Advancing Educational Practice Programme

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The Advancing Educational Practice Programme (AEPP) enables you to extend your understanding of teaching and learning and to develop your practice as an educator at Cambridge. You will explore theories of learning, develop a personal philosophy of teaching and learning, and inquire into approaches to curriculum design, feedback and assessment. The programme is accredited by Advance HE, and, if you successfully complete all elements of the programme, you will become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

We will welcome you into a community of educators from various disciplines who are interested in furthering their understanding of teaching and learning and building an effective educational practice. The programme is designed to allow you to explore aspects of your practice with peers and programme tutors. The AEPP is organised into a series of workshops, each of which has directed reading alongside formative assignments, and professional development exercises that run between sessions.

This nine-month programme is primarily designed for Cambridge educators with substantive teaching and learning support responsibilities. This may include lecturers in the early stages of their career, College Teaching Officers, and early career researchers with substantial teaching responsibilities. It may also include academics on the Teaching and Scholarship Academic Career Pathways, or academic-related and/or support staff with substantive teaching or learning support roles. Please see Appendix 1 of the Programme Handbook for a table with examples of the educational roles and practices typical of someone who would qualify for Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Please consult this table before applying for the Advancing Educational Practice Programme.

The programme has a high level of flexibility and participants are expected to plan their AEPP work to fit around their other academic and research work. However, there are several compulsory components which cannot be missed and those include: workshops, teaching observations and a tutorial. Help and support is available throughout the year to enable participants to get the best from the programme.

For information about what the course involves and how to apply, please visit the Advancing Educational Practice Programme webpage. If you still have questions, please contact the course director, Dr Mary Beth Benbenek.

Cambridge educators with substantive teaching and learning support responsibilities.

The Advancing Educational Practice Programme aims to:

• enable you to critically evaluate teaching, the support of learning, and assessment methods in your subject, drawing on influential theories of learning and curriculum design and on relevant educational literature;

• inspire and support you to become reflective practitioners and to articulate your own understanding of teaching, learning, assessment and feedback practices (your 'philosophy of teaching') based on evidence-based practice;

• offer a scholarly, evidence-based, practice related approach to professional development in learning and teaching;

• support you to pursue your own investigations into and evaluations of your teaching in order to improve your own practice.

For information about what the course involves and how to apply, please visit the Advancing Educational Practice Programme webpage.