Postgraduate Diploma in Tertiary Teaching (PGDTT)

Designed for both new and experienced educators, this Postgraduate Diploma provides a platform for you to discover the best methods to teach and assess your students. Explore being a critical, reflective practitioner and learn techniques to enhance your teaching and research

. The programme also trains you to use and integrate the latest technologies into your academic practice to enliven the classroom and make your classes engaging, fascinating and fun. Explore the craftsmanship in designing curriculums appropriate to your purposes and outcomes while working with your inter-faculty colleagues in projects to attain multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives of teaching and learning. Imagine the flexibility to learn from your home, office or even a café while sipping on coffee as long as you are connected to the internet. Designed for dedicated educators with active schedules, our courses are 70% online. That’s not all. As the world gradually becomes borderless, seize opportunities to broaden your knowledge, obtain the necessary skills and experience different cultures through short study tours at the University of Melbourne and Durham University. Our versatile programme is guaranteed to make you into a better educator.

This programme received a 100% graduate employability score in the Ministry of Higher

The majority of the assessment tasks and exercises are based on educators’ academic practice. These work-based assessments encourage educators to reflect critically on their own situations to demonstrate an understanding and application of theoretical principles in their work settings. In addition, educators share their work experiences with colleagues from different disciplines, thus fostering cross-disciplinary sharing and understanding;

Educators may take a minimum of 1 course and a maximum of 3 courses per semester;

across a range of domains and settings. They include skills necessary for teaching (different teaching scenarios), transforming assessment and feedback and facilitating deep learning.

Face-to-face learning through lectures and workshops will provide the conceptual understanding for knowledge building. The practical, self-independent and other (observation of other classrooms) learning sessions will focus on the transfer of learning from theory to practice. There will be ample opportunities for inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary projects.

70% online and 30% face to face teaching and learning.