Innovation and Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (iSOLT)
CMTIP
Curtin Malaysia Teaching Innovation Project (CMTIP)
The CMTIP scheme is a seed fund aimed at encouraging academic staff at Curtin Malaysia to apply innovative approaches in teaching and learning. In particular, the fund intends to support academic staff to develop initiatives that improve learning and teaching practice, increase student engagement and enhance student learning experiences at Curtin Malaysia.
A CMTIP fund in the 2023 round is worth RM3,000. Please note that successful projects will run from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023 strictly. No requests for extensions will be entertained.
Approved projects are required to be submitted for ethics approval before the commencement of data gathering, if applicable.
Approved projects will also be required to disseminate their outcomes through appropriate Knowledge Transfer Programme (KTP) or University Social Responsibility (USR) projects, where applicable. Otherwise, project outcomes may also be disseminated through journal or conference publications. Please note that evidence of dissemination of project outcomes will be required at the end of the project.
Applications are to be prepared according to the application form, and each application must have a signed Statement of Support from the applicants’ Head of Department, Associate Dean Learning and Teaching or equivalent or Faculty Dean.
Please send all applications to Ms. Tayah Munggang at tayah.m@curtin.edu.my.
Successful recipients of Curtin Malaysia Teaching Innovation Project 2024 [.pdf 339kb]
Successful recipients of Curtin Malaysia Teaching Innovation Project 2023 [.pdf 243kb]
Successful recipients of Curtin Malaysia Teaching Innovation Project 2022 [.pdf 302kb]
CMTS
Curtin Malaysia Teaching Support Fund (CMTS)
The Office of Learning and Teaching is announcing a new fund, the Curtin Malaysia Teaching Support Fund (CMTS). This year, the CMTS will be open for two rounds, with Round 2 to be announced at a later date.
The purpose of CMTS is to encourage academic staff to implement technologies, pedagogical techniques or other innovations which support their teaching activities, particularly in units with lower passing rates, or a high number of repeating students, or traditionally complex or difficult units. The CMTS is intended to support the learning and teaching of these units, so that students perform better, and/or have a better learning experience. The fund may be used for the academic staff’s innovation with new instructional techniques, create experiential learning opportunities such as site visits for the students, or the usage of technology (hardware/software) in their teaching activities in these units, among other purposes.
The CMTS fund is up to a maximum of RM1,500; and will run for the maximum duration of two semesters (within the calendar year). The submission deadline will be before or on 10 February 2023, Friday. All submissions should be sent to Ms. Tayah Munggang at tayah.m@curtin.edu.my.
Successful recipients of Curtin Malaysia Teaching Support (Round 1) 2024 [.pdf 175kb]
Successful recipients of Curtin Malaysia Teaching Support (Round 2) 2023 [.pdf 286kb]
Successful recipients of Curtin Malaysia Teaching Support (Round 1) 2023 [.pdf 199kb]
CMCE
Curtin Malaysia Community Engagement (CMCE)
The CMCE is a fund to encourage academic staff to implement Community Engagement (CE) projects, and include community-engaged learning (CEL) in their classes.
Through this fund, academic staff may contribute to the community, by sharing their knowledge, expertise and experience; support efforts by various groups in working towards specific targets or causes; and enhance students’ learning through CEL in their learning activities.
Through engagement in the community, students undergo experiential learning and community-engaged scholarship, and engage with course content through collaborations with community. CE projects, and CEL involve a mutually-beneficial partnership by students, academics and the community to engage students with course concepts, and apply them in a way to benefit community members. Such a learning activity is experiential, community-engaged, reciprocal, and involves real-life application of course content. An active interchange of knowledge both to the community from the student, and to the student from the community is facilitated through CEL (Community-Engaged Learning, UVic Learn Anywhere, 2023).
The CMCE fund is up to a maximum of RM2,000. Project teams are encouraged to request for less than the maximum amount, if possible. This way, more teams may be awarded the fund for their projects. Each CMCE project will run until 31 December 2024. Please note that an academic staff may only hold ONE CMCE per year as project leader, regardless of fund amount.
Applications are to be prepared according to the application form, and each application must have a signed Statement of Support from the applicants’ Head of Department, Associate Dean Learning and Teaching or equivalent or Faculty Dean.
The fund recipients will be required to report on the outcomes of their CE project at the end of the year via a CMCE Concluding Report, and USR or KTP form. They will also be required to disseminate the outcomes of their proposed CE projects, via University or Faculty L&T seminars at a minimum, or organise workshops or forums if more appropriate, or publish their work in conferences or journals.
The closing date for CMCE 2024 Round 2 is Friday, 26 January 2024. Please send all applications to Ms. Tayah Munggang at tayah.m@curtin.edu.my.
Read more information on CMCE [.pdf 182kb]
Successful recipients of Curtin Malaysia Community Engagement 2024 [.pdf 247kb]