Establishment of Teaching & Learning Centres for Higher Education

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The Needs for a CTL

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The Evolution of CTL

The Organizational Structure

Products and Services

Difficulties and Challenges

Meeting The New Demands

THE NEEDS FOR A CTL

AT UTM

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UPP (check acronym):

• Aims – to provide basic training on how to perform effective teaching

• Emphasis of training:

Focusing only on teaching – ‘How to Teach’ and ‘How to Evaluate Learning’

‘One approach fits all’

• Managed and ran by a group of academic staff with teaching credentials and vast teaching experiences (mainly with from school teaching experiences)

• Made ‘mandatory’ for academic staff with no teaching credentials

• Less effective mainly due to inadequate appreciation from teaching staff

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CTL was set up in 2004:

• Aims – to provide more effective and relevant teaching-related training to teaching staff

• (Original) Emphasis of training:

Remains focusing on teaching with additional features covering:

wider spectrum of knowledge and skills ranging from very generic to (e.g. basic teaching skills) to teaching approaches for different disciplines

learning with technology mainly the capitalization of LMS

‘professionalization’ of teaching practice at UTM (TCHE, teaching portfolios)

The UTM Graduate Attributes

To provide advice and recommendations to University on matters related to the improvement of curriculum and delivery of academic program

To provide T&L-related guidelines for teaching staff

• Managed and ran by a pool of academic staff with teaching credentials and/or those vast teaching experiences at HEI

THE EVALUTION OF

CTL

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• The driving factors for change:

New curriculum-related (esp. on T&L) policies set-up by MOHE

Concerns over graduate employability

Acceptance and recognition of teaching practices at HEIs

Increasing competition to provide best products and services among HEIs

Increasing importance of SPACE

Increasing community engagement

Going global

Income-generating unit

The RU-status!

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• The Extended Focus:

students’ learning activities (esp. those designed to increase the student engagement in learning )

advancement of T&L

advancement of T&L with technology

THE CTL

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Organizational Structure of CTL (brief)

The ATL • Organizational structure of unit • Roles and responsibilities • Strength • Operating approaches (internal

sources, out-sourcing, etc) • ………….

The CMLT • Organizational structure of unit • Roles and responsibilities • Strength • Operating approaches (internal

sources, out-sourcing, etc) • ………….

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PRODUCTS AND

SERVICES

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CMLT PRODUCTS

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Creative Multimedia Learning Technology: Products

• UTM-MIT BLOSSOMS (Videos and MIT Common Creative License)

• Open Courseware, OCW (Learning Materials & Copyright by Innovation & Commercialisation Centre)

• UTMotion (Videos on teaching and learning)

• …

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UTM-MIT BLOSSOMS (Videos and MIT Common Creative License)

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– Project initially by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US, in collaboration with UTM and Ministry of Education, Malaysia.

– The project is about developing videos for teaching and learning particularly for the subject Mathematics and Science for high school students.

UTM-MIT BLOSSOMS (Videos and MIT Common Creative License)

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• The videos developed by

UTM lecturers and MOE teachers will be published in MIT-BLOSSOMS website

• The website also features videos from several other countries such as Jordan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Brazil, US and several other countries.

UTM-MIT BLOSSOMS (Videos and MIT Common Creative License)

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• Project Implication:

a) CMLT produces videos for teaching and learning together with UTM lecturers and MOE teachers,

b) Every video produced results in one common creative license (copyright) for every contributor of the video production.

UTM-MIT BLOSSOMS Videos by UTM Lecturers

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Video by UTM lecturers for the subject ‘Computer

Networking’

Video by UTM lecturers for the subject ‘Chemistry-Conservation of Mass’

UTM-MIT BLOSSOMS Videos by UTM Lecturers

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Video by UTM lecturers for the subject ‘Physics-Forces’

UTM-MIT BLOSSOMS Videos by Teachers in Malaysia

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• Video about teaching factorials to high school students by teachers in Malaysia.

CMLT SERVICES

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Creative Multimedia Learning Technology: Services

• UTM-MIT BLOSSOMS (Consultation and Video production services)

• …

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UTM-MIT BLOSSOMS (Consultation and Video Production

services)

CONSULTATION

CMLT provides consultation and guidance on producing the

appropriate architecture and content of the video that meets

MIT standards both to UTM lecturers and MOE teachers

VIDEO PRODUCTION

CMLT provides video production services to both lecturers and MOE teachers participating in producing

UTM-MIT BLOSSOMS videos.

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DIFFICULTIES AND

CHALLENGES

ENCOUNTERED

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CMLT Challenges: Academicians workload

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Teaching

Research

Meetings

Academicians are reluctant to get involved in producing teaching and learning materials

due to the available workload

CMLT Challenges: Changing Mindset of the Academicians

• Academicians are reluctant to move on to new technologies such as using video for teaching and learning

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MEETING THE NEW

DEMANDS

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• List of new products and services • Proposal of new venture, if any • New sub-units to be established, if

any • The desired state!

(please equip with convincing real pictures or images!)

ALT and CMLT are to pronounce your ‘achievable desire’, MSA will try to blend them into UTMLead:

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