Working with CETLs
What are CETLs?
The Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) initiative has two main aims:
- to reward excellent teaching practice
- to further invest in that practice so that CETLs funding delivers substantial benefits to students, teachers and institutions
There are 74 HEFCE funded CETLs in England and seven Department for Employment and Learning funded CETLs in Northern Ireland. A full list is available on the HEA website.
How is the LLAS Subject Centre working with CETLs?
Two CETLs are working almost exclusively in the area of Languages: Languages of the wider world based at SOAS/UCL and Multimedia language learning hosted by the University of Ulster. The Subject Centre is working with these CETLs to help them disseminate their work more widely. We organised the launch event for the Languages of the wider world CETL on 13th October 2005. The CETL at Ulster commissioned us to carry out a research project investigating the use of multimedia technologies in modern languages in higher education.
We have also identified a number of CETLs that have a small llas element and/or that share common themes and interests with our constituency, e.g. assessment, e-learning, employability, linking teaching and research, and outreach. We have set up a network group for these CETLs to facilitate cooperation and the sharing of ideas. This group meets in January of each year and communicates between meetings by means of a Jiscmail discussion list. If you work for a CETL and are interested in joining this group, please email S.Holdom@soton.ac.uk.
Are you engaging with CETLs?
The Subject Centre is interested in hearing from languages, linguistics and area studies colleagues working in an institution which has a CETL. Are you currently working with your CETL, and if so in what way(s)? Or, would you like to work with your CETL and if so, is there anything we could do to help facilitate this? Please send your comments to S.Holdom@soton.ac.uk.
Which CETLs are working almost exclusively in the area of Languages?
| Title | Lead institution | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Languages of the wider world www.soas.ac.uk/cetl |
SOAS | Itesh Sachdev i.sachdev@soas.ac.uk |
| Multimedia language learning www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/lanlit/cetl |
University of Ulster | Greg Toner gj.toner@ulster.ac.uk |
Which CETLs share common themes and interests with the LLAS constituency?
The following CETLs have a small llas element and/or an interest in the areas of assessment, e-learning, employability, linking teaching and research, and/or outreach. This list is not exhaustive.
| Title | Lead institution | Director |
|---|---|---|
| Active learning in computing www.dur.ac.uk/alic |
University of Durham | Liz Burd liz.burd@durham.ac.uk |
| Assessment for learning www.northumbria.ac.uk/cetl_afl |
University of Northumbria at Newcastle | Liz McDowell Liz.mcdowell@northumbria.ac.uk |
| Bridges: supporting personal career and professional development through the undergraduate curriculum http://bridgescetl.luton.ac.uk |
University of Luton | Mark Atlay mark.atlay@luton.ac.uk |
| Bristol ChemLabS www.chemlabs.bristol.ac.uk |
University of Bristol | Paul Wyatt Paul.Wyatt@bristol.ac.uk |
| Career management skills www.rdg.ac.uk/ccms |
University of Reading | David Stanbury d.r.stanbury@reading.ac.uk |
| Dynamic career building for tomorrow’s musician www.rncm.ac.uk/?_id=474 |
Royal Northern College of Music | Linda Merrick Linda.Merrick@rncm.ac.uk |
| Effective learning in science www.ntu.ac.uk/cels |
Nottingham Trent University | Karen Moss karen.moss@ntu.ac.uk |
| Enhancing, embedding and integrating employability www.shu.ac.uk/cetl/e3i |
Sheffield Hallam University | David Laughton cetle3i@shu.ac.uk |
| Experiential learning in environmental and natural sciences www.plymouth.ac.uk/cetl/el |
University of Plymouth | Ruth Weaver R.Weaver@plymouth.ac.uk |
| Foundation Direct www.port.ac.uk/foundationdirect |
University of Portsmouth | Frank Lyons frank.lyons@port.ac.uk |
| Higher education learning partnerships www.help-cetl.ac.uk |
University of Plymouth | Mark Stone m2stone@plymouth.ac.uk |
| Inquiry-based learning in the arts and social sciences www.sheffield.ac.uk/cilass |
University of Sheffield | Phil Levy p.levy@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Leadership and professional learning http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/lid/ltweb/cetl |
Liverpool John Moores University | Sue Thompson s.e.thompson@livjm.ac.uk |
| LearnHigher http://learnhigher.hope.ac.uk |
Liverpool Hope University College | Jill Armstrong armstrj@hope.ac.uk |
| Open learning in mathematics, science, computing and technology http://cetl.open.ac.uk/colmsct |
Open University | Steve Swithenby S.J.Swithenby@open.ac.uk |
| Practice-based professional learning www.open.ac.uk/pbpl |
Open University | Pam Shakespeare p.r.shakespeare@open.ac.uk |
| Preparing for academic practice www.learning.ox.ac.uk/cetlindex.php?page=54 |
University of Oxford | Keith Trigwell keith.trigwell@learning.ox.ac.uk |
| Professional development through the use of relevant technologies www.port.ac.uk/special/ExPERTCentre |
University of Portsmouth | Lesley Reynolds lesley.reynolds@port.ac.uk |
| Professional training and education www.surrey.ac.uk/sceptre |
University of Surrey | Norman Jackson norman.jackson@surrey.ac.uk |
| Promoting learner autonomy www.shu.ac.uk/cetl/autonomy |
Sheffield Hallam University | Anthony Rosie a.j.rosie@shu.ac.uk |
| Reusable learning objects www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk |
London Metropolitan University | Tom Boyle t.boyle@londonmet.ac.uk |
| Work-based learning for education professionals www.rlo-cetl.ac.uk |
Institute of Education, University of London |
Norbert Pachler Karen Evans k.evans@ioe.ac.uk |
| Visual learning lab www.visuallearninglab.ac.uk |
University of Nottingham | Do Coyle do.coyle@nottingham.ac.uk |
Further reading
Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs)
Professor David Robey, University of Reading, has prepared a briefing document summarizing the main issues of the proposals to establish Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
Centres for Excellence in language-based Area Studies
Funding targets greater understanding of China, Japan, Eastern Europe and Arabic-speaking world.
Humbox
The Humbox is a humanities teaching resource repository jointly managed by LLAS.
