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ACDICT Learning & Teaching Academy (ALTA)

ALTA is the ACDICT Learning and Teaching Academy. It is specifically concerned with learning and teaching in the ICT disciplines.
Participation in ALTA activities and initiatives is open to anyone working in learning and teaching in ICT at an ACDICT member university.
The ACDICT Learning and Teaching Academy (ALTA) is managed through a Working Group of the Council (called the ALTA Executive) and subject to the Mission and Objectives of the Council. A member of the ACDICT Executive has responsibility for ALTA (and is known as the ALTA President).
The ALTA president 2019 is Trina Myers, James Cook University.


Satisfying Many Masters: Teaching into professional Degrees in Law and Engineering in the 21st Century A symposium on professional education in engineering and law may be of interest to those who think about the professional education aspects of ICT education.
Satisfying Many Masters: Teaching into professional Degrees in Law and Engineering in the 21st Century will be held at University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Qld, Monday 30 September 2019.
An initial information date saver was sent out through AaEe on 23 April.
ALTA Forum 2019
was held at Monash University Clayton campus,
Tuesday 23–Thursday 24 April 2019

Program schedule and presentations

ALTA 2019 schedule
  1. Longitudinal Learning streams: Software Studios and Design Thinking
    1. Julie Prior, UTS Longitudinal learning in the Software Development Studio
    2. Trina Myers, JCU Building a Design Thinking Culture in an Undergraduate Information Technology Degree
    3. Shayne Flint, ANU TechLauncher: launch an idea, launch a startup, launch a career
  2. Increasing Academic Integrity in Assessment
    1. Simon, Univ of Newcastle; Trina Myers, JCU; Raina Mason, SCU
      Variations on a Theme: academic integrity and program code
      Academic Integrity: educating student practice
    2. Chris Johnson, ACDICT Contract Cheating Is/Is Not a Crime
  3. Three minute updates from everyone (summary notes to follow)
  4. tour of Learning and teaching Building
  5. Keynote: Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne Programming is F.U.N.
  6. Anticipating the Effects of Secondary School Digital Technology
    1. Katrina Falkner, Adelaide CSER Digital technologies
    2. Leon Sterling, Swinburne Coding v Computational Thinking
    3. David Albrecht, Monash Changing a School's Curriculum: John Monash Science School
    4. Stephen Viller, Queensland Digital technologies at UQ
  7. ALTA project grants: progress updates
    1. Terese Keane, Andreea Molnar (Swinburne Uni); Rosemary Stockdale (Griffith) Identifying the initiatives that influence 1st year female students choosing computing degrees
    2. Simon, Newcastle; Michael Morgan, Judy Sheard, Matthew Butler, Christabel Gonsalvez (Monash) Addressing Student Engagement Issues for Female and International Female Students in Computing Studies Courses
  8. ACS Accreditation update and discussion
    Rupert Grayston, Craig McDonald (ACS Accreditation)
    ACS Accreditation Reform

Teaching Awards - Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) are back for 2018 on behalf of Universities Australia.

AWARDS FOR UNIVERSITY TEACHING

Universities Australia (UA) is pleased to announce that the 2018 Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) are back. Swinburne University awards team (led by Professor Angela Carbone) is managing the administration of the AAUT on behalf of Universities Australia.

This year, all award categories will remain unchanged along with the assessment criteria.

Award Types Categories No. of Awards
1. Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (Citations) 4Up to 60
2. Awards for Program that Enhance Learning (Program Awards) 66
3. Awards for Teaching Excellence (Teaching Awards) 77
4. Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year 11

Due to the level of funding made available by Government for the AAUT from 2018 onwards, prizemoney must be reduced.
Key changes to this year’s Awards are as follows:

  • Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning and Awards for Program that Enhance Learning will not attract prizemoney.
  • Awards for Teaching Excellence and the Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year will attract prizemoney, though amounts will be reduced. Details on prizemoney for these awards will be provided later.
  • The state-based Citations ceremonies will no longer take place. Recipients of Citations and Program Awards will receive a certificate. Ceremonies or other forms of public recognition will be at the discretion of the recipients’ institution.
  • Award recipients for Excellence in University Teacher and the Australian University Teacher of the Year Award will be announced at the Universities Australia Higher Education Conference, National Convention Centre Canberra on Wednesday 27 February to Friday 1 March 2019.

Submission of nominations will be due on Sunday 9 Dec 2018. There will be a new online submission process.
In the meantime, we strongly encourage you to think about the nomination candidates and categories.

Stay tuned, as further information outlining the submission process will be provided in October 2018.

Regards,
Anne-Marie Lansdown

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ALTA small grants Results will be announced early September  
ALTA small project grants 2018
Expressions of Interest and Applications

The Australian Council of Deans of ICT Learning and Teaching Academy calls for expressions of interest in small grants to aid the creation and dissemination of knowledge and evidence-based good practice in higher education for information and communications technologies. The grants are intended to support pilot projects in current challenging areas of practice and theory in ICT higher education.
Grants are intended to support activities that are likely to be subsequently sustainable or externally funded.

Details of the grants are here ALTAgrants2018-v3.pdf. To express interest or for more information please email Chris Johnson EO@acdict.edu.au by 31 July 2018. (deadline has been extended)

Australian Conference on Science and Mathematics Education (ACSME) ACSME is a conference for tertiary science and mathematics educators to share ideas and keep up to date, under the auspices of the Australian Council of Deans of Science.
For details see ACSME 2018.
This conference encompasses biological sciences, chemistry, geosciences, health sciences, information technology, learning and cognitive sciences, mathematics and statistics, molecular and microbial sciences, physics and psychology as well as the various fields of the applied sciences.
The conference runs Wednesday 26 September and Thursday 27 September 2018 at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. The Discipline day will be held on Friday 28 September 2018, at Serafino Winery inMcLaren Vale.
ALTA Forum 2018
at UNSW,
Thursday 5–Friday 6 April

Presentations and related references

  1. Sally Varnham, The student voice
    see also project website (if this fails, see the Student Voice in University Decision Making Facebook page)
    UK links:
  2. Benchmarking of Assessment
  3. Educating cybersecurity and Collaboration in education
    1. Owen Pierce [presentation to follow]
    2. Todd Williams
  4. Equity and Diversity
  5. Secondary School Digital technologies: Implementing the National ICT Curriculum
  6. Students beyond the mainstream: work placements and experience for international students
  7. Hot Topics from the floor list of topics [summary of discussion to follow ]
ALTA Forum 2017 at the University of Adelaide, Thursday 20–Friday 21 April The program and links to copies of the presentation slides are on the ACDICT Events page— ALTA forum
Thanks to all who presented, and to all who came and made it a lively and worthwhile event.
ALTA Learning and Teaching Grant on SFIA and ICT education The grant has led to a publication:
von Konsky, B.R., Miller, C., and Jones, A. (2016) The Skills Framework for the Information Age: Engaging Stakeholders in ICT Curriculum Design. Journal of Information Systems Education. Winter 2016. 27(1):37-50.
A copy of the paper is here.
ALTA Forum 2016 University of Technology Sydney 31 March-1 April 2016 See the program and presentations on the Events page


2015


Previous ALTA forum pages and documents The ALTA page for 2015 and earlier