Universities, on a global scale, recognize the importance and complexity of offering high quality and high engagement student learning experiences in diverse and internationally-responsive undergraduate and graduate programs. Academic leaders within these institutional contexts are increasingly required to account for research-informed, evidence-based, effective, efficient and strategically aligned curriculum and pedagogical practices.
In response to these scholarly, professional and institutional challenges, The International Faculty SoTL Leadership Program: UBC Certificate on Curriculum and Pedagogy in Higher Education prepares academic leaders to develop expertise for scholarly approaches to, and the scholarship of teaching, learning and curriculum leadership practices in contextually-bound higher education settings.
This unique and flexible International Faculty SoTL Leadership Program (e.g., ranging from 6-week intensive to 4-8 month blended/fully online designs) is developed around a cohort model (customised institutional or multinational) and is adapted to address the strategic educational needs and circumstances of specific research-intensive university contexts.
Program Features
- Strategic institution-level SoTL Leadership Program
- Multidisciplinary academic leaders cohorts: UBC, Canadian, & International participants
- Blended and fully-on-line distance learning program offerings, 400+ program graduates since 1999-Present
- Program Instructors: National & Institutional Teaching Fellows
- Internal and external peer assessment of SoTL Leadership graduation portfolios, UBC Certification
Program Themes: SoTL Leadership in Higher Education
- International/regional/institutional/ disciplinary contexts for SoTL Leadership in higher education, quality
- assurance/enhancement and strategic supports
- SoTL Leadership inquiry, research methods, evidence-based practice and dissemination
- Student engagement, diversity and inclusion, authentic assessment and evaluation
- Curriculum leadership, program reform, academic learning communities, flexible and strategic learning modalities, program review
- Pedagogical leadership, teaching perspectives, faculty/staff development, peer review methodology