Our Services
The Teaching & Learning Methods Unit provides a range of services designed to support and enhance teaching quality at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology. Our services include professional development workshops, curriculum and assessment support, teaching consultations, and guidance on innovative and technology-enhanced learning practices. By working in partnership with academic staff, the Unit helps promote effective, student-centred teaching and continuous improvement in learning delivery across the University.
1. Postgraduate Certificate in Student Centered Teaching
The Teaching & Learning Methods Unit runs a Postgraduate Certificate in Student Centered Teaching in Higher Education; a program that equips Academics with introductory learning and teaching concepts, strategies and methodologies. While this course focuses on integrating ICT teaching tools via project and problem based learning. It also equips the participants with awareness and appreciation of current pedagogical trends in global higher education. Since its inception in 2015, over 80 staff members have graduated from this program that runs from 4:00-6:00pm weekly. This program is housed in the School of Communication & Development Studies at the PNG University of Technology-Taraka Campus.
2. Academic Quality Assurance
The Academic Board realized the need to form an Academic Quality Assurance Team to aid it in its responsibility to foster quality teaching and learning across all of PNGUoT’s schools considering accreditation requirements, as well as meeting employer expectations of increased graduate core competencies. The Teaching & Learning Methods Unit works with the Academic Quality Assurance Team and 13 Academic Schools in collaboration to inspire a culture of continuous improvement in offerings across all instructional modes to enhance student learning.
3. Student Online Evaluation of Teaching
The Teaching & Learning Methods Unit also runs a survey among students every end of semester to establish baseline expectations of Academic Staff teaching effectiveness. This survey is known as the Student Online Evaluation of Teaching or SOET. This informs the 13 Heads of Schools to identify and nominate lecturers who need to attend the Postgraduate Certificate in Student-Centred Teaching in Higher Education which the Teaching & Learning Methods Unit runs throughout the year to address teaching and pedagogy shortfalls discovered from the results of this survey.
