Dr Judy Sheard together with Assoc Prof Rosemary Clerehan from Monash, Dr Kathleen Gray and Dr Celia Thompson from University of Melbourne and Dr Margaret Hamilton from RMIT University obtained funding from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council for a project titled "Web 2.0 authoring tools in higher education learning and teaching: new directions for assessment and academic integrity" . This funding was awarded under the 2009 Priority Projects competitive grants scheme.

This project will investigate the use of Web 2.0 technologies in higher education with a particular focus on issues concerned with assessment practices and academic integrity. An outcome of this project will be guidelines for academic practices, standards and reporting related to assessment of student Web 2.0 authoring. These guidelines will be based on:

Documenting the Web 2.0 experiences of up to 100 Australian teaching academics, in particular their assessment standards, practices and reporting issues with assessment practices and academic integrity.
Conducting a national roundtable for up to 15 of these academics along with 10 academics selected for their expertise in assessment policy and practice, in e-learning and e-assessment, or in student management and support, to review experience and make joint recommendations for good practice guidelines.
Field-testing good practices guidelines in up to 20 varied semester-long Web 2.0 practice improvement projects in major Australian universities.
Producing, promoting and presenting a suite of resources for improving Web 2.0, including a handbook with guidelines for academic policy-makers, teachers and academic support staff, examples of good practice and materials for staff development and student support, as well as an interactive web-based resource and scholarly publications.

The total budget for this project is $158,000.

2008 Grants

Australian Learning and Teaching Council (formerly the Carrick Institute)

Assoc Prof John Hurst and Dr Judy Sheard together with Assoc Prof Sylvia Edwards and Prof Peter O'Shea from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Assoc Prof David Wilson from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) obtained funding from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (formerly the Carrick Institute) for a project titled "Changing the culture of teaching & learning in ICT and engineering: facilitating research professors to be T&L leaders". This funding was awarded under the 2008 Leadership Program competitive grants scheme.

The aim of this project is to build teaching leadership at the institutional level through increasing the engagement of the professoriate, thus addressing the "research-teaching nexus". The project seeks to raise the profile and encourage recognition of the fundamental importance of teaching and learning in the ICT and engineering disciplines in the three partner institutions and facilitate transference of the practices and the project model developed to other disciplines and universities.

The two objectives for the project are:

To build leadership capacity in teaching and learning to improve teaching quality in IT and Engineering disciplines at three leading Australian universities.
To facilitate transference of the practices and the project model developed within the IT and Engineering domains to other disciplines and universities.

The project will be funded over 2.5 years with a total budget of $530,267

IBM UIMA Award

Dr Shonali Krishnaswamy and A/Prof John Hurst have been awarded a prestigious IBM Unstructured Information Management Award, $US21000, for their project Enabling a Scalable and Intelligent Distributed Repository of Learning Objects.

Arts-IT Grant

Dr Michael Morgan (IT,CERG), Dr Mark Symmons (Arts) and Mr Matthew Butler (Partner,IT) have been awarded $9,413 for their project "The Nintendo DS Game Device as an Educational ICT: Implementing Audio Annotation Interaction Strategies for Online Podcast Material.

Arts-IT Grant

Prof Marian Quartly (Arts) and Dr Judithe Sheard (IT,CERG) have been awarded $10,000 for a project The Virtual Museum and the presentation of intertwining media and cultural histories - new approaches to complement contemporary technological developments.

2007 Grants

Carrick Grant 2007

Dr Angela Carbone is a participant in a joint $196 340 Carrick Priority Grant (2006) "Improving the Formative and Summative Assessment of Novice Computer Programmers" Chief Investigators: Lister, R., Carbone A., De Raad, M. Kay, J., Roe, P., Thomas, R.

This cross institutional proposal involving Monash, UTS, QUT, University of Sydney, and USQ, is concerned with improvements to approaches used for the assessment of programming. The project will run over two years: the first phase of the project will evaluate and synthesize different assessment approaches practiced amongst the institutions; the second phase will produce a collection of integrated software systems providing automatic formative and summative assessment of computer programming ability. The software systems will be made available to other institutions via seminars and dissemination workshops. The project aims to raise the profile and encourage recognition of the fundamental importance of assessment for quality learning in computer programming.

Carrick Grant 2007

Dr Judy Sheard is a participant in a joint $250,000 Carrick funded Discipline-Based Initiatives scheme (ICT Discipline) with partner institutions: University of Wollongong, University of Technology, Sydney and Queensland University of Technology.

This Discipline-Based ICT project is concerned with the nature and dynamics of change within the broad ICT discipline from the perspective of educational preparation in high schools, the university experience, employment, and on-going professional development at all levels.

SIGCSE Special Projects Grants

Judy Sheard & Angela Carbone; Funding: $4500; Project Title: Working with Statistics in Computing Education Research (WSCER)

2004 Grants

Melbourne/Monash Collaborative Grant

The Pedant Project, initiated by CERG group members, has been funded by the Melbourne/Monash Committee for Collaboration in Educational Technologies. The Pedant Project is investigating the relationship between the way students use on-line and interactive educational tools and the quality of their learning experience, through the development of automated, agent-oriented software tools.

The CERG members involved in this project are: Judy Sheard, Jason Ceddia, Linda Stern and Selby Markham.

The funding obtained for this project is as follows:

Stage 1 in 2003: $69,966.
Stage 2 in 2004: $42,500

More information is available at http://cerg.csse.monash.edu.au/pedant/

2003 Grants

Monash Small Grants

Developing strategies to foster acceptable work practices amongst undergraduate students. Chief Investigator: Martin Dick, Mentor: Judy Sheard. Funding: $9,393
Visualisations of student interactions online (ViSION). Chief Investigators: Judy Sheard and David Albrecht. Funding: $10,000.

2002 Grants

AUTC Grant

Learning outcomes and curriculum development in Information and Communication Technologies (Stage 2).

CERG members involved with this project were John Hurst, Dianne Hagan, Selby Markham, Ainslie Ellis, Angela Carbone, Judithe Sheard, Malcolm Eley, Juhani Tuovinen.

Funding for this project was as follows:

Stage 1 in 2001: $189,000
Stage 2 in 2002: $99,613

Teaching Innovation Fund

Evaluation of BlueJ as a teaching tool. Chief Investigator, Linda McIver. $24,400.

2001 Grants

AUTC Grant

Learning outcomes and curriculum development in Information and Communication Technologies (Stage 1).

CERG members involved with this project were John Hurst, Dianne Hagan, Selby Markham, Ainslie Ellis, Angela Carbone, Judithe Sheard, Malcolm Eley, Juhani Tuovinen.