All learning and teaching initiatives foster the building of communities and conversations around scholarly learning and teaching: eg, the Innovative Teaching and Educational Technology (ITET) Fellowship and Learning and Teaching Grants. These interdisciplinary programs have in turn led to University Networks in Learning and Teaching (UNILT), which continues to enhance and support scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning.

UNSW has developed multi-pronged approaches to catalyse, foster and support the engagement by individuals and groups in the scholarship of teaching and learning: UNSW Compendium of Good Practice in Learning and Teaching UNSW Guidelines on Learning that inform Teaching UNILT Program FULT Program ITET Program UNSW Learning and Teaching Awards UNSW Learning and Teaching Unit The Learning and Teaching Unit (LTU) responds directly to the UNSW community by developing activities based on learning and teaching issues identified by staff. UNSW Educational Development and Technology Centre EDTeC's mission is to enhance UNSW's ability to provide an excellent educational experience for students, both on and off-campus, through provision of support in the use of innovative, responsive and effective educational strategies and technologies.

Leadership Drivers for Change: Guidelines on Learning that inform Teaching UNSW has embraced an integrative framework to promote scholarly teaching and encouraging the SoTL. Underpinning the framework is a set of guidelines on learning that inform teaching. Guidelines underpin university learning and teaching plan, course guidelines, modified promotion processes that recognise scholarly teaching and SoTL. Academic Promotions Policy Formal integration of SoTL recognition in the UNSW revisions to Academic Promotions Policies and Procedures. The new policy is designed to provide greater opportunities to academics applying for promotion to higher levels to do so on the basis of their teaching and their work in the SoTL. Learning and Teaching Performance Fund The Australian government's "Learning and Teaching Performance Fund" provides a formal reward structure at the federal level for demonstrated excellence in all aspects of the improvement of student learning, including the SoTL. Leadership project: Cultivating the roles of Asssociate Dean (T&L) and Course Co-ordinator UNSW has been awarded a grant from the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education under the Leadership Projects Scheme to foster capability-building for the roles of Associate Deans (Teaching and Learning) and Course Co-ordinators.

Motivation for our campus to cultivate the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) Bring together those who have been engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning 'in isolation' and provide support and opportunities for conversation/sharing/collaboration, as well as formal reward mechanisms. Create opportunities to introduce the SoTL to those who have been taking a scholarly approach toward their teaching but are not aware of the field of the SoTL as a formalised area of research. To create the conditions at both the individual and institutional level, in which the SoTL can become more visible, more widely accepted as formal scholarly research, and fully rewarded.

A bibliography of SoTL presentations and publications from UNSW UNSW SoTL Bibliography

A brief summary of our campus progress in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Organisation of the inaugural UNSW-SoTL Interest Group Meeting Brought together academics new to SoTL or those who were not familiar with publicising their work through the field of SoTL. The meeting was coordinated as a working meeting, which allowed cross-disciplinary conversations and opened up opportunities for collaboration and conversation. Discussions ensued on how academics could be supported in their work in SoTL at the institutional level and at Faculty level. Graduate Certificate in University Learning and Teaching (Jan McLean, Faculty of Medicine in conjunction with the UNSW Learning and Teaching Unit) 'Innovations' project: Formerly was an inquiry-based project in which academics investigated the learning outcomes of an aspect of their teaching. The work was presented in the context of learning and teaching theory and practical applications. The course has been changed to facilitate and guide participants in turning the project into a SoTL publication. This allows potential avenues for feedback from a broader audience and continued SoTL practice. The programme is directed toward younger academics to embed the recognition of scholarly learning and teaching in their careers. UNSW hosted the 2007 Conference of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning