Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Innovative Learning and Teaching

Note: This course is not available for international students.

This new course covers a range of contemporary teaching practices. It is designed to suit those already working in internal and online learning environments in university and other tertiary contexts, across all teaching disciplines.

Through the integration of new and innovative design, curriculum development and delivery, and critical evaluation of your teaching practices, you will learn how to transform higher education teaching practices.

You'll be introduced to new approaches to pedagogy, learner engagement, the learning cycle, technology rich learning environments, reflective practice and evaluation, as well as evidence-based and scholarly approaches to learning and teaching.

The development of a teaching portfolio will evidence your critical, reflective and developmental teaching practices.

Please refer to the handbook for additional course overview information.

• employ new pedagogies, learning spaces and modalities in innovative ways for learning and teaching.
• apply knowledge of contemporary educational curriculum, learning, assessment and evaluation design theory and practices in course, unit and task design.
• demonstrate creative approaches to teaching and learning that engage a diverse range of students in active learning, utilising a technology rich environment.
• create and maintain inclusive, positive learning environments and experiences that engage learners in their learning.
• demonstrate critical reflective practice and contributions to the scholarship of learning and teaching.
• identify, collect, examine, and interpret a range of sources of evidence in the design and evaluation of educational practice.
• apply knowledge of indigenous perspectives, knowledges and cultural capabilities in critical reflection of teaching and learning and course, unit and task design.