The budgets of OLT projects can contain provision for on-costs which is a loading on a base sum (e.g. hourly rate or annual salary) which covers administrative, operational and other costs required for a position to exist. On-costs are generally expressed as a percentage, for example, the base salary plus 28% on-costs. The on-costs percentage may vary from institution to institution.

A term to describe the overall influence of the project, including tangible results such as project findings, recommendations and deliverables as well as less tangible results such as cultural change.

Source document for glossary entry: Hinton, T., Gannaway, D., Berry, B., & Moore, K. (2011). The D-Cubed Guide: Planning for Effective Dissemination. Sydney: Australian Teaching and Learning Council, p. 6.

In the context of applications under the grants programme, an outcome is a change or benefit that the project is designed to bring about, preferably described in a form that is measurable or for which evidence can be provided. To prepare an outcome statement as part of a project proposal, the question that should be posed is: what is the project designed to achieve and how will the project team know they have been successful? An outcome will be in existence by the time a project’s funding ceases; impact describes these and subsequent changes and benefits. See also the definition for deliverable, as outcome and deliverable are often used interchangeably, which is incorrect.

Source document for glossary entry: Office for Learning and Teaching. (2015). 2016 Innovation and Development Grants and Strategic Priority Commissioned Grants: Programme information and application instructions. Version 1.0.