UJ 2023 Teaching and Learning Strategy In 2022, the DTE undertook an analysis of Faculty Teaching and Learning Plans. After consulting with the Executive Leadership Group (ELG), the Management Executive Committee Academic (MECA), Senate Teaching and Learning Committee (STLC), and Senate Executive Committee (SENEX), Senate approved the Teaching and Learning Strategy for 2022. The plans developed in 2022 focused on re-establishing the students’ presence on campus, providing for face-to-face teaching and learning, and integrated online Blackboard support. The 2022 teaching and learning plans entrench the multiple modalities and supports mechanisms needed for effective teaching and learning, whether in face-to-face, blended or hybrid modalities. In effecting the teaching and learning plans, the University commits to the seamless offering of the full range of academic experiences, ensuring optimal, quality teaching and learning. In 2022, the Teaching and Learning Plan was built around models of blended/ hybrid teaching and learning, with the emphasis on ensuring contact learning in all areas, but particularly those which require practical, clinical, and/or workplace-based learning. The flexibility afforded by the teaching and learning mechanisms triggered by the Emergency Remote Teaching of 2020 are retained in the delivery of teaching and learning, where beneficial to the learning and teaching experience. Drawing on the learnings from 2020 and 2021, in 2022 UJ gave special recognition to the remaining challenges of access. Faculties were required to account for the following: Continued, focused attention on firsttime entering and new students through comprehensive orientation programmes designed to equip students with the skills needed for inperson and online delivery. Management of the integrity of assessment, particularly in the distance online mode. Training academic staff, assistant lecturers, senior tutors, and tutors on the teaching and learning environments, including learning platforms and applications. Sharing skills and techniques designed to enhance student engagement whether in all modes of delivery. Continued development and investigations into technologies for enhanced teaching and learning. An extended peer-mentoring programme. Provision for ‘block release’ where suited to the needs of the programme and student body, as required in specific courses. At the STLC meeting, Dr Menon and Ms Castrillón facilitated a discussion on contact, blended, hybrid and distance learning. This provided a basis for the university to adopt its position on the modalities of teaching and learning at the University. The plans developed in 2022 focused on re-establishing the students’ presence on campus, providing for face-to-face teaching and learning, and integrated online Blackboard support. 2022 ANNUAL REPORT: DIVISION FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE 18
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