Awards and Citations

OLT Awards for University Teaching Program

The Office for Learning and Teaching's (OLT) Australian Awards comprise citations and four award types recognising teaching excellence and outstanding contributions to student learning:


Resources

Resources for writing submissions are available and include gathering evidence, types of activities to include in a submission and writing tips for style and structure.

 

Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Citations recognise and reward the diverse contribution that individuals and teams make to the quality of student learning. Citations are awarded to academic, professional and sessional staff, and institutional associates, who have made significant contributions to student learning in a specific area of responsibility over a sustained period.

Citations provide an opportunity for distintive 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.

 

Internal nominations for 2013 Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning are now closed.

 

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Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning

Program Awards 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.

Internal nominations for 2013 Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning are now closed.

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Awards for Teaching Excellence

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. 

Internal nominations for 2013 Awards for Teaching Excellence are now closed.

 

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Prime Minister's Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year

The Prime Minister's Award is the premier university teaching award, selected from the pool of Awards for Teaching Excellence Award winners.  This is made to an academic with an exceptional record of advancing student learning, educational leadership and scholarly contribution to learning and teaching.  

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Career Achievement Award

From time-to-time a Career Achievement Award will be made to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to learning and teaching that is recognised across the higher education sector. The Career Achievement Award is given to individuals whose career achievements in learning and teaching in higher education have had a major influence and left an enduring legacy. Members of the Strategic Advisory Committee of the Office for Learning and Teaching put forward nominations for this Award.

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