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Reimagine Education Awards 2017

Organisation and Team Details

Team leader

Full name:
Job title:
Email address:
Phone number:

Team members (if applicable)

Full name:
Job title:
Email address:
Phone number:

Award Category

☐ E-Learning Innovation

☐ Hybrid Learning Innovation

☐ Presence Learning

☐ Teaching Delivery

☐ Nurturing Employability

☐ Sustainability

☐ Ethical Leadership

☐ ICT Tools for Teaching & Learning

☐ ICT Support & Services

☐ Educational App

☐ Digital Content

☐ Learning Assessment

☐ Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality

☐ K12

☐ MBA and Executive Education Award

Project Details

Project title:
Project discipline / ☐ Arts and Humanities
☐ Engineering and IT
☐ Life Sciences
☐ Natural Sciences
☐ MBA and Professional Education
☐ Social Sciences
☐ Not applicable

Project summary [100 words]

Area One: Project Objective [20%]

(1) What problem is your project attempting to solve? What opportunities is it attempting to create? [200 words] Please provide relevant research and/or statistics as appropriate. Does it attempt to resolve specific employability issues, or enhance a specific pedagogy? Does it improve pedagogy in a particular subject?

Area Two: Project Approach [20%]

(1) What form(s) does your solution take? [150 words] Is it an app, web-based platform, series of classes, etc.?

(2) Does the project use innovative learning techniques or technology to solve the problem you have identified? [150 words]

(3) Is it based on, replacing, and/or improving on, existing pedagogical research and/or practice? [200 words]

Area Three: Engagement (20%)

(1) How many students have participated in your initiative, used your research, or taken your classes? [100 words]

(2) How many universities/schools/corporations/nations has your research or pedagogy reached? [100 words]

(3) How much funding has your research or pedagogy received? Reimagine Education assures all applicants that information contained in this section will remain confidential, and will not be disclosed to any party unaffiliated with Reimagine Education without explicit written consent from the project leader.

· $0-$500,000

· $500,000-$2.5m

· $2.5-$5m

· $5m-$10m

· $10m-$25m

· $25m+

(4) How much revenue has your research or pedagogy received? Reimagine Education assures all applicants that information contained in this section will remain confidential, and will not be disclosed to any party unaffiliated with Reimagine Education without explicit written consent from the project leader.

· $0-$200,000

· $200,000-$1m

· $1m-$5m

· $5m-$10m

· $10m-$25m

· $25m+

(5) If your research or pedagogy has received funding and/or revenue, please provide details. [200 words]

(6) Has your research and/or pedagogy been published in peer-reviewed journals, non-peer-reviewed journals, newspapers, or any other public source?

· Yes

· No

If yes, please provide details [200 words]

Area Four: Impact (20%)

(1) How many times has your research, or research based on your pedagogy, or articles about your pedagogy been read? [Only answer if you responded ‘yes’ in the preceding question (5)]

(2) How many citations has your research, or research based on your pedagogy, received? [Only answer if you responded ‘yes’ in the preceding question (5)]

(3) What evidence can you put forth to demonstrate that improved learning and/or employability outcomes are occurring as a result of your research and/or pedagogy? [400 words] Are entrepreneurship rates among participants of your program higher than the averages for your university, region, town, or nation? Can you demonstrate improved attainment occurring among students who participate in your pedagogy, or pedagogies arising from your research? If so, are these improvements comparatively better than other schemes? That is – are the improvements or attainment rates among students who experience your pedagogy or initiative better than those who undertake similar programs in similar subjects or at similar universities?

(4) Has your project or product received reviews? [200 words] Of what nature are these reviews (are they media reviews, student reviews, user Apple Store reviews)? Please provide us with some indication of how favorable these reviews are. Please note that average scores from large sample sizes are preferable to cherry-picked quotations, and cherry-picked quotations from authoritative sources will be received more favorably than single quotations from non-authoritative sources.

(5) Has your pedagogy, or research, been nominated for, or received, any awards?

· Yes

· No

If yes, please provide details. [150 words]

Area 5: Next Steps [20%]

(1) Please provide a brief outline of your intentions for your project over the next (a) six months, (b) 12 months, and (c) three to five years. [100 words for each] Are you expanding to reach new departments, schools, regions, or subjects?

(a)
(b)
(c)

(2) Do you have any projections for your project growth?

· Yes

· No

If yes, please provide details. [100 words]. These might include a projected increase in number of students reached, projected funding increase, or projected publication date for a research paper.

(3) Do you intend to enter your project for any competition, award, or conference aside from Reimagine Education? Answering ‘yes’ will in no way disadvantage your project.

· Yes

· No

If yes, please provide details. [100 words].

(4) Do you intend to submit your research to other peer-reviewed journals?

· Yes

· No

· Unsure

· Not applicable

If yes, please provide details. [150 words].

Finally:

Please explain, in no more than 75 words, what makes your project, product, or initiative uniquely innovative and/or transformative. [75 words]

Supplementary materials

Applicants can submit supplementary materials, including PDFs, images, PowerPoints and website links.

Please indicate below all supplementary materials to be submitted with the application and attach copies of the supplementary materials to this application form.

Title/Caption / Type (PDF, image, PowerPoint or website link)

Application certification

Certification by Applicant
I certify that:
i) To the best of my knowledge, all the details in this Reimagine Education Award application are true and complete; and
ii) In submitting this Reimagine Education Award application, I consent to its referral to the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) for consideration.
Surname, title and initials of applicant (printed) / Signature / Date
Certification by Head of School/Centre/Institute Director
I certify that:
i) I have read and support the applicant’s Reimagine Education Award application.
Surname, title and initials (printed) / Signature / Date

Please submit the completed application form in Word format to the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation via .

· Draft applications due: Monday 26 June, 2017

· Final applications due: Monday 17 July, 2017