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Guideline: The distribution of teaching offerings and responsibilities between the Centre for Learning and Teaching and the ANU Colleges

Purpose

This guideline clarifies the distribution of teaching offerings and responsibilities between the ANU Colleges and the Centre for Learning and Teaching.

Definitions

Centre for Learning and Teaching (CLT): The Centre for Learning and Teaching within the office of the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education)

Guideline

  1. Ownership of offerings and appointment of teaching staff:
  1. all courses that are designed to count towards AQF Qualifications (hereafter AQF Courses) are owned by Colleges; and taught by one or more College Academic Organisational Units (AOU), or where approved by the Vice-Chancellor a third-party provider, aligned with the discipline/field;
  2. all micro-credentials, other than those relating to teaching and learning (T&L) pedagogy, are owned by Colleges and taught by one or more College AOUs aligned with the discipline/field;
  3. micro-credentials relating to teaching and learning pedagogy may be owned and taught by the Centre for Learning and Teaching or by Colleges; they are regulated by the Micro-Credentials policy and procedure.
  4. non-credentialed educational offerings are regulated by the Professional and Short Courses policy and procedure.
  1. CLT is responsible, within the framework provided by the University’s policies and procedures, for managing the quality assurance of teaching and learning in the micro-credentialed and non-credentialed education offerings that it owns, and for reporting this to the ANU Teaching and Learning Development Committee.
  2. Where the owning College does not do so internally, CLT will provide, on a fee-for-service basis, mutually agreed administrative (but not academic) services for micro-credentials and non-credentialed education offerings that are owned and taught by Colleges. This can include, for example, scheduling, marketing, enrolment, certification, room bookings, and communication with students. CLT is not responsible for managing quality assurance data collection for offerings by Colleges unless it is contracted to do so.
  3. In-person components of all CLT-owned offerings are taught only in Canberra. CLT is not to teach in person outside of Canberra. There is no restriction on the geographical location of staff teaching online components or students taking online components.
  4. Matrix of offerings and responsibilities (non-credentialed offerings are excluded from this matrix if there is no certification of completion or attendance and no attendees/participants are charged a fee):

AQF Courses (all are credentialed)

Micro-credentials (including T&L PD)

T&L Professional Development (not credentialed)

Non-T&L Personal and Professional Development (not credentialed)

Audience

ANU students

Enrolees

Teaching Staff (including casuals) of ANU and other Tertiary Institutions, and potential teaching staff as identified by College ADEs or the Director of CLT

    Public

Offering name

Course

Micro-credential

Offering

Offering

Owner

Colleges

Colleges (excluding T&L PD); CLT (T&L PD)

CLT or Colleges

Colleges or CLT

Approver

College ADE

DVCA

PVCE on recommendation of Director CLT or College ADE or College ADE delegate

College ADE or Delegate (including for CLT non-T&L offerings)

Taught by and HR contracts arranged by

Colleges

Colleges; CLT for T&L PD

The micro-credentials policy does not permit non-HR contracts for teaching staff

The offering organisational unit

Teaching staff may not be appointed using non-HR contracts

The offering organisational unit

Teaching staff may not be appointed using non-HR contracts

Staff qualifications

Academic appointment as per: Qualification requirements for teaching staff policy

and

Qualification requirements for teaching staff procedure

Academic appointment as per: Qualification requirements for teaching staff policy

and

Qualification requirements for teaching staff procedure

CLT FT or FFT staff; or Academic HR contract as per

Qualification requirements for teaching staff policy

and

Qualification requirements for teaching staff procedure

Academic HR contract; minimum bachelor degree plus demonstrated current knowledge and skills in the area; the ADE/Director of CLT may require staff to undergo ANU T&L PD (no fee will be charged to the teacher)

Course Registry

DSAAS

CLT to maintain a consolidated university-wide register to which Colleges have read access; Colleges may additionally maintain College-level registers

CLT to maintain a consolidated university-wide register to which Colleges have read access; Colleges and the offering organisational units may additionally maintain College or AOU-level registers

The offering organisational unit

Enrolments and fees

DSAAS

College where College is managing in-house; otherwise CLT

The offering organisational unit, or contracted to CLT

The offering organisational unit, or contracted to CLT

Learning Management System

Wattle

Separate Moodle Instance unless Micro-Credentials Committee approves otherwise

Wattle [as training includes Wattle use]

Not Wattle

Related Policies

Many (refer to Policy Library)

Micro-credentials policy and Micro-credentials procedure

Professional and short courses policy and

Professional and Short Courses procedure

Information

Printable version (PDF)
Title Differentiate the responsibilities of the Centre for Learning and Teaching from those of the colleges
Document Type Guideline
Document Number ANUP_6171435
Version 8
Purpose This guideline clarifies the distribution of teaching offerings and responsibilities between the ANU Colleges and the Centre for Learning and Teaching.
Audience Staff, Staff-Academic, Prospective Staff, Students, Prospective Students
Category Academic
Topic/ SubTopic Teaching & Learning
 
Effective Date 27 Jul 2020
Next Review Date 27 Jul 2025
 
Responsible Officer: Registrar, Student Administration
Approved By: Registrar, Student Administration
Contact Area Division of Student Administration and Academic Services
Authority:
Delegations 0

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