Scholarship of Educational Leadership
Developing Institutional Leadership: Strategic approaches to the scholarship of educational leadership in diverse university contexts
Universities around the world recognize the importance and complexity of providing high quality and high engagement student learning experiences in diverse degree programs. Academic leaders, at various institutional levels, are increasingly required to provide research-informed, strategically aligned, and evidence-based curriculum and pedagogical practices. The International Program for the Scholarship of Educational Leadership (SoEL): UBC Certificate on Curriculum and Pedagogy in Higher Education prepares academic leaders to develop expertise in scholarly approaches to, and the scholarship of educational leadership practices in these contexts
Participants
This program is designed for academic leaders with educational roles and responsibilities for undergraduate and graduate degree program leadership, and/or institution-level educational leadership initiatives at UBC and in diverse higher education settings around the world. Including:
- Program Directors
- Associate Deans
- Curriculum and Pedagogical Leaders
- Teaching Award Winners
- Tenured faculty members/Professors of Teaching
- Senior Administrators
- Promotion and Tenure Committee Personnel
Program Benefits
Faculties, Schools, and Departmental Units face increasing challenges for quality and responsive undergraduate and graduate-level programming, which in turn, requires academic leaders to be knowledgeable and skilled in the complexities of curriculum and pedagogical design. By supporting academic leaders, the learning experiences within the Certificate Program not only address these issues but also prepare program graduates to provide leadership in broader issues of educational reform, curriculum and pedagogical practices. Academic leaders graduating the International Program for the SoEL: UBC Certificate on Curriculum and Pedagogy in Higher Education, help to ensure that their university becomes better known as an institution that values, promotes, and disseminates scholarship of teaching, learning and curriculum excellence.
Program Benefits include:
- Leadership training for the implementation of effective and efficient, strategically-aligned, research-informed, and evidence-based curricula and pedagogical practices to enhance high engagement student learning.
- Capacity building for educational leadership priorities.
- Opportunity to discuss institutional innovation and challenges for implementing effective and efficient, strategically-aligned, research-informed, evidence-based curricula and pedagogical practices.
- Supervision by international experts from UBC with a significant track-record pertaining to institutional leadership and higher education scholarship.
- Access to UBC library and comprehensive SoEL journal articles within program data-base.