Our Mission

The Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) works to secure a consistent, high quality student experience through formal and informal continuing professional development opportunities for all staff at MMU.  We can offer leadership, support, advice and guidance relating to all aspects of learning, teaching and assessment at MMU.  CELT staff work with all faculties and all professional teams – this gives us the opportunity to share the ‘bigger picture’ with colleagues.

We support institutional priorities and projects that focus on areas of strategic importance.  At the heart of this is a belief that engaging teaching and learning will have a positive influence on student engagement, retention, progression, success and employability.

CELT has developed a three part strategic plan in the context of student feedback and satisfaction in external and internal surveys, focus groups from all faculties which highlight the need for continuous development of the teaching staff, their skills and their awareness of how our current (and future students) learn. View the strategic plan

CELT coordinates the teaching and learning elements of a number of agendas – Continuous Monitoring and Improvement, Student Satisfaction, Access Implementation, the Student Commitment and is committed to a CPD strategy for learning and teaching around a flexible, work-focused, priority driven framework which will be integral to staff development and recognition. See the new academic CPD plan here.
There will be several strands to this:

• A strategic framework of support initiatives for academic staff to improve student satisfaction, retention and success, including support for engaging, innovative teaching and learning.
• The development of Career Lifecycle CPD – with emphasis on flexible approaches to academic enhancement, and accreditation of work-based learning.
• Accredited programmes that support professional development, leading to qualification at Masters’, PG Diploma and PG Certificate levels in Academic Practice
• Flexible and bespoke staff development opportunities to a range of staff, including new and experienced staff who have a role directly or indirectly linked to teaching students in MMU.
• CPD programmes mapped onto the Higher Education Professional Standards Framework (PSF) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) Professional Accreditation framework.
• Academically focussed CPD linked with professional activity through HR, ODTD, CASQE, LRT etc. considered as part of the accreditation and recognition framework.
• Development of resources and strategies designed to support observation of teaching and feedback on academic practice
• Support for academic & personal tutoring; this needs to be practical, policy driven and with measurable outcomes.
• Dissemination of good practice through our publications, events, special initiatives, databases and website resources.
• Support for networks of staff across the institution, including Associate Deans for Student Experience, Senior Learning and Teaching Fellows, and all who are active in learning, teaching and assessment development.
• Work with colleagues in central professional services and faculties to assure and enhance the quality of the institutional portfolio of provision, especially as part of Programme Approval, Review and Modification (PARM) processes.

CELT is located on the 2nd Floor of the Cavendish Building , where we offer an Academic Practice Room, a meeting room and a small drop-in / social space to support the development activities of our own staff and of our colleagues from across the institution.

This website introduces our services and activities. Please get in touch if you have any development needs relating to learning, teaching and assessment practices – we look forward to working with you.