Terms of Reference
IATL's core business is:
- to respond to the University’s 2017 education strategy critically and creatively;
- to inspire and support the the development of the strategy to produce a distinctive student experience;
- to work with departments to embed open-space learning, interdisciplinarity, internationalisation, and student research in the curriculum;
- to promote the vision of an inclusive academic community where learners, teachers and researchers are all seen as collaborators in the creation of knowledge;
- to foster pedagogies that reflect this vision;
- to raise the prestige of teaching and learning at Warwick and in the wider community.
IATL's objectives are:
- to help create a distinctive student experience at Warwick ;
- to implement widely sudent-centred learning;
- to implement widely open-space learning;
- to provide innovative interdisciplinary modules;
- to engage with key international partners;
- to support student research and engagement;
- to work in inclusive and effective partnerships with service and support departments;
- to create, promote, and disseminate innovative practice in pedagogy;
- to disseminate innovative practice beyond the University to make Warwick an internationally recognised centre of pedagogic excellence.
IATL's scope is:
- the development of innovative pedagogy;
- the development of interdisciplinary modules;
- the development of open-space learning;
- the development of student research;
- the development of international partnerships;
- the provision of staff and student funding;
- the strategic development of the University's pedagogies.