What higher education networks are supported by the OLT in Australasia?

Networks in Australasian Higher Education

Did you know that the Office for Learning and Teaching has funded discipline based networks, state based networks and national networks to support the dissemination of grant project outcomes and embed good practice in learning and teaching in higher education? The funding of these networks including NATA, aims to consolidate existing connections in the sector and help foster new collegial and cross-institutional links to generate high-level collaborative approaches to teaching and learning issues. A list of all the networks (by category) including the name of the network coordinator can be found below. 

National Networks

• The Network of Australasian Tertiary Associations (NATA), Professor Mike Keppell and Associate Professor Gordon Suddaby
• Discipline Scholars Network, Professor Jonathan Holmes
• FellowsNetwork: Scholarship, leadership and advocacy: a network for the support of quality learning and teaching in Australian universities, Professor Dawn Bennett
• Facilitationof advocacy and leadership in enhancing learning and teaching in the higher education community by HERDSA, Winthrop Professor Shelda Debowski

Discipline Based Networks

• Australian Engineering & ICT Education Support Network, Emeritus Professor Robin King
• Network of Associate Deans Learning and Teaching in the Discipline of Education (NADLATE), Professor Brenda Cherednichenko
• The Australian Business Deans Council Teaching and Learning Network, Phil Hancock
• Occupational Therapy Academic Leaders Network (OTALN), Professor Sylvia Rodger
• Australian Pharmacy Network: Learning Outcomes for Pharmacy Curriculum, Professor Ieva Stupans
• Chemistry Discipline Network, Dr Madeleine Schultz and Dr Glennys O'Brien
• Collaborative University Biomedical Education Network (CUBENET), Professor Philip Poronnik
• The Law Associate Deans Network, Dr Julie Clarke
• Learning and Teaching Network for Architecture and Building, Professor Susan Savage and Associate Professor Sidney Newton
• Vision and Innovation in Biology Education (VIBE.net), Dr Charlotte Taylor and Associate Professor Pauline Ross
• Australian Indigenous Studies Learning and Teaching Network, Dr Katelyn Barney
• Journalism,Media and Communication Network (JoMeC), Dr Rhonda Breit
• The Creative Arts Learning and Teaching Network (CALTN), Professor Jonathan Holmes
• National Forestry Education Network, Professor Peter Kanowski
• Australian Mathematical Sciences Learning and Teaching Network, Associate Professor Dann Mallet
• TheAustralian and New Zealand Paramedic Learning and Teaching Network, Dr Paul Jennings

State Based Networks (PENs- Promoting Excellence Networks)

• South Australia and Northern Territory State/Territory-based Promoting Excellence Network (SANTPEN), Ms Helen Stephenson
• State-based Promoting Excellence Networks - Victoria/Tasmania (VTAS), Associate Professor Angela Carbone
• State-basedPromoting Excellence Networks - NSW/ACT, Professor Stephen Marshall
• Q-PEN -Queensland Promoting Excellence Network, Ms Karen van Haeringen
• WesternAustralian Network for Dissemination (WAND), Ms Andrea Fraser

If you are involved in one of the OLT funded networks and would like to share what your network is up to, please be in touch (nataonthenet@gmail.com) as we would be highly interested to communicate your activities. In addition, I have tried to include links to network websites, and where I was unable to find such websites, a link to the OLT network summary page has been provided. If your network has a project website which is not linked to, please let me know and I will update.

*The information on this page has been taken from the OLT website where more information can be found http://www.olt.gov.au/networks