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Innovative collaborations receive ALTC awards

Photograph of students of Murdoch University's ACICIS program at Borobodur Temple in Indonesia

Three innovative learning and teaching programs involving more than 20 universities and 40 community organisations will soon be recognised by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC).

The Australian University Teaching Awards will recognise 22 of Australia's top teachers and 10 programs that have tangibly enhanced the student experience at a ceremony at Parliament House Canberra next week.

A program providing unique opportunities for studying Indonesian, another involving at risk school students and one that has produced a national workplace-based competency assessment will be acknowledged for creating educational partnerships and collaborations with other organisations. Along with work integrated learning, creating collaborative partnerships is one of the ALTC priorities for 2008 and 2009.

Flinders University Inspire Mentor Program involves working with students at risk of disengaging from school including those for whom English is a second language, refugees, low socio-economic status and Indigenous students. Since 2003 Inspire has placed more than 500 Flinders students alongside young people as co-learners both inside and outside the traditional classroom.

Murdoch University's Australian Consortium for 'In-Country' Indonesian Studies (ACICIS) has opened opportunities for Australian students to undertake credited semester study in Indonesian universities. Until ACICIS existed virtually no Australian student had undertaken such study due to considerable linguistic, academic, bureaucratic and immigration impediments. 

ACICIS involves a collaboration of 21 universities in Australia, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands working with a broad range of partner universities in Indonesia.

The COMPASS project involves the University of Sydney, Newcastle University and Charles Sturt with the collaboration successfully implementing a national workplace based competency assessment for speech pathology  - the first health discipline to do so in Australia.

The project team addressed the need for every final-year student in speech pathology in Australia to meet the same standards of clinical competency. The standards are reliably and validly assessed with the tools and resources developed by the COMPASS team.

 

View the full list of 2008 teaching and program award winners


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