Projects

Aim

• Develop a guideline for a national CPL framework that can be contextualised by individual universities, as well as a database of existing institutional policies.

Target Audience

• Will be from Emerging and early career academics to academic management, leadership and development support staff. Directors and Heads of centres of T&L are also part of the audience.

Goal

• Develop a nationally responsive CPL framework and concomitant policies, guidelines, and procedures that can be contextualized for institutional relevance by any of the 26 public universities.
• Develop a database of CPL programmes for access to the 26 public universities.
• Develop professional learning communities.

Aim

• In line with the African philosophy of ubuntu and the principle of peer collaboration the aim is to establish dedicated Communities of Practice (COP).

Goal

• Create COP that will share and collaborate at a national level to leapfrog academics as teachers into the 4th Industrial revolution in education but firmly set in the South African context.
• Create a National Library of Open Educational Resources to support sharing and collaboration.

Target Audience

• Academics as teachers in the BOL environments.
• Academic developers who are tasked with assisting and training academics as teachers.

Aim

• To work with academic development staff to strengthen the academic base and stature of academic development as a profession and a career path.

Goal

• Magnify academic development as a profession with status in South African higher education.

Target Audience

• Academic developers (ADs) at public universities.

Aim

• To develop a national and institutional cohort of senior and middle level management who are capable of developing teaching and learning leadership.

Goals

• Establish a national and institutional cohort of senior and middle level management who are capable of developing teaching and learning leadership.
• Facilitate succession planning by enabling participation of aspirant, leaders-in-waiting who will manage teaching and learning in the future.
• Create a Leadership community of practice to form collaborative networks to respond to crises, challenges in the national context.

Target Audience

• Senior and middle-level HE managers, e.g. Faculty Deans and HoDs, Teaching and Learning Centre Co-ordinators, aspirant Deans and HoDs.
• Directors of Units/Schools associated with T & L as well as T and L project managers and deputy deans with responsibility for teaching and learning.

NUTA will be high-status, high-profile awards that will not only recognise meritorious university teachers but will raise the profile of university teaching.

Aim

• Develop a framework for NUTA and the implementation of the awards.

Goals include but not limited to

• Celebrate quality teaching by recognising contributions to teaching in support of students success
• Augment the status of teaching in higher education by recognising outstanding academics

Full goal list available on the NUTA page

Target audience

• Academics
• Academic management and leadership (from VCs, DVCs Academic / T&L, Deans, Directors and Heads of Academic Departments)
• Directors and Heads of Centres of T&L or Continuous Professional Development
• Academic development support staff
• Stakeholders in HE, e.g. USAf, SATN, SAQA, other quality councils, professional bodies
• The public
• Students