Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

What is this course about?

The Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education offers a formal qualification in learning and teaching in higher education that will provide opportunities to strengthen learning and teaching theory and practice.

About the course

The course will engage students with a broad view of learning and teaching in higher education, as well as developments in their discipline and professional practice communities. Graduates will strengthen their capacity to engage in, and contribute to, debates and improvements in their institutions and to national and international scholarship in the field. The course is written and taught in English.

Course aims

This course aims to provide candidates with the knowledge and skills required to teach and support student learning in the higher education sector. Participants in the course will engage in critical examination of their roles and responsibilities in view of issues confronting learning and teaching in higher education nationally and internationally, their disciplines and professional practice. These include issues of particular relevance to learning and teaching at CSU such as blended and flexible learning, and professional and practice-based education.

Course objectives

Graduates will demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement in tertiary learning and teaching and a deep level of knowledge, understanding and integration into their practice of:

• issues confronting learning and teaching at their organisation including its location and student intake, approach to learning and teaching, institutional strategy, curriculum principles and good practice guidelines
•  issues confronting learning and teaching in higher education in light of contemporary research in the area, their perspectives on learning and teaching, and discipline and professional practice based imperatives
• professional and practice based education and the integration of PBE principles into course and subject design and development processes
• pedagogical content knowledge and educational technology affordances in the development of their scholarship in learning and teaching.

Academic expectations

For each 8 point subject at CSU, students should normally expect to spend between 140-160 hours engaged in the specified learning and assessment activities (such as attending lectures or residential schools, assigned readings, tutorial assistance, individual or group research/study, forum activity, workplace learning, assignments or examinations). The student workload for some subjects may vary from these norms as a result of approved course design.

Students will be assessed on the basis of completed assignments, examinations, workplace learning, or other methods as outlined in specific subject outlines.

Where applicable, students are responsible for travel and accommodation costs involved in workplace learning experiences, or attending residential schools (distance education students).

Expectations relating to academic, workplace learning, time and cost requirements for specific subjects are provided in the subject outlines and in course materials.