Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LaTHE) PGCert

This module aims to develop and enhance your learning, teaching, and assessment practice in HE through critical evaluation of pedagogic theory, exploration of contemporary practical examples, critical engagement with educational research and reflective practice. You will be introduced to the Professional Standards Framework (PSF) as part of your continuous professional development.

Participants on this module will be encouraged to discover and make connections between theories, their own practice and their students’ learning. You will also investigate learning environments, digital tools and resources, and strategies to teach effectively and inclusively in HE. The module displays through its own design how learning, teaching and assessment can be flexible and inclusive.

You are required to demonstrate your effectiveness in teaching and learning, as well as the impact your approach has on your students’ learning by critically evaluating your own practice. This is achieved through participating in discussion forums and continuous formative assessments, drawing upon your day-to-day teaching practice, partaking in professional dialogue with peers, and exchange of good practice as part of a professional dialogue framed by the PSF.

This is an online module, providing a rich online environment to facilitate individual reflection, reading and scholarship. The module introduces you to a community of enquiry for learning and teaching, where you will share with peers your challenges, ideas, and practice in multiple ways, including online discussion, group activities, and teaching observation(s). You are encouraged to question, evaluate, challenge and experiment with your ways of working and the practice of others.

The formative activities and peer discussion on this module gives you the opportunity to form a continuous development trail for you, informing the development of their portfolio and final summative assessment on this module.

Compulsory

This module aims to support you to develop and enhance your assessment and feedback practice in HE. This is achieved through a critical evaluation of research, debates and policies in the sector, reflection on your own assessment and feedback practice and good practice examples from colleagues from a diverse range of disciplines.

You will explore the complex, and often, competing roles that assessment plays in student’s learning, the principles of effective assessment and feedback practice, quality assurance processes in assessment including the associated benefits of pre- and post-moderation, and be challenged to critically evaluate your own assessment and feedback practice.

You are required to demonstrate their effective practice via a critical evaluation of your current assessment and feedback practice and consideration for enhancement within your own practice. Their evaluation and enhancement plans should be informed by your professional dialogue with peers, evaluative data, and the literature. This includes aspects such as developing students’ assessment literacy, authentic, yet inclusive assessment, and the use of assessment criteria and rubrics.

Following on from their first module, this module continues to support and value the diversity amongst the group and participants will continue to discover and make meaningful connections between theory and practice, engage with the community of enquiry in learning and teaching, sharing your challenges, ideas, and practice via online discussion, as part of a professional dialogue framed by the UKPSF.

The formative assessment opportunities and peer discussion on this module will form a continuous development trail for each participant, informing the development of their portfolio and final summative assessment on this module.

Compulsory

This module aims to develop and support you in curriculum design in a HE context. Having explored the learning, teaching, and assessment design in the two previous modules, this module takes the you further along their HE practice and journey where you will engage with the quality assurance and enhancement processes in curriculum design, as well as exploring and developing their own academic leadership and identity. This module continues to share the underpinning theme of the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education PGCert course, where you will reflect on their practice (in this module, your own curriculum design process (within your context), informed by critical evaluation of your local policies, strategies and the wider literature and research in curriculum design.

The online tasks, peer discussion, formative and summative assessment from this module will form a continuous development trail for you, informing your portfolio and CPD. This final module continues to support and value the diversity amongst the group and participants will continue to discover and make meaningful connections between theory and practice, and share their challenges, ideas and practice via online discussion framed by the Advance HE Professional Standards Framework (PSF).

As this is the final module of the course, the module acts as a critical point for you in curating evidence to meet requirements for professional recognition. This module also acts as a final step where participants can further explore their skills and confidence to continuing to develop and grow as scholarly practitioners beyond the Learning and Teaching in Higher Education PGCert course, in your own context.

Compulsory