addition to the OLT deadlines and processes, there are internal CSU procedures that need to be adhered to.

Date	Activity
Friday, 1 Feb	Applicants obtain their Head of School and Executive Dean signatures on the CSU Notice to Submit form (.doc)
Friday, 1 Feb	Applicants send Expressions of Interest/full proposals to Associate/Sub Deans (L&T) who will develop the content in the draft letter of support for consideration by the DV-­C (Academic)
Friday, 8 Feb	Applicants send all completed Notice to Submit forms, Expressions of Interest/full proposal, budget estimate and draft letters of support to Awards & Grants Officer: Derek Sequeira
Monday, 11 Feb	Grants Officer sends completed Notice to Submit form, Expressions of Interest /full proposal, budget estimate and draft letters of support to the DV-­‐C (Academic) for signed approval
Monday, 18 Feb	List of applications as Expressions of Interest /full proposals (only if CSU is the Lead Institution) to be sent by the Awards & Grants Officer to OLT via email no later than 5pm (AEST/AEDT).
Monday, 25 Feb	Round 1 Full proposals and Expressions of Interest. Applicants submit their Expressions of Interest/full proposals via the OLT online Grants Portal, no later than 5pm (AEST/AEDT).
Friday, 2 August	Round 2 Full proposals from successful Round 1 Expressions of Interest. Applications should be received no later than 5pm (AEST/AEDT). Applicants must consult their Institutional Contact Officers before submitting applications.

CSU Documentation for 2013 Grant applications:

OLT Instructions  and relevant documents for each program:  http://www.olt.gov.au/grants-and-projects/programs-and-applications

2013 - Priorities

The priorities for 2013 are the same as those for 2012 with the addition of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' priority. You can access these in the instructions documents at: http://www.olt.gov.au/grants-and-projects/programs-and-applications

The Innovation and Development Grant priorities are:

• Assessment and promotion of student learning
• Curriculum design
• Improving tertiary pathways
• Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's higher education access and outcomes responding to the recommendations of the Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People (2012)
• Innovative use of technology in learning and teaching
• Internationalisation
• Research and development
• Strategic approaches to learning and teaching which enhance student access and progression, and respond to student diversity

The Leadership priorities are:

• Consolidating leadership by building on the outcomes of projects funded in earlier years under the Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Program.
• Disciplinary and cross-disciplinary leadership to enhance learning and teaching through leadership capacity-building in discipline structures, communities of practice and cross-disciplinary networks.
• Institutional leadership to enhance learning and teaching through leadership capacity-building at the institutional level.
• Building the learning and teaching leadership capacity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, responding to the relevant recommendations of the Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People (2012).

Further details are available in the Instructions documents at http://www.olt.gov.au/grants-and-projects/programs-and-applications. 
   
Because of the introduction of Expressions of Interest, applicants can apply for all priority areas in Round 1 2013.

Following feedback on the drafts, the OLT has also made two other small changes in the current versions of the instruction documents:

• Seed Projects - Clarification that seed applications require a one page budget and a one page timeline, not one page for both.
• Word limits for the portal -  The Aims and Abstract sections of the portal now restricts the number of words to 55 and 155 respectively (five less words than in the past).  This is because of a technical glitch in the way the portal determines word count differently from packages such as Microsoft Word (eg: hyphenated words counted as two words rather than one).  This reduction in words will prevent text being cut off mid sentence.

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