University Teaching and Learning

Skills:
Communication: Written communication , Oral communication, Self-presentation techniques
Students’ activating: Active learning
Organization of learning

Description:
The course focuses on the recent worldwide paradigm shift in higher education from teaching to learning. Today’s university lecturers are expected to be more of a “guide on the side” than a “sage on the stage”, more of a facilitator of learning than a presenter of information. Three fundamental questions therefore form the backbone of the course:

• What do we want our students to learn, and how can we make the goals clear to our them?
• How do we arrange teaching so that our students have the greatest chance of learning?
• How can we find out whether they have learnt what we wanted them to learn

An important idea tied to these questions is constructive alignment, which means that different aspects of a teaching and learning ssituation should be brought together in a mutually reinforcing way that supports student learning