Goal and Objectives
With the ultimate goal to enhance teaching and learning across the University, our objectives are:
- To bring together and connect our colleagues who share a common interest in enhancing teaching and learning at PolyU, and to facilitate their experience sharing and collaborative professional and teaching development;
- To develop and promote innovative and effective teaching practices in support of the University’s strategic teaching development targets;
- To foster the culture of peer support and collaborative professional development in learning and teaching; and
- To nourish a scholarly and collegial approach to continuing teaching improvement and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Expected Outcomes
We expect to achieve the following outcomes:
- Conducting Learning Analytics to Inform Teaching and Learning
- Building of linkages and relationships between academics and other stakeholders at PolyU to sustain exchange of knowledge, resources and expertise for collaborative improvement of teaching and learning;
- Enhancement of CoP members’ capabilities in teaching and learning through peer learning and professional development supported by the CoPs;
- Development, dissemination and implementation of innovations, products and tools for advancing teaching and learning practices with an impact on student learning;
- Enhancement of the University’s policies on teaching and learning based on good experience synthesised from the CoPs; and
- Further development of the culture of continuing professional and teaching development at PolyU, and the University’s capability as a learning organisation.
