About CELT

Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching (CELT)

Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching (CELT) is an academic support unit which strives to nurture a collaborative and creative learning environment through partnerships with departments, faculty, other teaching staff and students. CELT is here to help you in a number of ways. If you need more information on any of the activities that we offer, or would like to meet our staff in person, please feel free to email us.

Vision

Through collaboration with Schools, Departments and Centers, to be an expert resource and an advocate of evidence-based, active learning, teaching and curriculum approaches that engage whole person development for a technology-rich 21^st century environment.

Mission

CELT supports the University's mission of advancing learning and knowledge by:

• Supporting the professional development of faculty members, instructors and graduate teaching assistants to continually improve their teaching to positively impact student learning through innovative programs and courses and to meet their career goals
• Supporting students' learning and development through offering courses and workshops in learning skills and promoting work-based learning through collaborations with Schools and Departments
• Providing research-based data to inform continuous quality improvement in learning, teaching and curriculum development

Key Goals

Through collaboration with Schools, Departments and Centers, CELT will be, and be seen as, an expert resource and advocate for the:

• coordination and delivery of professional development for faculty and research postgraduates in their academic careers
• promotion and adoption of active learning pedagogies
• promotion and use of technologies to support and strengthen these pedagogies
• development of curriculum that fosters systematic progression in student achievement towards HKUST's graduate attributes and program intended learning outcomes
• provision and use of evaluation and research data by teaching staff (faculty, instructors, teaching assistants), Departments/Centers, Schools and the Institution, as the basis for learning and teaching improvement
• promotion of student learning development that supports students‘ transition into university, their study capabilities during their university life and their transition out to the workplace