Graduate Certificate in Higher Education in Teaching and Learning

Award(s): Graduate Certificate in Higher Education in Teaching and Learning (GradCertHEd)
Course code: C11154v6
Credit points: 12

Overview
The Graduate Certificate in Higher Education in Teaching and Learning is offered by the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning (IML) through the Faculty of Education. The course helps participants to reflect critically on their teaching and subjects in ways which are underpinned by their own experiences and those of their students and colleagues and by the research on learning and teaching in higher education.

Course aims
The course aims to encourage students to develop:

  • an understanding of different ways of thinking about university teaching, and the consequences for student learning, to enable them to make informed decisions about their approaches to teaching, subject design and assessment in a variety of contexts and with a diversity of students (relates to professional and intellectual attributes)
  • an ability to reflect critically on and evaluate their own teaching and subjects and make changes aimed at improving their students' learning (relates to professional and intellectual attributes)
  • a commitment to scholarship in teaching and to self-directed continuing teaching development (relates to professional and personal attributes), and
  • a broader awareness of the higher education, university and academic career contexts in which they work, to assist them to develop their academic potential more effectively (relates to professional and personal attributes).

Entry requirements
Applicants must be full-time or fractional university academics, or casual university teachers who can provide evidence of ongoing teaching during course enrolment. UTS full-time or fractional-time staff are exempt from paying course fees through sponsorship by the University.

Course duration and attendance
1 yr PT
Note: International students in Australia on a student visa are required to undertake full-time (FT) study as a condition of their visa.

Course structure
The course consists of 12 credit points of study, comprising four subjects which must be completed to be eligible for the award.

Course completion requirements

010035 Student Learning and Teaching Approaches 3.000cp
010036 Reflective Academic Practice 3.000cp
010037 Course Design and Assessment 3.000cp
010038 Scholarly Teaching and Learning Project 3.000cp
Total 12cp

Other information
Further information is available from IML on:

telephone +61 2 9514 1669 email Enza.Mirabella@uts.edu.au