Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Overview

If you wish to learn to how to teach actively and create an involving and engaging environment to support students in their learning journey, but are professionally busy or unable to come to London for a residential course, then the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education course at Kingston University could be for you.

Key features

• This course promotes learning and teaching that actively involves students, which is essential for their success. This course supports forms of teaching that encourage students to take centre stage in their learning.

• The course is designed and run by academics who are experts and active researchers, both in higher education studies and online learning.

• You will experience active learning and study different teaching methods, learning ways to facilitate active learning and involve your students fully and responsibly.

• You will be encouraged to think about educational issues in fruitful and inquisitive ways, both on your own and in collaboration with other students.

• You will examine educational practices such as lecturing, small group work, assessment and feedback.

• You will be encouraged to reflect on your own experience as a learner to enhance your practice as a teacher. Throughout the course, we help you reflect, ask (yourself and others), find solutions, share and compare thoughts.

• Kingston University is a large London-based institution which prides itself on its innovative approaches to learning and teaching to a diverse student body, in a number of specialisms, including educational studies.

Where this course will take you

This course has been designed to be a practical, work-based course in learning, teaching and assessment in higher education. As such, it prepares you for working as a teacher and/or facilitator in higher or further education.

The award of a Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education is recognised by most universities in the UK, and increasingly internationally, as necessary qualifications for teaching in higher education institutions. 

Additionally the course thoroughly prepares you for every success in applying for the status of Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with the Higher Education Academy, a status recognised by most universities in the UK, and increasingly internationally, as necessary/desirable recognition for teaching in higher education institutions.