The International Faculty SoTL Leadership Program: UBC Certificate on Curriculum and Pedagogy in Higher Education focuses around a set of clearly defined learning objectives. On completion of the program, academic leaders are expected to be able to:
- Think critically about the SoTL Leadership literature and its implications for educational leadership in diverse contexts (including issues such as curricular and pedagogical leadership, communities of practice, educational technologies, student engagement and inclusion, authentic assessment and evaluation, research methods);
- Integrate SoTL Leadership research skills in complex educational practice settings (including the ability to access, retrieve, and evaluate relevant literature; define SoTL Leadership research problems and apply research methods;
- Demonstrate responsible use of ethical principles; and dissemination);
- Demonstrate a critically reflective practice (including the ability to articulate a scholarly philosophy of educational leadership practice and provide an evidence-based educational leadership dossier);
- Conduct formative peer review of teaching/curriculum/educational leadership reports that are grounded in the scholarly literature, methodological rigour, and authentic methods of assessment and evaluation; and,
- Demonstrate effective leadership, collaboration, and communication skills when initiating, engaging in, and disseminating SoTL Leadership research.