IMUFE lecturers return to Inner Mongolia shortly, having attended the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at Ionad Bairre for Term 1.
Seven senior lecturers from the Inner Mongolia University of Finance and Economics (IMUFE) have spent the past twelve weeks of Term 1 attending sessions in the Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. This accredited programme is designed to assist lecturers and staff who teach in researching their teaching with a view to investigating and maximising their students’ learning.
IMUFE colleagues have enjoyed the course and have created disciplinary networks across the university. They joined 51 colleagues from UCC, including two from CIT, on the course.
The focus of study this term is module TL 6003, Theories of Teaching, Learning and Assessment. During the course all lecturers attended workshops, lectures and seminars and completed assignments focusing on the following: reflecting on their own constructs of teaching and learning; devising classroom assessment techniques to investigate student learning and completing reading assignments that focus on integrating research, teaching and learning. Our Chinese colleagues have a particular interest in Assessment issues and in the idea of a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, which they now hope to apply in their own university on their return.
The seven lecturers will reflect on their learning in a two hour session for UCC colleagues and guests, to be held on Thursday 20 December in ORB 257, from 2-4pm.
Among the topics to be presented are:
- What I have learned about teaching and learning on this course
- Assessment: Sitting beside the student
- The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning –what are its implications for us?
- Making Teaching and Learning Visible: Critiquing classroom space and exploring key symbols of teaching and learning across the university
- Reading art at the Glucksman Gallery and its implications for teaching and learning.
IMUFE colleagues will also reflect on the topic of Experiencing the life and culture of Cork and on their Views and experiences of Ireland to date.
The Registrar, Professor Paul Giller, will then present Certificates of Attendance to the group to mark this special occasion.
Ten more IMUFE colleagues will join the programme for Term 2 to attend Module TL 6004 Practice Approaches to Teaching and Learning. It is hoped that 120 IMUFE lecturers will attend the course - about 20 per annum - in the next five years.
The course director, Dr. Marian McCarthy, commented on the unique nature of this initiative: “We are the first university in Ireland to invite our Chinese colleagues to come here to research teaching and learning for a full term and to integrate our visitors seamlessly into the community of learners taking the course here at UCC.” She also underlined that this new initiative would strengthen ties between both universities and that it fulfilled a key objective of the Strategic Plan to extend UCC’s mission and message globally.
The group return to China on Saturday, 22 December. The visit was organised by the School of Asian Studies, the Office of the Vice-President for Teaching and Learning and Iona Bairre, the Teaching and Learning Centre, UCC.
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.jpg "Front (left to right): Miss Fu Lei (IMUFE staff), Mr. Liu Fujun (IMUFE staff), Dr. Marian McCarthy (Co-Director of the Teaching and Learning Centre), Prof. Fan Hong (Director of the School of Asian Studies), Miss Wu Weiyi (PhD candidate of the School of Asian Studies, coordinator for the training programme), Miss Chen Yinfeng (IMUFE staff), Miss Lu Diying (IMUFE staff), Miss Zhou Ruihong (IMUFE staff). Back (left to right): Prof. Liang Yong (IMUFE staff), Prof. Wang Guixian (IMUFE staff)")