A Learning-centred Faculty Certificate Programme on University Teaching
Learning-centred education (LCE) has the potential to meet the diverse needs and circumstances of a multidisciplinary faculty cohort enrolled in a certificate programme on teaching and learning by engaging participants in a learning community, and by drawing upon a wide range
of appropriate teaching strategies to facilitate learning and development of student abilities. Action research design was employed to examine the theory-practice relationship of LCE within the UBC Faculty Certificate Programme on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Research
data, both quantitative and qualitative, collected over a 12-month period, suggest that a multidisciplinary faculty cohort exhibits diverse learning styles, and that individual faculty members are at different stages in developing a scholarly approach to teaching and learning. Furthermore,
data suggest that LCE can be used to organise a faculty certificate programme around teaching and learning issues relevant to university faculty and that some structuring of the LCE environment can assist in the attainment of course learning outcomes while engaging faculty as active participants
in their personal developmental process.
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: University of British Columbia Canada
Publication date: 01 May 2003
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