Quality Teaching
Liverpool Hope is a University which is proud to describe itself as a ‘top quality teaching-led, research informed mission-focused liberal arts inspired University’. To support the learning and teaching work throughout the University, the Centre for Learning and Teaching is led by the Dean of Learning and Teaching who works alongside the four academic Deans. Staff in the Centre include a principal lecturer in learning and teaching, an e-developer, an e- technologist, a part-time learning and teaching development officer and an administrator. Their work is further supported by a growing number of Deanery-based principal lecturers who act as a conduit between the Deaneries and the work of the Centre.
The Centre for Learning and Teaching has a strong focus on continuing professional development and teaching enhancement, underpinned by pedagogical research. It leads an active and thriving cross-institutional pedagogical action research group (PAR), organises a biennial international Pedagogical Research in Higher Education conference (PRHE) and publishes an in-house journal aimed specifically at disseminating learning and teaching initiatives called PRIME (Pedagogical Research In Maximising Education).
The Centre comes under the aegis of the Dean of Education.
In the Centre for Learning and Teaching, we aim to share good practice, a commitment and a passion for quality teaching which gives our students the best possible learning experience. This aligns with key goal 3 in the University Corporate Plan which states that ‘The University will continue to ensure that students are taught by scholars who have a commitment to teaching excellence’.
We believe in evidence-based change and improvement and are keen to work with colleagues in the way that best suits their discipline and their students’ needs. These pages provide information relating to learning and teaching, but if you are unable to find what you need, please contact us at clt@hope.ac.uk
Specific areas of responsibility include:
- developing the Learning, Teaching and Assessment Strategy, which is operationalised within the four deaneries;
- advising and supporting colleagues in finding ways in which research can inform the curriculum to enhance the student learning experience;
- producing a Learning and Teaching Annual Monitoring Report, which is discussed each autumn at the Academic Leaders Meeting and at Senate;
- monitoring and reporting on learning and teaching related factors related to student progression and achievement;
- designing and teaching on the taught university teaching programmes (PGCLTHE, PG DIP and MALTHE);
- providing learning and teaching related induction to hourly paid/associate lecturers;
- providing support and training in blended learning and the pedagogical use of technologies;
- providing a structured training programme for Moodle;
- advising on pedagogical principles for induction at level C;
- advising on supporting student success in writing for assessment through rethinking feedback;
- introducing a new university-wide course evaluation procedure which will be web-based for the first time this year;
- organising the annual Learning & Teaching week;
- organising monthly PAR meetings, the annual PAR symposium day and a programme of research seminars in the area of learning and teaching;
- producing and editing PRIME;
- representing learning and teaching on promotions panels and interviews for new appointments;
- providing learning and teaching consultancy, where identified by Heads of Department or Deans;
- promoting and celebrating top quality teaching through administering and judging the rector’s teaching excellence awards.
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