WSU Centre For Learning ,Teaching And Development

OVERVIEW
The University’s Centre for Learning, Teaching and Development helps create the best learning environment for students as well as improving the skills of academic staff

Welcome to the Centre for Learning and Teaching Development

“Agenda for Excellence in learning and teaching”

Mission

The Centre for Learning and Teaching Development (CLTD) provides services and programmes which are aimed at maximising the quality of students’ learning experiences while also promoting the professionalisation of academic staff. Towards this mission, the CLTD mission is committed to the following statement:
To promote excellence in learning and teaching by providing integrated and specialised professional expertise and services for all faculties towards the improvement of the institutional learning and teaching culture.
As the Centre, we are committed to the following WSU goals:

To offer relevant programmes that will equip students with life-long career decision-making, planning and management skills
to ensure an effective and efficient system-wide approach to student access and retention by assisting faculties and cooperating with related institutional units
to promote excellence by integrating technology with learning and teaching
to develop partnerships with the regional Further Education and Training Colleges and Schools
to provide specialised educational expertise and functions to all WSU faculties in designing and managing relevant and accredited academic programmes.

Towards the fulfillment of these goals, the CLTD has the following units and specific functions:

Career Development Unit
Extended Studies Academy
Education Technology and Innovation Unit
Further Education and Training Unit
Continuous Professional Development Unit.

EXTENDED STUDIES ACADEMY

The Extended Studies Academy helps students and the University to assess the best possible career options for students by understanding their academic performances, which faculties are most suited to these candidates and by providing other life skill
The Academy provides the following services:

Coordinates and assists faculties in developing profiles of WSU learners for placement purposes
Champions the design, development and implementation of all placement tests including alternative admission
Coordinates, in partnership with University faculties, an institutional strategy for all DOE-funded Access/Foundation/Extended programmes
Coordinates and develops skills-based retention programmes such as academic literacy courses, computer and information literacy, life skills, Writing and Reading Centres
Designs and develops a tracking and monitoring system.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT
These services help students navigate their academic life at the University, beginning with counselling, mentorship, graduate placement and beyond
The services which follow under Career Development are:

Orientation programme of all new students
Academic counselling to all students
Training for and manages the mentorship programmes
Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) programme,a skills-based retention programme

PEER ASSISTED LEARNING [PAL]

Peer assisted learning (PAL) is offered in historically difficult subjects. An annual analysis of exam results ensures that PAL is offered in subjects with a low-pass rate history.
PAL leaders [PALLs] are senior students who act as models of how to be successful in the subject. They attend class along with the new students and hold regular PAL sessions in which they help students not only to master the material, but also to learn how to learn. Students thus develop good study habits and become independent in their learning.

Mediates, where appropriate, with academic and administrative departments to resolve student academic problems
Psychometric assessments
Graduate placement programme
Life skills for the world of work and coordinates the recruitment and employment of students.

EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

As the teaching increasingly moves an online environment, the University is committed to promoting the benefits of dynamism, efficiency, effectiveness of teaching with and through technology
The Centre provides the following education technology and innovation services:

Champions e-learning as both a teaching and a learning management system
Promotes academic expertise in the integration of learning and teaching
Coordinates curriculum innovation in digital learning
Manages the institution’s Learning and Teaching Technology Centres
Provides advice on learning materials development, both printed and online.