In response to the coming age of accreditation in tertiary education, universities around the world have been setting up organizations such as “centre of excellent teaching” or “centre of teaching and learning” aimed at ensuring effective teaching and improving learning performance by emphasizing the importance of quality assurance to promote the university’s international competence.
Such a trend drove the establishment of the Teaching and Learning Resources Center (TLRC) at Ming Chuan University in September 2007. The mission of Teaching and Learning Resources Center is to complement the academic mission of the university by improving the teaching effectiveness and enhancing student learning ability through promoting a quality service environment integrating all the existing teaching and learning resources of the university.
Driven by the prospect of cultivating excellent teaching culture, shaping high quality learning atmosphere and enhancing life-long learning ability, the TLRC collaborates on projects of (1) Integration and Enhancement of Resources, (2) Development of Faculty Teaching and (3) Development of Student Learning through promoting series of events, services, guidance and programs. In this way, the TLRC helps progressively accomplish the university’s vision of achieving excellence in education to achieve the goals of promoting effective teaching via constant curriculum improvement, and developing learning ability via step-by-step strengthening of learning supports.
In order to pursue the achievement of the TLRC’s mission, we have been striving toward the following goals:
1. Promoting Effective Teaching via Constant Curriculum Improvement
Faculty are the personnel on the cutting edge to put the university’s mission and goals into action; they are the ones who attend to all students with parental care, support and guidance. The faculty of Ming Chuan University possess profound knowledge and rich experiences in teaching. The TLRC helps teachers improve their curriculum and teaching skills so that they can conduct high quality and innovative courses. Furthermore, the TLRC strives to achieve the university’s goal of excellent education through cultivating an excellent teaching culture among faculty members so that they are willing to take the initiative on their own to pursue teaching excellence, and enjoy their job of instruction while constantly developing.
To achieve the aforementioned goal, the TLRC endeavors toward the following objectives:
- Meet the teaching requirements step by step through the promotion of integration, sharing and application of the teaching and learning resources in the university.
- Provide support for developing faculty’s teaching knowledge and skills.
- Encourage exchange and sharing of teaching experiences.
- Encourage innovative teaching.
2. Developing Student Learning Ability via Strengthening Learning Supports
To accomplish the university’s mission of cultivating talented students who are well trained both theoretically and practically in accordance with the current needs of the domestic and international society, the TLRC helps students improve their learning ability through enhancing learning supports. Furthermore, the TLRC aims to achieve the university’s goal of nurturing talented students through building a high-quality learning environment so that they are willing to learn more actively, and enjoy their learning with constant development.
To achieve the aforementioned goal, the TLRC endeavors toward the following objectives:
- Meet students’ learning requirements step by step through the promotion of integration, sharing and application of the teaching and learing resources in the university.
- Provide support for developing students’ learning knowledge and skills.
- Enhance learning supports and improve learning performance through creating a leaner-centered learning environment with more learning opportunities.
- Shape the high quality learning atmosphere among learners, promoting their learning motivation.